Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[ferryman]

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He says "and then people talk about doping. TRAINING AND SUFFERING"

Cheers LF..

 

[Arredondo]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/es/contador-con-alguna-duda-en-la-volta-por-un-resfriado-19-03-2016

When top riders are starting to make excuses, they are going to go full ***!

 

[Carols]

After finishing second at Paris-Nice where he starred in a thrilling race finale, Contador hopes to "head to the race well, because it was very cold in France, and one of the stages had to be cancelled due to snowfall. A lot of us that were there got a cold. I was one of them and for that reason, this week I focused myself, above all, on trying to recover in order to be able to take the start at the Volta a Catalunya."

Tinkoff's leader states that the cold "causes me to doubt a bit, but I hope to have totally recovered at the start, even if it might cost me a bit more in the first days. However, I have a good foundation and I trust my body will respond well."

Hopefully!!!!

 

[Carols]

Finally, regarding the squad that will flank him in Catalonia, Alberto highlights "the trust I have in them. It's a good group and the only regret is that one of the teammates that was due to race, Sergio Paulinho, cannot do it because of an injury, while we have another one with a cold like me, but I hope he recovers and finds himself in form at the start."

Anyone know what Paulinhos injury is and who else has a cold?

 

[Ricco']

Paulinho have a tendinitis, suffered on the stage to Mont Brouilly.

He said that today during San Remo coverage on Portuguese Eurosport.

 

[Carols]

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Paulinho have a tendinitis, suffered on the stage to Mont Brouilly.

He said that today during San Remo coverage on Portuguese Eurosport.

Thanks!

 

[Jelantik]

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I dont know why you guys are overreacting to his post, i think that he just wanted to say that the race took its toll on him and that he's quite tired. I dont think he's sick, and if he was i think that he would have got it from the first stages and wouldnt have performed as he did Sunday.

From the way he said it, he caught a cold. So we'll see. I guess the decision by Froome and Aru to skip PN was a good thing. Because the weather sucks and the decisive mountain got cancelled anyway.

 

[Matteo.]

So....if he fail in Catalunya , we already have the excuse : the cold.
i'm sorry Alberto but i cannot trust it

 

[rick james]

I doubt he has a cold, he does love a wee fib or 2...I expect him to kill it

 

[LaFlorecita]

Kiserlovski and Paulinho have been replaced by Tosatto and Petrov in the final lineup, so I guess it is Kiserlovski who had/has a cold

 

[Jelantik]

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So....if he fail in Catalunya , we already have the excuse : the cold.
i'm sorry Alberto but i cannot trust it

not really. if he fails that means he's just not good enough. Funny things is, every time Froome lines up, I have this vibe that he is going to win it (even if he looks like in trouble). I used to have that vibe with Contador. But not anymore. He is now always a lottery to me.

 

[Matteo.]

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So....if he fail in Catalunya , we already have the excuse : the cold.
i'm sorry Alberto but i cannot trust it

not really. if he fails that means he's just not good enough[/b]. Funny things is, every time Froome lines up, I have this vibe that he is going to win it (even if he looks like in trouble). I used to have that vibe with Contador. But not anymore. He is now always a lottery to me.

I totally agree. If he will lose it's only 'cause " rider x" is better. It's quite simple.
Hope for the best

 

[HelloDolly]

So this guy thinks Contador will not win Catalunya or the Tour

https://soundcloud.com/cyclinghub-preview/volta-a-catalunya-preview-ft-david-hunter-2016

 

[Publicus]

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So this guy thinks Contador will not win Catalunya or the Tour

https://soundcloud.com/cyclinghub-preview/volta-a-catalunya-preview-ft-david-hunter-2016

Listened to his analysis. Reminded me of a quite a few of the commentators around this forum.

 

[dacooley]

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So this guy thinks Contador will not win Catalunya or the Tour

https://soundcloud.com/cyclinghub-preview/volta-a-catalunya-preview-ft-david-hunter-2016

Listened to his analysis. Reminded me of a quite a few of the commentators around this forum.

in terms of competence this guy is somewhere around bookies, i wager.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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So this guy thinks Contador will not win Catalunya or the Tour

https://soundcloud.com/cyclinghub-preview/volta-a-catalunya-preview-ft-david-hunter-2016

Well, this guy also claimed ahead of Algarve that
1 Contador has always been a terrible TTer
2 When he does the butt shuffle thing on the TT bike you know he's doing bad
3 He fixed the butt shuffle thing at the end of 2014 and so his TT results got better

None of those claims are true and it tells me this guy doesn't know a whole lot about cycling and is just talking out of his arse, oh, and by the way, he's a bot, soooo..

