Looking California feeling like Minnesota:

hey man I supported your question to chad reed regarding kens injury status and what it meant for the title or "crown" but you honestly shouldn't be speculating on rumors when it comes to peoples health and specific diagnosis'. that's bad form and a little insensitive to the individual and his family especially when dealing with a serious health concern like an auto immune disorder.  to put it out there like that forces a response or clarification when obviously the accused doesn't want to address it yet. I will no longer click on your articles.

Sorry you feel that way.  I am not the only one who is speculating on what's wrong with RD.  RacerX did a feature story called "Is Something Wrong With Ryan Dungey?".  RD has been a physical machine his entire career and fading at the end of races has NEVER been a problem.  In Aldon's program everybody works hard, this leads to "the issue".  As someone who has suffered from both Mono and Epstein Barr, I see the symptoms in him.  He might already be getting treatment and with Vitiman IV's during the week, he could be back to normal sometime in the next few weeks.

Ryan Dungey is a professional athlete and like many other sports we have Fantasy Leagues.  Many people want to know the health of an athlete they might bet on or pick.  The NFL has a mandatory injury report, so speculating on his health related to his performance is well within journalistic boundaries.

P.S. I also speculated on Webb and Bogle and nobody has an issue with that.

Chris- I was wondering about RD's health also.  He's clearly off his game.  Top athletes never want to expose their weakness, never admit to an injury or sickness until it knocks them out of competition altogether.  Then it's press conference time.  It's that way in all sports.

I hope it's a bad case of flu for RD and he'll be back 100% soon.  I hated seeing Webb take that digger, he's going to be fun to watch as he grows into the 450 class.  I really hated seeing Roczen depart the series so early.  I thought a season long battle with Roczen - Tomac - Dungey was going to be fantastic. 

We break, we heal, we live to race another day.  Or so we hope...     

Semantics. Injury speculation is one thing.  Discussing a Unacknowledged disease process is inflammatory.  Would you feel the same way if someone was discussing on a very large website the possibility of your swimsuit model wife's career being in jeopardy due to her recent herpes outbreak ? U can hide behind journalistic rights and blah blah blah. But this world needs more decency and guessing about people and if they do or do not  have diseases in the name of fantasy sports is low level reasoning and a real poor play.  I hope your guesses get back to the riders and they blackball you from having any access to them or the industry. 

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Mr. Ballin, did that swimsuit model have unidentifiable red spots near an area that would make you think she had herpes?  Then did you have someone at the shoot tell you this?   Then yes, you can talk about her and the fact that she might have herpes. By the way, swimsuit model and herpes is your analogy..... wow!  To good to be true!

1 hour ago, motoinmoab said:

Chris- I was wondering about RD's health also.  He's clearly off his game.  Top athletes never want to expose their weakness, never admit to an injury or sickness until it knocks them out of competition altogether.  Then it's press conference time.  It's that way in all sports.

I hope it's a bad case of flu for RD and he'll be back 100% soon.  I hated seeing Webb take that digger, he's going to be fun to watch as he grows into the 450 class.  I really hated seeing Roczen depart the series so early.  I thought a season long battle with Roczen - Tomac - Dungey was going to be fantastic. 

We break, we heal, we live to race another day.  Or so we hope...     

Injuries suck!  Bummer for all.