Professional Cycling - What the hell happened to Iban Mayo this year?

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Sincitycycler
07-27-05, 02:01 PM
He finished eons :eek: behind the winner in the 2005 TDF. Was he hurt or did he just suck?

Hipcycler
07-27-05, 02:17 PM
Seems like the tour has passed by guys like Mayo and Heras....just not the climbing GC threat needed to keep up with the big guns....and when I say guns....the usual...Basso, Jan, Vino I guess.
sh_wn
07-27-05, 02:19 PM
Also with the speeds being what they were, I can't imagine that over a long haul, they'd be able to keep up....

squeegy200
07-27-05, 02:44 PM
Euskatel has been a Protour disappointment the entire season.
timmhaan
07-27-05, 02:53 PM
mayo was awful last year too.
ljb61
07-27-05, 06:13 PM
I thought Mayo would do much better this year than he did. I never believed he would win, but a top 5 maybe. I do not understand how he could look so good at the TDF in 2003, and also in the early part of 2004, but look so bad ever since. I think he needs to forget the Tour next year (too fast pace), and go for the Vuelta.
Laggard
07-27-05, 06:34 PM
Euskatel has been a Protour disappointment the entire season.

Except for those overall wins at the Dauphiné Libéré and at the Tour de Suisse.

Oh wait, they haven't been disappointments. ;)
Guest
07-27-05, 07:19 PM
Weren't they saying he was a last minute addition to the Tour? He probably just wasn't prepared or expected to go.

Koffee
97 Teran
07-28-05, 09:18 AM
Also with the speeds being what they were, I can't imagine that over a long haul, they'd be able to keep up....

FWIW Heras, at least, stated in a 3rd-week-of-Tour interview that he didn't think the overall speed had been a contributing problem for him.