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1 minute ago, De_Gambassi said:

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

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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But Belgium is trying hard.

 

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4 minutes ago, 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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But Belgium is trying hard.

 

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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28 minutes ago, 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:

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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Wat ik aan dit soort posts nooit zo goed begrijp is dat er blijkbaar sprake is van een andere tijd. Waarom? Wanneer is die andere tijd begonnen? Wat is er precies anders aan deze tijd?

 

Je kunt iedereen verdenken van het gebruik van doping, maar je kunt ook wegkijken.

 

We weten dat zo recent als Team Sky teams aan het rommelen zijn met van alles en nog wat. De marginal gains bleken in jiffy bags te zitten, je zou er spontaan een astmatische aanval van krijgen. Terwijl Sky altijd de prachtigste verhalen had. Betere en professionele begeleiding, meer op hoogtestage, maanden verblijven op de Teide, rondere wielen, hypermodern materiaal, innovaties, noem het allemaal maar op. En dat hoeft niet eens onwaar te zijn. Er wordt geïnnoveerd, er komt beter materiaal, er komt meer kennis van voeding en training, etc. Dat is juist, maar uit het verhaal van Team Sky blijkt dat ze naast alle legale innovaties ook gewoon de grenzen van het illegale bleven opzoeken, en zelfs overschreden. Team Sky hing naast hun vernieuwende ideeën van de TUE's aan elkaar, van ploegartsen die testosteron bestelden, van een overdosis salbutamol, etc. Náást hun legale vernieuwingen bleek dat de illegale kant van het verhaal niet werd vergeten. En dit is waarschijnlijk nog maar het topje van de ijsberg, god weet wat er allemaal in het lichaam van Froome is gegooid in augustus 2011.

 

Hebben we het dus over grofweg 10 jaar geleden. Eigenlijk minder lang, want de overdosis salbutamol was recenter. De manier van valsspelen is misschien veranderd qua producten, je hematocriet richting de 60% spuiten gaat niet meer, maar is verder de mentaliteit echt veranderd? Waarom zou die mentaliteit überhaupt veranderen? Heel veel renners uit die 'andere tijd' zijn nu nog actief. Heel veel stafleden zijn ook nog steeds actief. Waarom zouden Matxin en Gianetti bij Saunier Duval iedereen een spuit CERA in hun reet zetten en het nu bij af en toe een paracetamol houden? Dat zijn vragen die ik heb. Je hoort vooral altijd vanuit de ploegen dat dit een andere tijd is, en mensen nemen dat graag over omdat ze het willen horen. Ze willen niet nadenken over doping. In andere sporten is dat nog erger, maar ook wielerfans zijn er niet ongevoelig voor.

 

Deze Tour zien we dat Bahrein niets presteert, toevallig na een paar invallen van de politie. Vorig jaar wonnen ze alles wat los en vast zat, nu zijn ze nergens. Hoe wil jij dat verklaren? Er zijn heel veel nuances qua training, voorbereiding, voeding, etc. Die nuances zijn er inderdaad. Dat ga ik niet ontkennen. Het punt is alleen dat mensen heel graag willen doen alsof door betere training en betere voeding de andere kant van het verhaal is verdwenen. Het is voor jou en voor veel anderen blijkbaar het een of het ander. Terwijl het nooit zo werkt. Het is allebei. De ploegen hebben steeds meer legale kennis, maar ze hebben net zo goed meer illegale kennis.

 

Zoals altijd is het een combinatie van meerdere factoren. Er is de natuurlijke vooruitgang der dingen, maar het blijft sport, er staan een hoop belangen en ook geld op het spel en dus zal er ook altijd worden valsgespeeld. Hoe of wat? Daar kom je altijd pas heel veel jaar later achter. Hoe dom ben je als ploeg om zoiets te faciliteren? Dat ligt eraan. Als je het een beetje goed doet kom je nooit in de problemen natuurlijk. Lance Armstrong kwam er ook heel lang mee weg en waande zich onaantastbaar, waarom zou een Jumbo zich niet onaantastbaar wanen?

 

Waarom zouden we de verhalen van de ploegen eigenlijk geloven? Welk krediet hebben ze? Geloof je alleen Jumbo, of geloof je ook Matxin en Gianetti als ze je vertellen dat Pogacar gewoon wat harder traint dan de rest? Sta je open voor de mogelijkheid dat het én én is? En betere training, en nog steeds een beetje de randjes opzoeken? Is het niet een beetje gek wat we deze Tour gezien hebben? Hoe vaak is dominantie in het wielrennen goed afgelopen?

Ik ben wat kort door de bocht, maar zo kennen jullie me. Ik ga ook niet iedere keer alle nuances in de strijd gooien. Staat het voor mij vast dat iedereen doping gebruikt? Goh, nee. Staat het voor mij vast dat iemand als Pogacar, onder de vleugels van Matxin, Gianetti en San Millán heel verdacht is? Ja, dat dan weer wel. Geloof ik dat het op een cleane manier mogelijk is om zo veelzijdig te zijn als Van Aert? Ja, nee. Is het altijd een beetje dubieus om ploegbreed renners boven hun kunnen uit te zien stijgen? Maar natuurlijk. Is er bewijs dat er doping wordt gebruikt? Nee. Is er bewijs dat de renners clean zijn? Nee, ook niet echt.

 

En qua cyclisme à deux vitesses, als het je ontgaat dat enkele ploegen en renners heel ver boven de rest uitstijgen, tja, nouja, heb je dan wel gekeken?

 

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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14 minutes ago, 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.

 

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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26 minutes ago, 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.

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

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2 minutes ago, 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 

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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