No Rafal thread yet?
Giro, Tour, hopefully no Vuelta, that would be too much even for clinicians.
Don't want be bad prophet, but how about vroom-style revolution in TinSax? Fortunately for Dirtie, Raf is not Russki.
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doperhopper wrote:No Rafal thread yet?
Giro, Tour, hopefully no Vuelta, that would be too much even for clinicians.
Don't want be bad prophet, but how about vroom-style revolution in TinSax? Fortunately for Dirtie, Raf is not Russki.
sniper wrote:does Riis have any friggin idea what his riders are and aren't taking?
kreuziger gets popped, but it clearly doesn't stop saxo from charging sumptuously.
it's an odd scenario.
sniper wrote:does Riis have any friggin idea what his riders are and aren't taking?
kreuziger gets popped, but it clearly doesn't stop saxo from charging sumptuously.
it's an odd scenario.
del1962 wrote:Not having seen the race today, I falsely assumed looking at the results and this thread that he had ridden Nibali off his wheel, so he won from a break, not sure the performance warrents a new thread in the clinic
nuvolablu wrote:"Since my return from Italy I have not trained much, I was very tired and still feel the effects of this 3-week race. I do not feel ready to compete in the Tour de France"
He loses 40 minutes in the first two mountain stage, then Contador he's out and suddendly Majka he's one of the best climber in the race behind Nibali and maybe Pinot,Peraud
Dirtiest performance of 2014 tdf
Netserk wrote:Kreuziger's suspicious values were from his Astana time. Riis knows how not to test positive. Rogers also got off. Contador also was before his time on Tinkoff.
sniper wrote:what is perhaps interesting is the simultaneous rise of two polish elite cyclists, where there were none before.
jaskula i think the only polish guy to win a tdf stage before majka.
Le Baroudeur wrote:
He has always been an outstanding grimpeur talent just like Pinot who is way ahead in GC. Start a thread for every specialist grimpeur that shows ability relative to their speciality why not.
nuvolablu wrote:He was never an outstanding grimpeur talent in the U23 races, he became a good climber only at Saxo-Tinkoff. Pinot was already a great climber in his junior days
sniper wrote:what is perhaps interesting is the simultaneous rise of two polish elite cyclists, where there were none before.
jaskula i think the only polish guy to win a tdf stage before majka.
nuvolablu wrote:He was never an outstanding grimpeur talent in the U23 races, he became a good climber only at Saxo-Tinkoff. Pinot was already a great climber in his junior days
Le Baroudeur wrote:There are far more than three (Poljanski is also one to watch), and there is also considerable political and economic mitigation for the increase in Polish passport carrying presence in sport. I suggest you do some research about polish talent in all sport under other nationalities.
ciranda wrote:Szmyd, Niemiec, Wadecki, Marczynski, Rutkiewicz, Spruch etc.
I don't even understand what you mean, that they are drugged up from age eleven? Poland has always had good riders, a lot of races and media interest. Just a lack of opportunities for cyclists since there's no larger teams. Cycling has a long tradition in Poland, much unlike Great Britain for example.
But yeah, I find Majka massively suspicious, so much better than he's ever been in the Giro or btw in the Vuelta where he had total freedom last year.
There is a giant jump in performance.
roundabout wrote:Lombardi was/is his manager and he arranged Majka to come to the training camp.
Considering the awful 2011 team, I don't think it was that hard to get a contract.
Small risk - big reward.
Heh, Wadecki, that's a blast from the past. Aside from going full retard in 1 very weird TdS and a win in Paris-Nice from a break, I don't think he really qualifies as an elite level rider.
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