Tour de France 2016

[Lordul]

Liga campionilor ciclismului ! Cel mai vizionat eveniment sportiv al anului debuteaza astazi !! Duelul titanilor Froome vs Quintana vs Contador vs Fabio Aru .


Toţi rutierii prezenţi la prezentarea Turului Franţei din 2016 au etichetat traseul drept unul dificil, cu obstacole la aproape tot pasul. Şi aceasta, deoarece cursa care va lua startul de la Mont-Saint-Michel şi se va încheia la Paris propune multe căţărări repertoriate – unele dintre acestea aflate pentru prima oară pe hartă – patru sosiri la altitudine şi două contratimpuri individuale, ce se vor încheia la Caverne du Pont d’Arc (37 de kilometri) şi Megève (17 kilometri), acesta din urmă fiind în urcare.

În afară de Franţa, caravana va vizita alte trei ţări: Spania, Andorra şi Elveţia, toate mai figurând şi în trecut pe traseu. Prima bătălie între favoriţi se va da la Arcalis, pentru ca doar câteva zile mai târziu, pe 14 iulie, plutonul să ajungă pe Mont Ventoux (15,7 kilometri, pantă medie 8,8%). Finhaut-Emosson va oferi terenul propice pentru noi atacuri, în vreme ce Saint-Gervais-Mont Blanc (9,8 kilometri, pantă medie 8%) – ascensiune cunoscută din Criteriul Dauphiné 2015 – va fi ultima sosire în căţărare de la a 103-a ediţie.

În afară de ascensiunile din Pirinei, Alpi, Masivul Central şi Vosgi, un rol important îl vor mai juca sosirile în coborâre, care prezintă porţiuni tehnice, dar şi câteva etape de plat cu risc de “borduri”, ceea ce înseamnă că favoriţii la tricoul galben vor trebui să fie ciclişti compleţi, capabili să reziste şi să facă diferenţa indiferent de teren.

Fabio Aru, Romain Bardet, Warren Barguil, Alberto Contador, Chris Froome, Bauke Mollema, Nairo Quintana, Thibaut Pinot, Richie Porte, Joaquim Rodriguez şi Alejandro Valverde sunt aşteptaţi să lupte în clasamentul general, asta în timp ce Nacer Bouhanni, Mark Cavendish, Arnaud Démare, André Greipel, Marcel Kittel şi Peter Sagan vor fi protagonişti la sprint.

Turul Franţei 2016 va începe 2 iulie, se va încheia pe 24 iulie şi va putea fi urmărit la Eurosport şi Eurosport Player, în transmisiune directă.

[Nadalfan]

Groenewegen FTW azi!!!!
Sau daca nu el sa castige oricine inafara de Kittel!!!

[miril]

Contador are deja probleme la umarul drept dupa o cazatura.

[miril]

Mark Cavendish!

1. GBR CAVENDISH Mark 101 TEAM DIMENSION DATA 04h 13' 55''
2. GER KITTEL Marcel 181 ETIXX-QUICK STEP 04h 13' 59'' + 00' 04''
3. SVK SAGAN Peter 32 TINKOFF 04h 14' 01'' + 00' 06''
4. GER GREIPEL André 161 LOTTO SOUDAL 04h 14' 05'' + 00' 10''

[Lordul]

Cavendish a castigat prima etapa si este primul purtator al Tricoului Galben

[liverpool-kid]

La primul sau tricou galben dupa atatea etape castigate

[miril]

O noua cazatura a lui Contador. Fara consecvente imediate, se pare.

[Lordul]

mare ghinion mai ales pentru ca se pare este la ultimul sau Tur al Frantei dar poate aceste cazaturi il vor face mai puternic

[miril]

Peter Sagan castiga etapa si tricoul galben. Porte a facut pana si va pierde timp pretios, 1,45 min.

[Lordul]

si Contador a pierdut timp pretios aproximativ 50 de secunde

[miril]

48 secunde, 1,02 min, in clasamentul general.

[Lordul]

cam mult , e drept ca inca ar mai putea recupera dar ...

[liverpool-kid]

Maine e rândul lui Froome sa o ia in barba

[Nadalfan]

Cav e fucking awesome!!! Love him!
Sper sa faca tripla pana la final ca sa-l depaseasca pe Hinault.

