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African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Yes

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paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
Festinaboy...

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Paddyb posted:

Festinaboy...

Vayer owns

Pocket
Aug 27, 2006

African AIDS cum posted:

Do you think Sky believers are worse than the Livestrong bunch ever were?

Worse, if only because they repeat the same bullshit counter arguments as the Livestrong crowd used without a hint of self awareness or irony. They've no excuse, the US Postal case is still fresh.


I don't feel like going back to quote the person but I remember someone in the thread saying Froome was on a motor on that corner he attacked Contador on.

Gibbo
Sep 13, 2008

"yes James. Remove that from my presence. It... Offends me" *sips overpriced wine*

African AIDS cum posted:

Do you think Sky believers are worse than the Livestrong bunch ever were?

Yes. Lance at least used his lying garbage to start a foundation that has done some serious fundraising. The only thing Froome is raising is the price thats going to have to be paid by cycling's already less than stellar credibility when he finally gets outed to the world

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me

I just followed a bunch of those dudes and I'm going down the rabbit hole. Brb

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Gibbo posted:

Yes. Lance at least used his lying garbage to start a foundation that has done some serious fundraising. The only thing Froome is raising is the price thats going to have to be paid by cycling's already less than stellar credibility when he finally gets outed to the world

True. Lance also rode with panache at times and didn't quit cause he fell over.

Pocket
Aug 27, 2006

Paddyb posted:

I just followed a bunch of those dudes and I'm going down the rabbit hole. Brb

Remember to sleep now and then.

Knitting Beetles
Feb 4, 2006

Fallen Rib
Also in that video French tv direction missed both attacks because they're showing a replay of nothing and then cutting back to a 30 m gap.

Carpet
Apr 2, 2005

Don't press play

Pocket posted:

Sooo can't wait to poo poo up the Guardian Cycling comments section tomorrow.

are you Ranger75th or blackflame79?

Pocket
Aug 27, 2006

Worth noting tweets with actual power data are being self censored. Ross Tucker and the others who were doing power estimations were pretty much spot on with their 'pseudoscience' calculations.


Pocket
Aug 27, 2006

Carpet posted:

are you Ranger75th or blackflame79?

Neither, I don't care enough to put effort into getting around the moderators there, though seeing what others seemingly get away with while my comments with sources get wiped, I'm pretty sure I'm on their poo poo list.

Withnail
Feb 11, 2004
I don't think riding up ventoux at 400w is superhuman. Wiggins will TT between 450 and 500 for over an hour.

His, um, body composition change is just sort of weird.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Xir posted:

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

Sky believes someone stole Froome's power data to frame him for doping.

"Frame him"


HAHAHAHA, it basically confirmed he's high on exotic jungle juice.

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me

Jan ullrich rode for Sky???

Dirk Pitt
Sep 14, 2007

haha yes, this feels good

Toilet Rascal

African AIDS cum posted:

True. Lance also rode with panache at times and didn't quit cause he fell over.

You try being an athlete used to training on Tenerife and being forced to ride on wet cobblestones.

Dirk Pitt
Sep 14, 2007

haha yes, this feels good

Toilet Rascal
How in the gently caress did Froome pull out 1000w?

Edit: I watched that monster of a stage in 2013 and was blown away by his performance. There is no way it was legit.

dema
Aug 13, 2006

At least Lance gave us poo poo like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haEbtHiUcBc

Froome's tour likely would been over right there.

dema fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jul 14, 2015

Iron Beagle
Apr 27, 2007

dema posted:

At least Lance gave us poo poo like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haEbtHiUcBc

Froomes tour likely would been over right there.

Such a fantastic moment. Running on pure adrenaline at that point to choose to just keep going downhill like that, then having the presence of mind to dismount and jump the last ditch.

Russian Bear
Dec 26, 2007


Dirk Pitt posted:

How in the gently caress did Froome pull out 1000w?

Edit: I watched that monster of a stage in 2013 and was blown away by his performance. There is no way it was legit.

1000w for a world tour pro isn't that big a deal. Especially if it's just a sub 1 min attack.

Not saying Sky is clean, but people freaking out over a 1000w spike is silly. It's like they've never used a power meter.

Russian Bear
Dec 26, 2007


Some stuff re this whole recording:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...Brailsford.html

quote:

My heart rate doesn’t go very high. I get to about 168 and that’s going flat-out. I can’t get much higher. It’s very low. A lot of my team-mates get over 200. I don’t really understand why, myself. I know I’ve got a large lung capacity, over eight litres. Average capacity for my height and weight is nearer six litres.