 

[LaFlorecita]

Are we ready for an exciting week? I have a good feeling about this

 

[Red Rick]

Well there's just so many bad analysis that's journo's do. Every argument gets recycled and in the end everyone (somewhat rightfully) gets accused of being biased. Truth is we don't know who should be the favourite. We don't know who wins if both Froome and Contador show up at 100%. We only have some indicators from the past years that are up for consideration and interpretation. That and there's a lot of legit *** like that one.



Now back to the spirit of this thread, The Great One will obviously win by 2 minutes on both MTF's

 

[Jakub]

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Are we ready for an exciting week? I have a good feeling about this

:-x

 

[dacooley]

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Well there's just so many bad analysis that's journo's do. Every argument gets recycled and in the end everyone (somewhat rightfully) gets accused of being biased. Truth is we don't know who should be the favourite. We don't know who wins if both Froome and Contador show up at 100%. We only have some indicators from the past years that are up for consideration and interpretation. That and there's a lot of legit poop like that one.
Now back to the spirit of this thread, The Great One will obviously win by 2 minutes on both MTF's

this wording itself has a dogmatic nature because the likelihood of each of them coming to the race at 100% converges to zero, not to mention about they'll never clash here when on peak just for the reason it's volta catalunya

 

[ferryman]

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So this guy thinks Contador will not win Catalunya or the Tour

https://soundcloud.com/cyclinghub-preview/volta-a-catalunya-preview-ft-david-hunter-2016

Well, this guy also claimed ahead of Algarve that
1 Contador has always been a terrible TTer
2 When he does the butt shuffle thing on the TT bike you know he's doing bad
3 He fixed the butt shuffle thing at the end of 2014 and so his TT results got better

None of those claims are true and it tells me this guy doesn't know a whole lot about cycling and is just talking out of his ****, oh, and by the way, he's a bot, soooo..

LF, Weegies just like the sound of their own voice without saying much but loudly...

 

[BlurryVII]

Here we go for Catalunya, I'd like to think and believe he'll just dominate Port Ainé and win the damn race but I feel like as usual some *** will happen. Stage cancelled or he won't have recovered from PN cold or whatever and he'll do meh. That's how it goes nowadays.

I reckon he HAS to win this and Pais vasco to show his form and that he's doing good so far this season. Even though he did amazing in PN under terrible circumstances, he still didn't win the *** race.

 

[ferryman]

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Here we go for Catalunya, I'd like to think and believe he'll just dominate Port Ainé and win the damn race but I feel like as usual some **** will happen. Stage cancelled or he won't have recovered from PN cold or whatever and he'll do meh. That's how it goes nowadays.

I reckon he HAS to win this and Pais vasco to show his form and that he's doing good so far this season. Even though he did amazing in PN under terrible circumstances, he still didn't win the **** race.

A wee bit of perspective required on this race. I don't think Contador/Tinkoff have to do anything but show up and be competitive with Sky. If they can get the upper hand, great, but if not, it's not the end given it's only still March!!

 

[BlurryVII]

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Here we go for Catalunya, I'd like to think and believe he'll just dominate Port Ainé and win the damn race but I feel like as usual some **** will happen. Stage cancelled or he won't have recovered from PN cold or whatever and he'll do meh. That's how it goes nowadays.

I reckon he HAS to win this and Pais vasco to show his form and that he's doing good so far this season. Even though he did amazing in PN under terrible circumstances, he still didn't win the **** race.

A wee bit of perspective required on this race. I don't think Contador/Tinkoff have to do anything but show up and be competitive with Sky. If they can get the upper hand, great, but if not, it's not the end given it's only still March!!

Losing to Sky again after Algarve and PN would be terrible imo. Now I know it's not relevant for the Tour but I just wanna see AC on the top step of the podium no matter what race. It's getting annoying to see Tinkoff and AC put in a show but losing at the end. Now I'd like to see AC just dominate everyone on Port Ainé, where he's supposed to do so and let the others do the attacking last stage on Montjuic.

 

[cellardoor]

I know what you're saying, but I think it depends a bit on how things pan out. Say Froome turns up in blistering form and Contador is able to follow one of his full-on attacks, but loses out on the overall by a second or so that he loses in a sprint or peloton split or something. To me that would be good enough. Similarly, if Contador goes on the attack and only Froome can follow, but Contador loses by a couple of silly seconds lost somewhere then again I'd be fairly happy with that.