Stage 15: Contador apology (video)
07-19-10, 04:05 PM
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
Posts: 40,865
Bikes: Specialized Tarmac, Canyon Exceed, Specialized Transition, Ellsworth Roots, Ridley Excalibur
Mentioned: 68 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2952 Post(s)
Liked 3,106 Times
in
1,417 Posts
Sort of an unapologetic apology, no?
07-19-10, 04:12 PM
#5
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 15
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I don't speak spanish -- am I understanding this right, from the translation, that he basically said: I gave him some slack, then he took advantage when I needed slack, and this was payback for that.
?
?
07-19-10, 04:19 PM
#7
SilentRider
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 2,383
Bikes: Trek Madone SLR 7, Giant TCR Advanced Pro, Trek Domane SLR, Trek Emonda SLR Project One (x2), custom Bingham Built Titanium road bike
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Someone explain this [apparently rampant] disdain for Contador, please ..
07-19-10, 04:25 PM
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Behind you, in the bushes.
Posts: 64
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I don't get it either. Andy is fired up, wants to get back into the leaders jersey and we have all this drama unfolding before our eyes. Both Schleck and Contador impress the he$$ out of me. We can feast during tomorrows stage.
07-19-10, 04:46 PM
#9
SilentRider
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 2,383
Bikes: Trek Madone SLR 7, Giant TCR Advanced Pro, Trek Domane SLR, Trek Emonda SLR Project One (x2), custom Bingham Built Titanium road bike
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Impress really isn't the right word. Simply amazing. The way these 2 ride against each other and above everyone else. Superb!!
The way AS rode through everyone after the mechanical. I last felt this way when Landis soloed to victory ..
The way AS rode through everyone after the mechanical. I last felt this way when Landis soloed to victory ..
07-19-10, 04:50 PM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Downey, CA.
Posts: 1,166
Bikes: Litespeed Classic (55cm), Specialized Tarmac Pro (56cm)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 7 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 6 Times
in
4 Posts
Lets see.
"Hello all, today I finally made it up to the podium and I'm happy for that. Hmmm, pretty much about the circumstances, it pretty much came when Andy had a mechanical problem I attacked on the last climb. The race had been pretty much over (outcome). Hmmm, well maybe I'm wrong that's how I saw it, but I'm sorry. At that moment the only thing one thinks about is going as fast a possible. Well, I feel comfortable in thinking it was fair play and it was clean. That is the most important thing." He goes on to talk about some incident with Andy and Frank and it being impossible to stop the whole peloton just for them to catch up. "I received a lot criticism from people for having done that." Goes back to tapa de ? and the peloton breaking up a bunch as a result of a pileup. "That led to Andy gaining time on me, so I still think that I would do it again, no. Those kinds of things that happened today are the type of things I don't like. I hope that the kind of relationship Andy and I have will continue to be as good as it is now."
His lisp made it difficult to understand at times.
"Hello all, today I finally made it up to the podium and I'm happy for that. Hmmm, pretty much about the circumstances, it pretty much came when Andy had a mechanical problem I attacked on the last climb. The race had been pretty much over (outcome). Hmmm, well maybe I'm wrong that's how I saw it, but I'm sorry. At that moment the only thing one thinks about is going as fast a possible. Well, I feel comfortable in thinking it was fair play and it was clean. That is the most important thing." He goes on to talk about some incident with Andy and Frank and it being impossible to stop the whole peloton just for them to catch up. "I received a lot criticism from people for having done that." Goes back to tapa de ? and the peloton breaking up a bunch as a result of a pileup. "That led to Andy gaining time on me, so I still think that I would do it again, no. Those kinds of things that happened today are the type of things I don't like. I hope that the kind of relationship Andy and I have will continue to be as good as it is now."
His lisp made it difficult to understand at times.
__________________
Litespeed, lasts a lifetime.
Specialized Tarmac, lasts a lifetime, or until it breaks.
Litespeed, lasts a lifetime.
Specialized Tarmac, lasts a lifetime, or until it breaks.
07-19-10, 04:53 PM
#13
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Minas Ithil
Posts: 9,173
Mentioned: 66 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2432 Post(s)
Liked 638 Times
in
395 Posts
Just when he attacked Andy had a mechanical???? WTF? Andy was the one who was attacking. Bad attempt at damage control.
