“No opinion on his injury, but no-one taking a singular resp. for solving his issue (the paragraph appeared to imply this) most disappoints me, seems alot of finger pointing etc. between parties involved?”
as i believe i said - no, let me quote myself precisely - “maybe nobody’s to blame. maybe bad things just happen to good knees.”
i’m as part of the process as anyone when it comes to: “the secret of my success is brand X.” what we don’t see advertised is: “i took brand X and, guess what, i didn’t get any better,” or, “i took brand X and i got injured.”
accordingly, i would like to see a bit more transparency when it comes to our stars, and all the brands they use that make them win, collectively post mortem a problem in public just as they trumpet a victory in public. i think maybe we’d learn something about the whole process. however, i doubt that’s going to happen in this case, so, pardon if i just whine a little about it.
“all aspects of the bike fit (component choice, dimensional suitability & functionality), shoes, foot beds (custom arch & heel varus), clothing, physiology (direct and indirect aspects), visual stimuli, materials stimuli, diet, alergies etc”
bravo. i don’t know if i’d ask chris horner what he’s allergic to as a way to help solve his IT band problem, and that’s not to say i think that’s a silly approach, rather i don’t know anything about how allergies affect IT bands. but what i would say is that a lot of people who do have IT band problems are helped by a change in stance and plant. i wonder if all these folks who sponsor horner (the 3 companies i mention above) work with each other. talk to each other.
obviously what chris has been doing hasn’t been working. i don’t mean to pick on the folks working with chris, just that some of these folks have been latched onto chris’ achievements (and those of the rest of his team) and leveraged them to sales of their products. it would be nice to see some of these folks acknowledge and opine when things don’t work out - i would be interested as heck to hear about what they all have to say when things don’t work. what they’ve tried. what hasn’t worked. so that we see a little bit of what really goes on when the camera isn’t rolling. for example, did retul actually ever fit horner? if not, maybe it should have. does he really ride in shimano’s pedals and if so which spindle length? does he really have solestar footbeds? if not i think it fair to solestar that this be known.
in short, we’d learn a LOT more about what REALLY happens in the life of a rider if this was more of a transparent process. before you tell me that it’s none of our or my business, remember that horner and his team make a LOT of money by telling us that all their products and therapies work. therefore i think a little transparency into what horner really has been using and trying is not an outrageous request. not that i expect to get it, at least not on the record. just, it would be nice.