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I think that the problem is YOU! There is nothing overtly sexual about that top picture! To be honest it's not even very flattering. I read the whole article without any thoughts other than nice to see a girls girl doing well. I think she will be a better influence than some of the tomboy butch girls the sport attracts. I was so surprised at the comments that I went back and looked and still can't see what the fuss is about. That picture has nothing sexualised about it. If you think it has then the problem is YOU! Your mind is the problem.

Almost everyone would like a little advantage. When you drink that powerade or eat that carb bar are you not hoping for a little extra speed or endurance? It's just chemicals so it's not a big step to go from supplements to drugs. So your on a ride next week and someone says "hey have you tried that new gel from powerbar"? " I cleaned that massive climb after taking that" . Would you go out and buy it? What if he then smokes you on the next climb? Would you buy it then? At what point do "supplements" become performance enhancers.? The top level dh's are all incredibly skilled. Often their times are 100ths of a second different. So what might give one the extra edge? In road racing they say look out for those who suddenly leap from doing well to doing phenomenal. Mr peat a few years back suddenly had a phenomenal season after a few years in decline. mr Gwinn jumped from top 15 to destroying the completion ? I for one would hope that there is a line and that my heroes don't cross it but it makes me wonder. One other thing. My wife used to be the person who chaperoned tennis players at Wimbledon after their matches. They were not allowed out of sight till the test was done. Not even to go to the loo. They were not allowed to drink anything or eat anything till the test was done. Our dh's are often handed beers from the crowd or sen swigging their sponsors energy drink straight after a race. How rigorous is the testing in do?

There is no reason for racism or even misguided patrotism in sport at all. Gwin is fantastic and in a very short space of time has come to dominate the sport. You cannot claim he is the best DH has ever seen though, that will be Nico, when Gwin has won 10 world champinships. Then you can claim he is the best. He is well on course to breaking Peaty's 17 win record, that's for sure.

What I find most interesting is that 2 seasons ago gwin was just a very good rider. Not phenomenal just very good. He changed teams and started working with Tomac and bang he is suddenly dominating the sport and winning by huge margins. That can't just be coincidence. Natural talent , of course, fitness, absolutely but something just made the difference when he swapped to trek and tomac.

It's a 4 hour drive to fort bill from where Danny lives. 8 hours from where the atherton's live ! They only go there for race days just like everyone else!

Danny's run was amazing considering how much worse the weather had got since gwin's run and how much the mid section of the track was getting destroyed. I was sat in the grandstand and it started raining again with about 10 riders to go. That should have been it over and done with. For Danny to get within a second of Gwin in worse conditons shows just how amazing his run was. Gee too. There is no doubting weather played its part on this one but that is racing and takes nothing way from gwin.

Danny's run was amazing considering how much worse the weather had got and how much the track had been destroyed since Gwin came down. We were sat in the grandstand and it started raining again with about 10 to go, someone near me commented that this could mean the current top 5 were going to be the podium . Pretty much true except Danny smoked it. I really thought he had it. I was staring at the clock and thinking just one more pedal stroke !! Big props to Miami though

It is a strange thing when you think what constitues "pretty" in a bike. If that rocker was shorter this bike would not look dissimilar to many bikes on the market (Trek?) but it is that long rocker that determines the excellent ride and function should always be more important than looks. This bike might not be pretty but that does not mean it is not good. There are many ugly bikes around that are good (demo?). don't judge a bike by looks.