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So who's going to be following La Vuelta this year? Nice to see it being broadcast in HD for the first time!
 
andy700 said:
As someone who competed at a lot of sports (up to county level), it has always surprised me how many elite sportsmen/women use inhalers for asthma, yet I never saw anyone using them when I competed.
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Do you think that maybe showing or letting your rivals see a potential weakness in your ability could be damaging? Top athletes need to try and beat their opponents as much in the mind as physically.

Ricardodaforce said:
So who's going to be following La Vuelta this year? Nice to see it being broadcast in HD for the first time!
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Hell yeah, should be an interesting one this year. It is a wide open field really and plenty of tough stages. The organisers have also mixed it up a little with the stage schedule to try and keep GC swinging.
 
MG TF 135 said:
Do you think that maybe showing or letting your rivals see a potential weakness in your ability could be damaging? Top athletes need to try and beat their opponents as much in the mind as physically.
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But everyone knows which top athletes use "asthma inhalers", so what are you getting at?
The rest of us used to rock up at an event and get on with it. We were totally focussed on our own performance - fastest time, beating the opponent on the other side of the net etc.
I know two men, whose 800 metres times (from 25 years ago) would have qualified them for the final in the World Championships which finished last Sunday, and they never took drugs, and you wouldn't recognise their names.
My post was in reply to someone who does not believe that TdF winners/top competitors are not on drugs - something which I do not believe to be true.
In my opinion, most of the general public think that most/all athletes are on drugs, because they are too damned lazy to train for any sport themselves.
I was once asked by a young niece, whether I thought that someone could train for a marathon simply by going to a gym four times a week and using the treadmill. I replied that she needed to run every day, building up to twenty mile runs, and then taper that training leading up to the day. Ten years later she still has not run a marathon.
 
Fantastic stage. The organisers were blessed by having such a close general classification.
 
Watched the highlights on ITV4 tonight, very impressed with the performance of Chris Horner.

That last stage was brutal. :gag:
 
Ricardodaforce said:
The situation re Horner this morning. Suspicious or not?
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The team had submitted a revised whereabouts report to the UCI stating that Horner was staying at a different hotel, with his wife.

The testing team, a local Spanish organisation, were not made aware of the change of location. Thus when they attended the team hotel and found Horner to not be there issued a 'failure to provide sample' notice.

In my view Horner and RNT have been transparent, it's just the UCI messing up (who said again?).
 
MG TF 135 said:
The team had submitted a revised whereabouts report to the UCI stating that Horner was staying at a different hotel, with his wife.

The testing team, a local Spanish organisation, were not made aware of the change of location. Thus when they attended the team hotel and found Horner to not be there issued a 'failure to provide sample' notice.

In my view Horner and RNT have been transparent, it's just the UCI messing up (who said again?).
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Indeed. After I posted above I then saw the copy of the email in Radioshack's website.
 
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