theyoungest said:Last year's Tour de l'Ain winner did absolutely fantastic in the Vuelta, don't you remember?
(I do remember him coming to a complete standstill on a climb)
It is a shame Wout Poels will not take part in Vuelta
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theyoungest said:Last year's Tour de l'Ain winner did absolutely fantastic in the Vuelta, don't you remember?
(I do remember him coming to a complete standstill on a climb)
Nah, I guess it was a sprint, you don't usually get time differences in one of those.Timmy-loves-Rabo said:i wonder if wout poels did a celebration, might have been the difference between winning and not.
Timmy-loves-Rabo said:i wonder if wout poels did a celebration, might have been the difference between winning and not.
theyoungest said:Nah, I guess it was a sprint, you don't usually get time differences in one of those.
Jeez, shut up already! On the basis of the Tour de l'Ain, we can also safely conclude that Vacansoleil are ready for the Vuelta.Haimar wins Tour de l'Ain 2day and Levi wins Leadville 100. Looks like @teamradioshack is ready 4 Tour of Spain! Wait...We're not invited...
Denkoff said:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ULErSQh20 nice movie about Giro d'italia![]()
El Pistolero said:Team Radioshack should have been invited. The hate for anything LA related is too crazy for words here.
But let me guess, the guy that got second in the 2008 Vuelta(behind Contador for crying out loud) didn't proof he has the right to enter the race? Might as well not invite the Schleck brothers then. 95% chance they'll drop out.
Sheesh...
tgsgirl said:They made their bed by never, ever mentioning the Vuelta or deeming it a worthy race. If you only talk about the Tour, California, California and the Tour, then it’s no wonder the other races get a little miffed (especially if those races are infinitely better than Cali). And that’s not to mention the doping clouds the size of Paris, plus the fact that they’re not exactly setting the world on fire, racing-wise (they’ve had an ok season, but no more than that).
So it's most likely some sporting considerations (there’s not that much the Shack can do that others can’t, except for winning that pesky team classification which no one cares about), some image considerations (the doping thing) and some retaliation for being worth less than Cali in the eyes of the Shack. Same reason why they weren’t invited to Tirreno-Adriatico. If you don’t show any respect towards the race, then why should the race respect you?
El Pistolero said:Team Radioshack should have been invited. The hate for anything LA related is too crazy for words here.
But let me guess, the guy that got second in the 2008 Vuelta(behind Contador for crying out loud) didn't proof he has the right to enter the race? Might as well not invite the Schleck brothers then. 95% chance they'll drop out.
Sheesh...
El Pistolero said:Oh please, there are countless of people in that race that don't treat it with respect. Most of them just use this is a mere preparation race for the Worlds.
And I can list several teams they did invite that achieved far less.
Team classification is considered important in Spain actually. You know... Where it takes place?
I don't care that they didn't get invited, but people should stop saying they didn't deserve to be invited anyway. That's bull****.
tgsgirl said:Radioshack are a GC oriented team only, and they're ignoring one of the three biggest races there are. All the Shack's team classification hype is just to mask the fact that they're not actually winning races.
I'm not saying that based purely on sporting considerations all teams at the Vuelta are better than the Shack, but I do understand why they weren't invited.
El Pistolero said:They're not ignoring it if they wanted an invitation. There's so many people that don't care or ignore the Vuelta(except for a preparation), that can hardly stand up as an argument here.
El Pistolero said:What the other guy says makes a lot more sense(Landis case).
tgsgirl said:But when I said the exact same thing it didn't? Good thing I'm not the conspiracy theorist out of the two of us.
craig1985 said:From LA's twitter:
Go Bubba!!!
The mind boggles...