How about the 23-24 year old!!! I hope he doesn’t test positive. And, now that Rasmussen is out and taken from the tour the door is wide open. I think Cont. has a big enough lead to have a good tt and pull away with it!! Do you think it wil be him, Evans, or Levi?? This is crazy. But…how can you survive riding like that without drugs?
you know what’d be really funny is if he did though.
I hope he does… man he is only 23 or 24. Which means in 5-8 years he will be untouchable. I thought you have to be older and have long term conditioned muscles to do what he is doing?
No, he’s scheduled to be pulled tomorrow.
You are joking right?
How about the 23-24 year old!!! I hope he doesn’t test positive. And, now that Rasmussen is out and taken from the tour the door is wide open. I think Cont. has a big enough lead to have a good tt and pull away with it!! Do you think it wil be him, Evans, or Levi?? This is crazy. But…how can you survive riding like that without drugs?
You must be kidding, Contador is at least as guilty as Ras. - He was on the Puerto list, just like Basso, Ulrich and Jaksche. I bet the Tdf will not have a winner this year.
Well, I wouldn’t be surprised. Anybody in cycling knows it takes years to develop those muscles. Sometimes I think I need steroids!!! nahhhhh…just mileage, mileage, mileage.
that’s funny…
You are joking right?
At this point, who knows. I was joking about RAS yesterday and look what happened.
He was cleared by Fuentes, unlike all the other people on that list. Not that that necessarily means he’s clean.
you are right, ok so lets give him yellow
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which will clear the way for…another american to win!!! and suddenly he will test positive for testosterone during one of the stages.
how soon we forget…he was even erased from that list because he agreed to testify…
you are right, ok so lets give him yellow
I’m perfectly ok with that, in the absence of any legit doping suspicions/evidence. If, in the future he tests + or is directly implicated then I’ll change my tune.
Maybe you should read this:
I think we’ll find out who the winner is in late 2009. My money is on David Millar.
I just came across some interesting facts from this year that I forgot about:
- In June this year Cadel Evans finished second overall in his first attempt at the Criterium du Dauphine Libere. The third stage was a 40.7km time trial and the Australian was fourth, 38" behind the winner (Vinokourov). Contador was also in the one-week French race. The Spaniard was 35th in that stage, 2’43" behind the Australian-
Like Phil Liggett said, “wearing the yellow jersey gives you extrodinary powers you thought you never had.” Looks like that may have to happen if he hopes to hold on to yellow after tomorrow…
I don’t remember what that TT was like, but also we don’t know how hard either of them tried. Based on the times it would seem Evans tried for sure. It should be very close. that flat C got on the first Alps stage might come back to haunt him. Same for Levi and his 10 sec penalty.
Comparing the two, it looks like the Dauphine TT was more suited to Contadors strength… 
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"how soon we forget…he was even erased from that list because he agreed to testify… "
CAn you provide some reference for this statement-- I keep hearing that on this forum, but have never seen or read a link or reference to back it up. My understanding was that Contador was quickly cleared as he only was listed as having trained with the Feuentes clients.
Yes, exactly like that young kid that won in 1997. He almost won it in 1996 and then won it in 1997. He was certain to be untouchable and win like 10 in a row. Ummm, yes, great how that worked out.
Contador is looking really good right now, but so did Ullrich in 1997.