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Old 07-20-21, 12:08 PM
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I'm mercurial, but Pogacar is not doping, mechanically or chemically. As slcbob points out, there is so much spotlight on the podium, and from minus-7, that I don't think it's feasible. We'd have heard about it.

Look at Pogacar, he is a fantastic specimen. He's been riding since a little kid and putting others to shame. He has not crashed constantly, and (as LR pointed out) actively avoided the wheels of those that do. He's wicked tactical, and always has a cool demeanor. Is he a psychopath? Most likely. I loved how he's reeled back Kwiakowskikwiatkowski.

Could he be the early work of Doctor Virginijus and other eastern European scientists? More likely then simple chemical or mechanical doping.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virg...%A0ik%C5%A1nys


The research interests of V. Šikšnys include structure-function relationships of enzymes involved in nucleic acids metabolism. V. Šikšnys and members of his laboratory perform biochemical, biophysical and structural studies of proteins involved in bacterial antiviral defense, including restriction endonucleases and CRISPR-Cas systems.
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