Maine Sagan. Sau Coquard. Ultimii 600m au 6,5% panta.

[Lordul]

A castigat Marcel Kittel la mustata in fata lui Coquard . Maine avem prima etapa montana , cu urcari si catarari prin Masivul Central Francez

[Lordul]

Cavendish a ajuns la 29 de victorii in Turul Frantei dupa etapa de ieri

[Nadalfan]

Cav e GOAT.
De maine incepe nebunia... Daca nu lasa evadarea plutonul, Bardet FTW!!!

[Lordul]

Sky la trena

[Lordul]

A atacat Chris Froome !!!!

[Lordul]

Froome castiga etapa si tricoul galben in etapa cu final la Bagneres de Luchon

[Sifodias]

http://www.joe.co.uk/sport/watch-chris-froome-has-punched-a-spectator/72314

Eu pentru asa ceva l-as descalifica imediat.Asta e o reactie golaneasca!Omul ala alerga pe langa el,nu-l deranja cu nimic.Pacat ca se accepta in ciclism asa ceva...

[Lordul]

poate va fi amendat , oricum golaneasca reactie intr-adevar ! urat din partea unui campion

[mihaidascalescu]

Britanicii ii maninca prăjiți pe piine pe straini. 5/7 victorii, au vreo 3 tricouri. Brexit ne-a invigorat.
Semne bune pt Rio

Ce i au făcut KO cu tactica sky, amazing.

[miril]

Contador se retrage din Turul Frantei.

[Lordul]

da chinuit de febra si de o noua cazatura rutierul de la Tinkoff-Saxo s-a retras din Tdf

[miril]

Tom Dumoulin castiga pe grindina la sosire dupa o evadare in grup la debutul etapei:

1. NED DUMOULIN Tom 114 TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN 05h 16' 24''
2. POR FARIA DA COSTA Rui Alberto 151 LAMPRE - MERIDA 05h 17' 02'' + 00' 38''
3. POL MAJKA Rafal 37 TINKOFF 05h 17' 02'' + 00' 38''
4. ESP NAVARRO Daniel 191 COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS 05h 18' 03'' + 01' 39''
5. COL ANACONA GOMEZ Winner Andrew 13 MOVISTAR TEAM 05h 18' 21'' + 01' 57''
6. FRA PINOT Thibaut 121 FDJ 05h 18' 54'' + 02' 30''
7. NZL BENNETT George 52 TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO 05h 19' 12'' + 02' 48''
8. ITA ROSA Diego 27 ASTANA PRO TEAM 05h 19' 16'' + 02' 52''
9. SUIFRANK Mathias 71 IAM CYCLING 05h 20' 08'' + 03' 44''

Grupul lui Froome la 6, 35 min.

1. GBR FROOME Christopher 1 TEAM SKY 44h 36' 03''
2. GBR YATES Adam 209 ORICA-BIKEEXCHANGE 44h 36' 19'' + 00' 16''
3. IRL MARTIN Daniel 184 ETIXX-QUICK STEP 44h 36' 22'' + 00' 19''
4. COL QUINTANA Nairo 11 MOVISTAR TEAM 44h 36' 26'' + 00' 23''
5. ESP RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin 141 TEAM KATUSHA 44h 36' 40'' + 00' 37''
6. FRA BARDET Romain 41 AG2R LA MONDIALE 44h 36' 47'' + 00' 44''
7. NED MOLLEMA Bauke 61 TREK - SEGAFREDO 44h 36' 47'' + 00' 44''
8. COL HENAO Sergio Luis 2 TEAM SKY 44h 36' 47'' + 00' 44''
9. RSA MEINTJES Louis 157 LAMPRE - MERIDA 44h 36' 58'' + 00' 55''
10. ESP VALVERDE Alejandro 12 MOVISTAR TEAM 44h 37' 04'' + 01' 01''

[mihaidascalescu]

Contador se retrage din Turul Frantei.

sa se duca invirtindu-se drogatul.:happy:happy:happy

[Lordul]

oare care o fi mai drogat Contador or Froome ? :)))))))))))))

[Lordul]

astazi Mont Ventoux , o catarare mitica , legendara ! Sa vedem ce surprize vor fi !

