The "Dirty 90's": Did Indurain cheat?
 

Jonathan Vaughters is very adamant in the November Pro Cycling that pro peloton was at it's most tainted in the 1990's with the whole Festina thing and even worse dope-testing then than now.

Miguel Indurain was an above average rider in earlier in his career, than he became unbeatable as he neared 30 years old. Do you think that he may have had a "candy craving"?:(

Why do you look at cycling like a teenage girl or a bored housewife looks at supermarket tabloids.

:roflmao:

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Indurain also lost a fair amount of weight from his early days, to the TDF champion days, and in his first tours he was riding support for Delgado.

That being said, before there was an effctive test for EPO, or even hematacrit level testing, I'm sure a lot of interesting things were going on. Whether they involved Indurain is anybody's guess.

why do you bother being a member of a forum if you criticize someone that wants to discuss something?

Well I am sorry if you feel this way, but look at my previous posts, and look at the op's previous posts and then you make the call.

There was no EPO back then, but other enhancers were commonplace.
Kind of a pointless discussion, but I don't think cycling has been clean ever.
As for being unbeatable at 30, what does that say for Armstrong at 37?

I like pie.

There was epo back then and Lance isn't 37.

Because the OP has a tendency to want to discuss the most inane topics imaginable.

WTF? Sorry. I flunked Ebonics.:rolleyes:

EPO's bee available for a while:

"Erythropoietin (EPO) is found naturally in the human body and has been commercially available as recombinant human EPO (rEPO) for almost 20 years"

Current Sports Medicine Reports Aug 2005


And Indurain was 27 when he smoked Lemond in the Pyranees.

Sweet. F__k. All.

Let's put it another way:

Why do you look at cycling like a teenage girl or a bored housewife looks at supermarket tabloids?

Or how about this?

http://www.pippit.net/images/food/cherry%20lattice.jpg

http://www.pippit.net/images/food/open%20meat%20pie.jpg

http://www.edheller.com/chocolatedeathpie.jpg

http://www.lynnrae.com/images/Tradit...pkin%20Pie.JPG

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cklisz/apple%20pie!.jpg

Once again teetering on the fine edge of a ban.

So, you have your way with pies like Jason Biggs did in "American Pie"?:rolleyes:

"The "Dirty 90's": Did Indurain cheat?"

Why discuss questions that cannot be answered?
Any why discuss anything with someone who lacks anything interesting to say?

This is one of those "feel the love" moments, isn't it?

that's gold!!

For saying Ebonics?? Please elaborate on why that's offensive?

Isn't the TDF owned by France's version of the New York Post?? The whole ******** race is like the National Enquirer these days anyhoo...:rolleyes:

Indurain rode in support for Delgado for a few years as well, Delgado tested positive for a steroid masking agent, and his rumored nickname was "testo" in the peleton anyways.. I think I read somewhere where in made enough vauge statements in a interview to say "i did what i had to do etc.." so Yeah, Delgado had medical help. Does that mean his #1 Domestique, and eventual Spanish successor do the same? who knows... But it's not a stretch to think so...

Delgado also used to make comments like 'PDM taught me how to prepare' etc

PDM...1991 Tour stage into Quimper.

Nuff said.

Is that the one Van Poppel won by 10 lengths looking over his shoulder? Fantastic sprint. Van Poppel on form was awesome