All one has to do is turn on subtitles, then auto translate, then select English.
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The bike was in the pits. I don’t recall any footage or proof of it being used in a race. Not that I think she was 100% innocent at all.
I would have liked to see an autopsy of the bike so we could know which system was used and how it was installed.
If electromagetic wheels existed, someone would be selling them to the public.
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Yeah, she denies any wrongdoing. The bike with the motor was from a friend and ended up in her pit by mistake.
I think those are people hitting lap and end ride for later analysis.
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whoosh
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ButtonGate
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Surely the risk for getting caught is extremely high for world tour stars at big races where bikes are checked. That cancellara video is ridiculous but I just can’t see it happening these days.
I prefer an old skool blood doper over hiding a motor in the frame.
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Quick summary: French TV, tippy toeing around the loxodonta dans la chambre, search high and low for “reasons” why no French men’s TdF winner since the Comte de Hinault in 1785.
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That’s the point though. At the finish line, you hit end ride so that your performance stats will not be impacted by all that happens after you cross the line. Same with a hill climb. I’m sure they’re constantly reminded during training efforts to “press the button” so that it’s ingrained.
Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not trying to make excuses. I absolutely think there is something dubious happening that is causing this generation to be significantly better, I just don’t think it’s that they’re clicking those buttons on the Garmin.
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All that button pressing as they hit the line? Riders feverishly working the piezoelectric chargers built into their headunits to pump juice into the drained batteries for their bikes to ferry them back to the team buses.
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Be careful. This is the internet. If you forget to include your #sarcasm, someone will think you’re serious!
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British, so sarcasm’s my first language 
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Post stage tests include X-Ray.
These are just the official press releases. I didn’t see any articles explaining each method in detail with pictures written in the last year or so.
In one of the documentary the builder of the scanners shows how to use it: very slowly, otherwise you cannot see anything. And then you see UCI scanning whole bikes in less than 5 seconds.
You also see the director of the TdF speaking about the need of thermal scanning during the races, and how UCI said nope.
I just think they are not searching very much, like in the epo era when the then director of TdF Leblanc said that you cannot ask riders to ride three 3 cols in the same day drinking water.
Yep. Same tv which managed to illegally get the second vial of Lance Armstrong blood (they take two vials, one for the real test, and one to be retested in case something is found).
First vial tested by UCI found nothing. Second was positive (but done a while later so maybe the tests were better). First reaction of UCI was to not recognize the test as it was done illegally.
Laurent Fignon won the tour twice after Hinault, but yeah, that’s a while ago.
Fignon’s last tour win was ‘84 and Hinault won in ‘85.
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You are right. I forgot about that one. I just remembered the four he won before Fignon.
I think the actual biggest story of this interview is that he said Vingegaard looks like a POW.
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Since this just showed up in my twitter feed
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Been laughing at this one for the last 8 years.
Never ceases to amuse. The guy behind putting his hand up is icing on the cake.