No idea where the Aubisque hype is coming from recently. I mean it was a good stage, but iirc Contador didn't really look like he was dropping Rasmussen at any point, and actually I think Leipheimer attacked almost as often as Contador did that day which is a massively weird thing to write.
About the Froome comparison, you have to give Froome credit for the way he races but comparing his attacks with Contador's is like an Apples, Oranges comparison. Yeah, Froome couldn't have known his Finestre attack was gonna work the way it did but he surely knew his legs were good that day. This was still a more or less calculated move and to be fair, that's how Froome wins most of his races but it also means that this attack didn't quite give me the Contador vibes, because for every succesful Contador long range attack that worked I can give you two or three that failed. I mean even Contador's crown jewel, the Fuente De stage was a case of him catching everyone off guard, profiting from his opponents weak team and a bad day of that same opponent, being helped by a former teammate and finally still only winning the stage by a matter of seconds. Now I've heard people going on about how that attack wasn't actually that great because he didn't win that Vuelta by being the strongest, but that's exactly the point. Froome attacking like a madman on the Col du Beal was amazing and in general he has put up big shows on mountain top finishes many times, but domination isn't what appeals to me. It's not a coincidence that I started to like Contador more and more the less succesful he got, because that was when you really started to see what he was made of. No other rider of a similar calibre in this generation races the way Contador did and nobody even gets near.
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