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thanks for the article jens. chavez is a monstertalent indeed. he has so much growth margin and has improved increidbly in the past year. he amazed me in every way. his tests are impressive and he's from bogota. so big altitude. he has great recuperation and engine as they all have from colombia. he is also very wake rider. riding in front. explosive, he's totally different from quintana. quintana is a bigger talent though, no doubt
 
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he is an inhuman talent. but not extraterrestrial like jelle vanendert

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Apr 16, 2009
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profff said:
theu send thrir better team at apennino and fleche , second team in trentino.
corti is probably very confidentof duarte doing something in fleche.
i thought trentino was a better chance for the escarabayos. but fleche is a classic and they want to have good relationships with aso, in order to go dauphine' and for the years to come, i guess.

anyway, corti was able to create a very dense racing schedule
They are running very thin now. It does not help that they are crashing also.:(

Duarte is improving by the day. I hope is not too late.
 
Mar 31, 2010
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also what was again evry stupid of them is have half the team go from belgium to appennino, just for that race and then have them go back for fleche wallonne. and the guys are already dead tired as you can see by their injuries
 
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the schedule was bad
flying from belgium and back was clearly a bad idea
but once in cycling everybody was thinking that racing was the best way to reach top shape
champions in the past followed this rule
then ferrari and the wizards came in and everything changed.
i still think that if yo are able to use brain, racing is a good way of training.
in my opinion , it was wrong coming in italy too early on winter, not too much racing in spring.
than probably somebody was expecting too much from the team.

it looks pretty incredible that they are all monster talent.
chaves is an interesting talent and we will see

i am pretty deceived by juan pablo suarez: except the early break in sanremo he was completely inconsistent
only jarlinson pantano showed some guts before getting ill
duarte is monster talent and sooner or later will deliver some result.
 
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Ryo Hazuki said:
duarte is great at placing himself. however his tank was clealry empty on the final climb. he's not anywhere near topshape yet. let;s hope he gets rest now until california
I doubt it, the riders from Fleche are doing Tour of Turkey. Then they are doing 4 Jours de Dunkerque for some reason.
 
Nov 11, 2010
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Darwin apart from Duarte has been performing fairly well compared to Coldeportes' previous races in Trentino.
 
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Eric8-A said:
Darwin apart from Duarte has been performing fairly well compared to Coldeportes' previous races in Trentino.

but he sitll performs **** poor. remember last yera in castilla leon when eh and quintana pushed the tempo a little on the queenstages hard climb only pozzovivo and anton and baez could follow. that's the atapuma I want to see
 
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Ryo Hazuki said:
but he sitll performs **** poor. remember last yera in castilla leon when eh and quintana pushed the tempo a little on the queenstages hard climb only pozzovivo and anton and baez could follow. that's the atapuma I want to see

There's still two stages left in Trentino. He'll hopefully show something there.
 
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there's only today left and no he won;t yesterday was his chance. I hoped for him to do top 5. he clearly isn't in great shape at all.
 
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Eric8-A said:
There's still two stages left in Trentino. He'll hopefully show something there.

I didn't expect honestly but he showed his true class today, atapuma a world class climber!!! despite all the haters here believing only duarte is something
 
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it striked me how intelligent atapuma was today.even if he was by far the strongest he chose to wait.an attack from far out wouldn't have been clever because he was already way too far in gc.very impressive and it proved me that i was right.i had the right to be harsh with them because they can do amazing things on the climbs.hopefully today is just the beginning.

superb win on pordoi,snow,the colombians couldn't pick a better first win in europe.
 
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yeah and also a slap in the face for rcs(by betancourt especially) who invited netapp who failed miserbaly today as they will this coming may :eek:
 
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it striked me how intelligent atapuma was today.even if he was by far the strongest he chose to wait.an attack from far out wouldn't have been clever because he was already way too far in gc.very impressive and it proved me that i was right.i had the right to be harsh with them because they can do amazing things on the climbs.hopefully today is just the beginning.

superb win on pordoi,snow,the colombians couldn't pick a better first win in europe.

Didn't you watched it live? i was waiting for epic post from you during the race. :)
 
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Ryo Hazuki said:
there's only today left and no he won;t yesterday was his chance. I hoped for him to do top 5. he clearly isn't in great shape at all.

Mr ''know it all'' strikes again. :rolleyes:
 
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So Happy to get this wonderful news!!! I was critical about them but I must recognize- I have been silenced by Atapuma's victory.

Hoping for more victories like today's to follow :)
 
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Turkey's next for them. Lets see if they can get some motivation there from Atapuma's win today.