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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Capacity for EPO, Doctor's certificate for Asthma meds?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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There's no denying that these guys are super fit but my impression is that to get anywhere in pro cycling you've gotta be a druggy.
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And that much cycling can make your nether regions go numb.... (I was married to a triathlete. Stress on the *was*).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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clara_jo, 
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clara_jo, was that because he had trouble with his nether regions
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I thought that was what bananas were for
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pro cyclists bodies are mutants.
they are 100% dedicated and have an amazing pain threshold even pushing flat out in a time trial is incredibly stressful to the lungs, muscles and the back let alone climbing the mont de ventoux, just have a look out of the coach window next time you take a trip to tignes or alp d' huez and think how difficult it is to climb at 10-15km per hour + for such distances. ...... and then do another 20 days of high endurance cycling.
the great cyclists generally have bodies which are somehow abnormal but useful for the sport.
Miguel Indurain had a huge heart and huge lung capacity, Lance Armstrong ended up with a cycling specific muscle, fat, bone ratio due to his cancer.
pro cyclists do massive amounts of training.
pro cyclists really  with their diet - a simple day in the tour de france uses 6000+ calories, imagine replacing that every day for 21 days where you don't stop for lunch and you can't have a massive breakfast because you have to jump on a bike and stress your body. and in the evening you are incredibly tired so eating a huge dinner is again tricky.
These dudes eat crazy food items, lots of isotonic and sugar gels and juices and when they finish the day's race most of them get intravenous isotonic sugars, minerals and fluid replacement. Try 1 day on these isotnic and sugar gels ... they are disgusting and they screw with your insides!
Yes 90% were / are on blood doping, growth hormones and EPO but heh that is just the sport, still even with all the drugs the race is still incredibly difficult.
Personally i don't care, last year the 'Landis story' was amazing, the comeback after he cracked on the mountain was absolutely brilliant viewing. I will be disappointed if he is charged guilty and I am a gullible believer but ... it is still a great feat either way.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Is the Tour being televised this year? I can't seem to find it on the EPG. Really miss Phil Liggett, Gary Imlach and co. on Channel 4 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Yoda, it's on ITV4 - a mixture of live & highlights.
In fact it's on right now "Presented by Gary Imlach, with commentary by Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen, and reports from Ned Boulting."
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FenlandSkier, thanks 
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You know it makes sense.
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Even though there seem to be more minutes of "Text Girls" than cycling 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'd need a serous amount of 'medication' to achieve five minutes of what they produce for five hours! I hate that it needs chemical help to guarantee the 'win', I admire the sheer quality of mind and fitness that's needed to get into the teams that supply the chemicals . . . The 'Tour' without drugs would be no less exciting for the spectator but much more a lottery for the sponsors . . . and that wouldn't do, would it?
Want to stop doping? Write and tell the CEOs of the sponsoring companies that you're embargoing their products etc. and we'll see a change in attitude to doping.
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Poster: A snowHead
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The TDF is so good, because they are all packing roids. It makes for a great spectacle.
They should allow a free-for-all in the Olympix. Watching a 7-second 100-meter race would be wicked.
Having said that, it is alleged that the average professional cyclist has a life expectancy 15 years less than the general population. Hammering it about on a bike every day is not good for you.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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why just because someone wins it, they are automatically assumed to be on performance enhancing drugs. lance armstrong has to be the most tested guy on the planet. yes it is rampant through that sport, but its not right to assume everyone is doping
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Tell me about this off-the-front-of-the-saddle sitting-on-top-tube arms-on-brakes-tucked-into-hips descending gig? Anyone tried it?
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Yoda,
I think Eurosport carry it live
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| I think Eurosport carry it live |
They do. It was also on Das Erste today while Eurosport was showing the end of the Moto GP.
It was interesting watching the stage up to Tignes today. You get a much better sense of the gaps when you know the roads that they are using.
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comprex, only on skis
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ZDF were showing it, but they aren't any more.
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