TDF

[Deleted member 16999]

Anyone seen this picture,


Polish rider Pawel Poljanski took a photo of his legs after finishing stage 16

https://mobile.twitter.com/sinow/status/887446430021029889

 

[Big_G]

Kittel gone, looking like a brutal stage today

 

[ger147]

Kittel gone, looking like a brutal stage today

He took a heavy fall in the crash right at the start, was always gonna be a very long day for him.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It's not helping my productivity at work I know that.

 

[fundy]

thats Aru cooked youd think looks like losing close to a minute to the main contenders

 

[fundy]

mountain stages over, would take a very unexpected time trial result now to see Froome not win this now

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Is it just the time trial and then Paris to go now?

 

[fundy]

Is it just the time trial and then Paris to go now?

3 stages left, a rolling stage tomorrow that shouldnt see any change in the GC, time trial staurday and then the procession into Paris Sunday

 

[Deleted member 17920]

mountain stages over, would take a very unexpected time trial result now to see Froome not win this now

Froome did well today, Thought he was going to increase his lead at one stage but Uran is a machine and pulled him and Bardet back to the GC group and that cost Landa so serious time as he was doing brilliant having a go.

Aru was thankfully disappointing again today, I am hoping he isn't going to finish on the podium after trying to pull a fast one when Froome had an issue.

 

[fundy]

Seems to be some rumours in France that Froome has been banned from this years TDF!!!!

 

[MegaSteve]

Seems to be some rumours in France that Froome has been banned from this years TDF!!!!

As I understand it they've told him outright he's not welcome...
Hoping, I guess, he withdraws of his own volition...

Bit much when they've had eight months to do something and leave it to the week before it starts...
Typical 'blazer' logic I suppose...

 

[hors limite]

I can't claim to have any specialist knowledge other than being an asthma sufferer. As far as I can make out, we all have a maximum natural lung capacity. If you suffer from an asthma attack, the capacity is constricted. Salbutamol relieves this constriction restoring your natural capacity - it can't enhance it. If this is a fair analysis, I can't see how Froome has enjoyed any sort of advantage. It seems to be quite different to the stimulants and blood doping scandals of the past.

 

[larmen]

By if you I inject it then it becomes performance enhancing.

And his measured level has never been reached by anybody just with an enhaler.

 

[Old Skier]

From BBC site:

French newspaper Le Monde reports race organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) does not want Froome to take part in the Tour while his case is pending.
Le Monde says ASO has a rule, in accordance with the regulations of the UCI, that "reserves the right to refuse participation in - or to exclude from - the event, a team or any of its members whose presence would be such as to damage the image or reputation of ASO or the event".
Team Sky have appealed to the French Olympic Committee, and that will be heard on Tuesday, with a decision to be announced the following day.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

It Sky or Froome were French, there wouldnt be any issues. The French just dont like Their race being one by non French.

 

[Old Skier]

It Sky or Froome were French, there wouldnt be any issues. The French just dont like Their race being one by non French.

Nothing since 1986 so they may be used to it.

 

[larmen]

It Sky or Froome were French, there wouldnt be any issues. The French just dont like Their race being one by non French.

That just what Lance said ;-)

 

[Blue in Munich]

As I understand it they've told him outright he's not welcome...
Hoping, I guess, he withdraws of his own volition...

Bit much when they've had eight months to do something and leave it to the week before it starts...
Typical 'blazer' logic I suppose...

Can I be the first to blame Brexit for the French position?

Back to the serious matter, I’m not sure where I side with it; if it’s not a performance enhancing drug as been described then what’s the issue, but at the same time I’d like to know just how he gets that much into his system. I really want him to be clean for the sake of the sport but for me there’s a lack of sincerity in his interviews that means I struggle to believe him.

 

[Slab]

As I understand it they've told him outright he's not welcome...
Hoping, I guess, he withdraws of his own volition...

Bit much when they've had eight months to do something and leave it to the week before it starts...
Typical 'blazer' logic I suppose...

It does seem weird that the race organizers have now been forced to do something themselves due to such a long delay waiting for this case to be dealt with. You gotta wonder how many cases are live on the books in order not to get round to Froome's in eight months!

 

[Bunkermagnet]

It does seem weird that the race organizers have now been forced to do something themselves due to such a long delay waiting for this case to be dealt with. You gotta wonder how many cases are live on the books in order not to get round to Froome's in eight months!

Perhaps the answer those carrying out the investigations can’t find the answer they are looking for?