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Contador:
"My Tour de France prep is going perfectly at Dauphine"
"I'm happy ahead of the Tour de France. Not many guys win the Dauphine and then win the Tour, but the condition is good. For me, it was better to go behind the leaders and in my own tempo so that I can go better at the Tour de France."
"I preferred to take my own tempo and decided to save my legs. The most important thing is that I've finished this race really fresh. In the last few years, I've finished tired, empty. I think that I can now recover well in the next three days and then start my preparation again. I know that I need to work on my intensity, but at the moment it's perfect. It's not about the GC here."
I rest my case.
contador_attacks said:Leinster said:There's something else other than the crashes though.contador_attacks said:The crashes are killing him in the Tour... It's unbelieavable.
In Paris-Nice this year, Dan Martin couldn't follow Contador's attack on the final 2 stages. He tried to bridge across and couldn't hold on. Fast forward to July, and Martin with 2 broken vertebrae was able to sit in the GC group at whatever pace Kwiatkowski or Landa could throw down, with enough in reserve to sprint away for a few extra seconds at the finish. But Contador after his couple of crashes couldn't keep up on most of the big stages.
Of the 2, clearly somebody did something right in the months between March and June, and somebody got something wrong.
The preperation wasn't perfect, it's a fact, but the crashes are clearly destroying him...
Contador:
"My Tour de France prep is going perfectly at Dauphine"
"I'm happy ahead of the Tour de France. Not many guys win the Dauphine and then win the Tour, but the condition is good. For me, it was better to go behind the leaders and in my own tempo so that I can go better at the Tour de France."
"I preferred to take my own tempo and decided to save my legs. The most important thing is that I've finished this race really fresh. In the last few years, I've finished tired, empty. I think that I can now recover well in the next three days and then start my preparation again. I know that I need to work on my intensity, but at the moment it's perfect. It's not about the GC here."
I rest my case.