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  On 7/25/2022 at 11:40 AM, De_Gambassi said:

Funny, in francophone Belgium at least, France is claimed to be a very chauvinist country (contrary to Belgium obviously) :rolleyes:

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Oh well, in the Netherlands every foreign team doing what Jumbo does would be insanely suspected but Jumbo is supposed to do it all on some good bread with peanut butter, because it's a Dutch team and thus innocent :p (not saying this or that team is for sure suspicious, but surely one knows where to put some question marks?)

 

TV wouldn't show anything but Dafne Schippers in the 2016 Olympics basically, super hero of all time. Which all goes to say I think most countries have quite a dose of chauvinism in them, and not one country is specifically above the others in that regard.

 

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  On 7/25/2022 at 11:44 AM, heywoodu said:

Oh well, in the Netherlands every foreign team doing what Jumbo does would be insanely suspected but Jumbo is supposed to do it all on some good bread with peanut butter, because it's a Dutch team and thus innocent :p (not saying this or that team is for sure suspicious, but surely one knows where to put some question marks?)

 

TV wouldn't show anything but Dafne Schippers in the 2016 Olympics basically, super hero of all time. Which all goes to say I think most countries have quite a dose of chauvinism in them, and not one country is specifically above the others in that regard.

 

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Actually, I was reading a bit of the wielerforum in the last couple of days for curiosity sake and there is a couple of guys who don't buy the Team JV hyper domination, orange or not. In Belgium, one would be immediately stripped of his nationality if he was questioning the real TDF winner.  :rolleyes:

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  On 7/25/2022 at 11:54 AM, De_Gambassi said:

Actually, I was reading a bit of the wielerforum in the last couple of days for curiosity sake and there is a couple of guys who don't buy the Team JV hyper domination, orange or not. In Belgium, one would be immediately stripped of his nationality if he was questioning the real TDF winner.  :rolleyes:

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This is a lengthy yet quality post I liked on another big Dutch forum. I assume you'll need a translator, but that should work fine.

 

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What he means in sentence one with 'this kind of posts' is a post talking about it being a 'different time' nowadays, basically. Probably there are some forum specific references in there, but you'll get the gist of the post about how he looks at cycling :p

 

Yes, teams most likely have way better training methods and professional dealings - FDJ is known to have basically nothing with diets, which is as amateuristic as it can get, whereas other teams have a full team for it. But that doesn't exclude the option that they also go over the edges of what's legal. It's not necessarily one or the other.

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  On 7/25/2022 at 12:18 PM, heywoodu said:

Yes, teams most likely have way better training methods and professional dealings - FDJ is known to have basically nothing with diets, which is as amateuristic as it can get, whereas other teams have a full team for it. But that doesn't exclude the option that they also go over the edges of what's legal. It's not necessarily one or the other.

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That's factually wrong... They do have a team about that (and a medical one, and a research one, and a high performance one, etc.). Granted I don't how big they are or how efficient they are.

 

That's the thing, we don't know how much the storyline of how much professional a team is or is not is true.

 

There is something UCI could relatively easely do and that will help with the credibility of cycling is to ask for and publish every year the accounts of every pro cycling teams. By itself, it should help to reduce the grey/illegal area and it would also allow the public to know what are the real differences in research/performance/material/whatever between teams and how much of this storyline is true.

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  On 7/25/2022 at 12:51 PM, De_Gambassi said:

 

That's factually wrong... They do have a team about that (and a medical one, and a research one, and a high performance one, etc.). Granted I don't how big they are or how efficient they are.

 

That's the thing, we don't know how much the storyline of how much professional a team is or is not is true.

 

There is something UCI could relatively easely do and that will help with the credibility of cycling is to ask for and publish every year the accounts of every pro cycling teams. By itself, it should help to reduce the grey/illegal area and it would also allow the public to know what are the real differences in research/performance/material/whatever between teams and how much of this storyline is true.

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Also: at the end of every year, all medical exemptions & formal prescriptions.

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  On 7/25/2022 at 1:19 PM, Grassmarket said:

Also: at the end of every year, all medical exemptions & formal prescriptions.

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If that's legally possible : yes ! (or at least the amount of cash put on medicine every year)

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  On 7/25/2022 at 1:32 PM, Quasit said:

Is nobody commenting on how there's a Tour de France Femmes now and Lorena Wiebes :NED won the first stage yesterday? :d 

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I did see it yesterday :p 

 

It was surprisingly close with Vos, considering how incredibly far ahead of the peloton Wiebes tends to finish in bunch sprints this year.

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  On 7/25/2022 at 1:32 PM, Quasit said:

Is nobody commenting on how there's a Tour de France Femmes now and Lorena Wiebes :NED won the first stage yesterday? :d 

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Why not a new thread (or one for women cycling) ? :question:

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