or perhaps only rider that kept his previous level after serving the ban.

So...there are enough doping threads in the main forums. We're not discussing anything that hasn't been discussed 100x before.
So...pardon my laziness, but in an effort to get this back on topic...where is World's next year and what type of course is it going to be?

Jason N wrote:

So...there are enough doping threads in the main forums. We're not discussing anything that hasn't been discussed 100x before.

So...pardon my laziness, but in an effort to get this back on topic...where is World's next year and what type of course is it going to be?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/...world-championships/
and looking even further ahead:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...ke-place-in-flanders


In other news, where will USAC masters nationals be? Still no word on that?!?

Please, someone to name one by one the pros who are fully clean and the evidence...

So...there are enough doping threads in the main forums. We're not discussing anything that hasn't been discussed 100x before.

So...pardon my laziness, but in an effort to get this back on topic...where is World's next year and what type of course is it going to be?

That's the eff'd nature of the doping agencies and UCI setting that "50" hematocrit level. People are born with some kind of level that ebbs and flows a little over time and racing. The ones born with less could do more to raise their level. Those born closer could not.

I'd guess that with the assumption he isn't doing doping any longer, he was perhaps one of those closer to the limit already and naturally. I think the blood was both perf and recovery based whereas the EPO had more to do with the "50" number itself.

So it would make sense he was caught up in Puerto but still able to hold a level afterwards.

Maybe it's "50", can't remember from reading the scandalous tell all books.

Ben King and Joe D are clean. If either of these guys were ever popped, I would resign as McNulty.
There are a lot of clean guys out there....a lot more now than 8-10 years ago.
Ben picking up 2 Vuelta stages is a very good sign.

Wow...the road race and TT look to be very punchy. Road race circuit doesn't have any flat road on it and it ends with an uphill 300-400m uphill kicker. 284km long too. Only 362 more days...

but they keep draggin' me back in.......

no worries, just 5 more months to the Spring Classics :)


which one do you prefer? Pacino original, or the version in the Sopranos (as an homage to Pacino)?

Wow...the road race and TT look to be very punchy. Road race circuit doesn't have any flat road on it and it ends with an uphill 300-400m uphill kicker. 284km long too. Only 362 more days...

Word.
Maybe some transfer banter.....

Does Sagan win in 2019 on the Harrowgate circuit?

Does he win in Switzerland in 2020?

Or does he wait until 2021 in Flanders to take a record 4th World RR title?

How many world titles with Sagan end his career with? Over under 6?

How many world titles with Sagan end his career with? Over under 6?

Or we could talk about upcoming races ...

Who you got for Lombardy? Only 11 days away!

Pretty much the same course as last year. Who can carry their form from Worlds?

I'll be cheering on Bardet. And Woods too. And I'll be hoping Nibali can pull a rabbit out of his hat.

Sopranos. You?

I'll absolutely take the under. 6 is awfully ambitious. Even 3 so far is verging on super-human, so I'm another voice saying 4, especially given the courses for the next three years. By 2022 there will be new blood and new challenges and he'll be old.