[quebec]

Pai surpria e ca nu se ajunge pana in varf din cauza vantului. Daca azi Quintana nu ataca atunci nici sa nu mai aud de el.

[Lordul]

a atacat..dar finalul a fost nebun...Mollema a lovit o moticleta in fata lui Froome si s-a creat o busculada cu ambii implicati alaturi de Richie Porte si Froome a incercat apoi sa mearga pe jos lucru nepermis..a primit o bicicleta de la echipa tehnica dar nu a mers nici asa si a luat una de la Sky echipa sa dar a pierdut timp pretios cazand la general pana pe 6 .

[mihaidascalescu]

oare care o fi mai drogat Contador or Froome ? :)))))))))))))

daca imi dai un link cu froome drogatul, te cred.

ia de aici si maninca

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/16905217

[mihaidascalescu]

babaete dar ce organizatori de ***** frantujii astia nu-si pot controla spectatorii si se fac de risul curcilor cu tricoul galben alergind pe drum.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/tour-de-france/chris-froome-runs-mont-ventoux-crash-video-260206

da, lordul le baga de la el din burta. rezultatul ala e imposibil sa stea sau din groapa in care turul este acum se transforma in gaura neagra. :happy:happy:happy

[mihaidascalescu]

Pai surpria e ca nu se ajunge pana in varf din cauza vantului. Daca azi Quintana nu ataca atunci nici sa nu mai aud de el.

quinto s-a chisat pe el azi. m-am lamurit. bauke pe de alta parte e baiat.

[Lordul]

babaete dar ce organizatori de ***** frantujii astia nu-si pot controla spectatorii si se fac de risul curcilor cu tricoul galben alergind pe drum.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/tour-de-france/chris-froome-runs-mont-ventoux-crash-video-260206

da, lordul le baga de la el din burta. rezultatul ala e imposibil sa stea sau din groapa in care turul este acum se transforma in gaura neagra. :happy:happy:happy

http://cyclingtips.com/2015/07/the-curious-case-of-chris-froome-why-he-and-cycling-deserve-better/ link cu suspiciuni la Froome

ce am bagat din burta ?

[mihaidascalescu]

http://cyclingtips.com/2015/07/the-curious-case-of-chris-froome-why-he-and-cycling-deserve-better/ link cu suspiciuni la Froome

pe bune, tu ai citit articolul ala si l-ai inteles?

[mihaidascalescu]

si acum pt adevaratul clasament, nu ce-i nazareste lordului prin burta:

Looking at Ned Boulting's tweet, Chris Froome seems to have extended his lead in the yellow jersey to 47 seconds over Adam Yates

chisatul a mai pierdut vreo 30 sec.:happy:happy:happy

[ciorbicafaristu]

Trebuie sa ai probleme la mansarda daca iti inchipui ca in ziua de azi cineva poate domina Turul ani de zile fara sa fie pastilat.

[Lordul]

si acum pt adevaratul clasament, nu ce-i nazareste lordului prin burta:

Looking at Ned Boulting's tweet, Chris Froome seems to have extended his lead in the yellow jersey to 47 seconds over Adam Yates

chisatul a mai pierdut vreo 30 sec.:happy:happy:happy

pai organizatorii au decis sa-i dea timpul lui Mollema si lui Froome dupa busculada creata ..daca nu ai vazut etapa in direct nu inteleg ce ai de comentat

uite aici explicatii http://www.prosport.ro/alte-sporturi/ciclism/haos-pe-mont-ventoux-in-turul-frantei-organizatorii-au-decis-tricoul-galben-ramane-la-chris-froome-l-equipe-a-surprins-momentul-groazei-15527934

[mihaidascalescu]

Baaaaa lordule trezește-te.

Ți am zis ca le bagi din burta? Da. Au fost rezultatele tale corecte? Nu. Recunoaște ca vorbești prostii și mergem mai departe. Baga la capatina, nu ma bag unde nu cunosc. Ia o ca pe o invatatura de viata.:happy

[mihaidascalescu]

Trebuie sa ai probleme la mansarda daca iti inchipui ca in ziua de azi cineva poate domina Turul ani de zile fara sa fie pastilat.

