Soldato
The media are only determining medical policy because of the truly woeful action of people like WADA, UKAD and the UCI themselves in failing to tackle the abuse of in competition TUEs and out of competition abuse of cortisone.
Someone else had a good take on it too. Because of the whereabouts rule, he still needs a TUE to treat his condition.
I read it as he was going to refuse it and drop out of the race to 'avoid' requiring the TUE for it (hinting he'd need it to continue being competitive in the race)...My interpretation of his statement was that he was going to refuse to take the medication offered to him, not that he was going to take it and drop out of the race.
I read it as he was going to refuse it and drop out of the race to 'avoid' requiring the TUE for it (hinting he'd need it to continue being competitive in the race)...
Really looking forward to today's stage. I rode up the route to Col de la Croix de fer at the weekend (after a month off the bike, was a painful climb to Col de la Glandon, 2km from Croix de fer). Hopefully an exciting stage from the get go. All the team buses were passing by the bar I was enjoying post-work drinks in, was awesome
Yeah that's pretty much what I meant/said. Maybe shouldn't have put the word 'avoid' in there!The point that @madindehead made was that he would still need a TUE for the medication even if he dropped out of the race. ('out-of-competition'/'whereabouts' rules)
My understanding was that he wasn't going to take any medication at all, so wouldn't require any TUE.
The Green Jersey competition is turning into a last man standing competition
Another cracking stage, think the organisers did a good job this year! Interesting that Aru got dropped to an extent today considering his form last week.
I think that there is a strong chance for Uran and Bardet. I just have a feeling that Froome is going to get dropped tomorrow someway along the final climb. To many people he needs to fend off seeing as the time difference is so close at the top.
Froomeatron has this in the bag.
Bardet is the only man who can do the damage and his repeats yesterday proved that he doesn't have that upper hand on Froome to distance him enough. He would need to put near enough 2 mins into Froome today to both eradicate the time gap that exists already and put enough time down for the TT as Froome will put a minute into Bardet in the TT.
I think Bardet is a class act and a future GT winner. He was my pick for the tour behind Froome (crashing out always more than half expected with him) and I wasn't far wrong. Uran, I 100% did not even imagine in the slightest, he's having the performance of the tour in my opinion.
I took great pleasure in seeing that little **** Aru getting dropped yesterday.