Comments on: Sleight of Hand http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/2007/08/sleight-of-hand.html Pro IS PROGRAM GO Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/2007/08/sleight-of-hand.html/comment-page-1#comment-11242 Anonymous Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:36:00 +0000 http://66.147.244.157/~belgiumk/2007/08/sleight-of-hand/#comment-11242 Doping is universal today. Even in porno, they are all on Viagra. <br/><br/>Nothing is sacred, indeed. Doping is universal today. Even in porno, they are all on Viagra.

Nothing is sacred, indeed.

]]> By: Jimbo http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/2007/08/sleight-of-hand.html/comment-page-1#comment-11235 Jimbo Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:24:00 +0000 http://66.147.244.157/~belgiumk/2007/08/sleight-of-hand/#comment-11235 Love your stuff Freddy. You are the Jedi Knight of cycling bloggers... I agree that cheating sucks but for cycling, there was no "time before PED's". The sport has never been pure. These guys have been doping, in one way or another, since the sport began. Early on it was about numbing the pain, but after WWII they started to use amphetamines and in the 70's and 80's they started blood packing, using EPO, steroids, and who knows what else. Now they are talking about gene doping which has the potential to increase the number of mitochondria in your muscle cells and impact all manner of other cellular functions that would enhance performance. Crazy. I imagine they don't all do it, probably a lower percentage now than back in the days when speed wasn't against the rules, and it would be nice if the sport got clean but it never will. They will never be able to catch all the cheaters with 100% certainty and as long as there are guys willing to ride 50K miles a year and suffer, suffer, suffer just to win a bike race, someone will go the extra mile and dope. Cycling will never be clean until the riders decide that they are not willing to do anything to win. That day is hard for me to imagine. Cheaters or not, I still love to watch them suffer and I am not going to stop watching. I don't suspend disbelief, I just watch knowing that it ain't all what it appears. Love your stuff Freddy. You are the Jedi Knight of cycling bloggers… I agree that cheating sucks but for cycling, there was no “time before PED’s”. The sport has never been pure. These guys have been doping, in one way or another, since the sport began. Early on it was about numbing the pain, but after WWII they started to use amphetamines and in the 70′s and 80′s they started blood packing, using EPO, steroids, and who knows what else. Now they are talking about gene doping which has the potential to increase the number of mitochondria in your muscle cells and impact all manner of other cellular functions that would enhance performance. Crazy. I imagine they don’t all do it, probably a lower percentage now than back in the days when speed wasn’t against the rules, and it would be nice if the sport got clean but it never will. They will never be able to catch all the cheaters with 100% certainty and as long as there are guys willing to ride 50K miles a year and suffer, suffer, suffer just to win a bike race, someone will go the extra mile and dope. Cycling will never be clean until the riders decide that they are not willing to do anything to win. That day is hard for me to imagine. Cheaters or not, I still love to watch them suffer and I am not going to stop watching. I don’t suspend disbelief, I just watch knowing that it ain’t all what it appears.

]]> By: Radio Freddy http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/2007/08/sleight-of-hand.html/comment-page-1#comment-11234 Radio Freddy Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:14:00 +0000 http://66.147.244.157/~belgiumk/2007/08/sleight-of-hand/#comment-11234 http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/10633.0.html http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/10633.0.html

]]> By: Mike Starr http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/2007/08/sleight-of-hand.html/comment-page-1#comment-11232 Mike Starr Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:18:00 +0000 http://66.147.244.157/~belgiumk/2007/08/sleight-of-hand/#comment-11232 Silas got it right. Dope is not needed. The Tour will just be slower some days and we just have to bear the days they decide to do 35kph for 7 hours after a few hard efforts the days previous. Television and EPO made us think these guys were something they weren't. I need my kids to grow up through sport without "having" to take things to keep up. Silas got it right. Dope is not needed. The Tour will just be slower some days and we just have to bear the days they decide to do 35kph for 7 hours after a few hard efforts the days previous. Television and EPO made us think these guys were something they weren’t. I need my kids to grow up through sport without “having” to take things to keep up.

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