Contador

[El Pistolero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOJLuePexs

saying sorry to andy schleck yeah that's manly.sorry... contador is a goddamn big champion but you can't say he's a patron,a boss.merckx now that was manly!hinault even better he had the right to do nasty things to any guy in the peloton.lance,the boss,he would have chased you down if you said something about his friend michele.now that's manly.
alberto is just a silent,calm,classy,shy big big champion.same as indurain.
i don't say that one of this style of behaving is bad or good but that's just how i see it.

You do realize he only apoligized because Riis asked him to, right?

 

[Angliru]

Ok I made a generalization, if they are in the NBA, then 99.99% they are skilled. But I cannot believe that 66.67% or 75% that you claim are classy players. About 400 active NBAers at a time, I do think it would be hard to find 100 or more that are not classy.

I also do not watch NBA, NFL, or MLB. Boring.

If I guess that you also don't follow these particular sports either then how can you make the statements that you're making?

 

[El Pistolero]

Hmm...Ronaldinho really?

According to Scirocco: I do not know a direct comparison, but a cocky, classless, showoff, complainer, not a good teammate, stat padder, all about the money.

It's true that both are/were very talented, yet I don't see Ronaldinho being all that.

Btw, isn't Tevez like that?

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/09/15/Cristiano_Ronaldo_Im_Rich_Handsome/

 

[The Plediadian]

cancellara a real man lol because real man tell an entire peloton to stop to wait for 2 guys that can't stay on their bikes, and whines every single time a classic doesn't go in his favour.

also contador may give away stages but he is a million times the man most guys in the peloton are, name a more aggressive GC rider? name a guy that races more for the win through the year? name a guy that doesn't complain like contador when faced with huge adversities?

Cancellera stopped the race to make it a race. I am sure Bjarne, and the TDF organizers approved. Was Cancellera fined, or did anyone challange him.
?

Cancellera had the most epic wins in Roubaix and Flanders in a long long time. He races to win and win big.
Contador wins big too, but why not slaughter the peloton to pieces in the races, like Merckx or Hinault, or the former rider Armstrong.
Contador needs to kill kill kill and not give boy hugs to Andy... not manly.

 

[afpm90]

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/09/15/Cristiano_Ronaldo_Im_Rich_Handsome/

Well, that's not Ronaldinho, the brazilian player.

 

[El Pistolero]

Well, that's not Ronaldinho, the brazilian player.

Yeah, I always mix those two up

For the record, I was talking abour Ronaldo.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Contador wins big too, but why not slaughter the peloton to pieces in the races, like Merckx or Hinault, or the former rider Armstrong.
Contador needs to kill kill kill and not give boy hugs to Andy... not manly.

Incredibly manly. Just because he is a nice guy doesn't mean he isn't manly.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Yeah, I always mix those two up

For the record, I was talking abour Ronaldo.

Lol...........

 

[El Pistolero]

Lol...........

The only thing I know about football is what comes in the newspapers

 

[cineteq]

Yeah, I always mix those two up

For the record, I was talking abour Ronaldo.

You meant Cristiano Ronaldo, the portuguese player??? Nice!!! LOL!!!!

 

[El Pistolero]

You meant Cristiano Ronaldo, the portuguese player??? Nice!!! LOL!!!!

Epic fail on my part, I know

It happens. Though in my defense, I have only slept for 3-4 hours every day for a week now(exams).

 

[Sciocco]

If I guess that you also don't follow these particular sports either then how can you make the statements that you're making?

Watching is different than following. So take it has someone who does not bother to watch those sports, but is shown what the sports media decides to show and NBA looks very bad in that regard. You hear about players calling other players out and demanding trades just because much more often than you hear about anything nice.

Cancellera stopped the race to make it a race. I am sure Bjarne, and the TDF organizers approved. Was Cancellera fined, or did anyone challange him.
?

Cancellera had the most epic wins in Roubaix and Flanders in a long long time. He races to win and win big.
Contador wins big too, but why not slaughter the peloton to pieces in the races, like Merckx or Hinault, or the former rider Armstrong.
Contador needs to kill kill kill and not give boy hugs to Andy... not manly.

In the 2011 Giro, after Contador won on the the climb up Mt. Etna was there really any chance someone else was going to win the Giro? That was a statement of statements saying, "I'm the best and you cannot hang with me" to his GC competitors. He also continued to break them on other climbs, but since he had basically won he had the opportunity to sit back some as well. He was thinking of the TdF as well.

 

[BYOP88]

Cancellera stopped the race to make it a race. I am sure Bjarne, and the TDF organizers approved. Was Cancellera fined, or did anyone challange him.
?

Cancellera had the most epic wins in Roubaix and Flanders in a long long time. He races to win and win big.
Contador wins big too, but why not slaughter the peloton to pieces in the races, like Merckx or Hinault, or the former rider Armstrong.
Contador needs to kill kill kill and not give boy hugs to Andy... not manly.

Armstrong didn't really slaughter the peloton in the style of Merckx/Hinault. Armstrong used the 'blue train' for as long as possible and then attacked from a very small group at some point on the final climb, whereas Merckx and Hinault attacked from distance(at times).

 

[The Plediadian]

Watching is different than following. So take it has someone who does not bother to watch those sports, but is shown what the sports media decides to show and NBA looks very bad in that regard. You hear about players calling other players out and demanding trades just because much more often than you hear about anything nice.



