From what I can tell, Riis is a brilliant directeur. Tyler has spoken in the past about how the Dane has been instrumental in planning his training regimen and setting goals. Today, he notes that, "Bjarne reminded of us of the stage in 1996 to Jaca after Hautacam, where the last 100km were flat and he put 8 minutes into Indurain and Rominger." CSC has now bagged three stages (so far), two GC top ten riders, and the overall teams classification.
Looking back a bit, Jaja closed out his career at CSC with two very successful Tours-de-France, focusing wisely on stages and the KOM jersey.
If I were a promising young thing like Basso or Popovych, I would be beating down that man's door.
From what I can tell, Riis is a brilliant directeur. Tyler has spoken in the past about how the Dane has been instrumental in planning his training regimen and setting goals. Today, he notes that, "Bjarne reminded of us of the stage in 1996 to Jaca after Hautacam, where the last 100km were flat and he put 8 minutes into Indurain and Rominger." CSC has now bagged three stages (so far), two GC top ten riders, and the overall teams classification.
Looking back a bit, Jaja closed out his career at CSC with two very successful Tours-de-France, focusing wisely on stages and the KOM jersey.
If I were a promising young thing like Basso or Popovych, I would be beating down that man's door.
Scary to think what Ullrich could have done if the CSC deal had gone through.
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From what I can tell, Riis is a brilliant directeur. Tyler has spoken in the past about how the Dane has been instrumental in planning his training regimen and setting goals. Today, he notes that, "Bjarne reminded of us of the stage in 1996 to Jaca after Hautacam, where the last 100km were flat and he put 8 minutes into Indurain and Rominger." CSC has now bagged three stages (so far), two GC top ten riders, and the overall teams classification.
Looking back a bit, Jaja closed out his career at CSC with two very successful Tours-de-France, focusing wisely on stages and the KOM jersey.
If I were a promising young thing like Basso or Popovych, I would be beating down that man's door.
Scary to think what Ullrich could have done if the CSC deal had gone through.
During the (very long) time Ullrich was negotiating with CSC for a contract, Lance Armstrong was quoted as suggesting that, if he were Ullrich, that he would have joined CSC for free. Considering how much Jan gets from other endorsements, I would have to have agreed with him. Sign a 1 year deal with CSC for nothing or a neo's salary and then talk money the following year when he had recovered his career. No doubt he's on the way back up (and I, for one am glad for him). However, it would have been interesting with Riis as his coach and riders like Sastre and Hamilton as team-mates.
in the peleton was Mr. 60....due to the fact that his hemocratic level was 60..this was in the days before the 50% rule.
Widely claimed but never substantiated. And likely physiologically impossible...blood would be too viscous to perfuse muscle tissue. Dr. Peter Janssen states its blatantly untrue in his book Lactate Threshold Training.
While it is admirable what he has done with CSC, I did not think much of him the year he won the Tour. He appears to have made a point of dropping Indurain on the stage in Mig's home territory, a true champion would have made sure Mig was there by his side. If you review the stage, he repeatedly attacked the leading group even though he was way in the lead. I was speaking to a former Dutch pro yesterday and he mentioned Bjarne's nickname in the peleton was Mr. 60....due to the fact that his hemocratic level was 60..this was in the days before the 50% rule.
If he'd waited for Mig on the road to Pamplona, he might well have lost the race, since Mig was touring and came in 8.30 behind. Waiting would have put him in 9th 4.31 behind Virenque. As it was, he waited for his lieutenant to offer him the stage and then had to sprint to catch Dufaux at the line (came up short) after the lieutenant couldn't muster the initiative to go for it.
HOwever, if you want to get annoyed about Riis, search out his comments following the decision to turn the stage 16 in 1995 into a memorial ride with no results.
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P.S.: Delgado's nickname was Testo, apparently a reference to his use of testosterone
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From what I can tell, Riis is a brilliant directeur. Tyler has spoken in the past about how the Dane has been instrumental in planning his training regimen and setting goals. Today, he notes that, "Bjarne reminded of us of the stage in 1996 to Jaca after Hautacam, where the last 100km were flat and he put 8 minutes into Indurain and Rominger." CSC has now bagged three stages (so far), two GC top ten riders, and the overall teams classification.
Looking back a bit, Jaja closed out his career at CSC with two very successful Tours-de-France, focusing wisely on stages and the KOM jersey.
If I were a promising young thing like Basso or Popovych, I would be beating down that man's door.
While it is admirable what he has done with CSC, I did not think much of him the year he won the Tour. He appears to have made a point of dropping Indurain on the stage in Mig's home territory, a true champion would have made sure Mig was there by his side. If you review the stage, he repeatedly attacked the leading group even though he was way in the lead.
Yes try that you will see that he is trying to pull Big Mig up a to the virenque/defaux group serveral times, he tried just that to make sure that Indurain was by his side so by your own words he was a true champion!
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speaking to a former Dutch pro yesterday and he mentioned Bjarne's nickname in the peleton was Mr. 60....due to the fact that his hemocratic level was 60..this was in the days before the 50% rule.
During the (very long) time Ullrich was negotiating with CSC for a contract, Lance Armstrong was quoted as suggesting that, if he were Ullrich, that he would have joined CSC for free. Considering how much Jan gets from other endorsements, I would have to have agreed with him. Sign a 1 year deal with CSC for nothing or a neo's salary and then talk money the following year when he had recovered his career.
Well thats almost sounds like LA comback career and it worked pretty good for him. Ulrich is back on the right track so it was not the only way it could be done.
in the peleton was Mr. 60....due to the fact that his hemocratic level was 60..this was in the days before the 50% rule.
Widely claimed but never substantiated. And likely physiologically impossible...blood would be too viscous to perfuse muscle tissue. Dr. Peter Janssen states its blatantly untrue in his book Lactate Threshold Training.
Indeed, but he did return a level of 56.3% on the rest day in the Tour in 1995.
I had a crit of 56 for a while. My doctor thought it serious enough that I had a couple of phlebotemies (blood letting sans leeches) to get it down. BTW, that was several months AFTER I stopped taking EPO, but that's another story...
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>in the peleton was Mr. 60....due to the fact that his hemocratic level
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>60..this was in the days before the 50% rule.
Widely claimed but never substantiated. And likely physiologically impossible...blood would be too viscous to perfuse muscle tissue.
While blood viscosity does increase with hematocrit, 60% probably isn't
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From what I can tell, Riis is a brilliant directeur. Tyler has spoken in the past about how the Dane has been instrumental in planning his training regimen and setting goals. Today, he notes that, "Bjarne reminded of us of the stage in 1996 to Jaca after Hautacam, where the last 100km were flat and he put 8 minutes into Indurain and Rominger." CSC has now bagged three stages (so far), two GC top ten riders, and the overall teams classification.
Looking back a bit, Jaja closed out his career at CSC with two very successful Tours-de-France, focusing wisely on stages and the KOM jersey.
If I were a promising young thing like Basso or Popovych, I would be beating down that man's door.
Basso is not a "promising young thing", but just the next eternal runner-up. The guy hasn't win anything important and he never will. He lacks winning mentality. Although he's presently racing with a great motivator on the car, that Giancarlo Ferretti who is famous for transforming long time domestiques in racers eager to walk the finish line on the 1st place. Well, it seems that Ferretti is completely unsatisfied of the way IB is racing and that he will probably sack him at the end of this season.
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Indeed, but he did return a level of 56.3% on the rest day in the Tour in 1995.
Can you indicate the source of this information, as it is new to me - and in the light of all the fuss there has been here in Denmark about Bjarnes victory and alleged use of EPO it would be very interesting to hear about.