07-19-10, 05:20 PM
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
Posts: 40,865
Bikes: Specialized Tarmac, Canyon Exceed, Specialized Transition, Ellsworth Roots, Ridley Excalibur
Mentioned: 68 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2952 Post(s)
Liked 3,106 Times
in
1,417 Posts
Lets see.
"Hello all, today I finally made it up to the podium and I'm happy for that. Hmmm, pretty much about the circumstances, it pretty much came when Andy had a mechanical problem I attacked on the last climb. The race had been pretty much over (outcome). Hmmm, well maybe I'm wrong that's how I saw it, but I'm sorry. At that moment the only thing one thinks about is going as fast a possible. Well, I feel comfortable in thinking it was fair play and it was clean. That is the most important thing." He goes on to talk about some incident with Andy and Frank and it being impossible to stop the whole peloton just for them to catch up. "I received a lot criticism from people for having done that." Goes back to tapa de ? and the peloton breaking up a bunch as a result of a pileup. "That led to Andy gaining time on me, so I still think that I would do it again, no. Those kinds of things that happened today are the type of things I don't like. I hope that the kind of relationship Andy and I have will continue to be as good as it is now."
His lisp made it difficult to understand at times.
"Hello all, today I finally made it up to the podium and I'm happy for that. Hmmm, pretty much about the circumstances, it pretty much came when Andy had a mechanical problem I attacked on the last climb. The race had been pretty much over (outcome). Hmmm, well maybe I'm wrong that's how I saw it, but I'm sorry. At that moment the only thing one thinks about is going as fast a possible. Well, I feel comfortable in thinking it was fair play and it was clean. That is the most important thing." He goes on to talk about some incident with Andy and Frank and it being impossible to stop the whole peloton just for them to catch up. "I received a lot criticism from people for having done that." Goes back to tapa de ? and the peloton breaking up a bunch as a result of a pileup. "That led to Andy gaining time on me, so I still think that I would do it again, no. Those kinds of things that happened today are the type of things I don't like. I hope that the kind of relationship Andy and I have will continue to be as good as it is now."
His lisp made it difficult to understand at times.
07-19-10, 05:36 PM
#15
Lance Hater
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 4,403
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 7 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
07-19-10, 05:40 PM
#16
Senior Member
07-19-10, 05:48 PM
#17
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ashland, VA
Posts: 4,420
Bikes: The keepers: 1958 Raleigh Lenton Grand Prix, 1968 Ranger, 1969 Magneet Sprint, 1971 Gitane Tour de France, 1973 Raleigh Tourist, 3 - 1986 Rossins, and a '77 PX-10 frame in process.
Mentioned: 8 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 221 Post(s)
Liked 237 Times
in
129 Posts
He's still got to do six more wins (starting with this Sunday) to do that. Right now he's aiming to match Greg LeMond, et. al.
__________________
Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)
Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)
07-19-10, 05:48 PM
#18
Senior Member
What worries me as a Canadian is when Ryder Hesjedal eventually starts winning Grand Tours left and right and the European sophisticates start sneering about beavers climbing up the mountains. Sniff...what's wrong with beavers?
07-19-10, 06:05 PM
#19
Kaffee Nazi
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Richland, WA
Posts: 1,374
Bikes: 2009 Kestrel RT800, 2007 Roubaix, 1976 Lambert-Viscount
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
So Contador has a lisp? Is that a lisp worse than the one most Spaniards appear to have compared to the way Spanish is spoken in other countries?
But what I really want to know is WHY Schleck's chain came off. Anyone know?
But what I really want to know is WHY Schleck's chain came off. Anyone know?
07-19-10, 06:08 PM
#20
Lance Hater
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 4,403
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 7 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Pretty sure Contador had an Astana mechanic sabotage it.
Last edited by USAZorro; 07-19-10 at 08:13 PM. Reason: replaced derogatory term
07-19-10, 06:16 PM
#22
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 5,866
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times
in
2 Posts
Hmm that gives AC something in common with a far better rider than Lance. Though I have to admit AC didn't pick up any extra jerseys in those races.
07-19-10, 06:33 PM
#24
It's MY mountain
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Mt.Diablo
Posts: 10,001
Bikes: Klein, Merckx, Trek
Mentioned: 70 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4336 Post(s)
Liked 2,977 Times
in
1,614 Posts