Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[Miburo]

I like it that he lost this way, will only motivate him more for sunday.

And he directly congratulated Martin, nice one AC.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Looking forward to FINALLY see a decent shaped team built around AC in a GT.

To be honest, I prefer the strongest rider to have a relatively weak team, simply because it makes for a more open competition. When you give the top dude a very strong team, you can easily end up with races with no suspense.

And Kreuziger, Roche, etc is an extremely strong support team.

 

[sartoris]

Part of the reason I love Alberto so much. HE IS HUMAN

That's much of the reason for me. That and his being such a nice guy.

 

[sartoris]

A video of Contador encouraging Paulinho in the Fuente Dé stage: http://sporten.tv2.dk/2012-09-06-tv-contador-råber-til-holdkammerat-i-udbruddet

Pretty impressive volume, I must say.

WOW ! Hadn't seen this. What a jewel !!

 

[LaFlorecita]

To be honest, I prefer the strongest rider to have a relatively weak team, simply because it makes for a more open competition. When you give the top dude a very strong team, you can easily end up with races with no suspense.

And Kreuziger, Roche, etc is an extremely strong support team.

I love it when the strongest rider has a very strong team, cause I want total Alberto domination

 

[hrotha]

Cheers. I had no doubt Sergio would understand Spanish but just wondered if AC was showing his class (again) by encouraging him in his native language

The Portuguese have no trouble understanding spoken Spanish. It's a bit harder the other way around, because in spoken European Portuguese many vowels have been dropped, but Spaniards usually understand spoken Brazilian Portuguese just fine.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

I had Astana 2009 in mind. A pity it went as it did since it was a pretty strong team indeed.

And, of course, the Team in the Vuelta was indeed good to very good with Paulhino finding his 2004 form, the revolution Majka and add to that Kreutziger and Roche with an in-form Contador for next years Tour. Intresting times.

Tour 10 was also a strong team.

 

[T-Nielsen]

I love it when the strongest rider has a very strong team, cause I want total Alberto domination

You just want him to yell at you too.

Do we know if he will do Lombardia.

 

[Miburo]

Contador says that his legs will be better for sure sunday.

Damn I love this dude lol

I'm not saying he'll win it, he needs to be very lucky. He has no sprint at all.

But he'll make the race exciting like he always does

 

[The Hitch]

Didnt Contador go manx missile on the intermeidate sprint for 2 seconds on stage 2 this year.

 

[Arnout]

Contador looked really old and knackered today.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uc...ships-2012/elite-men-time-trial/photos/239094

In five years time he will be like this:

Sorry Florecita

 

[Miburo]

Didnt Contador go manx missile on the intermeidate sprint for 2 seconds on stage 2 this year.

Against who was that? And what was the gain?

A lot of the favorite, i think pretty much everyone has a better sprint than him.

Boonen, piti, purito, gerrans, gilbert, sagan, nibali (yeah even him lol), freire, degenkolb.

 

[Afrank]

Contador says that his legs will be better for sure sunday.

Damn I love this dude lol

I'm not saying he'll win it, he needs to be very lucky. He has no sprint at all.

But he'll make the race exciting like he always does

hmm, Nibali needs to break away from the puncheurs like Gilbert and Purito in order to win. Maybe him and Contador should form an alliance.

 

[Miburo]

hmm, Nibali needs to break away from the puncheurs like Gilbert and Purito in order to win. Maybe him and Contador should form an alliance.

let's hope, both of them need a very hard stage

Contador can promise him some stage wins in the tour maybe

 

[Jelantik]

To be honest, I prefer the strongest rider to have a relatively weak team, simply because it makes for a more open competition. When you give the top dude a very strong team, you can easily end up with races with no suspense.

And Kreuziger, Roche, etc is an extremely strong support team.

Hm, I don't think that's true either. Cycling is after all a team sport. No matter how strong Alberto, he still needs a strong team. yes in 2011 Giro he looked like he didn't need his team. But TDF is a different story. He can't single hand destroy SKY train without the help of a strong team. Sky this year is a proof that strong team can win without having a strong leader. (well I guess this is relative statement then… ). But anyway, we saw how dominant sky train was in TDF. They neutralized every single attack. Whether or not that would be the case next year... that's TBD.

 

[sartoris]

The Portuguese have no trouble understanding spoken Spanish. It's a bit harder the other way around, because in spoken European Portuguese many vowels have been dropped, but Spaniards usually understand spoken Brazilian Portuguese just fine.

You nailed it, man.

 

[rantanplan]

Contador, a champion measured by defeat
http://www.revistadesdelacuneta.com/tengopagina.php?page=archivo0298

 

[No_Balls]

Prost!

Tour 10 was also a strong team.

Cant say you are wrong. To be honest i meant more of a super-strong team in a Sky/USPS kind of way.

 

[Alpehue]

Contador is a better sprinter than polyglot He was forced to learn english because he is a star


On the other hand, big defeat today losing 2:30 in a hilly TT. He should do the road race and Lombardia and end his season to prepare well the next.

His form was ok but nothing special. At least he won his main goal

Its a demand by Riss as well, Everyone on SBt have to learn english. I know he has been very strict on that in the past.

 

[virandociclista]

The Portuguese have no trouble understanding spoken Spanish. It's a bit harder the other way around, because in spoken European Portuguese many vowels have been dropped, but Spaniards usually understand spoken Brazilian Portuguese just fine.

I am from Brazil... for us is not hard to understand spanish (Argentine, Espana) or Italian.... but it is very hard to Italians and Spanishs to understand portuguese...

three months ago I was in Lisboa and there was some italians talking near me.. I was understanding most part of the conversation... So I tryed to ask them something easy.. but they could not understand nothing...

It was very strange.. hehe... maybe must be this thing with the vowels!

Sometime is more hard to us, brazilian, understand the portugal guys talking than the spanish!! hehe

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Cant say you are wrong. To be honest i meant more of a super-strong team in a Sky/USPS kind of way.

Vino alone was stronger than this years Sky

 

[pdluz7]

I am from Brazil... for us is not hard to understand spanish (Argentine, Espana) or Italian.... but it is very hard to Italians and Spanishs to understand portuguese...

three months ago I was in Lisboa and there was some italians talking near me.. I was understanding most part of the conversation... So I tryed to ask them something easy.. but they could not understand nothing...

It was very strange.. hehe... maybe must be this thing with the vowels!

Sometime is more hard to us, brazilian, understand the portugal guys talking than the spanish!! hehe

I am from Brazil, I understand spanish too. I hope to see Alberto Contador in 2016, Rio de Janeiro, The race finishes in Cristo Redentor. Dreams

 

[LaFlorecita]

 

[LaFlorecita]

I am from Brazil, I understand spanish too. I hope to see Alberto Contador in 2016, Rio de Janeiro, The race finishes in Cristo Redentor. Dreams

Seriously? Awesome!

 

[Netserk]

über ugly