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Many are predicting that Cam Meyer will be a GT winner in the future especially after his dominating win in the Points race. I'm not so sure...
What are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts?
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joy118118 said:CN says he will make giro debut this year, but he was in giro last year.
He is more of a stage winner till now.
Cerberus said:Wait? Point Race=GT? How is that even remotely reasonable?
Ferminal said:Are Meyer/Meyer/Bobridge all going to stay with the track program until 2012?
auscyclefan94 said:no, people have brought up the subject of him being a GT winner in the future after he won the points race. He has a good chrono but not sure about his climbing.
Oldman said:Have seen several good riders come from the same background, the points/pursuit ability at a young age can translate into a GC rider if-and it's a big if; they've already won some amateur/pro stage races. I don't know him but would love to see someone from that background come to the fore.
It isn't that difficult to translate track power into climbing if they can recover. What's the story?
Glockers said:Aussies can't win a GC in a grand tour, the Eurocentric posters should shoot this down.
Hell I suggest Michael Rogers could have won the year he crashed while in virtual yellow and got shut down because a drug cheat was also in the break.
Glockers said:Yes the World Time Trial champion was gaining time on all the contenders and had a time trial to extend his lead. Only Rasmussen was in the group.
Rasmussen doped.
Enough said, Rogers could have won.
To be fair to auscyclefan, here is Brad Wiggins' tweet after Meyer's race:Galic Ho said:
Yeah right. Then again, Wiggins believes he can win the Tour himself, so in hiw view anything's possible.Big congratulations to Cam Meyer, very classy. This guy will be Australia's TDF winner some day!
Galic Ho said:Explain to me why then in last years prologue that Andy Schleck went faster than a former world champion? Drugs. Get your head checked fanboy. Rogers is nothing special. He hasn't won squat. Heck him winning the Tour would have been a big sign he was doped. As I said, you might want to get your head checked.
Cameron Meyer a GT winner, let alone contender? Nope. As was pointed out, every aussie who wins something is often hailed the next great white hope. Who cares? Thats right, the aussie fanboys like Glockers and Aussiecyclefan94 who realise they need a new whipping boy considering their darlings Rogers and Evans respectively have come up with nothing so far, except some broken collarbones, epstein bar virus and a second place to "dirty Spaniard." Oh and I forgot, they both choked! Cough, cough.But Evans WC jersey will bring him luck won't it fellas?
To the original OP. Who mentioned Cameron Meyer as a GT winner? He raced this week and all of a sudden he is seen as a potential winner.WTF! Here is how I see it. Aussiecyclefan94 by starting this thread is one of those people proclaiming Meyer as a future winner, with no basis to do so. He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster) said "people see" and "have mentioned." Well until you did Aussiecyclefan94 I had not heard a word of that dribble. Hence we don't need to look hard to find who has been suggesting as much. You have and tried to disguise it with a veiled question in the OP. How about leaving the young fella alone and dropping the talk of him being your next messiah. Let him race and if he turns out some great showings then good for him. Till then, just drop it. Hypothetical BS is all it is right now.
Why do people do this? They're Aussies and they are fanboys. They have to latch onto every Aussie who can pedal decently, because compared to the Europeans in GTs they are few and far between. Really it is nothing more than deluded rampant patriotism run amok. I know, I am an Aussie and I see this crap all the time.
Galic Ho said:He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster)
Galic Ho said:Explain to me why then in last years prologue that Andy Schleck went faster than a former world champion? Drugs. Get your head checked fanboy. Rogers is nothing special. He hasn't won squat. Heck him winning the Tour would have been a big sign he was doped. As I said, you might want to get your head checked.
Cameron Meyer a GT winner, let alone contender? Nope. As was pointed out, every aussie who wins something is often hailed the next great white hope. Who cares? Thats right, the aussie fanboys like Glockers and Aussiecyclefan94 who realise they need a new whipping boy considering their darlings Rogers and Evans respectively have come up with nothing so far, except some broken collarbones, epstein bar virus and a second place to "dirty Spaniard." Oh and I forgot, they both choked! Cough, cough.But Evans WC jersey will bring him luck won't it fellas?
To the original OP. Who mentioned Cameron Meyer as a GT winner? He raced this week and all of a sudden he is seen as a potential winner.WTF! Here is how I see it. Aussiecyclefan94 by starting this thread is one of those people proclaiming Meyer as a future winner, with no basis to do so. He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster) said "people see" and "have mentioned." Well until you did Aussiecyclefan94 I had not heard a word of that dribble. Hence we don't need to look hard to find who has been suggesting as much. You have and tried to disguise it with a veiled question in the OP. How about leaving the young fella alone and dropping the talk of him being your next messiah. Let him race and if he turns out some great showings then good for him. Till then, just drop it. Hypothetical BS is all it is right now.
Why do people do this? They're Aussies and they are fanboys. They have to latch onto every Aussie who can pedal decently, because compared to the Europeans in GTs they are few and far between. Really it is nothing more than deluded rampant patriotism run amok. I know, I am an Aussie and I see this crap all the time.
@mickrogers
To all the internet cycling forum experts commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities. Leave the kid alone, he's only 22 years old
@mickrogers
Let me rephrase. To all the cycling forum experts "negatively" commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities...
Correction, the former World TT champion got into an early breakaway which, as all such breakaways, were allowed an early lead. He crashed out before the chase really begun.Glockers said:Yes the World Time Trial champion
was gaining time on all the contenders
Except that he just doesn't have a very good record in GT TTs. He could perhaps have defended the lead you dreamed up towards Leipheimer and Evans and gained a bit of time on Contador, with luck. Sadly a number of Mountain stages remained, and Rogers has a proven lack of ability to climb with the best.Glockers said:had a time trial to extend his lead.
I suppose that's true, for a sufficiently lenient definition of the word "could". That doesn't mean it's remotely plausible.Glockers said:Enough said, Rogers could have won.
To all the internet cycling forum experts commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities. Leave the kid alone, he's only 22 years old
Let me rephrase. To all the cycling forum experts "negatively" commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities...
the big ring said:That pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter of Meyers.