Cycling aficionados, how doped is this year's Tour de France?

Correct. I am talking about a younger rider.

He was injured. Had some knee problems. He switched coaches and was put with one of Sky's coaches (the guy that came from triathlon). They had him doing like 30 hours a week. I don't think he enjoyed the fit too much, and really missed working with Jeremiah. But when you get put into the system, you don't have choice. Will be interesting to see what happens, he flew to Colorado and they changed some stuff up- the knee pain has gone away. Which happened a little before ATOC.

He just needs to find the right plan I think. Hopefully the hard training pays off in a few years.

According to the latest CIRC study and survey, the figure is 90%.

So much for the whole, cycling is the cleanest it has ever been.

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According to the latest CIRC study and survey, the figure is 90%.

So much for the whole, cycling is the cleanest it has ever been.

Way to flip the stats. The report said that an interviewee said 90% of all TUE's were for doping, not 90% of all riders were doping. That was also an opinion and not a fact.

I think it's safe to say, doping is still widespread in cycling, the report doesn't explicitly state that but a little reading between the lines suggests it. I don't think it's as bad as it was but there is shady stuff still going on in the sport.

Citizen Runner wrote:

While it's likely that there is significant cheating going on, the UCI has taken substantial anti-doping steps in the past year, having established an (supposedly) independent testing body and having instituted the biological passport for top tier professional teams. Whatever the current level of doping, it's probably at the lowest level in decades.

Uhhh. No, that's a scam. What they've done is *claim* some people paid by the UCI, working in the UCI's offices, for UCI officials to do the administrative work are "independent." CIRC report briefly discusses how Verbruggen was intervening in the administration of positives.

The answer is simple and applies to all IOC sport, grant the authority to start sanctions onto WADA/NADO.

2014 was kind of an outlier as far as a podium. Contador and Froome, two of the UCI's favorite riders both crashed out. A number of riders simply did not attend in 2014 because of Froome given free reign to dope.

With Contador and Froome gone and every other podium contender staying away, the two French riders who podiumed had reasonable power estimates from start to finish. Nibali's numbers were high, but, not Froome/Horner high.

Somewhere one of the two Frenchmen from the podium had all of his training data released as research in late 2014. Everything fits a clean-ish rider who should podium very young at a grand tour.

The 2014 Giro had very reasonable power numbers including decreases in the third week as happened before HGH/Test. So, even slower and more real than the French grand tour. Spain's 2014 grand tour was a freak show.

Given the changes made by the UCI to hide anti-doping at during the second half of 2014, 2015 should be absolutely crazy. Look for crazy performances by "old" men and strange explanations.

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still the same. is running dif wrote:

According to the latest CIRC study and survey, the figure is 90%.

So much for the whole, cycling is the cleanest it has ever been.

Way to flip the stats. The report said that an interviewee said 90% of all TUE's were for doping, not 90% of all riders were doping. That was also an opinion and not a fact.

I think it's safe to say, doping is still widespread in cycling, the report doesn't explicitly state that but a little reading between the lines suggests it. I don't think it's as bad as it was but there is shady stuff still going on in the sport.

Well, then use WADA's numbers. 90-something urinalysis positives at UCI tested events for 2013. 148 suspicious urinalysis results. They are pulling in 200+ NOT NORMAL results too. Not one rider under either unsanctioned or explained away as a TUE. That's a whole lotta doping permitted.

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