E foarte simplu, vine și se chisa în gura ta și tu faci o analiză rapida și l dai în gat. Deal? :happy

[ciorbicafaristu]

Tu nu esti pacalici doar pe forum, esti si in viata reala, este?

[mihaidascalescu]

Tu nu esti pacalici doar pe forum, esti si in viata reala, este?

dom'le fii serios, deal?

[mihaidascalescu]

Cavendish și cu froome ii jupoaie de vii pe straini. Îmbinarea sportului cu tehnologia și psihologia at its best.

[Lordul]

si cu medicina , deal ? cel putin in cazul unuia dintre ei

[mihaidascalescu]

si cu medicina , deal ? cel putin in cazul unuia dintre ei

In capul tau multe lucruri înoată. Noroc dracu ca nu trăiesc în România sa te am ca doctor. Vai de sarmanii aia.

Cit despre preot ești bun al dracu. Cum zicea Isus? Ala fara păcate sa arunce cu piatra. Tu dai cu bolovani și ala nici măcar nu a facut păcatul.

Tuaaaaaamne ferește de popi romanaci.

[mihaidascalescu]

isi bat joc de adversar in ultimul hal sky.

bardet tocmai ce bagase un gap de vreo 10 sec si olandezul bea coca. cine plm e bardet ala, e dement?

:happy:happy:happy

[Cristy RVD]

Sky e o echipa indestructibila pe munti. Pur si simplu nu ai cum sa-l prinzi pe Froome singur. E Poels acolo, e Nieve, e Henao, e Vasile, e Landa. azi Stannard a dus trena pana n-a mai stiut de el. Cred ca daca si-a propune asta ar duce lejer 3 oameni in top 5.

Si sa nu uit, fricosul de Quintana nu e in stare de nimic. As spune ca singura lui tactica e sa prinda locul doi la final in speranta ca-l vor prinde pe Froomy si va lua niste tururi la masa verde :D

[Lordul]

stai sa vezi atacuri acuma in Alpi !!! Quintana nu mai are ce pierde si va ataca furibund. Asteptam replica lui Froome

[Cristy RVD]

Va ataca furibund aproximativ 12 pedale si va fi readus in grupul favoritilor de Landa care va folosi un singur picior.

[liverpool-kid]

Băieților de la Sky le convine oare statutul asta de sclavi?eu unul mi-as baga picioarele

[mihaidascalescu]

Băieților de la Sky le convine oare statutul asta de sclavi?eu unul mi-as baga picioarele

te pomenesti ca doar baietii de la sky au sclavi. tu probabil trebuie sa o iei de la zero si sa inveti ce inseamna o echipa. :happy

[mihaidascalescu]

chisatu iar s-a facut de ris. vai de mama lui.

[Lordul]

Froome a castigat contratimpul de azi si si-a consolidat si mai mult locul 1 la general

[miril]

Sa-l uitam pe Quintana, un ciclist constant la nivel inalt dar cu un stil trist, trist de tot si sa-l remarcam pe alt columbian, mult mai spectaculos, Jarlinson Pantano, super ciclist. Froome e Froome, a castigat meritat, fara mari eforturi al treilea titlu in Le Tour chiar daca mai este o etapa, etapa de parada spre Champs-Élysées. Bardet, multumita victoriei spectaculoase de ieri are mare sanse sa termine al doilea, iar Quintana completeaza podiumul. O remarca pentru engelzul Adam Yates, castigatorul titlului pentru cel mai bun ciclist sub 26 de ani care se va clasa, dupa toate posibilitatile, pe locul patru. La echipe va castiga Movistar care astazi a dat si castigatorul etapei, spaniolul Ion (sic) Izaguirre, urmat de Pantano si Nibali care la coborarea finala se gandea, deja, probabil la JO.

[Nadalfan]

Sunt foarte fericit ca luat Froome turul, dar, pe bune acum, turul asta a fost la fel de plictisitor ca-n 2012. Niciun moment de suspans. Nimic nu a avut. Singurii care au incercat intr-adevar sa puna lucrurile in miscare au fost Froome si Sagan.
Pantano e fain. Bun catarator, bun coborator si bun sprinter. Pacat ca e semnat deja cu Trek fiindca la anu' iar se batea la etape.
Maine probabil ca nu mai rateaza Kittel. Mai ales ca nu mai e Cav.

