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19-07.-2005, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: New doping book gaumont
VF - Thx very much. I had a momentary brain-fart there, and forgot a former owner of CyclingNews would not be at an American university, doh! I'll see if I can find that letter in the archives. It sounds like it would be very interesting.
Also ... a while back when I stumbled onto CyclingNews, I was very surprised to see Ferrari as a celebrated guest columnist or contributor or whatever he was/is. I admit to concluding it was a site I didn't need to be visiting, as I have a very low opinion of the man. Many years ago, when I was younger, and extremely (totally?) naive about doping in cycling, I used Janssen's book and Conconi's methodology as my guides for my own training and racing, and was religious in the rigour of my lactate threshold training. I was into human physiology, etc. and really got into it all. You can imagine how duped I felt once I found out about how Moser broke the hour record. Maybe I'm still naive, but I think Conconi at least had a true academic and "neutral" interest in pure physiological performance, whereas I view Ferrari as just a sleaze looking to cash in. |
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19-07.-2005, 11:42 AM
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Re: New doping book gaumont
I found this comment about stage 9 from Bill Mitchell at:
http://au.cyclingnews.com/results/1...age9report.html He said: "When in doubt - attack! Lance Armstrong took a 6 minute plus lead in the Tour after a dashing win on Stage 9 which finished at the ski station on Sestrières. The first day of mountains and an American with a stranglehold over the Tour. Commentators were expressing - Astonishment, amazement, and admiration. And there were also murmourings among officials and the press - the inevitable suspicion which these days surrounds any exceptional performance. Lance Armstrong provoked all these feelings while demolishing the best climbers in the Tour de France on the last climb to Sestrières." This may have been the article that raised the ire of the fans but I seem to recall it appeared to quote an overseas publication. I may have been wrong in recall. However, by December 1999 Bill Mitchell had sold out to Gerard Knapp and cited the response to his LA comments which went to the extreme of demanding withdrawal of services by advertisers and dismissal by his university employer. However, it would not surprise me that Gerard Knapp may have thought it commercially tactful to withdraw the letter. Quote:
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