Contador vs. Froome

[myrideissteelerthanyours]

The New Postal vs Postal Classic? Perhaps it's too close to call so I say Froome wins on personality.

 

[kingjr]

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The New Postal vs Postal Classic? Perhaps it's too close to call so I say Froome wins on personality.

Easily

 

[Ruby United]

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Cycling talent is purely physiological, and thus hard to define.

True - but I do believe it is also based on mental pain limits and perhaps other factors.

 

[contador_attacks]

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The winner of this year's Tour has to born again to have just 1/10 of Contador's talent. 1/10. It's that simple. Case closed.

the only thing you are bringing with that kind of statement is froome being brilliant and astonishingly talented athlete.

Contador is a rare talent. Riders like him, Boonen, Hushovd, Freire, Cavendish, Petacchi, Cancellara, Devolder, Gilbert, Pozzato, Ballan, Valverde, Cunego, Andy Schleck, Basso, Menchov, di Luca, Sami or Purito define a generation.

Just for the record... Bettini, Van Avermaet, McEwen, Bennati, Greipel, Evans, Sastre and many others are also on this list...

 

[arvc40]

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Andy Schleck is younger than Froome. His time wouldn't have been over after 2011. The 2012 route was a confirmed joke, but I'm not sure that Quintana is a better rider than Schleck.

A healthy Schleck would've made every single one of the last 6 Tours a lot better, that's for sure.

What does healthy mean ?, If he could have carried on with same prep for races.

 

[Netserk]

Alcoholism is an illness.

 

[Red Rick]

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Andy Schleck is younger than Froome. His time wouldn't have been over after 2011. The 2012 route was a confirmed joke, but I'm not sure that Quintana is a better rider than Schleck.

A healthy Schleck would've made every single one of the last 6 Tours a lot better, that's for sure.

What does healthy mean ?, If he could have carried on with same prep for races.

Physical and mental heatlh. I think that's quite obvious. Schleck does have the clinic thread if you want to beat dead horses.

 

[jsem94]

Healthy also means not the knee problems that forced him to retire early.

 

[DFA123]

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The winner of this year's Tour has to born again to have just 1/10 of Contador's talent. 1/10. It's that simple. Case closed.

the only thing you are bringing with that kind of statement is froome being brilliant and astonishingly talented athlete.

Contador is a rare talent. Riders like him, Boonen, Hushovd, Freire, Cavendish, Petacchi, Cancellara, Devolder, Gilbert, Pozzato, Ballan, Valverde, Cunego, Andy Schleck, Basso, Menchov, di Luca, Sami or Purito define a generation.

Just for the record... Bettini, Van Avermaet, McEwen, Bennati, Greipel, Evans, Sastre and many others are also on this list...

So not that rare then.

 

[buchanan]

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The winner of this year's Tour has to born again to have just 1/10 of Contador's talent. 1/10. It's that simple. Case closed.

the only thing you are bringing with that kind of statement is froome being brilliant and astonishingly talented athlete.

Contador is a rare talent. Riders like him, Boonen, Hushovd, Freire, Cavendish, Petacchi, Cancellara, Devolder, Gilbert, Pozzato, Ballan, Valverde, Cunego, Andy Schleck, Basso, Menchov, di Luca, Sami or Purito define a generation.

Just for the record... Bettini, Van Avermaet, McEwen, Bennati, Greipel, Evans, Sastre and many others are also on this list...

So not that rare then.

Haha I was thinking the same thing :lol:
He goes on to name about 30 other 'rare' talents, just like Contador!
Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

 

[Red Rick]

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contador_attacks ...............

Let's not go there

 

[DFA123]

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Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

Or Raul Alarcón

 

[rick james]

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The winner of this year's Tour has to born again to have just 1/10 of Contador's talent. 1/10. It's that simple. Case closed.

the only thing you are bringing with that kind of statement is froome being brilliant and astonishingly talented athlete.

Contador is a rare talent. Riders like him, Boonen, Hushovd, Freire, Cavendish, Petacchi, Cancellara, Devolder, Gilbert, Pozzato, Ballan, Valverde, Cunego, Andy Schleck, Basso, Menchov, di Luca, Sami or Purito define a generation.

Just for the record... Bettini, Van Avermaet, McEwen, Bennati, Greipel, Evans, Sastre and many others are also on this list...

So not that rare then.

