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Well at first I was like "meh this isn't taking off anyway" and then it did pick up but I couldn't be bothered to put together my own list.Netserk said:Why didn't you join as well hrotha?
hrotha said:Tour Jaja vs Vuelta Jaja (all 1995). A tough choice.
Yes, but he did that at the Tour, not the Vuelta.roundabout said:hrotha said:Tour Jaja vs Vuelta Jaja (all 1995). A tough choice.
The 1995 Tour Jalabert lost 3/4 high mountain stages and 1 long TT to a guy who hasn't been picked yet.
ciranda said:
I decided to skip my original choice and instead go leftfield with Frank Vandenbroucke from the 1999 Vuelta as my third choice, if it is my turn anyway. Everybody remembers the stage to Avila when he hammered the category two Navalmoral so hard that all GC contenders had to drop from his wheel. But just as insane was the stage to Alto de Abantos where he stayed with the leaders until late on the final mountain, then when he attacked he passed Jose Maria Jimenez in literally double speed. Roberto Laiseka was too far gone and won but VDB gained something like 35 seconds in a not very hard final kilometre.
All this was of course preparation for the World Championships in Verona where Frank would have won easily except he crashed and broke his wrist early in the race. His role on my team would be to get to that condition and then do whatever the **** he wants.
Netserk said:At least it means we can have some impartial commentary. It'd be great if jens decided to join for that as well.
WildspokeJoe said:Really enjoying the draft and each 'Director's' reasoning behind their picks.
Would enjoy it after you're done if you put up a poll to see whose team is deemed the dopest.
Glad someone agrees . This romanticism for the 1990's is taken too far imo. There's more great performances from the 90's, specifically Mig of course, Pantani as a pure climber (though not good enough tter) and Ulle and Riis (though I don't trust 1 hit wonders) but lets not act like every single person in the peloton who sniffed a GT stage in the 1990's could have done the Giro Tour double in the 2000's. Even the podium guys were finishing 10 minutes behind Mig and he wasn't even going for it full on half the time.Tonton said:Wonderboy plus The Chicken: nice beginning for you The Hitch.