Originally Posted by
Talldog
Yea ..... shades of domination not seen since the Lance Armstrong days .... I like Nibali, but after watching this Tour unfold I' m thinking Astana has something proprietary and "new" going on. Come on, really, the only guy wearing yellow to win four non TT stages since the immortal Eddy Merckx. Looks like he can win the hardest stages against the best riders in the world whenever he feels like it. Interesting, if not overtly suspicious. Specially after Vinny calls him the "Boss", LOL.
And this has, on this year's Tour, become the traditional point at which we point out that at least 3 of the best riders in the world (Froome, Contador, Quintana) were never present when Nibali was tearing these fields apart.
Nibali was 2'30 slower up Hautacam today than Bjarne Riis in 96, and 2'00 slower than Luc Leblanc in a thunderstorm in '94. If he's on drugs, he's not on anything nearly as good as those guys had.