http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/42335916
It's a sad state of affairs when the headline: "Multiple tour winner not using performance enhancing drugs" would be more surprising to us.
Professional cycling - a bit like professional wrestling. Discuss...
The cyclists are a bit thinner
Seems odd to me that such a high percentage of leading sports people suffer from asthma, I wonder how the percentage compares with the average / good sports person ?
The older I get the Faster I was
Good point John. In the same way as we need a non-paralympics, perhaps we need a tour de France of people without respiratory problems. Imagine how fast they'd be.
Research suggests that about 35-40% of British Olympic cyclists use an inhaler, compared with 21% of the Olympic team as a whole and 9% of the general population.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/c...-a8111591.html
"Slithering reptile"?
Well I suppose Mrs Wiggins couldn't really call Froome a "drug cheat."
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
She doesn’t need to - everyone already knows. Anyway I’m off to get a tapeworm removal, lose 9 kilo (or 19) and then have a pop at some V50 records