Originally Posted by
Gerryattrick
Top cyclists are not normal humans. Their skill and endurance levels are abnormal.
Skills are one thing, super human endurance is where drugs are a great help!
Anquetil use to say that one cannot win without "doctoring oneself" to win! He would add that he would not die from one cancer but many and he was right he died with 5 different forms of cancer! How soon we forget about Tom Simpson on the Ventoux and very likely Laurent Fignon and so many others!
Sorry I am spoiling the thread, but lets be real: it is not cycling that we watch on TV.