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Originally Posted by r_mutt
I don't see how a contest of 2 retired riders is going to prove that Cancellera didn't have a motor 7 years ago at Flanders and Roubaix- even if cookies are involved.
I find it amusing that there are so many people who have absolutely no proof of motors being used by Fabian are so quick to say it didn't happen. How the fu@k do you know? Then last time there was such a impassioned defense of a rider accused of doping ended very badly on Oprah's sofa.
There's probably only 1 person who knows for sure the definitive answer to the motor doping question and that's Fabian.
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That's ignoring a mountain of context though to make that comparison. One guy climbed off his death bed and transformed from a one-day rider to one of the fastest climbers the world had ever seen, suddenly producing results his pre-cancer performance gave no indication he had. Punchy rolling courses? Totally. Scorching up the Tourmalet? No way.
Fabian was already at the tip of the spear when it came to one day and time trial riders in the pro peloton, by doing the very same kinda stuff he did before and after j'accuse le motor. There's a consistency there that is incongruous with what we saw from Pharmstrong.
More than happy to eat crow on this, but there's one rather fuzzy data point to try to pin "he had a motor" on Fabian, whereas there was a laundry list of circumstantial evidence against Mellow Johnny.