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Nairo Quintana has been retrospectively disqualified from last month's Tour for using a banned substance.
Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
thegreenhell said:
Nairo Quintana has been retrospectively disqualified from last month's Tour for using a banned substance.
Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/62580517Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
thegreenhell said:
Nairo Quintana has been retrospectively disqualified from last month's Tour for using a banned substance.
Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
As The Mad Monk's attached link states, it's not an Anti Doping violation. He's used a banned substance, yes, but it's not a performance enhancing one. Tramadol (check the BNF - British National Formulary - entry for it) has side effects the UCI regard as "not conducive" to riding in a peloton. Side effects like "confusion; constipation; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; euphoric mood; flushing; hallucination". Not sure I'd like to be a professional bike racer cutting about in a peloton with riders who could (through administration of a banned substance) be confused, dizzy, drowsy, or hallucinating. So he's been disqualified retrospectively from the 2022 TdF, but not banned from competition, because it's not a "cheating" issue but a "rider safety" one.Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
Looking at the amount of poor riding standards, and crashes, maybe others are on it as well......
European XCO men's race this afternoon; Pidcock returns but is gridded at around 36; his closest rival, Mathias Flueckiger has returned a positive drug test, and won't race. Doesn't look to be the most technically demanding course, but looks fast.
European XCO men's race this afternoon; Pidcock returns but is gridded at around 36; his closest rival, Mathias Flueckiger has returned a positive drug test, and won't race. Doesn't look to be the most technically demanding course, but looks fast.
thegreenhell said:
Nairo Quintana has been retrospectively disqualified from last month's Tour for using a banned substance.
Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
That's a shame as he always comes across as a nice chap! I thought he'd been racing in the Vuelta but he's been dropped from that.Tom Dumoulin has brought forward his retirement from cycling, effective immediately. He had hoped to do the World Champs later this year as his swansong, but says his tank is already empty.
Vuelta starts today - looks like the only place to watch it is Eurosport now. Shame ITV no longer provide the highlights.
Dr Imran T said:
That's a shame as he always comes across as a nice chap! I thought he'd been racing in the Vuelta but he's been dropped from that.
Vuelta starts today - looks like the only place to watch it is Eurosport now. Shame ITV no longer provide the highlights.
Daily evening highlights on Quest, which I think is the Eurosports/GCN highlights show.Vuelta starts today - looks like the only place to watch it is Eurosport now. Shame ITV no longer provide the highlights.
king highlights program!Very sad news about Rab Wardell, who won the Scottish XC MTB championship at the weekend but subsequently died in his sleep two days later. Only 37.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62650682.am...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62650682.am...
mooseracer said:
Roglic out of La Vuelta 
Such a shame, was going to be an interesting race.Roglic looked properly shaken up, possibly a hit to the side of the head on top of the cuts. Constantly amazed at what they deal with and bounce back from crashes. You know it is bad when they have to pull out. Wired differently.
Not sure I believe (certainly hope it wouldn’t be true) the conspiracy theories that Remco faked a technical issue.
LM240 said:
Such a shame, was going to be an interesting race.
Roglic looked properly shaken up, possibly a hit to the side of the head on top of the cuts. Constantly amazed at what they deal with and bounce back from crashes. You know it is bad when they have to pull out. Wired differently.
Not sure I believe (certainly hope it wouldn’t be true) the conspiracy theories that Remco faked a technical issue.
He didn’t. Footage shows he had a flat. Knew he was within 3km so no panic. Roglic looked properly shaken up, possibly a hit to the side of the head on top of the cuts. Constantly amazed at what they deal with and bounce back from crashes. You know it is bad when they have to pull out. Wired differently.
Not sure I believe (certainly hope it wouldn’t be true) the conspiracy theories that Remco faked a technical issue.
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