damian13ster said:
Jspear said:
damian13ster said:
Well, here it was his own stupidity. This is different than crashing because someone crashed in front of you, etc. The team prepared their season around TDF and their leader lost almost 3min to future winner in 2014 and then crashed because of own stupidity and then in 2016 he crashed again due to his poor bike-handling, threw a temper tantrum and quit after being too weak to hold Kreuzigers wheel. If thats not letting his team down then I dont know what is
The team, roster, and team owner didnt let him down. He let THEM down
Someone's touchy. Great riders have crashed in the pass with no one touching them. It still doesn't mean they're crap. It's a good thing your not a cycling journalist. You have an interesting way of interpreting what happened. Do you have a clip of this temper tantrum he threw? Also go ride your bike at 30+ mph and then crash...do it twice actually. Afterwards come tell us how it feels. Continue riding hard for over a week.
I was replying to LaFlorecitas post saying that Contador usually has a crappy team. This is factually wrong. In all of those Tours Tinkoff was in top 3-4 easily when it comes to team strength. The weak teams were not the reason Contador failed.
And Jakub: the world is not black or white: just because Sky has a great team, doesnt mean every other team is weak. Tinkoff was the 2nd to 4th strongest team (depending how you rate them vs Movistar, Astana) in all of those Tours.
I don´t see things like this. You must see clearly the problem...
It is very diferent to be in a GT to make a good result or a top 10, even a top 5, or being in a GT to Win. It is sooo diferent.
In every GT you have what, 2, 3, 4 favorites to win. They are the really guys to make it... So their teams can´t be like the others that are there to make a top 10...
In the last 3/4 years, the top candidates to win all GT are who??? Sky, Astana, Movistar and Tinkoff... You have in all this 3 GT´S just Horner... Otherwise is just this teams. In 12 gt´s this teams won 11.
Froome, Contador, Nibali, Aru, Quintana...
So the top guys, the WINNERS are from this teams, and to me, it is just a opinion, Tinkoff is clearly the weak of the 4... And yes, this is a big problem. I´m not saying that Tinkoff is a weak team, but compared to other teams, i don´t think they are so strong, and this make a diference when you are in a GT to win.
But, i always say the some, the others don´t have the fault that Contador don´t have a team like he should some of the years...
But i really wanted to see him just one year with a superb team to support him.
Having or not a super team makes a diference, sure... And we will see that in the 1 st stage of the vuelta, where Contador will be down to his rivals...