Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[LaFlorecita]

A rider is strong as much as his opponents let him be strong. Deal with it. Contador cannot beat Horner? It's his problems. It doesn't care Horner, other riders and by and large doesnt care Contador too, because it's irrelevant how strong he was before. He must prove how strong he is NOW.

That wasn't my point. Learn to read, TROLL.

 

[Jelantik]

Today, I see the contador 2.0 that I haven't seen before. He played a good teammate. As I mentioned before in this post, Alberto is a different person now. He is more and more showing that it's about the team. And today's he showed it again "publicly" by selfishly pacing his higher placing team mate. I'm sure he was itchy to jump whenever someone attacked. But nope, he stayed there, and paced rogers nicely. Come july, rogers will turn the favor. What he did is really good for team morale. And for that, I'm rooting more for contador.

tomorrow, will be an interesting day. Sky doesn't seem to want to let contador win the stage. Rogers is sitting less than a minute in GC from Porte. What would sky do? Letting contador win and keep 1-2 GC or let Porte loose his 2nd place by chasing contador? Can't wait to see what TST tactics would be tomorrow.

 

[willbick]

Zero chance porte will lose his 2nd place

 

[Parrulo]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=62804

Be afraid, be very afraid, Contador says he is only at 75% at most and expects to hit 100% at the tour

 

[LaFlorecita]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=62804

Be afraid, be very afraid, Contador says he is only at 75% at most and expects to hit 100% at the tour

let's hope he isn't bluffing

 

[Le Baroudeur]

Posted here because it's a bit OT for the race thread.

yes but Alberto's WT points don't count for the team ranking made up at the end of the year. Why would Riis care about Alberto's personal WT points?

They do count toward the team ranking at the end of the year. Last year they finished 15th with 401 points of which Alberto contributed 290. Being top 15 is important relating to WT rules, and posible cause for apeal etc.

His "value points" didn't count toward the team assesment by the licence commitee which is another thing altogether.

 

[Miburo]

let's hope he isn't bluffing

why would he bluff? then again why would he even 'reveal' that?

the contador i remember in interviews was always 'i'm not the fav and bla bla bla"

And now he's like "***** please, stop sucking sky's D i'm only at 75 procent"

 

[Le Baroudeur]

why would he bluff? then again why would he even 'reveal' that?

the contador i remember in interviews was always 'i'm not the fav and bla bla bla"

And now he's like "***** please, stop sucking sky's D i'm only at 75 procent"

The enemy allways fears the unknown. Art of War 101.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Posted here because it's a bit OT for the race thread.



They do count toward the team ranking at the end of the year. Last year they finished 15th with 401 points of which Alberto contributed 290. Being top 15 is important relating to WT rules, and posible cause for apeal etc.

His "value points" didn't count toward the team assesment by the licence commitee which is another thing altogether.

I am aware of the rules and regulations

 

[jens_attacks]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=62804

Be afraid, be very afraid, Contador says he is only at 75% at most and expects to hit 100% at the tour

6 w/kg in the dauphine>>>>8 w/kg in le tour

vamos vamos!

now with rogers 3rd place secured, tomorrow it's time for some little fun

 

[ILovecycling]

Mis sensaciones son bastante buenas, me encuentro bastante cómodo en las subidas y mañana parece que dan lluvia, que en cierto modo me favorece. Veremos qué sucede.

Looking forward

 

[melkemugg]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=62804

Be afraid, be very afraid, Contador says he is only at 75% at most and expects to hit 100% at the tour

Contador only practices a little pulling and exhausts Froome a bit so hes nice and burned out for the last week of the Tour.

 

[LaFlorecita]

6 w/kg in the dauphine>>>>8 w/kg in le tour

vamos vamos!

now with rogers 3rd place secured, tomorrow it's time for some little fun

yes please. Clinic will explode, 8 W/kg

 

[SeriousSam]

Froome is reportedly at 73% right now.

 

[LaFlorecita]

This remind me of airstream saying cyclists can't be at 80%. They only miss a few %. Alberto disagrees

 

[LaFlorecita]

Froome is reportedly at 73% right now.

6.4 W/kg --> 8.8 W/kg

 

[The Hitch]

Reminds me of pudzianowski when he was winning pre wsm warmup events "today 60%, next week 80%, wsm 100%"

 

[LaFlorecita]

Michael Rogers ‏@mickrogers 2h
Pretty good domestique that @albertocontador guy. Thanks Alberto #bigheart #Teamsaxotinkoff

<3

Trey H. Greenwood ‏@TreyEx_SaxoTink 4h
@albertocontador Great job today! So much class in that performance and super to see @mickrogers move up in GC!

 

[LaFlorecita]

vetooo ‏@ammattipyoraily 12m
#Dauphine, Stage 7, Col du Noyer (last 3.93 km, 8.50 %, 334 m). Alberto Contador (64 kg): 11:48, 19.98 Kph, VAM 1698 m/h, 6.05 W/kg [CPL].

64kg?? Don't think so. 61-62 I'd say

 

[burning]

vetooo ‏@ammattipyoraily 12m
#Dauphine, Stage 7, Col du Noyer (last 3.93 km, 8.50 %, 334 m). Alberto Contador (64 kg): 11:48, 19.98 Kph, VAM 1698 m/h, 6.05 W/kg [CPL].

64kg?? Don't think so. 61-62 I'd say

He's obviously doping with being %75, he's already above human limit

 

[virandociclista]

Vamos alberto!!!!

 

[Pippo_San]

Froome is reportedly at 73% right now.

He needs to say something along the lines of...

"Based on what people saw in [the Giro del] Trentino and the training we've been doing in the last couple of weeks, I think I'm better than I was going into the Tour last year"

Well who cares anyway. There's Jakob Fuglsang.

 

[Jelantik]

finally he said about his sensation…

excerpt from contador:
“I was only thinking about my teammate Michael Rogers today as we wanted to improve his overall result and I always feel good about helping my teammates when I can. They always work for me and today I had the chance to give something back. And we even succeeded in bringing Michael up to third overall in the GC, so of course I'm happy. I have a good feeling and I know I'm on the right track for the Tour de France where I will be on my best level. My sensations are pretty good, I feel quite comfortable on the climbs and tomorrow's forecast says rain, which in some way favors me. We'll see what happens,” said Team Saxo-Tinkoff's Alberto Contador

should we expect a fire works tomorrow?

 

[Publicus]

Froome is reportedly at 73% right now.

Sky's aim is to race at 95% in all races. 73% is for training only

 

[Jelantik]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=62804

Be afraid, be very afraid, Contador says he is only at 75% at most and expects to hit 100% at the tour

let's hope he isn't bluffing

LOL. he doesn't bluf. He said he is only at 75%. He didn't say, he will be at 100%, we just assume 100% is what it should be eventually. So that's our fault for making that assumption