82nd Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta Santander (August 4-15)

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Figueiredo goes off the front just to take KOM points and now back to wheelsucker mode

Quite amazing they manage to wheelsuck Porto all day in the break and now also in this move
Last year he attacked with over 40km to go on the SdG stage and even dropped Amaro on the really steep part of that climb, only for him to come back and wheelsuck him before dropping him. I haven't seen a proper attack by Figueiredo since then, so it's not just Efapel, it's also his fault.
 
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Antunes is extending the gap on the climb. For how long will he continue like this with Figueiredo not taking a pull?
 
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Ok, I didn't get it...
The "." thread is what now remains of a thread tobydawq opened up in error because they failed to notice a thread had already been made for a race despite their own already posting in it. The thread then became "the Chamber of Lies" where a completely new racing universe was created by posters where things that could have happened but didn't actually did (like Fernando Alonso setting up his team and so on). Because Marque signed for Movistar but never actually raced for them because they screwed him over his TUE positive in order to free the funds needed to sign Igor Antón (that was the year Euskaltel folded), I figured that you were joking on that basis by saying that he used to ride for them.
 
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Those last cobbles really created some gaps! Much better finale for that than the old Guarda one like when Cândido won in '09, even taking out the earlier ascents.
 
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The "." thread is what now remains of a thread tobydawq opened up in error because they failed to notice a thread had already been made for a race despite their own already posting in it. The thread then became "the Chamber of Lies" where a completely new racing universe was created by posters where things that could have happened but didn't actually did (like Fernando Alonso setting up his team and so on). Because Marque signed for Movistar but never actually raced for them because they screwed him over his TUE positive in order to free the funds needed to sign Igor Antón (that was the year Euskaltel folded), I figured that you were joking on that basis by saying that he used to ride for them.

I had forgotten that part. In my mind he had raced a year for Movistar. My bad.
 
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At least Figueiredo now mainly has to worry about Amaro when it comes the W52 riders, who is probably the worst TTer on that team.
 
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Even then, he's worse than Amaro in the TT. Last year he lost 40 seconds.
Yeah, last year he did a better prologue, but then he got beaten in the final TT. I was hoping that Efapel would help him to improve his TT skills, they have Cervelo bikes and turned Brandao into a strong TTer, but looking at the prologue I doubt it...