In the 2011 Giro, after Contador won on the the climb up Mt. Etna was there really any chance someone else was going to win the Giro? That was a statement of statements saying, "I'm the best and you cannot hang with me" to his GC competitors. He also continued to break them on other climbs, but since he had basically won he had the opportunity to sit back some as well. He was thinking of the TdF as well.

Some epic riding by Alberto in the 11 Giro. I do not know why he doesn't embarass riders like he did on that one climbing stage in the 2009 TDF.

That was epic Alberto.

 

[Galic Ho]

Who's the equivalent of Randy Moss in Football, a.k.a Soccer for Americans? That will give global meaning to which you're trying to say.

Any English footballer or big name EPL player. John Terry, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs. All classy guys. They bang their mates wives, their brothers wife, random hookers and then complain about not getting big enough pay packets. I could always go on about some Italian players who probably masquerade at Burlusconi's bunga bunga parties or perhaps the French players (Ribbery and his mates) who entertained the services of a 17 year old girl. Real classy.

On the other hand the nations these men represent have some outstanding gentlemen footballers. Football breeds a sense of superiority in it's young players. I am paid more and fans adore me. Add in my below average IQ and I mistakenly think I'm something amazing. Good thing they're paid a lot of money...lawyers and union reps shut the papers up really well. Footballers regardless of the league or form are always up to no good. They make cyclists look like saints. They benefit from having more money and extended influence in the media so their discretions and bad behaviour can be ignored. Take Ryan Giggs for example. He had a high court judge slap an injunction on the media naming his affairs. Took an MP to use parliamentary privilige to put him in his rightful place.

 

[uphillstruggle]

I do not know why he doesn't embarass riders like he did on that one climbing stage in the 2009 TDF.

That was epic Alberto.

I don't know why some on these boards think that AC has been holding back since that Verbier climb. If he could smash his opponents he would, just like on Etna. The last two tours he has not had the form and/or the other riders have stepped up a level. Sure the guy is hands down the best climber/stage racer in the world but it's not like he just soft pedals around then, wham - pulls out a Verbier/Etna performnace out when ever he likes. He's just the best not God.

 

[c&cfan]

I don't know why some on these boards think that AC has been holding back since that Verbier climb. If he could smash his opponents he would, just like on Etna. The last two tours he has not had the form and/or the other riders have stepped up a level. Sure the guy is hands down the best climber/stage racer in the world but it's not like he just soft pedals around then, wham - pulls out a Verbier/Etna performnace out when ever he likes. He's just the best not God.

As far as i know, alberto only did 3 GTs (maybe 2) without setbacks/problems.

2007 tour, he was too young, he was going there to work for someone, etc.
2008 giro-- out of form.
2008- well, i count it as one of those without setbacks, even if the whole season was a setback.
2009 tour - perfect, even with wonder boy.
2010 tour - sick, not at his best, problems with the departure of half of his team, etc..
2011 giro - perfect prep, destruction.

at the vuelta, 2009 tour, 2011 giro he simply destroyed them when he had to. angliuru, verbier, the whole giro... not to mention demonstrations of power at other races.

 

[uphillstruggle]

As far as i know, alberto only did 3 GTs (maybe 2) without setbacks/problems.

2007 tour, he was too young, he was going there to work for someone, etc.
2008 giro-- out of form.
2008- well, i count it as one of those without setbacks, even if the whole season was a setback.
2009 tour - perfect, even with wonder boy.
2010 tour - sick, not at his best, problems with the departure of half of his team, etc..
2011 giro - perfect prep, destruction.

at the vuelta, 2009 tour, 2011 giro he simply destroyed them when he had to. angliuru, verbier, the whole giro... not to mention demonstrations of power at other races.

I wasn't questioning his obvious strength. When he's on he can ride away from every body on a climb (usually with one attack) but he has to be in good form. He is not holding back when he doesn't do that it's that he can't or doesn't want to risk being countered.

I don't buy the sick excuse he pulled out in 2010, he wasn't up to his best at any point in 2010 (yet still won about 5 stage races. And he had a better team than he did last year.

 

[Sciocco]

And he had a better team than he did last year.

Well of course, Vino was there.

 

[Kwibus]

Karsten Kroon has a column in the Procycling Benelux and he wrote about Contador this time.

It's a funny read and I'd like to make a small quote: "I've had the pleasure to be in the same team of Menchov, Schleck and Evans and work with them directly, but sorry guys...this man (Contador) is simply in a league of his own."

 

[LaFlorecita]

Karsten Kroon has a column in the Procycling Benelux and he wrote about Contador this time.

It's a funny read and I'd like to make a small quote: "I've had the pleasure to be in the same team of Menchov, Schleck and Evans and work with them directly, but sorry guys...this man (Contador) is simply in a league of his own."

You think there's any chance I can find it online?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Karsten Kroon has a column in the Procycling Benelux and he wrote about Contador this time.

It's a funny read and I'd like to make a small quote: "I've had the pleasure to be in the same team of Menchov, Schleck and Evans and work with them directly, but sorry guys...this man (Contador) is simply in a league of his own."

I like Kroon when he writes. Often very good stuff, but lets face it: Contador's palmares outshines any of the other guys and besides the last thing Kroon would do is making his current captain look like an average master rider.

 

[Kwibus]

You think there's any chance I can find it online?

Can't find it online. Well since your from Holland I guess you'll have to go to a local shop and buy the latest procycling

It's mostly interviews with riders which can be quite interesting. And some background stories. I must say it's a very nice magazine(great photos as well!) to read through so why not buy it? Not too much recent cycling news which is good imo as I and most real cycling lovers allready read that somewhere else before the magazine is released.

 

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