Frogs think we have naughty bike wheels
Great Britain's stranglehold on track cycling within the "Pringle" is so strong that other teams are clearly struggling for an explanation. The French team's director, Isabelle Gautheron, fuelled speculation here with the claim that the British have "magic wheels" which they keep hidden from the opposition and which are not those issued by their official sponsor, the French company Mavic.
"We are looking a lot at the kit they use," Gautheron told the French newspaper L'Equipe. "We are asking a lot of questions: how have they gained so many tenths of seconds? Have they found a new training process based on certain energy pathways? I am not talking about any illicit product, because anti-doping tests are so strong. Honestly, we are looking a lot at the kit they use. It is not yet time to analyse, though. It's all over for these Games."
She added that the French were suspicious about Great Britain's wheels: "They hide their wheels a lot. The ones for the bikes they race on are put in wheel covers at the finish [of a race]. Do they really have Mavic wheels?"
Posted By: Old Git on August 5th 2012 at 20:22:33
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- Frogs think we have naughty bike wheels (Other Sports) - Old Git, Aug 5, 20:22:33
- maybe we have magic oars as well (n/m) (Other Sports) - Brandonio, Aug 5, 20:24:52
- Blades! (Other Sports) - King, Aug 5, 21:11:27
- Ha ha (Other Sports) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 5, 20:34:23
- i'm guessing he's saying we're travelling through time (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Aug 5, 20:37:11
- We need to investigate their swimming trunks (n/m) (Other Sports) - Brandonio, Aug 5, 20:39:27
- i'm guessing he's saying we're travelling through time (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Aug 5, 20:37:11
- exactly. Les Miserables. (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Aug 5, 20:32:37
- lol (n/m) (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 5, 20:25:56
- I (n/m) (Other Sports) - Old Git, Aug 5, 20:25:15
- I like the idea of training with energy pathways (Other Sports) - Old Git, Aug 5, 20:25:51
- surely the bikes get inspected like in F1 (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Aug 5, 20:24:44
- they do, Chris Boardman referred to this the other night (Other Sports) - emmaroyds, Aug 5, 20:28:50
- maybe we have magic oars as well (n/m) (Other Sports) - Brandonio, Aug 5, 20:24:52
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