Extreme ectomorphs in Tour de France

It's not a pretty sight.

It's not a coincidence that hardly any women are watching the Tour de France. It's 2015 and they demand BUFF guys and rightfully though.

I mean seriously, those guys are malnourished and should be helped instead of being allowed to do a bicycle festival.

I am 186 cm (6'1") and weigh 64 kg (142#).

I eat a ton, more junk food than I should and I don't completely suck at running. I've run 1:56 for 800. I just naturally have a really low body fat percentage.

In highschool I tried to gain weight for Nordic in the winter but I could never put on weight when my teammates would put on 5-10 pounds of muscle during the season.

The only supplement I take is a multi vitamin (plus thyroid hormone, prednisone and testaboost).

So what makes you think that Quintana or his team could have beat Froome or his team by over a minute on a flat stage that would have turned into a time trial?

Actually, the secret to Sky's success has been documented quite thoroughly. It's all based on a new approach to nutrition, to allow one to achieve that hollow, emancipated look eerily reminiscent of concentration camp survivors. You simply place a ban on Nutella at the team's table. If anyone attempt to bring this delicious snack to the table, you simply ostracize them. Within a week, your team will be capable of winning the Tour De France.

Perhaps Salazar should learn from this instructional anecdote.

Ghost wrote:

Unless proven to the contrary, Froome is clean and/or at least as legit as 99.9% of the other riders in the peloton.

Like Salazar's group the Sky Team devotes a lot of its budget to cutting edge technology and the small details pay dividends.

Ok, so what proof do you need to believe Froome is doping?

Wow, what a double standard.

If these were all women, i guarantee everyone would be screaming "they all have eating disorders!" "I'm concerned for their health".

funny, nobody seems concerned about the health of these obvious manorexics.

Girlrider wrote:

Wow, what a double standard.

If these were all women, i guarantee everyone would be screaming "they all have eating disorders!" "I'm concerned for their health".

funny, nobody seems concerned about the health of these obvious manorexics.

Thank you for inserting identity politics into what was a perfectly natural discussion about sports. I don't have time to keep up with both Tumblr SJWs and LetsRun.

Check your privilege, everybody!

Girlrider wrote:

funny, nobody seems concerned about the health of these obvious manorexics.

funny, nobody seems concerned about women's cycling whatsoever. does it even exist?

Girlrider wrote:

Wow, what a double standard.

If these were all women, i guarantee everyone would be screaming "they all have eating disorders!" "I'm concerned for their health".

funny, nobody seems concerned about the health of these obvious manorexics.

It's not from an eating disorder, it's from triamcinolone acetonide.

As much as I am impressed by these guys riding up some Euro mountains, they simply don't cut it for me. Guys, you don't need to look like meatheads but a man should be muscular, especially chest and biceps. And cyclist have neither, unfortunately.

lancia armstrong wrote:

nobody seems concerned about women's cycling whatsoever. does it even exist?

Ladies' bikes have those low top tubes on them, you can't really race those.

D. Walsh wrote:

It's all based on a new approach to nutrition, to allow one to achieve that hollow, emancipated look eerily reminiscent of concentration camp survivors. You simply place a ban on Nutella at the team's table.

Wow, I'm glad they have that glowing look of freedom and emancipation on their bones.

You're a dimwit and you made a terrible joke and a costly error.

Bad Wigins wrote:

lancia armstrong wrote:

nobody seems concerned about women's cycling whatsoever. does it even exist?

Ladies' bikes have those low top tubes on them, you can't really race those.

Actually I did watch the brief expose on women's cycling that was included in the coverage of the final stage of the men's race. It was actually a rather enjoyable collection of crashes, that was used to highlight the need for the men to take care on the slippery cobbles of the Champs. Anyway, the point to be noted is that the women did not seem to suffer from the same ectomorphic look of the men. Most of these women would have to shave a few pounds to even be considered lean, by swimsuit model standards. Wonder why that is?

runDirtyrun wrote:

Ok, so what proof do you need to believe Froome is doping?

A positive test from UCI/WADA, mechanical or physological.

I suspect it is because most of these women are crit riders.

The froomes and quintana's wouldn't enter a race that the women did on the champs, only the cavendish types.

The tour requires a high strength to weight ratio. When froome learned that there would be no individual TTs in the race and the extensiveness of the climbing, he stated that he had to change his body type. this meant losing weight.

There are no stage races for women cyclists that require being able to climb thousands of feet and thousands of miles over 3 weeks, but if there were

i guarantee that these women would look just as emaciated as the men and everyone would be up in arms.

Watcher of Women's Cycling wrote:

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Anyway, the point to be noted is that the women did not seem to suffer from the same ectomorphic look of the men. Most of these women would have to shave a few pounds to even be considered lean, by swimsuit model standards. Wonder why that is?

The women you saw were racing a one-day event that favors sprinters. Sprint cyclists (women and men) are built like that. And no, they would not have to "shave a few pounds to even be considered lean."

Cyclists did seem to be more bulky in the past

Can understand for the mountains but not sure how they perform so well on the time trial as on the flat the bikes takes most of the extra weight

Froome is obviously doping with EPO and weight loss drugs.

However, to the credit of cycling their testing regime is much better than the laughable protocols used in distance running.

Froome is the cleanest athlete of the modern era compared to dopers like Farah, Kiprop, Simpson, etc.

I swear, if I see another Hannah and her horse commercial.... Who cares about a bunch of emaciated cyclists?