I guess they're thinking of tainted pork Contador ("now with kung fu grip!") rather than the current rider that loses touch with Froome's wheel during accelerations.

In other tour news, tough tough luck for the yellow.

News that shocks nobody...Blow ? really?  that is so old school he should be riding a steel frame and toe straps.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/paolini-informed-of-cocaine-positive-at-tour-de-france

twoyacks said:

News that shocks nobody...Blow ? really?  that is so old school he should be riding a steel frame and toe straps.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/paolini-informed-of-cocaine-positive-at-tour-de-france

Everything old is new again. Next up, Swing dancing.

twoyacks said:

News that shocks nobody...Blow ? really?  that is so old school he should be riding a steel frame and toe straps.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/paolini-informed-of-cocaine-positive-at-tour-de-france

http://velonews.competitor.com/2002/05/news/road/simoni-trip-to-dentist-triggered-cocaine-positive_2264

plus ca change

mugwump said:

twoyacks said:

News that shocks nobody...Blow ? really?  that is so old school he should be riding a steel frame and toe straps.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/paolini-informed-of-cocaine-positive-at-tour-de-france

http://velonews.competitor.com/2002/05/news/road/simoni-trip-to-dentist-triggered-cocaine-positive_2264

plus ca change

They used coke on my in the late 80's when I had some dental work done. Doc said was better than anything I could buy on the street. I wonder now how he knew.

Jules said:

They used coke on my in the late 80's when I had some dental work done. Doc said was better than anything I could buy on the street. I wonder now how he knew.

#canadia

Bad news for Basso....one of those times where crashing actually served a higher purpose....

What's the evidence on connection b/w doping and cancer?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ivan-basso-diagnosed-with-testicular-cancer

Fignon blamed it for his..Lance was a pharmacy on wheels before and after cancer
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/tour-de-france-winners-cancer-to-ignite-drugs-debate/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

twoyacks said:

Fignon blamed it for his..Lance was a pharmacy on wheels before and after cancer
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/tour-de-france-winners-cancer-to-ignite-drugs-debate/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

Ferrari was worried that the doping regimen he prescribed was the cause of Armstrong's cancer.  

and yet...he continued (continues) to dope athletes for another 18 years

HACKERS HACKIN!

and someone put it in a video (not exactly insightful, no surprises, the numbers are impressive but exactly what you would expect):
https://player.vimeo.com/video/133412409

^no way those HR numbers are real.

^ Lest we forget the good the good old days of cocaine, chloroform, strychnine, nitro-glycerine and meth!

Jules said:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/07/news/in-the-news-sky-suspects-froomes-training-data-has-been-hacked_378047

Maurice Moss , love that guy

This SKY bullshit is making the Postal days seem trite.  Anybody triangulated the whereabouts of Dr. Ferrari and Team SKY lately...

All things being equal Froomy spending early in the race to open a lead seems much more plausible than in week 3... I wonder how much this will cost him.

Cost him? What's it gonna cost the gullibility index?  It's already gone catabolic and we're one climb in! 
Me's thinks should Froome Dog be asked questions about who he was schtooking 16 years from now...his list of conquests will be in the cat VI range

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2015/07/14/lance-armstrong-sex-life-questions-federal-lawsuit/30134443/

Judging from these comments seems like I should delete today's stage from the DVR.  I was really looking forward to some healthy competition.  Le sigh.

Jules said:

All things being equal Froomy spending early in the race to open a lead seems much more plausible than in week 3... I wonder how much this will cost him.

Jules, Froome wasn't even gassed when he crossed the line.  
It's in the face hoss...it's in the face:
Former Tour de France winner Greg LeMond tells ABC documentary Stop At Nothing that a mechanic told him he could tell Lance Armstrong was "on the juice" because he showed no pain while working up a hill during the Tour.

The fact that Tony Gallopin ,finished ahead of 3 of the favorites is amazing , hes a classy rider, but not  a pure climber 

JohnMalcolmson said:

^ Lest we forget the good the good old days of cocaine, chloroform, strychnine, nitro-glycerine and meth!

That recorded HR makes me think Froome would do well to take at least one of those.

best part:
Then Froome, on the verge of being discarded, having not even stood out as exceptional in our SA cycling circuit (good, but not “let’s blow away the best” exceptional), transformed into the greatest ever cyclist after the age of 25, with VO2max values that would have made a physiologist’s eyeballs explode (and hey, we’re in Africa, but we aren’t that backward here), riding away from people who WERE earmarked for greatness from a young age.  It’s the most remarkable transformation of a mature athlete ever.  Late emergence is one thing, transformation when you’re already in the ‘window’ quite another.

here's another froome video... from the vuelta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdLFdRGWhh0

That is absolutely bonkers.