Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[Mr.White]

Funny old game Cycling. If Contador raced like the others, watching on wheels he'd of possibly finished ahead of Thomas. The Climb was also pretty damn soft. Then you have to factor in when Contador does that to you day after day on harder climbs. This race has been Piano all week, and on a climb lime that Im not suprised at a non dominant result. Thomas wasn't impressive, he just marks.

Of course he wasn't. Alberto is going to drop him tomorrow, but I'm afraid not permanently..

 

[bajbar]

Funny old game Cycling. If Contador raced like the others, watching on wheels he'd of possibly finished ahead of Thomas. The Climb was also pretty damn soft. Then you have to factor in when Contador does that to you day after day on harder climbs. This race has been Piano all week, and on a climb lime that Im not suprised at a non dominant result. Thomas wasn't impressive, he just marks.

Of course he wasn't. Alberto is going to drop him tomorrow, but I'm afraid not permanently..

The only steep climb that could make a difference was cancelled. How convenient...

But the interesting thing will be seing (If we will be able to see it, since the race isn't the best broadcasted one in the world) Contador vs Froome vs Quintana in Catalunya, with some proper mountains, even though Catalunya seems to be one of the closest races in the last couple of years with no TTs and ussually very small diferences on MTFs.

 

[LaFlorecita]

I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

 

[Jakub]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

And that's why I love to read your posts

 

[Miburo]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Yes, very nice stage

 

[PremierAndrew]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

inb4 ewp

 

[arvc40]

Saw Contadors gears slip twice on last climb.

 

[May0maniac]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

inb4 ewp

Lol, I thought the same when I saw the route, that's a MTF at almost 2000m above sea level at the end of March, that's a big gamble.

 

[cantpedal]

Funny old game Cycling. If Contador raced like the others, watching on wheels he'd of possibly finished ahead of Thomas. The Climb was also pretty damn soft. Then you have to factor in when Contador does that to you day after day on harder climbs. This race has been Piano all week, and on a climb lime that Im not suprised at a non dominant result. Thomas wasn't impressive, he just marks.

Of course he wasn't. Alberto is going to drop him tomorrow, but I'm afraid not permanently..

not being able to drop 2 Sky Domestiques one of whom's wheel he rode for quite some time doesn't look good.

 

[Poursuivant]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

inb4 ewp

Lol

 

[peloton]

I know the climb was a 'soft' one, but still surprised he couldn't drop others, esp. because the form he is in.
Oh well, maybe age is catching him up more than I thought

 

[HelloDolly]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

If Contador can't beat Thomas in 2 stages races now....how the hell is he going to beat Froome or Quintana (or Landa even)

 

[snccdcno]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

If Contador can't beat Thomas in 2 stages races now....how the hell is he going to beat Froome or Quintana (or Landa even)

This is so dense.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Contador needs leg breaker mountains to beat Thomas.

 

[arvc40]

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I think Alberto will win Catalunya and Pais Vasco. And the Tour, of course.

If Contador can't beat Thomas in 2 stages races now....how the hell is he going to beat Froome or Quintana (or Landa even)

He will beat them all the same way he has for the last 2 years.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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This is so dense.

I know, brother. People ignoring the fact Berto dropped each and everyone on the steep part with 6km to go if the climb had been as steep all the way he would have taken minutes

 

[LaFlorecita]

not being able to drop 2 Sky Domestiques one of whom's wheel he rode for quite some time doesn't look good.

I know the climb was a 'soft' one, but still surprised he couldn't drop others, esp. because the form he is in.
Oh well, maybe age is catching him up more than I thought

But he did drop them. I'm wondering if we watched a different race.

 

[Matteo.]

I just saw the stage profile and is better than I thought to try to do something. Cote de Peille is a good climb to make tough race, isolating as much as possible Thomas. The best thing would be to leave him only with Henao. Then arriving at the foot of Col d'Eze and lauch a big attack on the second km without looking back and we'll see how it ends-

 

[Kwibus]

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Great stuff from Contador, it was going to be difficult to find all that time on a climb like that, if the stage the other day hadn't been cancelled he'd have won the overall, that's saying nothing of the mechanical today. Dropping Porte and Dumoulin on a climb like that is encouraging

People need to stop overestimating Dumoulin after last years Vuelta.

He did get dropped on every long MTF.

Yes but it was a Dumoulin type climb, big gear, power climb

Yeh well he usually did better on the steeper climbs so far.

 

[LaFlorecita]

I just saw the stage profile and is better than I thought to try to do something. Cote de Peille is a good climb to make tough race, isolating as much as possible Thomas. The best thing would be to leave him only with Henao. Then arriving at the foot of Col d'Eze and lauch a big attack on the second km without looking back and we'll see how it ends-

It is definitely a good stage to make it difficult for Thomas. I think his team will be able to deal with any attacks quite easily though. But I will just watch and see what happens and let myself be surprised. He will try for sure.

 

[ad9898]

This photo!

Apart from being a great photo, it gives me heart that a lot of the top riders now are clean, no talking into radios while breaking ascent records like the 2000's.....everyone is grimacing like it should be

 

[Matteo.]

I just saw the stage profile and is better than I thought to try to do something. Cote de Peille is a good climb to make tough race, isolating as much as possible Thomas. The best thing would be to leave him only with Henao. Then arriving at the foot of Col d'Eze and lauch a big attack on the second km without looking back and we'll see how it ends-

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It is definitely a good stage to make it difficult for Thomas. I think his team will be able to deal with any attacks quite easily though. But I will just watch and see what happens and let myself be surprised. He will try for sure.

if the strategy depends on me, I would use already Trofimov-Majka on Peille trying to keep the Polish to the entrance of Col d'Eze, then all depends on Alberto .

 

[Le Blaireau_13]

I would say: make the stage as hard as possible BEFORE Cote de Peille, then use that climb to isolate Thomas and, possibly, take the bonus seconds at the intermediate sprint after it. Then, it's all out on Col d'Eze (or the descent of it).

Let's hope for an Col de Galibier, Tour de France 2011-scenario... (taking the win included, of course).

 

[LaFlorecita]

Apart from being a great photo, it gives me heart that a lot of the top riders now are clean, no talking into radios while breaking ascent records like the 2000's.....everyone is grimacing like it should be

Even Titchy Richie isn't smirking - it's a proper grimace!