GP Miguel Indurain - 2 April 2016

[Valv.Piti]

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Don't think Purito has to worry about selection for the Olympics, he and Valverde should be certainties regardless of their results unless they get ill/injured.

Not if you're best result is 11th in Catalunya.

I mean, guys like Dani Moreno, Ion, Navarro and others are banging on the door.

Even Sammy can still be there.

Lets chill until the second stage in Pais Vasco, maybe he has had some sickness, a bad day or whatever. 11th in Catalunya should indicate he is on the right path and with the route suiting him down to the ground, I cannot see him not winning one stage or at least get top-5.

 

[Isaak-Gabriel]

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By the way, where is Aigor Galdeano, the Basque clown of Twitter, 0 post for 5-6 months.

You mean Mr. Fiestina?

He was blocked by twitter because of a 'racist' tweet and deleted his account

Gosh, how this man who seemed very nice can turn like that, too bad. Thanks for the info.

 

[Arredondo]

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By the way, where is Aigor Galdeano, the Basque clown of Twitter, 0 post for 5-6 months.

You mean Mr. Fiestina?

He was blocked by twitter because of a 'racist' tweet and deleted his account

Gosh, how this man who seemed very nice can turn like that, too bad. