TANK91 said:
Poor ride very poor. Should never lose to Quintana and Nibali in a prologue, maybe Nibali in a monster shape. This is huge result for them for the TDF, Quintana will limit his losses very well vs Froome and could be close to Alberto(as he will have the Giro in his legs).
This is total BS. If indeed Alberto had a bad day that meant a second more or less to his rivals. The particular short effort suited Nibali better, who is able to re-launch himself out of the turns with good strenght. The fact that Quintana road so well, probably indicates he is in good form.
Who knows what a couple of better corners for Contador could have meant, perhaps a couple of seconds, a better line here and there, a couple of more: at this point he is more or less on Nibali's and Uran's time.
I'd be more concerned if he had lost significant time in a 30+ k TT. That would be a better indication.
At any rate all these guys stood to gain or loose much more time in a TTT. Perhaps Contador and team would have lost 20 seconds to Quintana and team, for instance.
I don't think Alberto's performance was as bad as many are making it out to be, including this website, which just can't seem to relish in anything more than taking a shot at the Spaniard. Well it is a British site so impartiality is hardly to be expected.
Terminillo will let us know who is really going the best among the frontrunners. So let us wait and see.