Teams & Riders Alberto Contador Discussion Thread

[Vino attacks everyone]

Please, someone make that picture into a 'problem?' meme.

yea, he want to bang that hottie

 

[Publicus]

It looks like he's looking at someone out of frame

 

[LaFlorecita]

His sideburns are getting bigger and bigger

 

[sulgpallur]

His sideburns are getting bigger and bigger

He is learning from Wiggins

 

[LaFlorecita]

It looks like he's looking at someone out of frame

His wife.

 

[LaFlorecita]

He is learning from Wiggins

Oh god

 

[Carols]

If the stage win was important to Contador, he would have gone for it when he found himself in front with 500 to go.

Instead, even when a good 10 bike lenghts in front he kept looking back, not glances, but long stares, losing power along the way.

This...he is not strong Someone remind of where and when if they ever saw Alberto get caught at the top of a climb in a GT when he was loose on the lead and going for a win?

He waited and waited and waited, saving every ounce of energy he had for one attack and weakened at the end Good news is he didn't get dropped which is what I feared would happen.

Either he will ride himself into shape or this is going to be a race of seconds!!!

Good news is Froome was dropped, hoping for more of that I don't think Purito will make it all the way through the 3 weeks and a 40km ITT doesn't suit even with his new ITT position and power. Definitely podium material though. Valverde is worrisome, he can win a GT; has done it and he looks good.

Rest well Alberto big days coming!

 

[Publicus]

His wife.

To make sure she isn't watching?

 

[LaFlorecita]

To make sure she isn't watching?

Perhaps

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Since when was "He want to bang that hottie" reconned as inappropriate language....

 

[Miburo]

"Contador in God-mode vs Froome in cyborg-mode."

Would be a nice headline.

Tomorrow he might attack at the end doubt it though, and i've heard that there might be a 19 % part at the last km or something like that but i'm not sure if that's true.

 

[The Hitch]

This...he is not strong Someone remind of where and when if they ever saw Alberto get caught at the top of a climb in a GT when he was loose on the lead and going for a win?

What, no, that is not what i was saying. He was losing power becuase he was looking behind and not in front. That means that when on the mountains he is actually racing rather than looking for rivals, he should do better.

 

[LaFlorecita]

"Contador in God-mode vs Froome in cyborg-mode."

Would be a nice headline.

Tomorrow he might attack at the end doubt it though, and i've heard that there might be a 19 % part at the last km or something like that but i'm not sure if that's true.

Giro 2011 stage 8?

 

[Miburo]

Giro 2011 stage 8?

Ha yeah lol something like that maybe.

 

[Carols]

What, no, that is not what i was saying. He was losing power becuase he was looking behind and not in front. That means that when on the mountains he is actually racing rather than looking for rivals, he should do better.

Well then I'll say it myself...he was losing Power folks, couldn't find a small enough gear....he is Not Ready yet! Hopefully it comes soon.

And someone tell me when they saw him get hunted down and beat when loose on the lead in a GT stage. Never happened that I can recall!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Well then I'll say it myself...he was losing Power folks, couldn't find a small enough gear....he is Not Ready yet! Hopefully it comes soon.

And someone tell me when they saw him get hunted down and beat when loose on the lead in a GT stage. Never happened that I can recall!

Because he normally goes with more k to go. He had a small gap so Purito and Piti could do their 100 meter sprint and pass him. When he's 40 seconds up the road of course they aren't gonna pass him

 

[The Hitch]

Well then I'll say it myself...he was losing Power folks, couldn't find a small enough gear....he is Not Ready yet! Hopefully it comes soon.

And someone tell me when they saw him get hunted down and beat when loose on the lead in a GT stage. Never happened that I can recall!

When did i see him hunted down, well Muur d huy for example when him and Anton broke from Evans and Nibali and Purito and then got caught at the end.

Never happened in a gt because the whole situation is new. For starters its the first week. Even when on form what does Contador ever really do in the first week? Aside from etna which was an actual mtf, on the 9th stage, so beginning of second week, he just sits in and defends. Usually they are borefests anyway.

And thats before we even consider that he hasnt had the best preperation.

And hunted down is not even the right word. id say hunted down if he attacked 3k out and got caught after 10 minutes out alone. Even a minute before the finish he was in a group. He found himself ahead with very little to go, looked back and got caught. More of a premature sprint than getting hunted down.

 

[Forunculo]

The only bad news for Alberto is have not excuses to sign better climber than his friends Hernandez and Navarro

Majka, 23, showing he is a great climber

 

[LaFlorecita]

"@3gerardpique: Qué final de etapa en la Vuelta! Parecía que Contador la tenía ganada pero finalmente se la ha llevado Valverde! Esto se pone emocionante!"

 

[woodenswan]

Well then I'll say it myself...he was losing Power folks, couldn't find a small enough gear....he is Not Ready yet! Hopefully it comes soon.

And someone tell me when they saw him get hunted down and beat when loose on the lead in a GT stage. Never happened that I can recall!

with all due respect, these travis avatars are doing me head in..
especially seeing them outside the lunatic asy.. the clinic

so ima counter this recent phenomenon with an extremely evil-looking Lance avatar

good day

 

[Carols]

Well maybe I'm needlessly worried he doesn't have good enough form....but I'm worried none the less

 

[Carols]

with all due respect, these travis avatars are doing me head in..
especially seeing them outside the lunatic asy.. the clinic

so ima counter this recent phenomenon with an extremely evil-looking Lance avatar

good day

I'll change it soon, no worries.....

 

[airstream]

Avatars really crack up. Seemingly only fans of dominators associate the sport with the only rider..

 

[Carols]

Oh so my eyes weren't deceiving me:

I needed a little bit more power, but I’m very happy with how it worked out, we dropped Froome which was important,” Contador said.

“I’m going well but not super-well, I’d have liked to have won but I was concentrating on Froome rather than on Alejandro and Joaquim when they came back up to me.

 

[maxmartin]

It is a hilly TT, can AC keep the time gap less than 45 seconds against CF?