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Teams & Riders Geraint Thomas

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El Pistolero said:
No, you're wrong about him coming from England. What losses? That you can't read that he was talking about an English team to which you responded "where do you think he comes from?". Well, not England smart-***.

lol. I see I het your nerve button again :eek: just say whatever I say in reverse /el calimero strategy

also of course I know thomas is from wales. I'm the author of the eurotour db. nobody knows more about cycling and facts like those than I do, I'm sure of.
 
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Richeypen said:
G will at least podium P-R one day. He has never shown anything in the Ardennes though. Henao, Uran, EBH and JTL will fight out Skys Ardennes leadership

Edvald will not do any of the Ardennes this year. At least that is the plan for now. He will take a short brake after the cobbles, relax and slowly start preparing for the Tour. Concerning GT, he has comparable climbing skills with EBH apart from EBH's explosiveness and could be a contender in the finales in AGR and LBL in years to come.
 
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auscyclefan94 said:
I thought Geraint Thomas was going to win the Tour de France this year? His performance on Wilunga did not indicate that! :p

Not sure who was saying that, people have said he's a contender for the cobbles and the performance overnight is an irrelevance to his chances in Flanders. Some might actually it's a positive as he may now realise he's never going to be a decent climber and he will hopefully concentrate on what he is best at.
 
Bernie's eyesore said:
Not sure who was saying that, people have said he's a contender for the cobbles and the performance overnight is an irrelevance to his chances in Flanders. Some might actually it's a positive as he may now realise he's never going to be a decent climber and he will hopefully concentrate on what he is best at.
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(and some characters to make the post longer :rolleyes:)
 
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maltiv said:
Where did you read that? I'm pretty sure he'll do AGR, particularly with the route change.

Indeed, would be bit stupid after his performance in the Worlds on pretty the same circuit as Amstel is.

But I guess if he's peaking for Roubiax as he said, it will be hard to carry that form over Amstel as well.
 
Gloin22 said:
Indeed, would be bit stupid after his performance in the Worlds on pretty the same circuit as Amstel is.

But I guess if he's peaking for Roubiax as he said, it will be hard to carry that form over Amstel as well.
Why? It's just one week later. If some peak for the Flanders/Roubaix why can't he peak for Roubaix/Amstel?
 
trevim said:
Why? It's just one week later. If some peak for the Flanders/Roubaix why can't he peak for Roubaix/Amstel?
To be honest he should peak for MSR and RVV, he has no chance in P-R anyway and AGR is probably a long shot. But EBH usually has no definite "peaks" anyway, he is quite steady throughout the entire season.
 
trevim said:
Yeah, it's certainly one of the things I'm planning to do someday. But I guess you're hinting that it's probably very hard to recover properly from Roubaix in time for Amstel?
The thing with Roubaix in difference to other bike races is that it's not just your legs hurting, but your entire body. Basically every muscle you have is sore afterwards. Just getting on a bike the next couple of days is a challenge. So it will be almost impossible to be well prepared for AGR.
 
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Thomas certainly has the potential to podium at Roubaix this year. He will be a protected rider this year. Standard was a monster last year pulling the Sky chase alone for 20km+. He'll get his chance if anything happens to Thomas.
In 2011 Thomas got taken down in the dust along with Boonen by some clueless Iberian iirc, effectively finishing both Boonen and Thomas' race. That was the year of Boonen's mechanical in Arenberg and mega chase back that G latched on to and Chavanals epic crashfest/chase. That was an awesome race!
 
LugHugger said:
Standard was a monster last year pulling the Sky chase alone for 20km+.
Meanwhile Boonen, alone, increased his gap by a minute and still had 30 km to go by himself...Sure, it was a decent ride by Stannard, but nothing more. If that were a "monster" ride then basically everyone in top 30 of P-R are monsters. Hayman was a lot better, for instance.
 
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maltiv said:
Where did you read that? I'm pretty sure he'll do AGR, particularly with the route change.

