Recent content by coinneach

Proper Spanish! When asked who his major influence was on his cycling career, he said: My mother!!

Alone amongst posters here, I am not afraid to say I was a Chris Froome fan. Not particularly for his Tour exploits, but for his Vuelta ones. He’d turn up each year, do well, get tired, loose, and maintain his dignity This year for once, he looked really determined to win it. Until he started to...

Surely it must be up for DB now: I predict he’ll keep his head down and try to leave it to the doctors and Froome to carry the can It worked with Leinders and Freeman but surely he can’t get away with it again? And surly, if Team sky are going to continue with their current level of corporate...

Re: Sky I was relatively impressed by the bbc programme last night, it’s got the hypocracy and the issues out into mainstream, even if it didn’t nail them. It’s revealing how Brailsford is still there, but looked less confident when defending Wiggins TUE. His attempt to leave Freeman to...

I see John Hardie has been suspended by Edinburgh and Scotland, without any explanation given: that often means the worst, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Podium 1 Quintana, 2 Porte, 3 Valverde Cavendish =0 Green & most stages. Sagan No sure about the others

Pinot at 14/1 to win giro today! I've only bet once in my life, on a horse racing against Shergar, but I'm really tempted by these odds.

I stand corrected: toughness and talent, but I suspect DB and other DSs think a bit like me. As regards the tour or Vuelta, I think Froomes main focus this year is the Vuelta.....sky's is the Tour, so we will see who will win

I really Landa, and hesitate about posting this, but...... I just wonder if he's not going to waste his talent unless he toughens up? On Blockhaus he lost ca 26 minutes, ok it was a crash But he lost ca 21 minutes to Thomas, who had to have his dislocated shoulder put back in. Then he had to be...

What on earth was he thinking about, riding on the front for th last 2 kms? Basic error, unless you are promised the stage?

Re: Thanks, I must have been reading different forums! I've looked at it again, and see that sw riders 1&2 both swerve to the right, but 3&4 go left, if anything. Not great teamwork indeed. Was that not what undid Tom in the Vuelta in 15?

Re: Re: Hmmm.....In my book, there were two people who could have avoided that crash, the motor driver and Domoulin himself. He was at the front of the Sunweb chain moving up. He's able to avoid the moto, but apparently not able to shout or indicate a warning to his teammate behind. OK, I know...

Interesting article by Richard Moore in today's Scotsman. Doesn't mention cycling among the sports, and seems to favour the "freak" theory rather than the "drug" theory, but at least he puts the possibility out there...

Re: Just watched the film Nocturnal Creatures, I swear the baddie was played by Peter Sagan, though the critics indicate he is using a stage name (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) :surprised: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ae/b9/53/aeb95313d740f9f3da11df8104e20ccd.jpg

I'm sure he's tempted, but him and Brailsford are joined....if one goes down, so does the other. Both are going to wait for the outcome of the UKAD investigation before saying anything else. Funny thing is, both must know what's in THAT package, so they are either stringing us along waiting to...