[liverpool-kid]

Maine nu e Cav dar e Degenkolb, iar Giant e specialistă in ultima etapa din marile tururi...Quintana ma intreb ce cauta pe podium, sincer nu merita mai degrabă as fi mers pe Valverde care, cu tot cu Giro in picioare s-a prezentat excelent..imbatraneste precum vinul, devine mai bun cu anii, poate o sa fie un fel de Kasai al ciclismului

[miril]

Greipel, Sagan, Kristoff.

[miril]

Frumos discursul lui Froome chiar daca l-a citit. "Vive Le Tour, Vive La France"!

[Lordul]

Greipel castiga la Paris ! Froome isi trece in palmares al 3 lea Tour de France ! Oare unde se va opri rutierul din Kenya ?

[liverpool-kid]

La 7 apoi intervine WADA peste alți 5 ani si ii retrage titlurile, iar de data asta secondantii vor fi declarați câștigători la masa verde

[Lordul]

sa vedem daca ajunge la 7...personal nu-l vad..ar avea in jur de 35 de ani daca ar castiga urmatoarele 4 la rand ; la Wada trebuie probe serioase nu suspiciuni. Bardet e drept ca i-ar conveni ! dar prefer un castigator pe asfalt nu la masa verde

[mihaidascalescu]

Sa-l uitam pe Quintana, un ciclist constant la nivel inalt dar cu un stil trist, trist de tot si sa-l remarcam pe alt columbian, mult mai spectaculos, Jarlinson Pantano, super ciclist. Froome e Froome, a castigat meritat, fara mari eforturi al treilea titlu in Le Tour chiar daca mai este o etapa, etapa de parada spre Champs-Élysées. .

poate ii spune si lu mirilul cineva ca e gentleman's agreement ca cine incepe ultima etapa in galben cistiga turul. :happy:happy:happy

[miril]

Nu era vorba de gentleman's agreement, dar, desi improbabil, se pot intampla alte lucruri, cade si nu termina, spre exemplu. Despre asta era vorba. Ce zici?!?!

[Johnny D]

Cum va gasiti voi cu pedalele doar in timpul GS-urilor... sti-va dracu, zici ca e premeditat!:))
Noroc ca USO e pe alt continent si o ora si jumatate nu e atat de grav, dar o sa revina RG-ul si iar o sa fac scandal.:P

[miril]

It looks bad, Brad The Sunday Times, David Walsh

Sky’s claims to be whiter than white grow darker after Wada hacking revelations

During a presentation to a group of sports scientists at the South Africa Sports Science Institute in Cape Town six years ago, a Team Sky doctor zapped an image on to a screen. Black cycling jersey with a blue line running down the back, the jersey that had already become synonymous with the team.

According to the doctor the blue line differentiated legal from illegal, the boundary between right and wrong. Team Sky, he said, would push right up to that line but would not cross it. They would find every which way to improve performance but they would not cheat. He spoke with a lot of passion and those who listened would recall the symbolism of the blue line.

Dave Brailsford, Sky’s team boss, has spoken about how they pursued an edge. The mattresses they trucked from town to town during the Tour de France, the previously unheard of warm-downs after each stage, the Michelin-star chef, the individual washing machines for each rider, the painstaking sanitisation of the team bus after each day at the Tour de France.

They called it “the aggregation of marginal gains” and it has made Team Sky one of the most successful teams in the history of road cycling. History, though, has cycling in a suffocating head lock. Too many of yesterday’s heroes are tainted and the more successful Team Sky became the more they were suspected of cheating. Brailsford insisted he would end his involvement in the sport before allowing any form of doping. He pleaded with journalists to show him the things the team could do that would convince the public they were ethical.

Two weeks after the fall of Lance Armstrong in late October 2012, Brailsford thought of a plan. It involved this journalist. Standing at the top of a stairway at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester he said: “We have nothing to hide and if you’d like to come and live with the team, you’d be more than welcome.

You would have complete access. Stay in the team hotel, eat with us. Travel with members of the team, see who’s coming in and out of the hotel. Whatever you want to do.”

For 13 weeks in 2013 I lived inside Team Sky. It was an impressive environment dedicated to the business of winning. Tim Kerrison, head of performance, is one of the brightest, most consummate professionals you will encounter in any sport. Brailsford is also bright and an excellent manager of a supremely well-run operation.