And from the guys who estimated Froome's FTP way back when:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1033149476696091&id=213103522034028&__mref=message_bubble

quote:

The first rest day of the Tour de France produced, as usual, some off-the-bike stories, but in 6 years of covering the race, I can't recall such a bizarre sequence of events as this one.
About five days ago, Antoine Vayer, he who provoked Brailsford into calling performance analysis "pseudoscience", started to post graphs on Twitter showing Froome's power output and heart rate on his climb of Ventoux in 2013. They include an attack, off a base of long periods of 400W, up to 1000W, and maintaining 600W during attacks. During this period, his heart rate barely changes - 157 pre-attack, 161 post.
Next, someone industrious managed to take a file of the raw data and synchronize it to video footage of the ride, so that you could see, second by second, how speed, HR, altitude and power changed. It was fascinating to watch - in fact, it's a model for how the broadcast should look.
I'd love to provide you with the link to this video, but Sky's lawyers have had it removed, and the person who did this no longer has a Twitter account (whose doing, not sure - initial reports said it was legal action and suspended), which I find an absolutely extraordinary response. The data by itself didn't mean all that much, and if it was fabricated, just say so. Or heaven forbid, use the opportunity to explain and gain some points for the now extinct concept of transparency in the sport.
There are many possible explanations for the dislinkage between power output and HR, by the way. He may already have been very close to his maximal heart rate (but then you have to say, that's a mighty fine effort to ride Ventoux at 95% of max in the third week of a Grand Tour, and also to attack with a 250W increase off a maximum heart rate, four times, from a base of 400W. Not bad). Perhaps the HR was faulty, maybe it's irrelevant or typical for an elite rider attacking to peak power off threshold power. It's probably not worth overplaying.
The power output data is really interesting though - back then, we estimated the power on that climb to be 389W (or 388W using Dr Ferrari's method), and I can assure you, having seen the raw file with second-by-second data (it's doing the rounds), that the estimate is well, very exact. I'm hesitant to post exact figures because Sky's legal team had a person's entire account removed, even though this data is all on the internet already.
The response has been amazing. As in 2013, the data was first dismissed as fabricated. Then as hacked (which is a tacit acknowledgement of its validity). Or maybe irrelevant. The usual attacks that it proves nothing came, to which I'd respond by saying "welcome to a six-year long conversation, take a side-order of context with that indignation". Fact is, we've been here before, and it's the reaction more than the revelation that is so amazing.
While on the subject of power data, I cannot understand why teams believe they should keep it secret to the extent that Sky seem to. It is analogous to Justin Gatlin asking for the clock to be covered up for his 100m races - that way nobody will know that beating him will take a 9.74s or faster. But they know this already - all the pro teams know what the power output requirement for 10 min, 20 min, 45 min, 60 min is. Transparency would hurt nobody, except those who need performance not to be known (Hey Justin, that's a free tip - ask them to hide the clock so nobody knows how fast you're going).
Finally, back in 2013, it was a remarkable performance, and putting it to concrete numbers is probably unlikely to sway you from whatever you believed (or want to believe) to begin with. I wish the opaque curtain of PR & legal action could be lifted. Today was not a good day for winning the minds of a watching public, or for the believability of the sport.
Long live transparency.
Ross

vikingstrike
Sep 23, 2007

whats happening, captain

Russian Bear posted:

1000w for a world tour pro isn't that big a deal. Especially if it's just a sub 1 min attack.

Not saying Sky is clean, but people freaking out over a 1000w spike is silly. It's like they've never used a power meter.

Seems the HR is getting more attention from when the effort came in context of the Tour than the power spike itself.

Well if 168 is his true max than 161 would be 96% of max.

vikingstrike fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jul 14, 2015

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Guys I think Froome might be doping.

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


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Froome needs to be removed from the race and banned from the sport for life.

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Vaughters is saying his V02 Max must be in excess of 90ml/kg/min :vince:

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



African AIDS cum posted:

Froome needs to be removed from the race and banned from the sport for life.

I'd go as far as to say he needs to be banned from life.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
Goddammit, guys, somebody find a reupload of the overlay.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
This is the year he gets done isnt it?

They should probably grab Contadors data too, that would be an interesting comparison.

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


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Bobby Julich leaked the SRM data lol

Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




His heart rate doesn't change a blip during those attacks. As in, not in the tiniest bit.

Are there PED's that can do that, cos it sounds more like the HR data is wrong to me?