Didn't read it, I heard it from himself on a training ride in Oslo:) This may change but right now the plan is to not ride any of the Ardennes.
 
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maltiv said:
Meanwhile Boonen, alone, increased his gap by a minute and still had 30 km to go by himself...Sure, it was a decent ride by Stannard, but nothing more. If that were a "monster" ride then basically everyone in top 30 of P-R are monsters. Hayman was a lot better, for instance.

Really? How many other riders had their nose in the wind chasing Boonen for that long? The rest of the top 30 sucked wheels until 10km to go rather than contribute. Hardly monster rides imo.
 
LugHugger said:
Really? How many other riders had their nose in the wind chasing Boonen for that long? The rest of the top 30 sucked wheels until 10km to go rather than contribute. Hardly monster rides imo.
Is simply being at the front impressive, if you're not going particularly fast? No one else wanted to work. Stannard could've gone at 20 km/h and those wheelsuckers still wouldn't have reacted.

I'm just saying that if what Stannard did is classified as a "monster ride" then there are simply no words explaining Boonen's performance...
 
maltiv said:
I'm just saying that if what Stannard did is classified as a "monster ride" then there are simply no words explaining Boonen's performance...
Tom Boonen is the greatest cobbles rider of all time. And on that day he was on top form. In those circumstances it's very possible for someone to put in a 'monster ride' and fail.
 
I somehow still think Thomas would do better on a long climb than on a climb such as today. He's a diesel, who easily loses 25 seconds on a few hundred meters if things get explosive.

But it's hard to ever see him become real good at climbs, or a GT contender like Wiggins. Probably the top 30 he did before is around the best he can do. Maybe a top 15 in the vuelta one (heck, Peter Velits even got 3rd there :rolleyes:)
 
Dekker_Tifosi said:
I somehow still think Thomas would do better on a long climb than on a climb such as today. He's a diesel, who easily loses 25 seconds on a few hundred meters if things get explosive.

But it's hard to ever see him become real good at climbs, or a GT contender like Wiggins. Probably the top 30 he did before is around the best he can do. Maybe a top 15 in the vuelta one (heck, Peter Velits even got 3rd there :rolleyes:)

Thomas is being written off too soon. Two years a go many people would not have picked Wiggins to win a Tour let alone win one easily. It's early days for Thomas. Like Wiggins he was spending a lot of time concentrating on track racing and now that part of his career has finished. Same with Bobridge and the Meyer brothers. Will interesting to see how far they have progressed in two years time.
 
Dekker_Tifosi said:
I somehow still think Thomas would do better on a long climb than on a climb such as today. He's a diesel, who easily loses 25 seconds on a few hundred meters if things get explosive.

But it's hard to ever see him become real good at climbs, or a GT contender like Wiggins. Probably the top 30 he did before is around the best he can do. Maybe a top 15 in the vuelta one (heck, Peter Velits even got 3rd there :rolleyes:)

Give him some time to lose the track fat and then make that call.
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
I somehow still think Thomas would do better on a long climb than on a climb such as today. He's a diesel, who easily loses 25 seconds on a few hundred meters if things get explosive.

But it's hard to ever see him become real good at climbs, or a GT contender like Wiggins. Probably the top 30 he did before is around the best he can do. Maybe a top 15 in the vuelta one (heck, Peter Velits even got 3rd there :rolleyes:)

Well, the reason why Thomas cracked in the final km of Wilunga was because when EBH finished his long consistent turn of pace, Thomas simply cracked. The attacks that made a real difference came after that, as a result of Thomas not being able to keep the pace.
 
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auscyclefan94 said:
Well, the reason why Thomas cracked in the final km of Wilunga was because when EBH finished his long consistent turn of pace, Thomas simply cracked. The attacks that made a real difference came after that, as a result of Thomas not being able to keep the pace.

So the reason Thomas cracked is because he cracked? Got it.