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  • z000m
    z000m Posts: 544
    the transfusions were labelled mon, tues, wed etc and he got them mixed up because he was off his face on Cortisone, for which he had a prescription.
    New Build
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Jeez, where do you guys get all this insider info? I'd love to see a reference. A transfusion every day? I wonder. They'd look like pin cushions by the end of the Tour.
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    DaveyL wrote:
    Jeez, where do you guys get all this insider info? I'd love to see a reference. A transfusion every day? I wonder. They'd look like pin cushions by the end of the Tour.

    I'd suggest that was not true.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    Just on the big days.
    Dan
  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    The othet thing about Basso is that he may have been one of those people who was actually grimacing rather than smiling. He seemed to smile his way up the alpe in 2004(?) when a turbo charged lance blasted past him like an alien being.

    Someone else used to smile going up HC Alpine climbs

    http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/riders ... 24719L.jpg
    http://tinyurl.com/332edp
    http://tinyurl.com/2nu7r3
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    Crikey, you wouldn't leave him minding the kids.
    Dan
  • leguape
    leguape Posts: 986
    DaveyL wrote:
    They went back and did a longitudinal study; I am sure the results came out during the CAS hearing. It's SOP in these cases.

    As many people have alluded to, it really wasn't such a remarkable effort. I mean, it was a great ride by Lanids, but not in the same category, in my opinion, as Basso smiling his way up the Mortirolo etc. A combination of poor riding/tactics by other teams in part helped Landis's effort succeed. But make no mistake, he doped.

    Agree about it not being such a remarkable effort. Didn't he put a fair bit of his overall time gap into them on the final descent. Can't remember how much exactly, but it was in the region of a minute or two simply by being a good descender. Last time I looked that had little to do with doping and far more to do with bike handling and nerve. Not forgetting the other teams squabbling away up the climbs about whose job it was to chase him down which he put it out to 15 plus minutes.
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