Can't Believe What I'm Hearing wrote:
Aragon wrote:
... The study can be located by google using terms "Lodewijkx" and "col d'eze" and one of the first links is researchgate.
Say what??? LA, Riis, Pantani, Ullrich - all prolific EPO users who have won the Tour & other GTs during the EPO-abuse era. You're in the extreme minority that believe this. Trying running this through over at "The Clinic" forum and see what happens. Lol.
Out of curiosity, have you taken a look into the Paris-Nice paper, which calculates that there were many cyclists that won the Col d'Eze TT with W/kg of 5.4-5.6 in the 1980's whereas the best EPO-era figures were actually slightly lower?
Or don't you have any appetite to read any material that might weaken your case spending your time thinking which of your few links to attach into your next post?
(I should add that I spent some time recalculating the figures from the ascent chart and there are a few weird anomalies in the data that weaken their case about inefficacy of rHuEPO)