Everyone was on EPO not just elite, I read a story (or tweet) somewhere that one rider actually tested with a normal person hemocrit at the tour and the Dr. wondered what was wrong with him. When Lance Armstrong made all team members dope. Christope Bassons career was ruined cause he wouldn’t dope because he broke the…

her*

“Now, despite what anyone says, you don’t ride yourself into form in a brutal three-week race. If you aren’t in good shape at the start, the kicking you get each day adds up and you only become more and more tired.” Philippa York. Phillippa rode quite a few grand tours at a high level I’ll take his word over yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_UCI_World_Tour Of these events the only ones I didn’t watch at least part of it was Ocean Road, Frankfurt and Romandie. So I think that means I follow cycling though only for the past couple years to be fair. Froome/sky says a lot of things that are quite often bs (ketones,power…

Froome looked like shit the first week of the Giro, and all year to be honest what he did on Zoncolan and today is miraculous. Clean cyclist don’t gain strength during a tour it’s just if you can sustain it. It’s pretty obvious his TUE is a performance enhancer, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some micro…

Froomes power meter always read 350 on tv today even when he attacked, too bad they don’t show in real/release his real wattage to see if what he does is possible by a clean athlete.

They do have weight categories in some sports.

Candian hurdler Priscilla Lopes Schliep had a genetic mutation that allowed her to be jacked like a belgium blue, so I don’t know if this is much different. Who knows sports are dumb and fun and we take it all too serious. It is weird to train your whole life just to do one physical activity really well. And yet I…

Some sports have weight categories (weightlifting, boxing, wrestling ect) or the paralympics have different groups for events depending on the condition they have. So it is not just a Male/Female thing they do try and level the playing field. That said if it was a attractive blonde type like Dafne Schippers who had…

You are signaling out 1 person in each field who was generation talent who what we know had no hormone advantage*. The 800m had 3 women with high T which gave them a significant advantage as we seen you take that advantage away they are just ordinary. *If I had to bet Bolt doped given that other athletes with the same…

I know it sucked as a Canadian cheering for Melissa Bishop at the Olympics knowing she basically had no chance at winning because the 3 athletes ahead of her were high T suspects. Is it more important to be fair to the 3 that podium because they have a significant hormone advantage or fair to the others?

The Process.

Part of the problem with the panic room incident after it was cleared up who it was she still did not give a sample and that she wasn’t tested out of competition at all that year. Serena is the GOAT though no doubt about that.

Yah that panic room incident was weird, and really should have counted as a positive test if tennis was serious about stopping doping.

I’d say Gushue is more consistent, Koe is either great or average.

The national championships finals draw around 1 million in tv or a bit higher. Which is higher then normal Blue Jay games, just a bit lower then Sautday night hockey. So I’d say the Hiarchy goes NHL, Blue Jays are top then Curling, CFL, and NFL are similar then NBA, MLS

I know a guy who’s plate is ATM69 ATM is his initials and he is born in 69.

It does seem like a more realistic game for the average curler. And there are worse things then watching attractive women play sports at a high level.

The men almost seem automatic on runbacks, while women only do them when they have to. And I’d say the top women either are good at hitting or drawing few can do both at a world class level.

At the elite level it does. For lower level curling at the local club women teams can be as good. Like the top womens team (Homan) could compete against top mens teams but would lose 75% of the time is my guess.