A 4% improvement in power will raise bike speed by less than 2% (at the speeds that PROs are riding)
Interesting. Laidlow out biked the next best guy by 1.6 - 1.9% in his astounding performances at Kona, Nice, and T100 London. Usually the difference is more like 0.5 - 1.0% between the whole top 5 guys on the bike leg. He assured everyone he’s clean though, so nothing to see here.
No jumping in to defend Tomas. What are laidlow results pre Kona? Tbh he hasn’t done much since then but did win the recent T100. Is he still being investigated? Still don’t really see how this dude just seems to skate by criticism…
I’ll have something on the front page about process, probably in the morning.
Cool. Hopefully you can draw up a potential timeline for this. That boxer has been fighting this for years without being to compete, so I’m wondering how this will play out, as I don’t think Tomas has the ability to finance himself and an attorney for an extended period of time.
I’m not making any justification for using PED’s at any time, but failing an in competition test is laughably stupid to me. You prove you’re not only a fraud but also can’t pass an IQ test.
Read through the thread & this is how I feel from the 1st page. Feel like it takes a special athlete to get caught in competition. When all the Nike Oregon Project stuff came out it really opened me up to how much homework these coaches/groups/athletes do to make sure they pass doping tests. Passing a test doesn’t mean that an athlete is clean imo. I think coaches (& others) have convinced athletes that if they don’t test positive then they are playing by the rules (+ convince them everyone does this & they are disadvantaged if they don’t). Micro dosing culture is big. & when someone gets caught the coaches (or agents or lawyers) are quick to blame food or something else that has been linked to clearing other athletes in the past. Muddy the waters so some people defend the doped athlete to change the discourse around it. The playbook is out in the open & we’re all guilty, at times, of falling for it.
All of this sickens me (+ yet another study about doped up AGers from last week). I’m curious what IM does in terms of Pro Series points, Kona qualification, and prize money. I would like to see a lifetime ban. With the increased prize money with the Pro Series, I’m not sure why we have lesser penalties. If something is banned then it’s banned. Why 4 years? IM can do anything they want right? Why not have athletes sign something saying that if they’re caught doping they will have to give all prize money back? Get creative with it. Do more out of competition testing. Add more athletes to the testing pool. Make whereabouts public – would love to know athletes who always take their 2 of 3. Do more.
No, IM can’t do anything it wants – one, there is the Model WADA code, which is largely adopted (and therefore holds up well at CAS, for instance). And two, well, these things cost money, too.
Oh, and technically, IM can recoup costs that aren’t prize money from athletes – e.g., travel stipends, appearance fees, etc. Good luck getting it back, though.
Was fairly obvious, I made a very thinly veiled joke/allegation in the thread post race which got deleted by admin.
Hope whoever cried about my reply at the time is reading this comment! Can’t have been sufficiently ‘veiled’.
How about this from @buzzsaw on the day?
In the IM Texas ‘race’ thread (April 27), @buzzsaw was ahead of the money: impressive.
Congrats to boxer Ryan Garcia, who wins Ironman Texas a week after beating Devin Haney.
Garcia vs. Haney April 20. Garcia won the bout. On May 1, Voluntary Anti-Doping Association notified all involved parties that Garcia had tested positive for Ostarine, a PED.
What massive improvement are you talking about? Have you looked at his numbers from Ironman Cozumel 2023?
Bike 4:17 less than 3 min slower than a fast Texas course. Run 2:38:14, only 4 min improvement over a marathon on a fast Texas course. He has also put down a 2:00:14 at Cozumel 70.3 and has ran several sub 1:11:30 half’s with a 1:09:14 at boulder in 2023. He did not improve drastically suddenly. If anything he’s always been doping. I’m just waiting til the final verdict comes. I really like the guy and truly hope it was some misfortunate chicken and eggs. He’s young and exciting and obviously doping is never good for the support. Hoping for the best possible outcome for everyone involved!
Well said. Let´s see what the final verdicts will be. I find it amusing, that the fastest North American Ironman is a Mexican
What massive improvement are you talking about? Have you looked at his numbers from Ironman Cozumel 2023?
Bike 4:17 less than 3 min slower than a fast Texas course. Run 2:38:14, only 4 min improvement over a marathon on a fast Texas course. He has also put down a 2:00:14 at Cozumel 70.3 and has ran several sub 1:11:30 half’s with a 1:09:14 at boulder in 2023. He did not improve drastically suddenly. If anything he’s always been doping. I’m just waiting til the final verdict comes. I really like the guy and truly hope it was some misfortunate chicken and eggs. He’s young and exciting and obviously doping is never good for the support. Hoping for the best possible outcome for everyone involved!
What massive improvement are you talking about? Have you looked at his numbers from Ironman Cozumel 2023?
Bike 4:17 less than 3 min slower than a fast Texas course. Run 2:38:14, only 4 min improvement over a marathon on a fast Texas course. He has also put down a 2:00:14 at Cozumel 70.3 and has ran several sub 1:11:30 half’s with a 1:09:14 at boulder in 2023. He did not improve drastically suddenly. If anything he’s always been doping. I’m just waiting til the final verdict comes. I really like the guy and truly hope it was some misfortunate chicken and eggs. He’s young and exciting and obviously doping is never good for the support. Hoping for the best possible outcome for everyone involved!
what was he doing before 2023? he seemed to come out of nowhere.
Doping on not, if you have seen Tomás run (IRL) you´ll notice that he has talent (techically) and can run fast.
what was he doing before 2023? he seemed to come out of nowhere.
I wouldn’t call his ITU results decent, those races were low level conti cups, he was running nearly 33 mins for 10k at 22, far from what I call decent, and certainly not fast.
