Recent content by King of the Mountains

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    Which team was the biggest fail in stage 9?

    why is Valverde the leader for Movistar? Quintana and Costa are both better GC men at this point in their careers
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    Tour de France - Stage 8, 195km - Castres / Ax 3 Domaines, July 6th

    going for the break here........ how bout Pierrick Fedrigo, always seems to grab a stage in the Pyrenees
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    Top 10 Tour de France

    people keep saying this yet the results this year compared to when he did well at the tour are vastly different 2009 - won LBL, 2nd Fleche Wallone, 10th Amstel Gold 2010 - 6th LBL, 9th Fleche Wallone 2011 - won mountains class at Tour de Suisse, 3rd LBL, 8th Tour of Cali doesnt seem...
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    Top 10 Tour de France

    for the life of me i cannot figure out how people have andy schleck getting a top 10 was it that wonderful 25th place at the Tour of California? the fact that he managed to get over a cat 3 climb with the peloton at the Tour de Suisse? wtf?
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    Team Time trials in Grand Tours

    TTT's are absolutely unfair to GC contenders on the smaller budget teams guys like Jean Christophe Peraud and Pierre Rolland are already a minute back because their teams cant afford to get the best time trialists
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    TV coverage in the US

    so happy that BeIn Sports has decided to cover cycling Universal Sports, while it has pretty good coverage as far as number of races, the picture quality is just awful and standard definition NBC Sports, other than the Tour, covers the worst races possible it seems and not very many at...
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    Mispronounced names

    i love Phil's pronunciation of Oscar Freire
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    2012 Tour de France: Stage 8: Belfort → Porrentruy (157.5km)

    Gallopin is in a pretty good spot, the chase group is large enough that he can sit at the back and conserve energy and then go all out over the final climb not to mention they are still gaining time over the peloton