2015-Volta Ciclista a Catalunya(2WT) 23-29.03

[Pricey_sky]

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Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

The parcours was set up for Purito.

 

[ray j willings]

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Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

Valverde was the strongest rider without a doubt. END OF

Porte is pants and he smells of dead cats. IMO

 

[Hyman]

Again another Tour that Valverde doesn't win despite being the strongest

 

[Richeypen]

Re: Re:

Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

Valverde was the strongest rider without a doubt. END OF

Porte is pants and he smells of dead cats. IMO

I miss the ignore function :-(

 

[Netserk]

Just add him as foe.

 

[Mr.White]

Re: Re:

Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

Oh what a shame! Sprint is part of racing, you know... Yes, he was lucky, strong but lucky

 

[Carols]

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Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

Valverde was the strongest rider without a doubt. END OF

Porte is pants and he smells of dead cats. IMO

I miss the ignore function :-(

It works, it's just named Foes.

 

[Richeypen]

Awesome

 

[SeriousSam]

Porte was strong, did drop Contador on the Queen stage after all, but yeah, without the crash, Valverde takes it. Porte with 2 stage races under his belt, bah. No justice in this world.

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

Oh what a shame! Sprint is part of racing, you know... Yes, he was lucky, strong but lucky

Of course, but sometimes good to be the 2nd strongest and a little lucky. Another tick for Porte and this time against a much stronger field than PN.

 

[ray j willings]

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Porte was strong, did drop Contador on the Queen stage after all, but yeah, without the crash, Valverde takes it. Porte with 2 stage races under his belt, bah. No justice in this world.

Saying Porte dropped Bertie on that stage is complete Nonsense. Bertie attacked and dropped Porte.
Bertie run out of steam in the last 300 yrds and Porte went past. That is not Dropping Bertie.

 

[Red Rick]

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Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

If Contador waits on the MTF they sprint it out for what eventually would have been the GC, that's pretty obvious to me.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Porte was strong, did drop Contador on the Queen stage after all, but yeah, without the crash, Valverde takes it. Porte with 2 stage races under his belt, bah. No justice in this world.

Saying Porte dropped Bertie on that stage is complete Nonsense. Bertie attacked and dropped Porte.
Bertie run out of steam in the last 300 yrds and Porte went past. That is not Dropping Bertie.

Porte was lucky Kiryienka was up there. There was a headwind and Kiryienka dragged Porte up to Berto while Berto had to face the wind on his own.

 

[ray j willings]

Re: Re:

Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

Oh what a shame! Sprint is part of racing, you know... Yes, he was lucky, strong but lucky

Of course, but sometimes good to be the 2nd strongest and a little lucky. Another tick for Porte and this time against a much stronger field than PN.

I just disagree with your post because I hate Porte and sky.

 

[ray j willings]

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Porte was strong, did drop Contador on the Queen stage after all, but yeah, without the crash, Valverde takes it. Porte with 2 stage races under his belt, bah. No justice in this world.

Saying Porte dropped Bertie on that stage is complete Nonsense. Bertie attacked and dropped Porte.
Bertie run out of steam in the last 300 yrds and Porte went past. That is not Dropping Bertie.

Porte was lucky Kiryienka was up there. There was a headwind and Kiryienka dragged Porte up to Berto while Berto had to face the wind on his own.

More posts like this that agree with me

 

[Bushman]

How the hell did Coquard stay in the group but couldnt win the sprint? Also Chernetckii has found his sprinting legs this season.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

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How the hell did Coquard stay in the group but couldnt win the sprint? Also Chernetckii has found his sprinting legs this season.

Coquard crashed earlier on the stage and had to chase back. Probably took some energy out of the lad.

 

[TMP402]

What did Froome do before each stage got hard - domestique for Porte?

 

[infeXio]

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What did Froome do before each stage got hard - domestique for Porte?

Got dropped

 

[TMP402]

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What did Froome do before each stage got hard - domestique for Porte?

Got dropped

Yeah but before that. He wasn't dropped on the first corner every day, he was probably in the peloton for the first 100km.

 

[Pricey_sky]

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What did Froome do before each stage got hard - domestique for Porte?

Helped out in the crosswinds on Friday, also a couple of photos of him riding at the front protecting Porte yesterday.

 

[TMP402]

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What did Froome do before each stage got hard - domestique for Porte?

Helped out in the crosswinds on Friday, also a couple of photos of him riding at the front protecting Porte yesterday.

Thanks - good to hear he isn't so consumed with this "training ride" stuff he wouldn't just sit at the back stem-staring.

 

[Arredondo]

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Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

The parcours was set up for Purito.

A parcours set up for Purito is a parcours set up for Valverde too

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Lil' Richie's really lucky that Contador has no team and *** up tactically and that Valverde crashed. He didn't exactly win by being the best. PN was more impressive, but the competition there wasn't too great

Really lucky? He was still one of the strongest, just hasn't got the sprint that Valverde has. As we know you have to stay on your bike to be in contention, Valverde didn't. Plus you could easily argue the parcours was almost set up for Valverde anyway.

The parcours was set up for Purito.

A parcours set up for Purito is a parcours set up for Valverde too

yeah, I just meant the organizers probably didn't have Valverde in mind when designing the parcours but rather Purito