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For what they spent putting their team together, it’s still not been a great year.Zinoviev Letter said:And suddenly in two days, UAE’s season looks a lot less dismal
fantomas said:Lequack said:luckyboy said:lol July is going to be so fun!
Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
So you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Lequack said:luckyboy said:lol July is going to be so fun!
Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
Gigs_98 said:In all seriousness, how likely is it that Thomas just gets sky's tdf leader status? I know Froome will probably be stronger but Thomas will gain huge chunks of time on most contenders in both the ITT and especially the TTT, he is most likely even better than Nibali on the cobbles and his climbing seems to be great too. Froome has the giro in his legs so it's not like his shape will be great without a doubt and more importantly, sky won't want to throw away Thomas's gc ambitions for a froome win which he might lose one month later. At least giving him a free role seems reasonable
Of course he is.Alexandre B. said:Beware Geraint Thomas the mountain goat.alspacka said:I still doubt sky will dominate a race with 4 consecutive MTFs without Froome & Bernal.
hazaran said:Gigs_98 said:In all seriousness, how likely is it that Thomas just gets sky's tdf leader status? I know Froome will probably be stronger but Thomas will gain huge chunks of time on most contenders in both the ITT and especially the TTT, he is most likely even better than Nibali on the cobbles and his climbing seems to be great too. Froome has the giro in his legs so it's not like his shape will be great without a doubt and more importantly, sky won't want to throw away Thomas's gc ambitions for a froome win which he might lose one month later. At least giving him a free role seems reasonable
The dude has no GC results to speak of, clearly he has a high ceiling but in practice is just another frickin Porte, constantly crashing, losing time, illness, bad day, bad descents, ..
Gigs_98 said:So you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Lequack said:luckyboy said:lol July is going to be so fun!
Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
I already feel sorry for making such a bad joke
Let's not forget he's in his last year of contract, something that somehow gives some extra watts as seen with many other riders.Alexandre B. said:Of course he is.Alexandre B. said:Beware Geraint Thomas the mountain goat.alspacka said:I still doubt sky will dominate a race with 4 consecutive MTFs without Froome & Bernal.
Wiggins 2.0, dropping world class climbers effortlessly.
Your username is fantomas but you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Gigs_98 said:So you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Lequack said:luckyboy said:lol July is going to be so fun!
Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
I already feel sorry for making such a bad joke
I might be slightly biased. He actually might just be able to top-3 the Tour at some point, but I highly doubt it. Giro or Vuelta? No way.
Edit: I didn't catch the joke and still don't. :lol:
bob.a.feet said:Bold prediction: Emanuel Buchmann will finish on the podium
Leinster said:For what they spent putting their team together, it’s still not been a great year.Zinoviev Letter said:And suddenly in two days, UAE’s season looks a lot less dismal
If Martin, Costa and Kristoff all peak at the Tour together, it could be very different, and a mediocre spring will be pretty much forgotten.
Gigs_98 said:Your username is fantomas but you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Gigs_98 said:So you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Lequack said:Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
I already feel sorry for making such a bad joke
I might be slightly biased. He actually might just be able to top-3 the Tour at some point, but I highly doubt it. Giro or Vuelta? No way.
Edit: I didn't catch the joke and still don't. :lol:
That was bad.Gigs_98 said:So you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Lequack said:luckyboy said:lol July is going to be so fun!
Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
I already feel sorry for making such a bad joke
I liked yesterdays Mont Noir-Lans en Vercors combo design, even though it lacked one or two 1C/HC climbs before Mont Noir. But it was a very boring stage, no one attacked on Mont Noir.Flamin said:Serves them right for having such a boring race when you create such a turd of a route.
Nibali casually strolling in amidst rider at the end of their ropes looks pretty funny. You could just see he couldn't care less.fantomas said:Nibali ninjaing his way through Dauphine. Finished 16 today, 59 secs behind Martin. I didn't even notice him at any point.
Red Rick said:Nibali casually strolling in amidst rider at the end of their ropes looks pretty funny. You could just see he couldn't care less.fantomas said:Nibali ninjaing his way through Dauphine. Finished 16 today, 59 secs behind Martin. I didn't even notice him at any point.
Forever The Best said:That was bad.Gigs_98 said:So you aren't a tomasfanfantomas said:Lequack said:luckyboy said:lol July is going to be so fun!
Sky to take the Tour podium with Froome, Thiomas and Bernal?
Thomas will never top-3 a GT.
I already feel sorry for making such a bad joke
I liked yesterdays Mont Noir-Lans en Vercors combo design, even though it lacked one or two 1C/HC climbs before Mont Noir. But it was a very boring stage, no one attacked on Mont Noir.Flamin said:Serves them right for having such a boring race when you create such a turd of a route.
Today was just a Unipuerto. Which meant a very boring stage, and the expectations were met for today.
Red Rick said:Nibali casually strolling in amidst rider at the end of their ropes looks pretty funny. You could just see he couldn't care less.fantomas said:Nibali ninjaing his way through Dauphine. Finished 16 today, 59 secs behind Martin. I didn't even notice him at any point.
Flamin said:Forever The Best said:Ofc, the overall design is very important too. If you have 3 more MTFs after that stage, it's pretty obvious that yesterday wouldn't work.Gigs_98 said:fantomas said:I liked yesterdays Mont Noir-Lans en Vercors combo design, even though it lacked one or two 1C/HC climbs before Mont Noir. But it was a very boring stage, no one attacked on Mont Noir.Serves them right for having such a boring race when you create such a turd of a route.
Today was just a Unipuerto. Which meant a very boring stage, and the expectations were met for today.
Yesterday was fine as a stage in itself, but not when followed by 3 GC-relevant stages. There was never going to happen anything because of that.
Salvarani said:Red Rick said:Nibali casually strolling in amidst rider at the end of their ropes looks pretty funny. You could just see he couldn't care less.fantomas said:Nibali ninjaing his way through Dauphine. Finished 16 today, 59 secs behind Martin. I didn't even notice him at any point.
"Care less" is bad terminology though
He simply sees this as preparation, does not follow the accelerations and just take his tempo instead
Might see him tryna go for a stage tho this weekend