Walkman said:
Supimilian said:
The way some talk about him here you would think he already won the cobbles stage solo by a minute and crushed the record up Plateau de Beille.
He showed some form up the Mur after a sub-par TT and hasn't crumbled anywhere, and that's all for now. Sheesh. You would think he already had it in the bag by reading some of you guys. 2 minutes isn't all that much going into this last half.
Of course they do. People are hypocrites. It was all fun and game for many poster in the is very thread when Contador was the one breaking the all time VAM record and beating a fully primed Cancellara in the time trials. Now you will never hear the end of it as soon as Froome does something impressive. I mean, could you imagined the meltdown if Froome had done what Nibali did last year during the cobbled stage? Instant forum crash.
If you go and find the 2009 Tour threads, you'll see nothing of the sort. Most of us thought that Contador was hilarious and could have pushed anyone bar Indurain and Riis at their peak.
The '09 Contador was one of the first team leaders chosen in the fantasy dopers draft thread, right up with Indurain, Armstrong, Riis and Ullrich, by one of the posters people such as yourself constantly deride and was selected well ahead of your hero's farcical display in 2013. Most also saw it as the best remaining choice.
3/4 of posters in the Contador comeback thread agree that he'll be doped and some who voted no only did so for a laugh.
The reasons Froome gets piled on so much is:
In 2009 Froome got smacked around by the world class climber that is Simon Gerrans
In 2010 Froome got booted from the Giro for holding on to a police motorbike
In 2011 Froome was the lowest rated rider on the squad, didn't ride a monument or GT until Nordhaug got sick before the Vuelta. He had 62 CQ points for the year prior to the Vuelta FFS.
Contador doesn't act as if he's proud of sociopathic behaviour like cruelty to animals
Contador (and other high profile dopers) has never had hordes of nationalistic defenders.
Stray from the Sky threads occasionally (I know, it's scary, but you'll be fine) and you might learn what the rest of the forum
really thinks about Contador.