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@dwuori: Contador catches up with his old pals, the Schlecks, while in Gran Canaria.
Butterhead said:The team is doing a 1 month training camp on GC, isnt it the first time they done such a long one? It usually been 2 weeks if I recall...
I hope they will reveal the new kit on tuesday during the team presentation, hope its not to russian inspired, crazy fashion in that part of the world
Peter von said:The peloton could use some crazy fashion these days
Was he his old self in 2011?Miburo said:If Contador really will be his old self again there shouldn't be such thing as rui costa vs AC in algarve.
He should crush him, but hey that's me hoping to see AC from '09
Miburo said:If Contador really will be his old self again there shouldn't be such thing as rui costa vs AC in algarve.
He should crush him, but hey that's me hoping to see AC from '09
LaFlorecita said:That is too true
after his tweets about the Trek kit Tinkov better come up with something fancy
LaFlorecita said:Looking at the provisional startlist it will be an interesting race.
Kwiatkowski and Martin will be present for OPQS and they can put a lot of time into Contador in the TT.
Jason_Mercier said:Seems to me that the winner Alberto Contador is gone. The way he finished the season, in a resurgence attempt, is clearly revealing...
Something like 8km @ 6%, the old Contador would crush any living form close to him. One can dreamMiburo said:If Contador really will be his old self again there shouldn't be such thing as rui costa vs AC in algarve.
He should crush him, but hey that's me hoping to see AC from '09
Contador's last TT at the Tour was pretty good. But you clearly have a point.Jason_Mercier said:This Contador lacks anaerobic power both in the climbs and ITT's, which was his main gun in the past. Xplosiveness is going down... so there's no way he could make the gaps of previous years.
trevim said:Contador's last TT at the Tour was pretty good. But you clearly have a point.
Netserk said:Was he his old self in 2011?
Butterhead said:In the documentary Riis - forfra, Riis said in the car during the tour, that AC had his problems with the allergy and were only on 80%, impossible to compete with these problems Riis said, and also gave the very cold spring the blame.
Butterhead said:In the documentary Riis - forfra, Riis said in the car during the tour, that AC had his problems with the allergy and were only on 80%, impossible to compete with these problems Riis said, and also gave the very cold spring the blame.
Hopefully things will be better this season, and hopefully the weather will be nicer to.
AC just past his 30s, the man is by any means not over the hill yet, though a lot of people hope he is, I think he feels he have a lot to prove from last years disaster, and some people here will have to eat their words.... I hope
Jason_Mercier said:And what happened the whole season? We can't skip the reality in this way...
Butterhead said:In the documentary Riis - forfra, Riis said in the car during the tour, that AC had his problems with the allergy and were only on 80%, impossible to compete with these problems Riis said, and also gave the very cold spring the blame.
Hopefully things will be better this season, and hopefully the weather will be nicer to.
AC just past his 30s, the man is by any means not over the hill yet, though a lot of people hope he is, I think he feels he have a lot to prove from last years disaster, and some people here will have to eat their words.... I hope