Pogacar Denies Doping in the Worst Possible Way..

Tadej Pogacar will not participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after sweeping the Tour de France 2024. However, the news is in how Pogi has responded to the doping accusations of the international press, and from Cycling Highlights we would like to advise you to subscribe to our channel to be better informed.

[amksco]

Rounder wheels make all the enhanced difference

[Arsenalfan]

Love how nobody cares how Jonas came back so strong after almost killing himself and without proper preparations.

[Avianthro]

To take some liberty with Twain's old adage: "Better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone think you're a doper, than to open it and remove all doubt."

[Marltiod]

Jokes aside, I believe something has been found this year. A new substance maybe ? A combination of substances ? These numbers have never been seen before. Jonas did his best numbers ever this year while having been in an hospital bed before the tour. Pogacar climbed faster than everyone ever.

[crackedtpot_christian]

Everyone is clean, until they're not.

[stephenhenning]

Glad it's not just me thinking somethings up? Up against some of the best endurance athletes in the World & he finishes looking like he's been on a coffee ride. Pog's either got unique genetics (they do exist) or has first rate "Supplement" guidance.

[gestell]

I have been duped so many times by the peleton that I don't believe any result is clean.

[savagepro]

Pogacar: "Olympic drug-testing is more serious than UCI's . . . I'm not stupid!"

[ankousama]

Lighter than previous seasons but always more watts. He must be glad to have changed trainer.

[markdonovan]

Doping vs nutrition vs aerodynamics vs bike technology vs training schedules vs physio treatments for recovery vs money vs politics - there are a lot of ingredients in the mix of professional cycling.

All the things listed above could be considered as performance enhancing, so maybe the fairest thing to do would be to let everyone have the same resources so the competition will be more fair. However, the same could be said about many sports, unfortunately fairplay is much talked about but it's the money that does the loudest talking. Pogi's team, is awash with sportswashing Saudi money and a team of lawyers, marketeers and other specialists to hide the real truth about what their team is about. I guess it might be a few years before the whole truth comes out.

Do cycling fans really care? Some do and some don't. Blatant doping needs evidence to support the accusation. Unfortunately, evidence can be bought, erased, altered etc., by influencing the right people at the right time in the right place. UCI just want the sport to "appear controlled and regulated" as you say, because if they were really concerned about eliminating performance enhancing substances then their would be a far more rigorous approach to it. It's like the narcotics trade, a few busts here and there make politicians and othet authorities look like they are doing their job, but they probably only recover 5% or less of what is being trafficked. It wouldn't surprise me if it was pretty much the same kind of thing in professional cycling. The best teams will protect their best riders from being caught, by any means necessary. Other riders will be the sacrificial lambs to show the world that authorities are in control - which of course they aren't. They can't even control the muppets at the side of the road on the TdF, and even those who cause accidents are let off extremely lightly. It's all about the bigger money machine of sponsorship, sportswashing, money laundering and whatever else they like to refer to as "business". The spectacle of sport for the masses moved decades ago to be a sport for the elite to make more money and appease the salivating majority, who of course are always right...

[graymcmic]

"Nutrition is so much better." Yeah, there wasn't plain white bread back in the old days...

[eless]

Uncle Cycling Highlights...my favorite uncle. Time to start the Natty or Not inquisition.

[peregrintokes]

Pasta technology has improved greatly In the past 20 years ! And everyone knows the best bread is danish a

[MorganBrown]

Modern bar tape is worth at least 20 watts

[towncriernetwork]

As Greg Lemond has explained many times; when a cyclist preforms like what we watched from Pogacar, it's unnatural. He hardly looks like he's breathing hard. This is not an optical illusion. As for whatever he's taking, obviously they either don't have a test for it or are not administering the test. It likely is a blood test not the more common urine test. From what I read and see, it looks like some kind of a pain medicine, that allows Pogacar to "ride through the pain". That explains the current claim of "fatigue" preventing him from participating in the Olympics. He has likely hurt himself with the repeated over exertion and can't recover.

[Microbit]

Ok he not going to the olympics has nothing to do with his GF it has to do with the fact that they will test him and the IOC keep the samples for 7 years. Second... he broke some records including Lance Armstrong's with ease AND he was on PED's, all of it while looking like he was just doing a regular coffee ride. Just let that sink. Even if Jonas did it last year at least he pretended better

[johncherrington]

I think that we need to define what is meant by doping. If it's the use of substances that are on the WADA/UCI banned list then it's fair to accept that Pog is clean. If however the definition is extended to include the application of medical procedures that are able to counter the naturally damaging effects of extreme physical exercise to the extent that the athlete is able to start the next day fully recovered then that is quite a different matter. The outstanding performance levels achieved by Pog in the final 3 stages of this tour were simply too good to be true unless they were supported by some form of medical intervention however legal it's use may be. I saw a programme about the application of sp0rts science many years ago and its conclusion was that sport in the future was more likely to be lab v lab rather than athlete v athlete and it seems that we are now in that situation and cycling has become a freak show.

[smeggysmeg]

UAE team boss has a historical association with doping, and the gaps Pogacar is putting in to the peloton are not normal. It’s not far fetched to question his performances and you’d have to check your brain at the door to discard all doubts. The argument that others would be doping as well if he is and that levels the playing field so he is not doping does not carry much merit. The techniques of cheating would likely differ from team to team either in substance or application or both and Pogacar is obviously genetically gifted wither way. On that same
topic, that he may be inherently better than most of the other riders on most days, does not mean he not also doping. The sheer domination and his boss’s history raise an eyebrow and if history teaches us any lessons it’s that the cheaters in cycling are usually one step ahead of everyone else for good stretches of time.

Pogacar has not always been entirely honest either about “training” techniques. Take for example the following from an article (not direct evidence of doping itself but evidence of the type of dishonesty that accompanies doping):

“Last summer, during the 2024 Tour de France, the Escape Collective website published a report on carbon monoxide rebreathing, used to measure effectiveness of altitude training. Both Pogačar’s UAE Emirates team and that of his main rival, Danish rider, Jonas Vingegaard, were named in it.

Both teams later admitted using the technique — now banned due to concerns of possible blood manipulation — and Pogačar, who has never failed a drugs test, denied any knowledge.

“I don’t know what it is. Maybe I’m just uneducated, ” he replied to my direct question. But 24 hours later, Pogačar had suddenly remembered.

“I didn’t quite understand the question, ” he said. “It’s not like you’re breathing exhaust pipes in a car. It’s just a simple test to see how you respond to altitude training.”

First he lied and then he was disingenuous in his downplaying of it. The reality is it’s not “just a simple test.” It can be used/abused to increase EPO levels, and it can also be dangerous if done too often. There’s a reason UCI banned it.

[RobInglis-tngz]

Nutrition, training and technology was so different back in the olden days (2014)

[ringzero]

It is great to see juiced up riders smashing records, but it is bad for the athletes and it would be nice to see what is naturally possible to achieve.