Good work Flo, he went down harder than I thought. Hope everything will be good with him by Ax-3 at least, we need a healthy Contador to destroy the borgs.
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Tour should open up with a hard medium mountain stage, easy to get the jitters out of the way. Has this been ever done in recent Tour history?
Parrulo said:
you saw this
, right?I know it's nothing but it's the best we've had in the last 10 years for the first stage unless you count the first real stage of last year's tour.
Miburo said:you saw this
I know it's nothing but it's the best we've had in the last 10 years for the first stage unless you count the first real stage of last year's tour.
Yes, and? A flat stage with an easy hill top finish is nothing but a glorified sprint stage. The only gaps created on that stage were created by crashes and not hard racing. A minute between first and last wouldn't make any difference and the peloton would still be riding very nervously. Hell even with all the gaps created by the crashes the peloton still rode nervously back in 2011.
What Maxmartin asked is if the tour has started with a proper medium mountain stage in the recent past. By medium mountain stage he meant something like LBL or many of the first week stages of this years giro, and i can't think of any time that has happened.
Miburo said:mont des alouettes?
peloton should reduce size with each climb, the chance of massive high speed crash should be dramatically reduced.
I am yet sad with this crash... Poor martin and contador... Why it need to be so hard to contador.... I hope that he can recover well... But it is hard to believe....
Nilsson said:
I am afraid AC don't want to give away too much information about this hard crash in case his opponents have some bad ideas.
Hope he can recover in full strength soon.
Watching the crash if AC is the Saxo rider who I think he is he has nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM91_xW7Kd0
"He" was slowing down and "jump/fall" into another rider. Playing an injury is always a nice card.
I don't "think" he is the rider some you said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM91_xW7Kd0
"He" was slowing down and "jump/fall" into another rider. Playing an injury is always a nice card.
I don't "think" he is the rider some you said
The guy who can count himself lucky is the one that just missed the light pole where the woman was standing.
Forunculo said:Watching the crash if AC is the Saxo rider who I think he is he has nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM91_xW7Kd0
"He" was slowing down and "jump/fall" into another rider. Playing an injury is always a nice card.
I don't "think" he is the rider some you said
Thats Bennati. Contador is futher back and hits the deck hard
SiAp1984 said:
Sadly neither Froome fans, Cotador fans nor neutral fans wants that. They would all prefer that "their" rider won straight up without help from crashes to their rivals.
I rooted for Nibali in the Giro but was very sad that Wiggo crashed and later also got sick. Would have preferred Nibali to crush a fit Wiggins.
Forunculo said:Watching the crash if AC is the Saxo rider who I think he is he has nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM91_xW7Kd0
"He" was slowing down and "jump/fall" into another rider. Playing an injury is always a nice card.
I don't "think" he is the rider some you said
I dont understand your post... in your sign you are supporting Contador but in your post you are saying that he is not the rider that most of us think he is in a bad way... dont know is so confusing...
Cimber said:
Fixed for you haha
In 2011 He never played the injury card even when his knee was totally messed up... He is not going to do it now... even an injured Contador will try to make the race hard.. He is that kind of guy He never gives up...
Forunculo said:Watching the crash if AC is the Saxo rider who I think he is he has nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM91_xW7Kd0
"He" was slowing down and "jump/fall" into another rider. Playing an injury is always a nice card.
I don't "think" he is the rider some you said
That is Bennati. Matches with some of the footage where you can see #92 right next to the big crash.
If you look at the third screenshot in my second post, you can see it matches with a picture I posted earlier. Alberto on the ground, cofidis and sky rider in front of him and sky rider still on the bike walking around him. In the picture it's clear that it's Alberto (#91)
Ryaguas said:
He means that he thinks its a different rider who is Contador (i.e the one that we believe is Bennati who has a much softer crash) but based ón Flo's clips and pictures I think its pretty safe to conclude that the Saxo rider futher back who crashed hard is Bertie.
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