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Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

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TheYouyou7 said:
buchanan said:
He looked like he was pedaling squares up that hil, in all sorts of discomfort. But perhaps he really is just at the Dauphine to get quality racing mileage. But like others have said, Froome and Porte can also be expected to improve between now and the Tour.

He's also at a disadvantage on descents. Not as good a descender as Froome, Valverde, etc. He was gapped about 15 seconds to Valverde and Bardet on the finishing descent today.


Froome and Porte won't improve they always come at 99% in DL

He let go on the descent, he didnt want to take any chances
At dauphine, froome is close to be in top shape but he ISN'T in top shape.
 
May 20, 2015
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Valv.Piti said:
TheYouyou7 said:
Valv.Piti said:
TheYouyou7 said:
Vino attacks everyone said:
How does he put in the same tt time as Froome and then get demolished the day after? Seems weird to me?


I think that he thought that it was too hard to follow Froome and decided to follow AV, I'm not sure that he was at his limit in the climb. He reminds me of Dauphiné 09
Lol...


It's my opinion you foolish fanboy... Maybe you were in his body and have more information than i do...?
Haha, ok. He dropped despite he could follow Porte and Froome, makes sense bro.

If you bothered reading what he said you'd probably know that it does make sense.
 
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TheYouyou7 said:
buchanan said:
He looked like he was pedaling squares up that hil, in all sorts of discomfort. But perhaps he really is just at the Dauphine to get quality racing mileage. But like others have said, Froome and Porte can also be expected to improve between now and the Tour.

He's also at a disadvantage on descents. Not as good a descender as Froome, Valverde, etc. He was gapped about 15 seconds to Valverde and Bardet on the finishing descent today.


Froome and Porte won't improve they always come at 99% in DL

He let go on the descent, he didnt want to take any chances


Froome has weight to lose and he is nowhere near this 99%
 
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rick james said:
TheYouyou7 said:
buchanan said:
He looked like he was pedaling squares up that hil, in all sorts of discomfort. But perhaps he really is just at the Dauphine to get quality racing mileage. But like others have said, Froome and Porte can also be expected to improve between now and the Tour.

He's also at a disadvantage on descents. Not as good a descender as Froome, Valverde, etc. He was gapped about 15 seconds to Valverde and Bardet on the finishing descent today.


Froome and Porte won't improve they always come at 99% in DL

He let go on the descent, he didnt want to take any chances


Froome has weight to lose and he is nowhere near this 99%

You'll see when jens will publish his figures... He has the same performances in DL and in TDF.
 
Feb 21, 2017
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Obviously we'll just have to wait and see. He seemed a bit resigned today, but there a couple of stages left.
 
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Forever The Best said:
Lol at the Froome, Evans and Quintana fanboys coming over to the thread, saying 'delusional', posting some images to insult etc.

Though, he doesn't look good this year and his chances take a single win this year (nvm the Tour) is very low. :(

No need to be mad. If you're so superior to "those fanboys" (funny that this still is an appreciation thread), ignore them.
 
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He literally never went to the front, never attacked and did not even tried to follow Porte's acceleration. It will get better.
 
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lenric said:
Forever The Best said:
Lol at the Froome, Evans and Quintana fanboys coming over to the thread, saying 'delusional', posting some images to insult etc.

Though, he doesn't look good this year and his chances take a single win this year (nvm the Tour) is very low. :(

No need to be mad. If you're so superior to "those fanboys" (funny that this still is an appreciation thread), ignore them.
I obviously disagree with what YouYou said. But I don't post some images to insult, say 'delusional' etc.
 
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Forever The Best said:
lenric said:
Forever The Best said:
Lol at the Froome, Evans and Quintana fanboys coming over to the thread, saying 'delusional', posting some images to insult etc.

Though, he doesn't look good this year and his chances take a single win this year (nvm the Tour) is very low. :(

No need to be mad. If you're so superior to "those fanboys" (funny that this still is an appreciation thread), ignore them.
I obviously disagree with what YouYou said. But I don't post some images to insult, say 'delusional' etc.

Don't know what image you're referring to, since "believing in unicorns" is equal to "believing in fairy tales". This is a forum, not a congregation of sissies, but you're free to report the image, if you feel you must. Neither do I acknowledge "delusional" as an insult, when the targeted poster previously called valvpitty "foolish fanboy".

Sometimes, you just have to look at both sides.
Either way, feel free to ignore what you don't like or, if you want to do something productive about what troubles you, report it.
 
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lenric said:
Forever The Best said:
lenric said:
Forever The Best said:
Lol at the Froome, Evans and Quintana fanboys coming over to the thread, saying 'delusional', posting some images to insult etc.

Though, he doesn't look good this year and his chances take a single win this year (nvm the Tour) is very low. :(

No need to be mad. If you're so superior to "those fanboys" (funny that this still is an appreciation thread), ignore them.
I obviously disagree with what YouYou said. But I don't post some images to insult, say 'delusional' etc.

Don't know what image you're referring to, since "believing in unicorns" is equal to "believing in fairy tales". This is a forum, not a congregation of sissies, but you're free to report the image, if you feel you must. Neither do I acknowledge "delusional" as an insult, when the targeted poster previously called valvpitty "foolish fanboy".

Sometimes, you just have to look at both sides.
Either way, feel free to ignore what you don't like or, if you want to do something productive about what troubles you, report it.
Oh, totally forgot about what YouYou said. :redface: Nvm the deluisonal part then, since YouYou started it.

The image looked to me that you wanted to wind-up a bit while trying to show some superiority.
 
I would say that maybe he was holding back some, getting in racing miles, but as we all know with Contador, he can't restrain himself. If he had the form to challenge Froome and Porte, he would have been there.
 
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I'm 100% sure he will be better in the next stages. The problem is: contador in top shape is able to follow froome in top shape (specially in climbs like PDBF)? I think not...
 
Really strange stage... Contadot didn't even try to follow. He usually tries and cracks. This time he just didn't accelerate. Simple as that... Like he wasn't even interested... Didn't push much on the descent either...
 
Feb 17, 2017
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bajbar said:
Really strange stage... Contadot didn't even try to follow. He usually tries and cracks. This time he just didn't accelerate. Simple as that... Like he wasn't even interested... Didn't push much on the descent either...
Exactly!