Revelations about the past of Mauro Gianetti, Pogacar’s Manager (Radio France Investigation, Translation in post)

[Foreigner]

I feel really stupid for saying this, but I had assumed Pog was just superhuman - a Merckx of his generation. But now I think about it, his career trajectory has been a little odd and he doesn’t have the normal climbers build which should have set alarm bells ringing. To be a great all- rounder in this era of scientific training and performance analysis is…difficult to explain. Still it may just be he won the genetic lottery like in Dr Hutch’s book.

Not sure if you have followed his trajectory at all - he was a massive prodigy since hie early years, winning races from his early teens on. With regards to the build, that is just simply wrong - for an example compared to todays sprinters built (Ganna, Milan etc), Cav would therefore not be able to win any of the sprints at all, would he with his tiny height? Nor is Roglic built like a typical climber, yet he won so many hilly races too. List could go on, but that's beside the point.

Is Duplantis caked? Was Bolt doped? What about Phelps? Federer, Nadal or Djokovic? In every sport there is a always someone better than the rest of the field, let's just accept it's always going to be someone to start complaining about it, especially when dragging back the past into todays era. I have witnessed certain Jarmila kratochvílová and her dominance of the 400m and 800m races, yet that does not make me think Femke Bol is doping too. But you are entitled to your opinion...

 

[trailwright]

I raced at the highest level in UK mountain biking during the 90s and it was obvious when a fellow racer was on the juice. You would be ahead of them in all races and then suddenly they were up there with the continental pros the next very next week - just ridiculous. The 1996 MTB Tour of Britain stage race was a good example of this - not naming names or certain teams. Likewise in '99 I was at the top of my game and did the Transalp MTB stage race in Europe. A certain ex-world champ was there with his buddy and were barely out of breath on the climbs - they'd even removed the granny ring to save weight. I also rode in the '92 junior worlds with none other than caught doper Michael Rasmussen who was later stripped of his TdF title. He was 2nd at those juniors. You might say it's sour grapes on my part, but I've always been vehemently against cheats. I guess with everything the old saying 'If it's too good to be true, then it probably isn't' applies.

 

[Foreigner]

I raced at the highest level in UK mountain biking during the 90s and it was obvious when a fellow racer was on the juice. You would be ahead of them in all races and then suddenly they were up there with the continental pros the next very next week - just ridiculous. The 1996 MTB Tour of Britain stage race was a good example of this - not naming names or certain teams. Likewise in '99 I was at the top of my game and did the Transalp MTB stage race in Europe. A certain ex-world champ was there with his buddy and were barely out of breath on the climbs - they'd even removed the granny ring to save weight. I also rode in the '92 junior worlds with none other than caught doper Michael Rasmussen who was later stripped of his TdF title. He was 2nd at those juniors. You might say it's sour grapes on my part, but I've always been vehemently against cheats. I guess with everything the old saying 'If it's too good to be true, then it probably isn't' applies.

You said yourself - it was obvious when a fellow racer was on the juice - now find a rider to claim Pog is on the juice. Just saying

 

[LondonClassic]

Is Duplantis caked? Was Bolt doped? What about Phelps? Federer, Nadal or Djokovic? In every sport there is a always someone better than the rest of the field, let's just accept it's always going to be someone to start complaining about it, especially when dragging back the past into todays era. I have witnessed certain Jarmila kratochvílová and her dominance of the 400m and 800m races, yet that does not make me think Femke Bol is doping too. But you are entitled to your opinion...

On the subject of 800M races...used to know Andrew Osagie. He was 8th and last in the 2012 Olympics 800M final. His time (a PB) would have been good enough to win gold at the previous Olympics 4 years before. He exhibits no bitterness and has never moaned or pointed the finger at his competitors. How could he? It would turn you into a wreck if you went there.

Nadal was long rumoured to be one of the rock stars in the operation puerto investigation...an investigation that appeared to bang a few low level domestiques and then get bounced around the courts until it hit the statute of limitations and all samples were incinerated. Tennis has historically had the lowest volume of testing for any major sport.

The last sporting body to ban injecting spun, oxygenated blood back into injured tissue was FIFA...I think it was 4 years after the UCI.

Some rambling here. Every sport appears to have two speeds at the commercial/ entertainment level.

 

[vtwinvince]

Like I always say, belief is for church, meanwhile here in the real world....

 

[Foreigner]

Like I always say, belief is for church, meanwhile here in the real world....

Well, you believe you are wright and I'm wrong, so which church do you go to?

 

[highlandsflyer]

You said yourself - it was obvious when a fellow racer was on the juice - now find a rider to claim Pog is on the juice. Just saying

If they are all on it; who would point fingers?

 

[Foreigner]

If they are all on it; who would point fingers?

That's the whole new conspiracy theory, one that is simply just too far fetched to stand

 

[7Speed]

Is it though? Not saying this is happening now - but it is exactly what happened in the past.

I am not looking for an argument, but the Armstrong era had lots of doping, lots knew about it. no one said anything…

 

[vtwinvince]

I'm an empiricist, not a church-goer.