Lars

[Lars @LarsLoman]

@LeTour 💉🐂💉

[Lars @LarsLoman]

VIDERE..
ja, pisse dumt af Binks🤯
Men et point i Århus mod de forsvarende mestre og trænerdebut er sgu godkendt…

#Brøndby

[Benji Naesen @BenjiNaesen]

Mauro Gianetti was such a victim that when he nearly died in 1998 from what his doctors took to be a blood-doping attempt gone wrong, he hit them with nearly 4 million francs in legal claims for reporting it.

[Roadman Podcast @Roadman_Podcast]

Doping didn't disappear from pro cycling.

It may have just moved to 2,500 metres.

This morning I interviewed James Witts, author of a new book called Dope. Halfway through the conversation, he described something I'd never heard in all my years around this sport.

He calls it "the altitude alibi."

Here's how it works.

Every spring, pro riders disappear to the same places. Mount Teide. Sierra Nevada. Weeks at altitude preparing for the biggest races of the year.

The logic is simple. Altitude exposure raises your hematocrit. More red blood cells, more oxygen, more power.

Except there are two problems nobody talks about.

Problem one: altitude doesn't work for everyone. There are genetic responders and non-responders. Some riders come down from the volcano flying. Some come down with nothing to show for three weeks of their season.

Problem two: altitude forces a trade-off.

At camp, you have a choice of protocol. Sleep high and train high, or sleep high and train low.

Sleep high, train high: you maximise the altitude adaptation. But the thin air caps your power. You can't train at full intensity, so you lose the training adaptation.

Sleep high, train low: you descend to do your sessions at full intensity and keep the training adaptation. But you give up some of the altitude effect.

You can't fully have both. Every altitude camp is a compromise.

Now here's where James's argument gets dark.

The biological passport, the system designed to catch dopers, doesn't test for drugs directly.

It tracks a rider's blood values against their own baseline. Deviate too far from your own normal, and you get flagged.

But when a rider is at altitude, the passport expects the deviation. Rising blood values are exactly what altitude is supposed to produce.

James believes some riders have worked out what that means.

Go to altitude. Microdose EPO. The passport reads the change in your blood as a natural altitude response.

Then train low, at full intensity, and take the full training adaptation - because you no longer need the mountain to raise your blood values. The drug does that part.

The altitude camp isn't the preparation.

It's the alibi.

I've spent years interviewing World Tour coaches, sports scientists and pro riders. I have never heard it framed like this before.

The full conversation goes much deeper: what the passport can and can't see, why microdosing is so hard to catch, and what it all means for the sport we love.

It drops soon on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Follow along so you don't miss it.

His book is called Dope: How Drugs Changed Sport. Worth your time.

P.S. Genuine question for you: can the testers ever catch up in this game or cat & mouse?

[Lars @LarsLoman]

@LeTour 💉🩸

[Emmanuel Merceron @ManuMerceron]

Comment ne pas dégu*euler🤮 en voyant Gianetti. Sans doute l'homme le plus impliqué dans le dopage après Armstrong. #TDF2026

[Benjamin @Benjamin159591]

@CyclingUpToDat3 Pogacar and UAE are running an insane doping programme. Tests have never worked, but investigations have.

[Lars @LarsLoman]

@LeTour 💉🩸

[Lars @LarsLoman]

@LeTour @Continental_fr Lance Epogacar…💉🩸

[Lars @LarsLoman]

@LeTour #Epogacar💉🩸

[Jan Schouby @janschouby]

Når man ikke kan besejre så kummerligt et hold som det tjekkiske så har DK heller intet at gøre ved VM. Sørgelig dansk indsats og man må virkelig stille spørgsmål ved om ikke Reimer omgående bør fyres. Gigantisk fiasko ikke at ku vinde over Hviderusland, Skotland og Tjekket.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

It's good that Trump is backing down on his brainless Greenland threats, but this did a lot of damage with our allies that could take years to repair. All for nothing.

It is, however, building and emboldening opposition to tariffs within Trump's own party in Congress.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

🚨🚨China Just Fucking Destroyed Trump🚨🚨

Beijing has responded to Trump’s remarks about a Chinese threat to Greenland:

“We urge the United States to stop using the so-called threat from China as a pretext to pursue its own selfish interests,”

- China’s Foreign Ministry

[Farzam Abolhosseini @F_Abolhosseini]

Brøndby har i dag sagt farvel til Noah Nartey, som er rejst til Frankrig for at gennemgå lægetjek i morgen og underskrive kontrakten til sommer 2030 med Lyon. Superliga-klubben får i alt 10 mio. euro, 75 mio. kr., med bonusser og videresalg på 20 procent. https://t.co/I8Pbh2Zl74

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump is raising tariffs on 8 NATO allies because they rightly support Denmark's sovereignty in Greenland.

Destroying our closest alliances to take Greenland — which Denmark lets us use freely already — is insane. Congress must say NO.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

After 9/11, NATO's Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States.

Troops from Denmark, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland, and many others joined the fight in Afghanistan.

More than one thousand of these soldiers paid the ultimate price.

And how does the US respond to this? By threatening to take over Greenland.

Author: Pekka Kallioniemi

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law.

They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.

We have consistently underlined our shared transatlantic interest in peace and security in the Arctic, including through NATO.

The pre-coordinated Danish exercise, conducted with allies, responds to the need to strengthen Arctic security and poses no threat to anyone.

The EU stands in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland. Dialogue remains essential, and we are committed to building on the process begun already last week between the Kingdom of Denmark and the US.

Tariffs would undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. Europe will remain united, coordinated, and committed to upholding its sovereignty.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

That concludes the most important points for today.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Good Morning ☀️ Do you approve?

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

La France est attachée à la souveraineté et à l’indépendance des Nations, en Europe comme ailleurs. Cela préside à nos choix. Cela fonde notre attachement aux Nations unies et à notre Charte.

C’est à ce titre que nous soutenons et continuerons de soutenir l’Ukraine, et que nous avons bâti une coalition des volontaires pour une paix robuste et durable, pour défendre ces principes et notre sécurité.

C’est à ce titre aussi que nous avons décidé de nous joindre à l’exercice décidé par le Danemark au Groenland. Nous l’assumons. Aussi car il en va de la sécurité en Arctique et aux confins de notre Europe.

Aucune intimidation ni menace ne saurait nous influencer, ni en Ukraine, ni au Groenland, ni ailleurs dans le monde lorsque nous sommes confrontés à de telles situations.

Les menaces tarifaires sont inacceptables et n’ont pas leur place dans ce contexte. Les Européens y répondront de façon unie et coordonnée si elles étaient confirmées. Nous saurons faire respecter la souveraineté européenne.

C’est dans cet esprit que je m’entretiendrai avec nos partenaires européens.