Wrong Yates for long range attacks.klintE said:Yates, poor performance. Stiil, I think he will try to attack tomorrow from 20-15k.
Cruyffswijk as expected, and thats a good sign.
Nothing is over even though the course which lef them to overcome is run of the mill. At most.
That will be really interesting to watch. Does Mas get some kind of a free role or does he have to protect Alaphilippe?Midnightfright said:Tomorrow will tell, he should lose a good chunk of time but it's hard to tell. I wonder how long Mas would work for him considering he is in the podium mixKeram said:And most surprising since? :lol: Anyway I think he will crack this weekend.Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
Not one high mountain stage yet, far too early to say thisCinemaniak said:Bernal is not going to podium in Paris. I don't see him beating the likes of Kruijswijk, Buchmann, Pinot and Mas.
Thought everyone outside France hated Voecklerbob.a.feet said:When you consider he is loved by all of France and most non-French it would be most popular since at least Pantani. Basically imagine if Voeckler had won in 2011Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
Can you stop spreading your hate? Nobody's replying to your conspiracy theories. We got it, Ala is not clean. Go to the Clinic for everyone's sake..Cinemaniak said:I see another 'Rasmussen'-story developing this Tour. The guy who also wasn't considered to be in the race for yellow
Tommy V. was the undisputed champion of pulling faces . . . untouchable.Samamba said:Wait there were people who actually liked Voeckler?
Personally I was a fan and was enjoying 2011Red Rick said:Thought everyone outside France hated Voecklerbob.a.feet said:When you consider he is loved by all of France and most non-French it would be most popular since at least Pantani. Basically imagine if Voeckler had won in 2011Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
Well they only really got to know him after 2011. If he'd won it in 2011, it would've been a real feelgood story.Red Rick said:Thought everyone outside France hated Voecklerbob.a.feet said:When you consider he is loved by all of France and most non-French it would be most popular since at least Pantani. Basically imagine if Voeckler had won in 2011Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
Evans wasn't even popular outside of Australia. I think even some Aussies find him a bit prickly.markene2 said:I dont feel so, not to my knowledge at least.luckyboy said:Evans was popular outside of Anglo nations?
He got popular towards the end of his career, when he started being more open and friendly towards fans and press.Leinster said:Well they only really got to know him after 2011. If he'd won it in 2011, it would've been a real feelgood story.Red Rick said:Thought everyone outside France hated Voecklerbob.a.feet said:When you consider he is loved by all of France and most non-French it would be most popular since at least Pantani. Basically imagine if Voeckler had won in 2011Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
Evans wasn't even popular outside of Australia. I think even some Aussies find him a bit prickly.markene2 said:I dont feel so, not to my knowledge at least.luckyboy said:Evans was popular outside of Anglo nations?
Same herebob.a.feet said:Personally I was a fan and was enjoying 2011Red Rick said:Thought everyone outside France hated Voecklerbob.a.feet said:When you consider he is loved by all of France and most non-French it would be most popular since at least Pantani. Basically imagine if Voeckler had won in 2011Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
Earlier in the stage it was Asgreen he was complaining about..... something about him not seeming tired enoughKrokro said:Can you stop spreading your hate? Nobody's replying to your conspiracy theories. We got it, Ala is not clean. Go to the Clinic for everyone's sake..Cinemaniak said:I see another 'Rasmussen'-story developing this Tour. The guy who also wasn't considered to be in the race for yellow
20k i'ts not so long range IMOMayomaniac said:Wrong Yates for long range attacks.klintE said:Yates, poor performance. Stiil, I think he will try to attack tomorrow from 20-15k.
Cruyffswijk as expected, and thats a good sign.
Nothing is over even though the course which lef them to overcome is run of the mill. At most.![]()
Did you see Thomas competing in the mountains before he competed in the mountains?Dekker_Tifosi said:Staggering ride by Alaphilippe. To beat Thomas in a TT of this length? Not to mention all the big GC guns? Amazing
Yet sorry, I still give him 0% chance to win the Tour. I just don't see him competing in high or multi mountain stages..
His ride to hold onto the yellow jersey on the Galibier climb that year may have been his finest.bob.a.feet said:Personally I was a fan and was enjoying 2011Red Rick said:Thought everyone outside France hated Voecklerbob.a.feet said:When you consider he is loved by all of France and most non-French it would be most popular since at least Pantani. Basically imagine if Voeckler had won in 2011Lequack said:He would be the most popular winner in the last decade or more, not since Cadel Evans.or Contador.
2015 PDB.Andy262 said:Did you see Thomas competing in the mountains before he competed in the mountains?Dekker_Tifosi said:Staggering ride by Alaphilippe. To beat Thomas in a TT of this length? Not to mention all the big GC guns? Amazing
Yet sorry, I still give him 0% chance to win the Tour. I just don't see him competing in high or multi mountain stages..
The guy who touched his injured shoulder deserved to get knocked out though.ClassicomanoLuigi said:Cadel Evans was the most hostile to the media of any major cyclist, and is still legendary for some of his confrontations. 'A bit prickly' is kind of an understatement, 'a bit psychotic' was the impression he made, therefore the public came to believe the sameBroccolidwarf said:He got popular towards the end of his career, when he started being more open and friendly towards fans and press.Leinster said:Evans wasn't ever popular outside of Australia. I think even some Aussies find him a bit prickly.
So with Evans it kinda depends when in his career you judge his popularity.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/cadel-evans-greatest-youtube-hits-156232
Some of Evans' 'greatest hits' are at that link, and those are just the incidents which were caught on video, there were a lot more verbal and physical confrontations in his early career. Evans was an emotionally disturbed child because he got brain damage by being kicked in the head by a horse. Then he was bullied by kids in school because of the deformation of his depressed-fracture on his skull after the brain surgery.
The way he became more popular was like: "Everybody loves a winner" when he started to get top wins, "underdog narrative", and being one of the few clean-ish cyclists in the midst of a dozen or more top TdF riders who were involved in doping. In fact in retrospect, Evans is the only one of the 2005 TdF top-10 finishers not to have tested positive, or be clearly implicated in doping. Or, in 2008 there was Sastre and Kirchen and nobody else, 'clean'. Evans did kind of get away with his association with Dr. Ferrari though. And especially, Evans got more popular by learning to control his public behavioral problems and be 'nicer' to people