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hrotha

hrotha

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The original Spanish says "no estoy en condiciones (de defender el título)", which means something like "I'm in no position (to defend my title)" or, in more lay terms, "no can do".
 
hfer07

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hrotha said:
The original Spanish says "no estoy en condiciones (de defender el título)", which means something like "I'm in no position (to defend my title)" or, in more lay terms, "no can do".
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literal translation: I'm not in conditions to defend the title.
but he implies that he's not "at the level to defend the title properly"
 
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offbyone said:
So does that translate to he isn't riding the race so he can take his "medicine" and avoid doping controls. :)
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lemme break it down: everyone does everything in order to dope better, or avoid getting caught. Except Lance.
 
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Let's keep all the doping and Lance references outside this thread. For more on doping and Contador, there is a thread in the clinic. For more on Armstrong, well, almost everything outside this thread is on him. :)
 
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peloton said:
So he plans to ride the Vuelta? And thanks.
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Training ride for the Tour. I assume this was after he had finished training with the rest of his teammates (Hernandez, Tiralongo, de la Fuente, Navarro and Pereiro were there as well).
 
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Summary of AC interview:

He knows the climb very well as he's used it in his training rides since long time ago. As a junior he used to go by train in the morning rush hour from his parents home to the town at the foot of Puerto de Navacerrada, where he left his backpack in a bikeshop during his training rides.
Gradient is very steep and it requires climbing on the saddle to keep traction on the concrete sections (Surprising, as the video footage shows him out of the saddle most of the time) He uses a 36x28 gear in the steepest ramps. The climb from the Puerto de Navacerrada summit is just about 3.4km long, but with an elevation gain of almost 400m it can be compared to the hardest sections of Plan de Corones, Mortirolo or Angliru.
He also says something rather curious to me: he feels that he gets a better preparation by training high and sleeping low (I would say most people benefit from the opposite: train low and sleep high). So that's why he loves the area: he can sleep at home and then drive 1 hour by car to ride in the mountains.

The area is not what I would say really high for altitude training. The highest mountain passes around are between 1780 m and 1860 m, Bola del Mundo is at 2250 m and there are barely 12 km of continuous road always above 1800 m.

BTW, his voice sounds as if he's had a serious cold ;)
 
hrotha

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Yep, he says it's just him pointing at his friends and/or relatives watching him on TV, as a way to dedicate his victories to them. He could be retconning the whole thing, though. Does he use the nickname "Pistolero" himself, or just the logo?
 
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hrotha said:
Yep, he says it's just him pointing at his friends and/or relatives watching him on TV, as a way to dedicate his victories to them. He could be retconning the whole thing, though. Does he use the nickname "Pistolero" himself, or just the logo?
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Just the logo. The "El Pistolero" name was coined by Lance Armstrong, so I can't see him embracing it.
 
hrotha

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Just the logo. The "El Pistolero" name was coined by Lance Armstrong, so I can't see him embracing it.
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That was Armstrong? Wow. That's worse than anything else he's ever done.

I suppose Contador might be telling the truth after all.
 
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hrotha said:
Yep, he says it's just him pointing at his friends and/or relatives watching him on TV, as a way to dedicate his victories to them. He could be retconning the whole thing, though. Does he use the nickname "Pistolero" himself, or just the logo?
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I didn't know that.

Makes much more sense.
 
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hrotha said:
That was Armstrong? Wow. That's worse than anything else he's ever done.

I suppose Contador might be telling the truth after all.
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A dutch commentator already called him that way when he was constantly pushing rasmussen under pressure in 2007.

About the pose at the finish, it does look quite hard on a pistol shot, or does he like to shoot at his friends :confused:
 
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hrotha said:
That was Armstrong? Wow. That's worse than anything else he's ever done.

I suppose Contador might be telling the truth after all.
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At least that's what I recall (it was post-Tour). Maybe someone else used it first (see above post), but even if that is true, I think Armstrong put it on the map (so to speak).
 
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