Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

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Noverca

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Nibali did beat Contador and Froome at the Tour.

To win a bike race it's pretty useful to stay at your bike.
 
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Dr. Juice

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Noverca said:
Nibali did beat Contador and Froome at the Tour.

To win a bike race it's pretty useful to stay at your bike.
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Nibali's win is not tainted. There was no duel against Contador and Froome. Don't bring them into one sentence with the Tour de France 2014.

Is it that difficult to accept that the win was not tainted but he still didn't beat them head to head because the destiny didn't allow that opportunity to take place ? Everything other is speculation.
 
Jelantik

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LaFlorecita said:
Alberto better crush everyone on Terminillo else it is going to be hard to win.
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yeah. a little surprise with his ITT today. maybe he's been practicing in the mountain a lot.. since he thought proloque would be TTT. Ow well. If he can't crush anyone in Termillo after the performance at Ruta ... :eek:
 
LaFlorecita

LaFlorecita

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Jelantik said:
yeah. a little surprise with his ITT today. maybe he's been practicing in the mountain a lot.. since he thought proloque would be TTT. Ow well. If he can't crush anyone in Termillo after the performance at Ruta ... :eek:
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We don't know in what kind of climbing form Nibali, Uran and Quintana are. It'll be hard to take 30+ seconds.
 
Jack_89

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Bad ITT, of course.
However i'm confident: Quintana, in fact, never rides this year and Nibali last week and in Oman showed a poor form unlike Alberto in Ruta
 
LaFlorecita

LaFlorecita

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Jack_89 said:
Bad ITT, of course.
However i'm confident: Quintana, in fact, never rides this year and Nibali last week and in Oman showed a poor form unlike Alberto in Ruta
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Yes, hopefully he can take at least 30s on the MTF to compensate for today's losses and the last ITT.
 
Jelantik

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Jack_89 said:
And be careful about stage 4. In last 10km there'll be an hard climb 4km 9.3%.
I will not surprise if Alberto attacks hard
http:// http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/TirrenoAdriatico/it/pagina_tappa_4.shtm
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i hope he is smart enough. The last time he attacked hard, he gave up his leader jersey the next day. Last day will be ITT, if he got the jersey, and got another bad day, that would really hurt. I can't handle nibali takes the jersey from contador in the final day. I can handle if contador can't make up the time in mtf, which is on paper not likely (based on solely how he performs at ruta)
 
Jelantik

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LaFlorecita said:
We don't know in what kind of climbing form Nibali, Uran and Quintana are. It'll be hard to take 30+ seconds.
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as long as he doesn't burry himself in the mountain, got the jersey, and just to loose the jersey on the final ITT by another 2 seconds!!!!
 
LaFlorecita

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Jelantik said:
as long as he doesn't burry himself in the mountain, got the jersey, and just to loose the jersey on the final ITT by another 2 seconds!!!!
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Better to dig deep and risk losing the jersey in the ITT, than not digging deep enough and not getting the jersey at all.
 
Netserk

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Don't worry Flo, there will be bonus seconds. Even if he loses 10''-15'' in the last ITT (more likely it will be less than that), he will not need a big gap on Terminillo.
 
Jelantik

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LaFlorecita said:
Surely you'll agree it was not a good result. I don't see anyone freaking out.
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agreed. no one is freaking out. Dunno if everyone realized. Contador was in the same position as Froome compare to Nibali today. 8 seconds wasn't it? Froome has a bad day too. And we know how he finished :D
 
Pentacycle

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There is nothing to worry about. Nibali and uran are always good in ITT in the early season but this says nothing about their climbing. And I'd say Uran is the bigger threat when taking Strade Bianche as reference.
 
LaFlorecita

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Netserk said:
Don't worry Flo, there will be bonus seconds. Even if he loses 10''-15'' in the last ITT (more likely it will be less than that), he will not need a big gap on Terminillo.
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We will see ;) I hope he can take some time on stage 4 but that stage will be good for Nibali too
 
Miburo

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What about enjoying the race? Some of you are already thinking about Contador gonna have a hard to win it, really? :eek:

After 5 km, jesus.

It wasn't a good ride, whatever, not a big deal. Enjoy sunday.
 
LaFlorecita

LaFlorecita

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Miburo said:
What about enjoying the race? Some of you are already thinking about Contador gonna have a hard to win it, really? :eek:

After 5 km, jesus.

It wasn't a good ride, whatever, not a big deal. Enjoy sunday.
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How about you stop telling people what to do? :)
 
Jspear

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LaFlorecita said:
It's just bugging me to see you judge people you don't know based on what you think they're thinking.
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I think your thinking that he/she can't possibly know what you're thinking....JK :p

We know how AC is climbing right now. IMO he'll most definitely beat Nibbes in the overall GC; the only one I'm sorta worried about is Uran. But then again if AC goes into the last TT with the leaders jersey I think he'll defend it just fine. He can do a good TT.
 
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