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Titolo: Armstrong and Thorburn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done!!!
Good job, Armstrong beat Thurig by 25 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thorburn got 3rd!!!!!
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/worlds06/?id=results/worlds061
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White type of medical preparation do they use?
Cinese? Epo?
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 Cinese? Epo?
Armstong won nationals and Tour De Toona this year. Now the worlds, she is
peaking and having a great year. I doubt she is using anything much besides
powerbars and sports drinks. She always was a pretty decent rider. She has
always been one of the hopefuls with Neben, Baldwin. That's basically our
trio of hopefuls, everything from stage racing to classics, but Baldwin
hasn't had much luck lately.
I don't think any of the girls use EPO. There isn't even money in the sport
for big payoffs in one day classics or tours. Its basically more the idea
that if they can last several seasons and make a name for themselves, then
they can have a career in the private sector, since becoming a sports star
in cycling opens many doors. Participating is actually just as important as
winning in the long run, and there is really no need to use drugs, although
I have always been curious about the so called medical programs teams in
Europe were asking riders to comply with in the past. I do know a girl who
left Italy to come back to America because she refused to comply with the
team medical program, but I don't know exactly what was asked of her.
But I think if the drug crusaders really want to have squeaky clean riders
in cycling then maybe even powerbars and sports drinks should be banned, and
rider should only be allowed to race with water and real food, no
performance sport drinks. Maybe salt tablets should be banned too, and
riders and racers should only ride in shorter tours and races where the
winner is truly only winning on totally natural foods and just water. Of
course we know that without powerbars and sports drinks, riders will hit the
wall, cannot digest real food fast enough, and doesn't supply the right
electrolytes and carbs fast enough to last and recover day after day,
getting everything from constant cramps to diarrhea, but never mind that
because our true cycling heroes must be squeaky clean, so even coffee should
be off limits because it has caffeine.
 So you can imagine just how super twisted and hypocritical this whole
double and triple standards mess is with riders, doping agencies, and drug
companies all having their own agendas about what they want out of cycling.
And the fans, ah the fans... Well, I thought we used to just basically enjoy
racing and our favorite racers, but now I guess we have become cynical
crusaders cheering and throwing mudballs at the so called doping games.
Never mind cycling, I don't what happened to it, it got lost in the fray
somewhere.
However since the women's events are basically clean, and doesn't have the
big money and sponsors men do, maybe that's actually a good thing. Once the
big money enters into it, it would probably encounter all the problems that
the men are having now.
As for the men, if they want to go the way of the drug crusaders and the
super agressive doping controls, then maybe they should not only apply
stints to the riders arms and GPS tracking to the riders, 24/7, but also ban
all products besides powerbars and sports drinks, coffee, everything except
only a limited natural diet approved by the doping agencies, and also limit
how much money any one team can spend on riders, trainers, managers and
technology most importantly. Then we can really make a science out of
creating a level playing field.
Kind of the Running Man, or Rollerball movies kind of format, but with much
more restrictions, where riders are bascially become pin cushions so to
speak, and spend more time trying to figure out if they are clean, then they
actually do racing. But perhaps in time, we will realize that the stimga and
implentation of all these controls are not worth the entertainment value we
seek, I mean after all, it is just sports entertainment, and role models are
really just an idealogy, we should realize the different, as we know cycling
never really was dependent on the Olympics games anyway, where the stigma
took hold.
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