2012 Tour de France - Stage 7 - Tomblaine → La Planche des Belles - Saturday July 7
07-07-12, 04:12 PM
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07-07-12, 04:39 PM
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I don't think you got that I was being sarcastic. I hate those ugly lambchops on Wiggins' face. Look, I hope I'm wrong, but Sky is riding so good right now. Almost too good...how can guys like Rodgers and Porte do their turns, yet still come in 1:24 down? Where has Rodgers even been the past few years, yet here he is, dropping some of the best climbers in the pro tour? I sincerely hope that team is legit, but the past two races with Sky, the've been able to shed almost everyone with still 4 or 5 of their guys remaining...Postal v2.0
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07-07-12, 05:25 PM
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Valverde having bad luck, Freire has bailed, the Euskatel team and movistar with injuries...some kind of spanish curse!
I always liked Valverde, though...he admits the tour is just not his race, or that he seems to have bad luck. He seemed to be doing ok then got a bad luck flat tire. But he can still win a stage, he's not injured YET.
Bummer about Ryder, though....i actually had a big hematoma like that on my hip from a fall. I still have scar tissue under the skin! It was gross. No way you can get up and ride after that, it's just too freaking painful.
I always liked Valverde, though...he admits the tour is just not his race, or that he seems to have bad luck. He seemed to be doing ok then got a bad luck flat tire. But he can still win a stage, he's not injured YET.
Bummer about Ryder, though....i actually had a big hematoma like that on my hip from a fall. I still have scar tissue under the skin! It was gross. No way you can get up and ride after that, it's just too freaking painful.
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07-07-12, 05:55 PM
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07-07-12, 07:01 PM
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Between you and me... the main problem with those two spanish teams is that are not consistent at all. For example you have euskatel that is a climbers team where nobody can climb their home's stairs, not laughing at them just telling it as it is. Everybody in that team climbs, and not even so so climbers pretty much the whole team are pure climbers. Ok they all hit the deck, I understand but look in other races, they are never there... unless they have those strikes of genius like 3 times per year and they win in great form.
Movistar has bad luck but is the same issue, inconsistent riders. Pretty much they have to pick the riders tossing coins because nobody knows how they will perform, and the guys aren't bad riders that is the worse thing you know. Ok Valverde got bad luck... i take that but i bet that tomorrow none from movistar or euskatel will be with evans, wiggo, froom and nibali at the top of the cat 1.
In those 2 teams you have climbing power to maybe kill or at least counter attach sky, but they refuse to shine. Maybe wasn't the day as usual?
Movistar has bad luck but is the same issue, inconsistent riders. Pretty much they have to pick the riders tossing coins because nobody knows how they will perform, and the guys aren't bad riders that is the worse thing you know. Ok Valverde got bad luck... i take that but i bet that tomorrow none from movistar or euskatel will be with evans, wiggo, froom and nibali at the top of the cat 1.
In those 2 teams you have climbing power to maybe kill or at least counter attach sky, but they refuse to shine. Maybe wasn't the day as usual?
Valverde having bad luck, Freire has bailed, the Euskatel team and movistar with injuries...some kind of spanish curse!
I always liked Valverde, though...he admits the tour is just not his race, or that he seems to have bad luck. He seemed to be doing ok then got a bad luck flat tire. But he can still win a stage, he's not injured YET.
Bummer about Ryder, though....i actually had a big hematoma like that on my hip from a fall. I still have scar tissue under the skin! It was gross. No way you can get up and ride after that, it's just too freaking painful.
I always liked Valverde, though...he admits the tour is just not his race, or that he seems to have bad luck. He seemed to be doing ok then got a bad luck flat tire. But he can still win a stage, he's not injured YET.
Bummer about Ryder, though....i actually had a big hematoma like that on my hip from a fall. I still have scar tissue under the skin! It was gross. No way you can get up and ride after that, it's just too freaking painful.
07-07-12, 08:06 PM
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true euskatel has always been the team of climbers. Maybe they'll show something in the high mountains where they usually shine...as for Freire, he was injured. Too bad, because this could be his last tour!