I'm not defending him, he's clearly on something, but I don't think this is the evidence that's gonna get him

Lyndon LaRouche
Sep 5, 2006

by Azathoth
I would not drat someone based on HR data alone. My HRM sometimes inexplicably holds at too high or too low a number without changing for like up to 30 minutes, before it finally starts accurately recording me. It's plausible enough an explanation that you can't nail Froome to the cross for suspect HR data.

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Feb 29, 2012


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paperwind posted:

I would not drat someone based on HR data alone. My HRM sometimes inexplicably holds at too high or too low a number without changing for like up to 30 minutes, before it finally starts accurately recording me. It's plausible enough an explanation that you can't nail Froome to the cross for suspect HR data.

You are a goon, not a pro rider in the Tour de France supported by a multi million dollar team. Froome rides entire races staring at his SRM. you think any of it would be off?

Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




Maybe his HR is like a boiling kettle and by constantly watching, it never changes

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Skarsnik posted:

His heart rate doesn't change a blip during those attacks. As in, not in the tiniest bit.

Are there PED's that can do that, cos it sounds more like the HR data is wrong to me?

I'm not defending him, he's clearly on something, but I don't think this is the evidence that's gonna get him

Similarly, the 1000w lasts for less than 2 seconds, which again could be just a spike in the data. I know I cant push 1200w but I get that reading on my power meter on occasion.

Its still an inhuman performance though. Multiple 600w attacks.

Lyndon LaRouche
Sep 5, 2006

by Azathoth

African AIDS cum posted:

You are a goon, not a pro rider in the Tour de France supported by a multi million dollar team. Froome rides entire races staring at his SRM. you think any of it would be off?

If he's using a Garmin HRM, then yes, I totally believe that the HR data could be suspect. SRM power data though, probably not so much.

Box Hill Strangler
Jun 27, 2007

Frozen peas are on special at Woolies! Bargain!

paperwind posted:

I would not drat someone based on HR data alone. My HRM sometimes inexplicably holds at too high or too low a number without changing for like up to 30 minutes, before it finally starts accurately recording me. It's plausible enough an explanation that you can't nail Froome to the cross for suspect HR data.

same but mine is a garmin edge and not whatever the gently caress sky have. with all their marginal gains poo poo im sure theyve got HR spikes/freezes covered.

edit: seems i need posting PEDs, or atleast learn to refresh after being AWOL

what im saying is with their stuff i doubt a lack of HR change is due to equipment

Box Hill Strangler fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jul 14, 2015

Hegay
Jun 29, 2012

African AIDS cum posted:

Froome needs to be removed from the race and banned from the sport for life.

I loving hate how and it's so loving obvious he's on insane gear

Hegay
Jun 29, 2012

paperwind posted:

If he's using a Garmin HRM, then yes, I totally believe that the HR data could be suspect. SRM power data though, probably not so much.

Yes, it must be the technology that's wrong, not Sky pumping Froome full of shark hormones or whatever

Lyndon LaRouche
Sep 5, 2006

by Azathoth

Hegay posted:

Yes, it must be the technology that's wrong, not Sky pumping Froome full of shark hormones or whatever

Yes, I'm completely defending Froome here because I'm suggesting that HRM technology isn't foolproof. :rolleyes: He's probably full of juice, but trying to prove it based on heart rate data is loving lazy.

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Crystael
Mar 19, 2010
For anyone who regularly rides/races with a HRM monitor (as I do, as well as a number of others in this thread), a delay or lag in heart rate is normal - if you put in a big attack (incidentally 2 seconds at 1000w isn't a big deal - I can do that), then you wouldn't see that reflected in the heart rate until roughly 10 seconds later.

However, the heart rate barely changing in his attacks is really odd. I've no idea what that could indicate, doping or otherwise. I can only think that he must have been riding close to his max heart rate already, and therefore even a big attack would barely raise that. Being able to ride that close to max heart rate for so long is pretty strange, though, but does it indicate doping? I don't know.

The problem is, we've not got anything to compare it with. As the Science of Sport post said, transparency cannot be a bad thing - we simply don't know, or have a representative sample of what an elite cyclist's data climbing Ventoux should look like. What I do know is that 388w for the duration of Ventoux is, on the surface, a legitimate figure.

I would love to see power and heart rate data overlays during live broadcasts and, if teams have nothing to hide, I don't see why they wouldn't allow it (well there are reasons, but in the interests of transparency I think they should forsake them).

At the very least this is yet another Sky PR disaster!

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