Geraint Thomas, the next british hope

[TourOfSardinia]

Brailsford doesn't need to keep his bf% down:

 

[the sceptic]

Only fans new to the sport swallow this!

On the more serious issue of whether Team Sky will release further data in an effort to prove they are racing clean, Thomas says, “It could help but a lot of the haters will always find a reason even if you give them all your blood results and power files. Why is it only Sky who have to do this? You don’t see Astana or Katusha giving out all their power files. Maybe Froomey and the team are too polite.”

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/oct/27/geraint-thomas-tour-de-france-team-sky-interview?

Funny how Thomas points to dopers who Sky beat and yet expects people to accept Sky are clean. Really Geraint, really????

GT calling people 'haters' is not what i would expect from someone who is clean.

Everyone is cleans, even Lance!

"But [Armstrong] is such an iconic figure in cycling that whenever he gets dragged through the mud the whole of the sport does.

"He has had numerous allegations thrown at him through the years but hopefully he hasn't done anything wrong. Hopefully people can let it go."

 

[Benotti69]

Only fans new to the sport swallow this!

On the more serious issue of whether Team Sky will release further data in an effort to prove they are racing clean, Thomas says, “It could help but a lot of the haters will always find a reason even if you give them all your blood results and power files. Why is it only Sky who have to do this? You don’t see Astana or Katusha giving out all their power files. Maybe Froomey and the team are too polite.”

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/oct/27/geraint-thomas-tour-de-france-team-sky-interview?

Funny how Thomas points to dopers who Sky beat and yet expects people to accept Sky are clean. Really Geraint, really????

GT calling people 'haters' is not what i would expect from someone who is clean.

Everyone is cleans, even Lance!

"But [Armstrong] is such an iconic figure in cycling that whenever he gets dragged through the mud the whole of the sport does.

"He has had numerous allegations thrown at him through the years but hopefully he hasn't done anything wrong. Hopefully people can let it go."

Cycling must be the most revisionist sport in the world!

 

[Irondan]

Shocker alert!

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/10/t...a-lot-more-achievable-after-2015-performance/

 

[Brian Butterfield]

"You could tell he [the dawg] was special because he had this really good engine. But he was so up and down and his knowledge of the sport was nothing"

"We shall take this hyper-responder and.... mould his putty-like mind!"

 

[thehog]

Re:

Shocker alert!

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/10/t...a-lot-more-achievable-after-2015-performance/

Another British rider to discover hard work and dedication. This bodes well for a new Walsh book... "The British Invasion - How Britain took on the European dopers and won clean".

 

[Irondan]

I'd love to see Thomas jump ship at the end of his deal and go to a team as a Tour leader.

LRP vs. The Alien vs. Geraint "I didn't know I was so strong" Thomas vs. Vincenzo "I'm a symbol of clean sport" Nibali vs. Nairo "almost there" Quintana vs. Piti.

Can't wait!

 

[oldcrank]

 

[IndianCyclist]

Re:

I'd love to see Thomas jump ship at the end of his deal and go to a team as a Tour leader.

LRP vs. The Alien vs. Geraint "I didn't know I was so strong" Thomas vs. Vincenzo "I'm a symbol of clean sport" Nibali vs. Nairo "almost there" Quintana vs. Piti.

Can't wait!

He is a top 5 at best like TJVG not really podium material.

 

[Irondan]

Re: Re:

I'd love to see Thomas jump ship at the end of his deal and go to a team as a Tour leader.

LRP vs. The Alien vs. Geraint "I didn't know I was so strong" Thomas vs. Vincenzo "I'm a symbol of clean sport" Nibali vs. Nairo "almost there" Quintana vs. Piti.

Can't wait!

He is a top 5 at best like TJVG not really podium material.

And your point is what?

Are you saying that GT has not completed a transformation much in the same manner as Wiggo or Froome?

Neither one of those guys were Tour winners, until they won the Tour....

 

[the sceptic]

can we get a new thread about this Geraint Thomas book so it doesn't get buried in this one?

 

[May0maniac]

Re: Re:

I'd love to see Thomas jump ship at the end of his deal and go to a team as a Tour leader.

LRP vs. The Alien vs. Geraint "I didn't know I was so strong" Thomas vs. Vincenzo "I'm a symbol of clean sport" Nibali vs. Nairo "almost there" Quintana vs. Piti.

Can't wait!

He is a top 5 at best like TJVG not really podium material.

And your point is what?

Are you saying that GT has not completed a transformation much in the same manner as Wiggo or Froome?

Neither one of those guys were Tour winners, until they won the Tour....

I expect Geraint to go thermonuclear in 2016, now we have already seen his strength and we already get articles about him really focussing on stage races and not on the classics next year and he gets hyped as a future tour winner. We could get another Froome-Wiggins situation, it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Gung Ho Gun]

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

 

[thehog]

Re:

can we get a new thread about this Geraint Thomas book so it doesn't get buried in this one?

Should I buy it and print excerpts?

 

[Catwhoorg]

Re:

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

Not hard.
The British public have never really embraced the Dawg.

G is a home grown former trackie, and easily ahead in popularity contests.