I don't know if Valverde is doing the olympics, but maybe he'll do the vuelta.
I don't know if Valverde is doing the olympics, but maybe he'll do the vuelta.
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07-07-12, 08:25 PM
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Michael Rogers has always been a strong rider. He has had poor luck with crashes. I would not have been surprised if he would have won the Tour in 2007
Also keep in mind just about everyone in the GC race has been involved in a crash or had a mechanical at a bad time.
Also keep in mind just about everyone in the GC race has been involved in a crash or had a mechanical at a bad time.
07-07-12, 10:34 PM
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LOL, looks like it...
I don't understand this Tour route AT ALL. The entire first week is nothing but flats, then they throw in this short, very steep climb on the first "mountain" stage, which totally throws (most) of the riders off balance. It ends up opening very significant gaps for a short climb. 12th place is already 2:00 back? You pretty much have 3 or 4 guys left unless something unexpected happens. Whoever is designing this route did a really bad job IMO. They love to create false drama by putting off the big mountain stages until almost the middle of the second week, but lulling the riders to sleep with a week of flats, and then this...total fail.
It's only one stage, but this is already starting to look like the Dauphine...Sky is doing their best early-2000s Postal impression (let's hope it's not fueled the same way!), everyone isolated. Cadel is just not going to drop Wiggins. Wiggins will do just fine on the "normal", longer climbs, I don't see him being dropped by anyone who is a real GC threat. I think Froome could be a surprise podium finisher...I'm glad he is backing up his performance from last year's Vuelta. Everyone was questioning Cobo, but Froome also "came out of nowhere" last year, and he's backing it up, unlike Cobo......
Oh, and Garmin, you just fail at everything. No, you can't prevent bad luck, but the past two days have been pretty bad. Yesterday, put your main workhorse in a doomed-to-fail break (???), taking one of the riders meant to protect Ryder out of the Peloton, and today, blaze the final 20K's or so for Dan Martin, only for him to blow up at the very beginning of the final climb.
You will not see another yellow jersey wearer this tour, get used to seeing those sweet, sweet sideburns!
I don't understand this Tour route AT ALL. The entire first week is nothing but flats, then they throw in this short, very steep climb on the first "mountain" stage, which totally throws (most) of the riders off balance. It ends up opening very significant gaps for a short climb. 12th place is already 2:00 back? You pretty much have 3 or 4 guys left unless something unexpected happens. Whoever is designing this route did a really bad job IMO. They love to create false drama by putting off the big mountain stages until almost the middle of the second week, but lulling the riders to sleep with a week of flats, and then this...total fail.
It's only one stage, but this is already starting to look like the Dauphine...Sky is doing their best early-2000s Postal impression (let's hope it's not fueled the same way!), everyone isolated. Cadel is just not going to drop Wiggins. Wiggins will do just fine on the "normal", longer climbs, I don't see him being dropped by anyone who is a real GC threat. I think Froome could be a surprise podium finisher...I'm glad he is backing up his performance from last year's Vuelta. Everyone was questioning Cobo, but Froome also "came out of nowhere" last year, and he's backing it up, unlike Cobo......
Oh, and Garmin, you just fail at everything. No, you can't prevent bad luck, but the past two days have been pretty bad. Yesterday, put your main workhorse in a doomed-to-fail break (???), taking one of the riders meant to protect Ryder out of the Peloton, and today, blaze the final 20K's or so for Dan Martin, only for him to blow up at the very beginning of the final climb.
You will not see another yellow jersey wearer this tour, get used to seeing those sweet, sweet sideburns!
07-07-12, 11:14 PM
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I don't think you got that I was being sarcastic. I hate those ugly lambchops on Wiggins' face. Look, I hope I'm wrong, but Sky is riding so good right now. Almost too good...how can guys like Rodgers and Porte do their turns, yet still come in 1:24 down? Where has Rodgers even been the past few years, yet here he is, dropping some of the best climbers in the pro tour? I sincerely hope that team is legit, but the past two races with Sky, the've been able to shed almost everyone with still 4 or 5 of their guys remaining...Postal v2.0
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