“Brailsford said he would end his involvement in the sport before allowing doping

At 10.25 yesterday morning I called Dr Richard Freeman, who has worked with Team Sky on and off through the last six years, who still works with British Cycling and whom I had known since that time with the team in 2013. He did not pick up. I then sent a text and he replied by saying he could not comment on confidential medical records.

I then replied: “Richard, I appreciate that but you may have seen today’s Daily Mail that links [Dr] Geert Leinders with Bradley Wiggins’ TUEs [therapeutic use exemptions]. My understanding from the time spent with the team is that you were the doctor who worked most closely with BW [Bradley Wiggins]. Not Leinders. Is my understanding correct? From that time in the team my information is that you would have been the doctor that applied for BW’s TUEs and administered the injections? I am aware and accept that nothing took place that violated anti-doping rules.”

Dr Freeman chose not to reply to the questions. Two hours later, Wiggins issued a statement clarifying that Leinders had nothing to do with the TUEs he received.

THE problem for Team Sky and Wiggins is in the detail of the three TUEs the rider received during his time at the team. These came to light last week when a hacking group calling itself Fancy Bears infiltrated the World Anti-Doping Agency’s athlete files, stole data and began publishing it on the internet.

Two Sky riders, Wiggins and Chris Froome, were among the higher profile athletes to have had their medical data hacked. Froome received two TUEs in his nine-year career but after information about the second of these was leaked to the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the rider volunteered the information about a TUE he had received a year before.

Fancy Bears confirmed what Froome had already acknowledged: two TUEs to treat respiratory inflammation. Both prescriptions meant taking the corticosteroid prednisolone in oral form. The first was on May 21, 2013, 12 days before that year’s Criterium du Dauphine. The second at the Tour of Romandie was more contentious as it was “an emergency TUE” and many felt Team Sky should have withdrawn Froome from the race rather than apply for the exemption to use a corticosteroid. Froome was so severely criticised at the time that he refused to allow the team to apply for a TUE to combat sickness during the final week of the 2015 Tour de France.

Wiggins’s case is very different. Though there is no evidence that he has abused the system in any way, questions arise over the dates when he obtained the three TUEs in his Team Sky years, and in the detail of the treatment. Since 2008, Wiggins has had six TUEs; three of them while riding for the Garmin team, and a further three at Sky. His Garmin TUEs were for the asthma drugs salbutamol, formoterol and budesonide, which he could inhale, two puffs, twice daily.

These are not performance-enhancing drugs and can now be used without a therapeutic exemption. It is the TUEs ­Wiggins received while riding for Team Sky that are problematic. First, the timing. In 2011, three days before the start of the Tour de France for which Wiggins was one of the favourites, he was given a TUE to have a one-off 40mg injection of the powerful corticosteroid triamcinolone acetonide.

A year later he was the favourite for the 2012 Tour and four days before the race was given permission for another one-off injection of triamcinolone. Ten months later and 12 days before the start of his major target for that year, the 2013 Giro d’Italia, Wiggins got another TUE for a 40mg injection of triamcinolone.

Between the second and third TUEs Wiggins wrote an autobiography, My Time, that covered his 2012 Tour victory. It may be understandable that Wiggins did not want to mention the TUEs, fearing that fans might think he was seeking an unfair advantage, but he went further than not mentioning them. “In British cycling culture, at the word ‘needle’ — or the sight of one — you go, ‘Oh s***’. It’s a complete taboo ... I’ve never had an injection, apart from I’ve had my vaccinations and on occasion I’ve been put on a drip, when I’ve come down with diarrhoea or something.

Yesterday Wiggins insisted that what he had meant in his reference to “needles” was that he had not had IVs, that is products fed into his system intravenously. In their seven-year history, Team Sky have applied for 13 TUEs. Given the number of races, especially the number of grand tours, that is not a high number. What is surprising is that Wiggins should have accounted for three, and the timing of them: shortly before his biggest race of that season.

Opinions differ on the performance-enhancing qualities of triamcinolone acetonide but there is agreement that it is a potent steroid. In his first Tour de France “victory” it was the corticoid found in Lance Armstrong’s urine and the American only avoided a doping ban because his team backdated a medical prescription, which the cycling authorities then accepted.

