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will10

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The Hitch

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Vino obviously. Coming back from those injuries, hell getting on a bike again, insane.

To be honest I think its the top ones. Not all of them neccesarily but I think Lance when he was on top would be willing to walk into Lubyanka with a copy of Animal Farm, if it meant winning a TDF.

Props to his former friend Tyler for 2nd in Giro with a broken elbow.

But yeah, endurance is such an important part of the sport that the ones at the top have to have immense pain endurance. You dont always see it like with Voigt and they probably dont enjoy it like him, but that motivation to win trumps the pain in most of them.

And the likes of Cancellara and Martin go into these brutal tts, and they are essentially on the pain limit for a majority of that tt. Theres no tactics there, just go as fast as you can at first then fight the pain and the fact that they are up there, every tt shows that they are able to take that pain everytime out.

Especially T this year doing it pretty much every time from PN to Dauphine to TDF to Vuelta to Worlds To chrono des naciones.

As to the others well Wiggins I think is up there. Hes got the that Tommy Simpson mentality.

Gesink I think, dont remember where I got the idea but I do see him as one of those riders.

VDB for trying to get on his bike after the injury. Thats just sick to me, as in I see it as a sickness to have that kind of motivation for a race.

Other names come to me as I watch over the season
 
El Pistolero

El Pistolero

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The Hitch said:
Vino obviously. Coming back from those injuries, hell getting on a bike again, insane.

To be honest I think its the top ones. Not all of them neccesarily but I think Lance when he was on top would be willing to walk into Lubyanka with a copy of Animal Farm, if it meant winning a TDF.

Props to his former friend Tyler for 2nd in Giro with a broken elbow.

But yeah, endurance is such an important part of the sport that the ones at the top have to have immense pain endurance. You dont always see it like with Voigt and they probably dont enjoy it like him, but that motivation to win trumps the pain in most of them.

And the likes of Cancellara and Martin go into these brutal tts, and they are essentially on the pain limit for a majority of that tt. Theres no tactics there, just go as fast as you can at first then fight the pain and the fact that they are up there, every tt shows that they are able to take that pain everytime out.

Especially T this year doing it pretty much every time from PN to Dauphine to TDF to Vuelta to Worlds To chrono des naciones.

As to the others well Wiggins I think is up there. Hes got the that Tommy Simpson mentality.

Gesink I think, dont remember where I got the idea but I do see him as one of those riders.

VDB for trying to get on his bike after the injury. Thats just sick to me, as in I see it as a sickness to have that kind of motivation for a race.

Other names come to me as I watch over the season
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Contador won the Giro in 2008 with a similar kind of fracture Evans had in Tour of 2010.
 
El Pistolero

El Pistolero

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What's the joke?
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I posted a picture of one of the hardest classics in recent memory, only 34 people or so actually made it to the finish line, but many many minutes behind the winner. The guy that got second looked like an 80 year old man that day. Yet Phil looks as fresh as a daisy with a big grin on his face. As if he doesn't even feel pain during a race.
 
Arnout

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El Pistolero said:
I posted a picture of one of the hardest classics in recent memory, only 34 people or so actually made it to the finish line, but many many minutes behind the winner. The guy that got second looked like an 80 year old man that day. Yet Phil looks as fresh as a daisy with a big grin on his face. As if he doesn't even feel pain during a race.
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Sorry to kill off your fairy tale but I was there live and Gilbert looked absolutely spent as well, just as much as all the others.

People on the cyclingnews forums, don't buy this story as its not true :)
 
El Pistolero

El Pistolero

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Arnout said:
Sorry to kill off your fairy tale but I was there live and Gilbert looked absolutely spent as well, just as much as all the others.

People on the cyclingnews forums, don't buy this story as its not true :)
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No **** Sherlock, it's not meant to be taken seriously. Everyone that finished that day deserves a mention in this thread.
 
Timmy-loves-Rabo

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El Pistolero said:
Contador won the Giro in 2008 with a similar kind of fracture Evans had in Tour of 2010.
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do you feel the need to constantly talk up contador and phil?

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cyclists in genreal are very strong in this regard.
 
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