Mauricio Moreira got two 20 second penalties today for illegal feedings.
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Ah ah i never tought that so many people outside of Portugal see our stratospheric volta a Portugal.Why does Portugese commentary sound like a Spanish guy imitating a Russian.
Pronunciation between Brazilian and Portuguese Portuguese differs massively, though. The huge amounts of palatalized finals in Portuguese Portuguese probably explains the comparison.Don't tell that to my cousin's Brazilian wife...
Carlton Kirby called Abner the Peruvian national champion earlier in the year.Portuguese commentators can't tell the difference between Puerto Rico and Costa Rica
Efapel are the gold standard of Volta tactics. They've managed to lose GCs when they had five potential leaders and were as strong as, like, 2009 Liberty Seguros.Efapel are clueless, use Carvalho as a domestique since the other 2 are clearly stronger.
Put me and my cousin as a translator in the teamcar and they'll do better...
That said, W52 is also messing up atm.
A shame really, I liked Moreira, and his dad is basically the entire essence of the sport in Uruguay. Those illegal feeds are at least an explanation to some extent, but this is definitely Volta-tastic.76kg Moreira riding down attacks by Rodrigues and Antunes would be pretty wild in any other race. At the Volta it's just another day at work.
Well, now Moreira has been punished by the illegal feeds, we now have Marque and GCV 1-2 on the GC, two 40-year-old Spanish exiles, so this is the most Volta thing there could be. The rouleur turned climber should have been Oyarzún and João Benta needed a better day for peak Volta though. Abner González has no place in this GC, being a young and promising rider.Candido Barbosa is an almost mythical creature, so it's hard to compare a normal human being to him.
Marque now leads the gc, 51sec ahead of Moreira. Efapel and W52 should be able to drop him on the less tactical ascents, but his teammate Veloso sits 4th on the gc, only 18 sec behind Moreira and is also a good TTer. He can be used to cover attacks, if W52 and Efapel manage to play the numbers games.
It would be the most Volta thing ever if Marque and Veloso were the ones to end theW52/Porto streak.
The poster to whom you responded mentioning Cândido at Torre has clearly forgotten his most ridiculous Torre performance, 2007 when he was third. That was pretty extraterrestrial especially given the stronger field back then, this 80kg sprinter outclimbing Pozzovivo, Pecharromán, Azevedo, Sevilla, Blanco, Ribeiro and Dan Martin...
Yeah, I know a Girl who's half East German, half Angolan and she has a really hard time understanding Brazilian Portugese, but Pirtugese Portugese is fine.Pronunciation between Brazilian and Portuguese Portuguese differs massively, though. The huge amounts of palatalized finals in Portuguese Portuguese probably explains the comparison.
Efapel? Tactics? What is this of which you speak?I really don't understand Efapel tactics. Why doesn't Frederico collaborate to distance Marque, who is a really good time trialist?
They have been idiots for years now, at least they haven’t chased themselves down….yetI really don't understand Efapel tactics. Why doesn't Frederico collaborate to distance Marque, who is a really good time trialist?
Efapel? Tactics? What is this of which you speak?
Haven’t really noticed much difference…I think it has become worse since the son of Carlos Pereira took over the management of the team.