2013 Volta ao Algarve (14th-17th February), 2.1

[theyoungest]

Before quickly posting -

OPQS Cycling Team ‏@opqscyclingteam
Yes, it was Cavendish who won! #VoltaAlgarve

Huh? who did they check it with? The Cavendish fanclub?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

edit: now Bos again?

 

[GazelleFormula]

OPQS Cycling Team ‏@opqscyclingteam
Initial reports were Mark Cavendish. Race ticker than said Theo Bos. it is now reported that Bos actually won the stage. #VoltaAlgarve

 

[mcassidy3]

Bos wins, Cavendish nowhere

 

[karaev]

Blanco also says Theo won too..,

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Looks like Bos is ready to be engaged in MSR?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Haha who won

 

[theyoungest]

Looks like Bos is ready to be engaged in MSR?

He'll get dropped when the Butcher attacks on the Poggio

 

[Leonardus]

How close was that finish? Or did they all just assume it was in the bag for Cav?
Anyway good start for Blanco, hopefully a new sponsor will be presented soon. The riders are doing their part.

 

[djlovesyou]

How close was that finish? Or did they all just assume it was in the bag for Cav?
Anyway good start for Blanco, hopefully a new sponsor will be presented soon. The riders are doing their part.

It seems like Cav wasn't even in the top 10, so I reckon it could have been people making mischief, Twitter style.

Show's how easy it is to give false information and have everyone believe you when there isn't any TV coverage.

I made a comment about Sagan attacking on Green Mountain whilst carrying Nibali on his shoulders yesterday, and had three people ask me how I knew this information.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

OPQS twitter seems to be sure tho.

In any case it was close between Bos and Cavendish, that is for certain.

no it's not

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

9 122 AVILA Edwin COL m.t.

this is good. he's never been in europe before

 

[Dazed and Confused]

He'll get dropped when the Butcher attacks on the Poggio

lol, Butcher first, then comes Boom with Bos just behing. Perfect trio.

 

[HiCadence]

It seems like Cav wasn't even in the top 10, so I reckon it could have been people making mischief, Twitter style.

Show's how easy it is to give false information and have everyone believe you when there isn't any TV coverage.

I made a comment about Sagan attacking on Green Mountain whilst carrying Nibali on his shoulders yesterday, and had three people ask me how I knew this information.

You mean this isn't true??

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

only idiots without a life have twitter, so yes it
s full of bull**** when people without a life are converseing with each other over stuff

 

[Der Effe]

only idiots without a life have twitter, so yes it
s full of bull**** when people without a life are converseing with each other over stuff

It's kinda funny because people could say the same thing about people on message boards

 

[theyoungest]

How close was that finish? Or did they all just assume it was in the bag for Cav?
Anyway good start for Blanco, hopefully a new sponsor will be presented soon. The riders are doing their part.

HTC has shown that wins don't really matter.

 

[forkboy84]

It's kinda funny because people could say the same thing about people on message boards

At least Twitter keeps stupidity/trolling limited to 140 characters. Here people can talk nonsense for hundreds of words. If not thousands.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

HTC has shown that wins don't really matter.

The team was a bastar.. without a home. And then Cav left. Game over. Blanco is sellable, but perhaps the Dutch needs to be realistic about the number of teams at the WT level.

 

[djlovesyou]

only idiots without a life have twitter, so yes it
s full of bull**** when people without a life are converseing with each other over stuff

It takes an interesting sort of character to make that comment on a messageboard on which you have made the best part of 11000 posts.

 

[HiCadence]

The team was a bastar.. without a home. And then Cav left. Game over. Blanco is sellable, but perhaps the Dutch needs to be realistic about the number of teams at the WT level.

The team folded due to sponsorship reasons Cav didn't leave until the HTC team folded lol.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

It's kinda funny because people could say the same thing about people on message boards

yes 100%, except I think twitter is at least 2 steps worse, with people having 6 followers and sharing things that nobody cares. a message board at least is a topic of similar interested like this with cycling.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The team folded due to sponsorship reasons Cav didn't leave until the HTC folded lol.

Take a rest from the biking, take a deep breath and read my comment again.

 

[Der Effe]

yes 100%, except I think twitter is at least 2 steps worse, with people having 6 followers and sharing things that nobody cares. a message board at least is a topic of similar interested like this with cycling.

Oh, I definitely agree. But it did just strike me as funny. Twitter is nice when you actually have something interesting to say but most people talking about how they just took a c*ap or tied their shoelaces is just an insult to any form of life.

 

[HiCadence]

The team was a bastar.. without a home. And then Cav left. Game over. Blanco is sellable, but perhaps the Dutch needs to be realistic about the number of teams at the WT level.

Your implying that it was game over for HTC when Cav left? That's what i see here but that isn't true it was game over for HTC when the sponsors pulled the plug Cav only left after the team announced it was folding

Unless i got the wrong end of the stick here then i apologise.