New hour record, Yams, off-season traffic, cute dog, lie detectors, Kreuziger, thyroids, mishandling, Hamilton, MTN Qhubeka upgrades, Six Degrees of Jean-Paul Van Poppel, transfers, Wyman, sponsorship, Wonka, road cycling, WorldTour, Superprestige, governing bodies, leagues.
The President of Funk is here to tell you, it’s all about the yams…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY7geDstRco
Just wondering if you ad lib this or write it out beforehand.
Both, kinda. I write everything out, but I don’t have a teleprompter (laptop and mic are just out of frame in front of me) so once I start reciting a given section, I’m staring at the camera, and working off memory/ad libbing as it feels right. A lot of the cuts are so that I only have to work off-book for a few seconds at a time.
I enjoy your commentary, keep up the good work!
Jan Šťovíček, Kreuziger’s lawyer, argued that two-thirds of Roman’s blood samples were not stored properly on the way to the lab. He also mentioned that he suffered from a low thyroid function since 2003. This condition got worse in 2011 and 2012 (the same years when Kreziger’s biological passport values came under suspicion), and required treatment with high doses of L-Thyroxine hormone (https://www.denik.cz/ostatni_sport/kauza-kreuziger-vzorky-nebyly-skladovany-dle-predpisu-rika-pravnik-cyklisty-2014.html).
There is some debate that the thyroid replacement hormones are performance-enhancing drugs, see e.g. https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-thyroid-replacement-a-performance-enhancing-drug/
Good thoughts on the UCI! Why CAN’T they stick to sanctioning, etc? Could MONEY have anything to do with it? Every time someone holds up F1 as some sort of example that pro cycling should emulate, I stop reading. Two F1 teams just filed for bankruptcy while ol’ Bernie E and Co are right up there with FIFA’s Sepp Blatter in the corruption sweepstakes. I though IAM Cycling had something to do with dog food, not yams! Now I’m really confused.
That’s not a yam, it’s sweet potato.
watching this i did have a thought. is the model currently used by pro cycling really that bad? i find the somewhat localized nature of each event very appealing. i understand that unification of broadcasting would be fantastic, but to turn pro cycling into just another american style “league” sport would be really tragic. maybe that makes me the equivalent of a Luddite, i dont know.