Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[Jack_89]

We will see I hope he can take some time on stage 4 but that stage will be good for Nibali too

It's true: stage 4 suits Nibali more than Berto. But...Nibali must be in good shape to make differences( and i think this is not the case)

we'll see , it can be a great day of cycling

 

[Miburo]

It's just bugging me to see you judge people you don't know based on what you think they're thinking.

Judging is a rather strong word you're using. It's just silly to be worried now.

Being a fan of someone is also having faith in him and not be worried cause something went off a bit. That's at least my view on it.

 

[Red Rick]

I found it really, really odd how he just danced on the pedals for the entire last km, surely that can't be good in a tt at a point where the speed is close to 55kph. I agree it's not a good result, but super short, flat tt's are the first thing to go when he's not 100%. Last year he was bad in the tt too after rampaging in the mountains

 

[LaFlorecita]

I found it really, really odd how he just danced on the pedals for the entire last km, surely that can't be good in a tt at a point where the speed is close to 55kph.

He always gets out of the saddle near the finish. He was also out of the saddle for a long time after each corner. Perhaps not the best option for such a short ITT but it's just his usual way of riding a TT.

 

[Red Rick]

He probably would've done better if it was a straight road and if they had added super glue to his saddle

 

[Tom T.]

He's clearly peaked too early.

 

[rhubroma]

Let's wait and see.

 

[BlurryVII]

Gd placing, we have to start somewhere.

Terminillo will turn out to be Terminus for AC's rivals.

 

[veganrob]

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

After 5 km, jesus.

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

We have a sensible post here.

 

[LaFlorecita]

We have a sensible post here.

Actually, it would have been sensible if people were freaking out, but everyone was just discussing his performance, so it looks very silly.

 

[TANK91]

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).

 

[Jelantik]

Gd placing, we have to start somewhere.

Terminillo will turn out to be Terminus for AC's rivals.

terminator you mean?

 

[Angliru]

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).

How can an early March result be huge for a July event?

 

[TANK91]

you are certainly the biggest troll here and that's something to say with presence of likes of tank91 and others

You're name suits you Donkey, me a troll you wanna see Ray J Willings biggest troll on the forum but you would not notice that would you, it would not be in you're interests too.

 

[greenedge]

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

I'm presuming one of two things. Firstly that he hasn't ridden much this year, which is true. Secondly that he never has good form at this part of the year, which although in 2013 PN he placed 15th to Porte, he'd lost 2 minutes in a stage with crosswinds (I think) so without that he could have come 3rd behind Porte, with an eventual deficit of 1:20, beating JCP.

 

[TANK91]

How can an early March result be huge for a July event?

OMG man he was awful today this should not happen to the best ever Contador, the new Contador era we were suppose to move into, yeah it looks like it. He lost GC in Andalucia when he should not even have lost 15 seconds. It was embarassing how he lost that race literally got destroyed in a km. Then we get to today, please read me the illustrious riders who beat him against the clock. You would think he would beat Quintana come on.

 

[greenedge]

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).

Easy his ITT has decreased and Nibali is not a bad ITT rider.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Easy his ITT has decreased and Nibali is not a bad ITT rider.

Alberto should have finished top 20 if not top 10 in this ITT. His ITT has decreased slightly but IMO he is still stronger than Nibali. It is clear yesterday was a bad day so I have no idea what Tank is babbling about.

 

[TANK91]

Alberto should have finished top 20 if not top 10 in this ITT. His ITT has decreased slightly but IMO he is still stronger than Nibali. It is clear yesterday was a bad day so I have no idea what Tank is babbling about.

It was more than bad. Don't give me babbling either, i have made it known all year Froome and Contador are a level above. Im shocked by today he was grimacing and everything. The diff with me and you is i respect Alberto unlike you, so dont give me trolling. If this was Froome today god help us. You know it aswell. Froome is "sick" was classic Flo, yet yesterday you even said maybe he is sick, hilarious.

 

[LaFlorecita]

It was more than bad. Don't give me babbling either, i have made it known all year Froome and Contador are a level above. Im shocked by today he was grimacing and everything. The diff with me and you is i respect Alberto unlike you, so dont give me trolling. If this was Froome today god help us. You know it aswell. Froome is "sick" was classic Flo, yet yesterday you even said maybe he is sick, hilarious.

It's very simple. You are trying to create panic where there is no need for that. This result means
1 barely anything for the rest of the race, if this was just an off-day he can still win
2 nothing for the Tour

 

[Alexandre B.]

Then we get to today, please read me the illustrious riders who beat him against the clock. You would think he would beat Quintana come on.

He lost to Quintana in the short ITT last year. He lost to Kreuziger, his lieutenant too.

But he won T-A overall.

 

[rhubroma]

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.

 

[Dr. Juice]

Don't worry. I am sure he will do fine in the last ITT. In a prologue it's easy to lose some time.
He needs 25-30 sec on Uran. And less on Nibali. Should be doable.

 

[Netserk]

OMG man he was awful today this should not happen to the best ever Contador, the new Contador era we were suppose to move into, yeah it looks like it. He lost GC in Andalucia when he should not even have lost 15 seconds. It was embarassing how he lost that race literally got destroyed in a km. Then we get to today, please read me the illustrious riders who beat him against the clock. You would think he would beat Quintana come on.

What are you babbling about? He did beat Quintana. Please check your facts first in the future.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Alberto looking fit and ready to go

And the guy who paid 15,000 euros for Alberto's Vuelta winning bike, Steve Bennett, received it today from the man himself