Originally Posted by
TRaffic Jammer
I think I get it... he just wants to establish an individual's performance basline.testing/updating during off times, training etc etc through various stages of their career..these baslines can change somewhat over years. Any dramatic spike in performance or numbers at any given point would then be a fairly strong indicator of an enhancing agent at work. This would then allow race docs to crawl all over said subject. As well the rider would then, with his team/coach/doc explain such an anomalous spike.
OK, while that sounds good in theory it fails the sniff test IMO. let's take the last Giro as an example. Menchov won by something like 40 seconds.
What is 40 seconds as a percentage of the total time spent racing? Well less than 1%. So in theory had DiLuca gone 1% faster overall he would have easily won. Would a 1% improvement show up as a spike? I doubt it.
I still maintain that there is no testing regimen that cannot be gamed, somehow.