Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[Pricey_sky]

If you want to discuss the Orica team for next years Tour you can do, but please do it in the recently bumped Orica thread and not in the Contador thread.

 

[Matteo.]

and so only the Tour. Again, Tour Tour Tour. I hope he knows well what he is doing(in the sense, actually he believes he can win again?) . I fear an anonymous race in France.
If Froome and Quintana strive only for Tour (avoiding Gito) will also be hard to podium

 

[webvan]

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De Jongh comes from Sky and knows their methods. Contador has his training data & race data. Comparing that with Froome's timing can easily tell if he is going to be competitive or not. He has won multiple times all GTs. So that cant be really a motivation. What he mostly likely wants to do is defeat Froome at his strongest at the TDF which he has never done and which would be good challenge and motivation. That he never had a good chance at that except 2014 would be frustrating for him and he probably wants a good go at Froome. Plus Froome is at 3 TDFs

Exactly, can't see anything else being a real motivation to keep going...well of course he and his family/entourage can always use the money but he wouldn't be doing it just for that.

 

[KyoGrey]

51 A. Contador
52 B. Mollema
53 J. Degenkolb
54 K. De Kort
55 F. Felline
56 M. Irizar
57 J. Pantano
58 J. Stuyven
59 D. Theuns

With Jesusito in the backseat and maybe ¿Zubeldia?

 

[LaFlorecita]

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51 A. Contador
52 B. Mollema
53 J. Degenkolb
54 K. De Kort
55 F. Felline
56 M. Irizar
57 J. Pantano
58 J. Stuyven
59 D. Theuns

With Jesusito in the backseat and maybe ¿Zubeldia?

Let's see if they'll sign some more riders. And perhaps one of the youngsters will turn out to be an incredible climber.

 

[Walter Morgan]

Contador
Mollema
Stetina
Felline
Pantano
Stuyven
De Koert
Degenkolb
Irizar/Rast/Brandle ???

This would be a good team to support Alberto? And Degenkolb.

 

[Miburo]

Time to win the tour next year and retire.

Only videos and dreams will be left of the man.

 

[DanielSong39]

Hoping for a Cadel Evans-like swansong. One more Tour victory; high showings at the Giro and/or the Vuelta and a well-deserved retirement.

Until he goes Vino, that is...

 

[jens_attacks]

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So did you guys hear Quintana talking to Froome and "subtly" criticizing Contador (while Froome nodded politely, probably not fully understanding what Quintana was saying)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LeLJcCYThE&feature=youtu.be&t=1525
(25:25)

You can't make out much of what Quintana says, but the words "He made his team attack and blow everything up and then he was left without teammates to defend himself" and "You can't blame anyone else for your mistakes, know what I mean?" are crystal clear.

the charisma of a peanut


bring back riccardo ricco

 

[jens_attacks]

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51 A. Contador
52 B. Mollema
53 J. Degenkolb
54 K. De Kort
55 F. Felline
56 M. Irizar
57 J. Pantano
58 J. Stuyven
59 D. Theuns

With Jesusito in the backseat and maybe ¿Zubeldia?

and bauke will do his own race...
if you go with this team to win the tour, you must be crazy sorry...

vamos por il giro

 

[Taxus4a]

If there is a TTT in le Tour, the team could be good with Irizar, Rast, Degenkolb, Brandle, Stetina ad Styuven, but not a superteam, The same for the mountains

But Contador got to get a good contract, the one of a possible Tour winner, so he must be happy,maybe was the only team who could or want to pay that big money

 

[Oliver]

Re: Re:

51 A. Contador
52 B. Mollema
53 J. Degenkolb
54 K. De Kort
55 F. Felline
56 M. Irizar
57 J. Pantano
58 J. Stuyven
59 D. Theuns

With Jesusito in the backseat and maybe ¿Zubeldia?

and bauke will do his own race...
if you go with this team to win the tour, you must be crazy sorry...

vamos por il giro

It will be nice if Bauke does the Giro instead.

 

[King Boonen]

Contador to dom for Mollema then...

 

[buchanan]

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So did you guys hear Quintana talking to Froome and "subtly" criticizing Contador (while Froome nodded politely, probably not fully understanding what Quintana was saying)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LeLJcCYThE&feature=youtu.be&t=1525
(25:25)

You can't make out much of what Quintana says, but the words "He made his team attack and blow everything up and then he was left without teammates to defend himself" and "You can't blame anyone else for your mistakes, know what I mean?" are crystal clear.

the charisma of a peanut


bring back riccardo ricco

Didn't Contador complain that Movistar didn't help chase down Chaves? I guess Quintana was responding to those comments by saying it was Contador/Tinkoff's own fault - rather than Movistar's problem.

 

[Wallenquist]

Contador will ride Lombardia and Abu Dhabi

 

[LaFlorecita]

Abu Dhabi hope he gets a big bag of money for it at least

 

[Alexandre B.]

Good news for Lombardia.

I hope he will go back to hillier one-day races. He always had the talent to do better here.

 

[Jspear]

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Contador will ride Lombardia and Abu Dhabi

Has he said if he's going to be competitive?....or try to be.

 

[Wallenquist]

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Contador will ride Lombardia and Abu Dhabi

Has he said if he's going to be competitive?....or try to be.

When was the last race where he wasn't competitive?

 

[boasson]

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Contador will ride Lombardia and Abu Dhabi

Has he said if he's going to be competitive?....or try to be.

When was the last race where he wasn't competitive?

Vuelta a Espana 2016

 

[webvan]

To his credit he took some nasty tumbles and a lesser rider would probably have gone home. Not sure what impact it had at the end when he got dropped but it certainly can't have helped.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Really? He wasn't competitive at the Vuelta?

 

[Singer01]

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Really? He wasn't competitive at the Vuelta?

Really he was? He was competitive for a normal cyclist, not for someone who has done the things he has done.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Really? He wasn't competitive at the Vuelta?

Really he was? He was competitive for a normal cyclist, not for someone who has done the things he has done.

I would consider his performance in San Sebastian this year to qualify as "not competitive", and possibly Algarve as well. In all other races, including the Vuelta he was right at the pointy end.

When someone asks "does anyone know if he's going to be competitive?" they probably want to know if he'll cruise to the finish or not, not necessarily if he is going to win.

 

[Mr.White]

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Contador will ride Lombardia and Abu Dhabi

Has he said if he's going to be competitive?....or try to be.

When was the last race where he wasn't competitive?

Vuelta a Espana 2016

Well he was enough competitive to directly affect the winner of the whole race