Lol....that rare cycling is full of them.....yet froome isn't rare

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

To me it is interesting that some self-proclaimed Contador "supporters" do nothing but talk down Contador and drool all over Froome. The poster above isn't the only one. Are you lot masochistic or is it just an act?

 

[Forever The Best]

I thought it was clear those two aren't fans...

Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

Or Raul Alarcón

Força Amaro!

 

[contador_attacks]

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Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

Everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
Froome, in my opinion, isn't in that category. I'll leave it at that.
The unique talent of the riders mentioned by me earlier is undisputable. I'm talking about real riders.

 

[lenric]

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Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

Everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
Froome, in my opinion, isn't in that category. I'll leave it at that.
The unique talent of the riders mentioned by me earlier is undisputable. I'm talking about real riders.

Saying that a black bicycle is prettier than a white one is an opinion. What you're stating, however, isn't an opinion, but bs, unfortunately.

 

[Red Rick]

Pidgeons. Chess. why?

 

[del1962]

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The winner of this year's Tour has to born again to have just 1/10 of Contador's talent. 1/10. It's that simple. Case closed.

the only thing you are bringing with that kind of statement is froome being brilliant and astonishingly talented athlete.

Contador is a rare talent. Riders like him, Boonen, Hushovd, Freire, Cavendish, Petacchi, Cancellara, Devolder, Gilbert, Pozzato, Ballan, Valverde, Cunego, Andy Schleck, Basso, Menchov, di Luca, Sami or Purito define a generation.

Just for the record... Bettini, Van Avermaet, McEwen, Bennati, Greipel, Evans, Sastre and many others are also on this list...

You missed out Lance

 

[dacooley]

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Haha I was thinking the same thing :lol:
He goes on to name about 30 other 'rare' talents, just like Contador!
Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

on top of that, it is being done markedly purposefully. So to speak 'Yes, Froome won some Tours somehow, I have nothing to do but accept it. Still in terms of talent he's nowhere compared to best of the best in our sport'. . Quasi, one's talent is what I want to see and impressive palmares does not nesessarily evidence a rare talent.

 

[buchanan]

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Haha I was thinking the same thing :lol:
He goes on to name about 30 other 'rare' talents, just like Contador!
Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

on top of that, it is being done markedly purposefully. So to speak 'Yes, Froome won some Tours somehow, I have nothing to do but accept it. Still in terms of talent he's nowhere compared to best of the best in our sport'. . Quasi, one's talent is what I want to see and impressive palmares does not nesessarily evidence a rare talent.

It's so amusing :lol: Yet so obvious that the poster is deliberately not acknowledging Froome and his many dominant Tour wins (as if they are nothing), because of an intense personal dislike of Froome.
Riders like Bennati, Bettini, Ballan, Pozzato and 30 or so others he named are all 'rare' talents who 'define a generation'. But serial Tour de France winner Chris Froome is nowhere. Because logic.

 

[42x16ss]

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Haha I was thinking the same thing :lol:
He goes on to name about 30 other 'rare' talents, just like Contador!
Interestingly he doesn't mention the rarest talent of all the rare talents - 4 times Tour de France winner Chris Froome.

on top of that, it is being done markedly purposefully. So to speak 'Yes, Froome won some Tours somehow, I have nothing to do but accept it. Still in terms of talent he's nowhere compared to best of the best in our sport'. . Quasi, one's talent is what I want to see and impressive palmares does not nesessarily evidence a rare talent.

It's so amusing :lol: Yet so obvious that the poster is deliberately not acknowledging Froome and his many dominant Tour wins (as if they are nothing), because of an intense personal dislike of Froome.
Riders like Bennati, Bettini, Ballan, Pozzato and 30 or so others he named are all 'rare' talents who 'define a generation'. But serial Tour de France winner Chris Froome is nowhere. Because logic.

It's probably because when riders like Bennati, Ballan, McEwen, Schleck, Menchov and Pozzato were winning at the highest level, Froome was holding onto motorbikes, crashing into commissaires and getting dropped by Simon Gerrans...

 

[Pennino]

Hopefully we will have one last showdown. You know I don't like Froome, but that has not so much to do with him rather than with his ridiculous team. Luckily the Vuelta is a whole lot of a different matter in terms of controlling the race.

 

[lenric]

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Pidgeons. Chess. why?

Fanboys. Cognitive ability temporarily decreased. Why?

 

[dacooley]

getting dropped by gerrans after having been bonked on a several kilometer muro is such a big shame...