 

[Singer01]

Re: Re:

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

Not hard.
The British public have never really embraced the Dawg.

G is a home grown former trackie, and easily ahead in popularity contests.

i don't think it has that much to do with one being home grown and a trackie, so much as one being a seemingly normal, personable human, while the other is a bit of a knob.

 

[The Hitch]

Re: Re:

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

Not hard.
The British public have never really embraced the Dawg.

G is a home grown former trackie, and easily ahead in popularity contests.

i don't think it has that much to do with one being home grown and a trackie, so much as one being a seemingly normal, personable human, while the other is a bit of a knob.

Wait, which one is normal and personable?

 

[thehog]

Re: Re:

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

Not hard.
The British public have never really embraced the Dawg.

G is a home grown former trackie, and easily ahead in popularity contests.

i don't think it has that much to do with one being home grown and a trackie, so much as one being a seemingly normal, personable human, while the other is a bit of a knob.

I have to agree. G is by far more marketable than Dawg. Dawg is just awkward full stop and always looks like he hiding something.

If Sky are going to dope up their riders then they should have picked someone who at least looks like a cyclist. G can take that post very easily. He looks good on bike, way better than Froome. I think Brailsford will have to toss Dawg to one side this year and promote Thomas.

LRP was a pretender was never going to win a GT, ever.

 

[the sceptic]

“Geraint’s ridden for Bradley, Chris a lot. He’s ridden so well,” Brailsford continued. “Quite often, we use him as our road captain, he runs the team on the road. He led the Tour de Suisse for us this year, he rode Paris-Nice in the past as co-leader, he’s done well in the Tour Down Under. I think that the leadership role is the step up for him, it’s a bigger step, but it needs to be done.”

Brailsford is getting the bots ready for a new british GT winner. Why not next year? Would be great publicity with the olympics too.

“Instead of trying to prepare for the stage races after the classics, we’ll think about that sooner. I’m sure he’ll still ride Flanders and a couple of the Ardennes, it’s not as if he won’t ride any one-day races at all. However, in terms of his conditioning and how he’s going to prepare his season, it’ll be geared around getting the right credentials to be able to climb with the best in the world and, of course, time trial with the best in the world.”

Love this part. Geraint needs to ditch the classics in order to climb with the best in the world even though he already climbed with the best last year.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Re: Re:

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

Not hard.
The British public have never really embraced the Dawg.

G is a home grown former trackie, and easily ahead in popularity contests.

Another trackie turned grand tour dominator? The history of cycling is full of them.

 

[thehog]

Re: Re:

He also won the #TeamSkyRiderOfTheYearFanAward or something by a pretty large margin, so he's probably more popular than Froome

Not hard.
The British public have never really embraced the Dawg.

G is a home grown former trackie, and easily ahead in popularity contests.

Another trackie turned grand tour dominator? The history of cycling is full of them.

Evgeni Berzin was a track rider turned in GT rider. He showed the world that it could be done

I once started a thread long ago, track riders -> to GT riders. There was a reasonable size list. For some reason it matched the worlds most juiced up dopers list! With the exception of Wiggins of course...

 

[Winterfold]

Wiggins when he hears Froome is getting tossed for G

 

[the sceptic]

“These days, it’s so much focused on the Grand Tours. If you want to win the Tour, you can’t spread yourself thin over the Classics. It’s harder and harder to do so with it becoming so specialised,” Knaven told Cycling Weekly.

“In a few years, it’d be even harder for him. He has to change his focus to stage races, ride more in the mountains if he wants to do it. This is the last step that he needs, it’s more than normal that he can go for it.”

“If you have the potential to finish top five, top three or win, it’s a logical choice,” said Knaven.

I take it no one has told Brailsford that Knaven was a doper yet?

 

[thehog]

Re:

“These days, it’s so much focused on the Grand Tours. If you want to win the Tour, you can’t spread yourself thin over the Classics. It’s harder and harder to do so with it becoming so specialised,” Knaven told Cycling Weekly.

“In a few years, it’d be even harder for him. He has to change his focus to stage races, ride more in the mountains if he wants to do it. This is the last step that he needs, it’s more than normal that he can go for it.”

“If you have the potential to finish top five, top three or win, it’s a logical choice,” said Knaven.

I take it no one has told Brailsford that Knaven was a doper yet?

Walsh doesn't want to out him, it wouldn't be fair

 

[the sceptic]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/geraint-thomas-interview-the-olympic-gold-winning-cyclist-on-doping-learning-welsh-and-craving-a6722961.html

I still feel the effects of Lance Armstrong's cheating It was such a big lie, and he made all this money from cheating everyone. So people are still interested in the controversy, and it's why we still get doping questions directed at "Froomey" [this year's Tour de France winner, Chris Froome] and Team Sky all the time. It's a shame because if I do a good ride now, people wonder if I'm doping. You don't get that in any other sport. History will prove that I was doing it the right way.

Geraint Thomas is the one lying here. People aren't "interested in controversy" they compare you to Lance because you put out the same mutant power numbers as him. But hey, I bet Geraint is dumb enough to believe the propaganda they drill into his head at Sky HQ, he was a big Lance believer in 2012 after all