Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[SeriousSam]

If he takes it easy the rest of the Giro, this might turn out to be the energy-conserving, and thus optimal, move. Today he's earned a conditional Chapeau from me

 

[Squirbos_19]

Wow, what a ride, well done. I'm curious to hear what he has to say about the stage.

 

[sultanofhyd]

 

[phanatic]

He's not saying anything that isn't obvious to any fan of the sport. If anything he is not showing enough respect. Contador is THE best stage racer of his generation. Who is even in the same solar system?

Only Nibali.

 

[Alcanelo]

He's not saying anything that isn't obvious to any fan of the sport. If anything he is not showing enough respect. Contador is THE best stage racer of his generation. Who is even in the same solar system?

Only Nibali.

Nibali isn't even close...not fit to lace his shoes tbh

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

GOAT post

 

[BlurryVII]

He's not saying anything that isn't obvious to any fan of the sport. If anything he is not showing enough respect. Contador is THE best stage racer of his generation. Who is even in the same solar system?

Only Nibali.

LOL

 

[BlurryVII]

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

 

[Ryaguas]

He's not saying anything that isn't obvious to any fan of the sport. If anything he is not showing enough respect. Contador is THE best stage racer of his generation. Who is even in the same solar system?

Only Nibali.

woah!! hold on buddy

 

[indianfanboy]

Contador is softening up Team Astana for the Tour

 

[Arredondo]

Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

 

[BlurryVII]

Re: Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

And so what? He couldn't go again when he reached that group, Contador certainly would've attacked again and kept up. Landa just couldn't go anymore and stayed with that group.

 

[deValtos]

Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Don't want to burst your bubble but Landa could've easily pushed on if Astana were not concerned with getting Aru also on the podium. How much he could've closed down on Contador is a mystery but he was hardly on his limit in that second group.

Hopefully we'll find out over the next two days who is the strongest climber.

 

[Flamin]

Meh, why didn't Contador just admit in the interview it was revenge on Astana? at least Landa spoke out the other day

 

[HiroAntagonist]

Re: Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

Pacing behind team cars the vast majority of the way...

 

[The Hitch]

2 weeks ago it looked like he was a hair away from pulling out.

Just a shame that stupid crash 6 days ago stopped 17-0.

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

And so what? He couldn't go again when he reached that group, Contador certainly would've attacked again and kept up. Landa just couldn't go anymore and stayed with that group.

You don't know. I also don't think Contador could have closed a gap of 1.50 on Landa on that climb. At the end, he rode the climb some 40 seconds faster.

 

[BlurryVII]

Re: Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

And so what? He couldn't go again when he reached that group, Contador certainly would've attacked again and kept up. Landa just couldn't go anymore and stayed with that group.

You don't know. I also don't think Contador could have closed a gap of 1.50 on Landa on that climb. At the end, he rode the climb some 40 seconds faster.

Because Contador had no interest going full gas on that first half, he was just pacing when Landa had no choice. Plus he had the team Car pulling for him

 

[LaFlorecita]

Bongiorno, Nocentini, Gilbert, Amador, Chavanel in Processo alla tappa.
"Big champion", "best rider in the race' etc

 

[Jelantik]

Oh my. Today is "POETRY IN MOTION"... and a rerun of KARMA IS A *** . What a great ride by the team, turning the screw to Astana. And AC just danced his way all the way up with the music of "PAY BACK TIME". I guess it settled now, who is the strongest climber in the race. Landa has his moment. But AC is the boss and he is the strongest rider in the race!! What a thrilling race so far!!

it's settled also that TS and Astana dislikes one another. Tomorrow is going to be another full on war...

 

[BlurryVII]

Re: Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

And so what? He couldn't go again when he reached that group, Contador certainly would've attacked again and kept up. Landa just couldn't go anymore and stayed with that group.

You don't know. I also don't think Contador could have closed a gap of 1.50 on Landa on that climb. At the end, he rode the climb some 40 seconds faster.

If you don't think Contador would've attacked when he bridged to that group, then you're deluded. After all these years, you still don't know him that well

 

[The Hitch]

Re:

Bongiorno, Nocentini, Gilbert, Amador, Chavanel in Processo alla tappa.
"Big champion", "best rider in the race' etc

Who? Gilbert?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Teeeeeheeeee Chris Juul Jensen said that they were already riding on the front, but when they heard Landa was behind they pushed even harder Karma is a biatch

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Bongiorno, Nocentini, Gilbert, Amador, Chavanel in Processo alla tappa.
"Big champion", "best rider in the race' etc

Who? Gilbert?

Is Alberto Contador Discussion Thread mkay

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

What an amazing ride again, and revenge over Astana. He is humiliating them, literally and making them taste a bit of their own medecine.

Landa tried to come back full gas, but he is no Contador, bridged to the Aru group and started recovering on that spinning gear lmao. Couldn't go again.

Contador had to close a gap of 50 seconds. Landa of 1.50.

Always stay to the facts.

And so what? He couldn't go again when he reached that group, Contador certainly would've attacked again and kept up. Landa just couldn't go anymore and stayed with that group.

You don't know. I also don't think Contador could have closed a gap of 1.50 on Landa on that climb. At the end, he rode the climb some 40 seconds faster.

If you don't think Contador would've attacked when he bridged to that group, then you're deluded. After all these years, you still don't know him that well

Every day is different. He would have attacked, but no way would have joined Landa. They are on par this Giro, you have to admit that.

But before you are going to scream, Contador is not at his top form yet. Landa is. That's why they are on par in the mountains. But they are on par.