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Tour de France Wrap: The Moments That Decided The Winner

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The Problem With Mechanical Doping

I don't understand why they can't be more open. Transparent about the X-rays, transparent about tests. In the end, Yamba took it on themselves to an ask that he'd been tested four times in 48 hours. If one test is not going to catch you, the next three aren't either because that's not where the benefits being accrued. We still have no ability to ask whether Pagacha was better or worse than Ulrich, Hamilton, Landers, etc.? Because the same experts will stand up and say, the tech is so much better today. There's a measurement here that we'd have asked to work out the input and that's the power output.

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