Cycling Thread

[Gubby Allen]

First full Grand Tour Stage of the season just finished in the Giro.

Cav walked it.

[Gubby Allen]

Plenty of crashes too, big one in the last KM.

Should be 2 out 2 for Cavendish tomorrow.

[Master Splinter]

There's a programme currently on 5 live about the Armstrong/doping stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ngqxd

Quotes and other details here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/19944680


Cycling .

Almost as corrupt as football.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I don't want to believe it.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Don't know much about cycling, but if it's long been rumoured Armstrong was on drugs and now even cyclists with previously clean records have come out and said they were also on drugs for a lengthy amount of time then I get the feeling the vast majority of them will have been on something at one point or another. In which case it'll end up with whoever came 76th being handed the wins which would be absurd.

In a funny sort of way then it probably levelled the playing field and wiped out any advantage people got anyway. to all those people who bought that yellow wristband.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well, it's not a myth he had cancer. Not yet anyway. Sod off cynicism.

Also, I think doping can have different outcomes in its 'success' depending on the persons (in)tolerance and regular physical build but I guess that's really irrelevant.

[Syn]

Sky Sports News ‏@SkySportsNews
BREAKING NEWS: Lance Armstrong stripped of his seven Tour de France titles & banned from cycling for life by the UCI. More reaction on #SSN

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Do I not like that.

[Marc Overmars]

Are the runners up of thoses races awarded the titles then? Presuming they weren't doped up as well...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well some 'runners-up' for those years actually came fifth/sixth/seventh.