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Kangert extends with Astana for 2 more years - http://www.astanaproteam.kz/modules.php?name=astana&page=news&id=148

Re: Re: I'd be very surprised if Kangert is dropped from Astana Tour team. His consistency as dom in GTs has been remarkable and all I've heard he is highly regarded in Astana. To have a guy like him prepare for the Giro Tour double as season goals again this year and then just cut him..I just...

Re: Re: 2015 Contador and 2016 Nibali ended their Giro in very different fashion though. Contador was finally broken by Astana in the last stage in 2015 after that super hard Giro that everyone talked about how brutal that racing was. While Nibali struggled through-out his lead-up and first...

Don't see it mentioned here so dunno if it was news, but apparently Astana has 2 separate altitude training camps for Tour this year. Aru&co in one, Nibali, Fuglsang and Kangert in the other. Considering the latter 3 guys just finished the Giro and might be looking for very different preparation...

Last several years I've used http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/ as my go-to source for catching up on what news is going on. I can understand why they be disliked by other sites though, since they are largely a compilation of news from many other sites re-posting stuff they wrote first. But that...

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Re: Re: Yeah, Kangert will do both Giro for and Tour again this year for Nibali and Aru. His schedule: Almeria Algarve Catalonia Trentino Liege Tirreno if needed Giro break Tour break Olympics

Re: Re: Astana is just super focused for GTs. High pressure all or nothing is GTs. If they do well sometimes anywhere else, it's just cause of all the crazy talent they got lucking out. I guess in Astana he be kept as dom for a GT or 2 per year, gets ordered to peak for this tour, spends...

Re: Re: Seems like he knows it as well: http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/08/news/taaramae-set-to-leave-astana-just-as-hes-hitting-his-stride_381534 Says he wants a team where he wouldn't be riding big tours as as leader, as he thinks he not talented enough to compete for top spots, but...

Re: Just before the decent. Although pretty sure he would have done it in decent/flat anyways, he was the strongest today.

Re: Libertine Seguros wrote a great post about it: viewtopic.php?p=753524#p753524 Taaramäe himself later claimed that his map had the last climb km as 4%, not ~20%, so he drove himself empty only to find a suprise extra km of 20% :P

So this went pretty much exactly like predicted here with Froome showing he is 'vulnerable' and human by pulling some faces and dropping some time near the end. Now all we'll get is the plebs saying what a great race and if only Quintana attacked earlier/didn't lose time first week/GT was a week...

Re: Actually he said he was checking back with Kangert. What in all fairness is exactly what he does, you can see him speaking with him both times when he looks back. Froome happens to be right behind Kangert which is probably how he noticed his problems(if you assume he did)...

Bring on the TTT :P 22 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:43 23 Lars Boom (Ned) Astana Pro Team 0:00:44 27 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Astana Pro Team 0:00:45 30 Rein Taaramae (Est) Astana Pro Team 0:00:45 45 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 0:00:57 58 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro...

Re: Re: They prepped and promised tour spot for 10 riders, but nobody got injured, so somebody had to get blindsided. I guess in the end they just looked at training data and cut the weakest link. First Agnoli, now Vanotti, I'm sure Nibali not too happy that his best friends don't make the...