One former Postal rider, who asked not to be named, said that in his career he had used the two drugs given to Wiggins and Froome under the TUE system. “Oral prednisolone works on clearing your airways but it doesn’t affect performance. Injected Kenalog [triamcinolone], that’s ­different. That is a powerful drug and it sure as hell helps performance.”

David Millar described having the same intramuscular injection given to Wiggins in 2011, 2012 and 2013. “It is probably the most potent drug out there,” he said, before adding: “With the right prescription it could be used legally.”

Team Sky have been reluctant to get into any debate about the medical information leaked by Fancy Bears, citing medical confidentiality. Trawling through Wiggins’s own accounts of the 2011 and 2012 Tours, it is clear he did get ill in the week before the 2011 race and it might be argued that he needed his corticosteroid injection to treat that.

The 2012 injection is far more difficult to explain. Wiggins had won all of the prep races for the Tour that year and had been impressive in his last pre-Tour race, the Criterium du Dauphine. In his book he writes of his great form going into the Tour. There is no mention of any illness.

Though they say they cannot publicly discuss Wiggins’s case and the rider provides no detailed explanation as to why he needed the injection, it is believed the TUE was sought for preventative reasons, to combat asthmatic symptoms that could have arisen during that Tour de France. Few if any of Wiggins’s teammates knew he had been granted that TUE; the same for the support staff.

The team that wanted to be seen as whiter than white had been dealing in shades of grey. What they did was legal but it was not right.

The Wada Files

Last week, the Russia-based Fancy Bears hackers group broke through the cyber security systems of the World Anti-Doping Agency and leaked confidential medical information about the sportsmen and women on the agency’s files. The Russian government has denied any involvement with Fancy Bears.

Attention has focused on the files of athletes who applied for ‘Therapeutic Use Exemptions’ (TUEs) which allow the use of products banned because they could be performance-enhancing if the athlete can prove these products are needed to treat legitimate physical complaints.

The early leaks revealed that Serena Williams was allowed to take prohibited substances to treat muscle injuries, while American gymnast Simone Biles is said to have used Ritalin — a treatment for her ADHD

Wiggins: No Leinders link


Bradley Wiggins has denied that the Belgian doctor Gert Leinders had played a role in his decision to apply for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) before three big races. The TUE allowed him to use an otherwise banned steroid, triamcinolone. Lance Armstrong had tested positive for the steroid during the 1999 Tour de France. Leinders was later banned from cycling for his involvement with doping at the Rabobank team from 2002-09.

Brad has no direct link to Geert Leinders,’ a statement read. ‘Leinders was “on race” doctor for Team Sky for a short period and so was occasionally present at races dealing with injuries sustained whilst racing. [He] had no part in Brad’s TUE application; Brad’s medical assessments from 2011-2015 were processed by the official Team Sky doctor, and verified by independent specialists to follow Wada and UCI guidelines. Brad’s passing comment regarding needles in the 2012 book referred to the historic and illegal practice of intravenous injections of performance-enhancing substances, which was the subject of a law change by [governing body] the UCI in 2011.

‘The triamcinolone injection that is referred to in the Wada leaks is an intramuscular treatment for asthma and is fully approved. Brad stands by his comment concerning the use of illegal intravenous needle injections.’

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-looks-bad-brad-k9s50whdd

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Bradley Wiggins faces a fight for his reputation in wake of Wada hack

"The problem for Wiggins, for Brailsford, for Team Sky and even for British Cycling as a whole is that, having insisted so publicly and so vehemently they would be whiter than white, anything less starts to look like hypocrisy".

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/18/bradley-wiggins-world-anti-doping-agency-hackers-russian-leak

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Lucy in The Sky...

British Cycling will overhaul link with Team Sky after ‘shocking’ revelations

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/02/british-cycling-promises-overhaul-relationship-team-sky

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/01/british-cycling-team-sky-package-bradley-wiggins

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2017/feb/22/uk-sport-british-cycling-phelps-report

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Frumos discursul lui Froome chiar daca l-a citit.

[Lordul]

intrebarea este daca Chris Froome poate castiga al -4-lea sau Tur al Frantei acum in 2017 ?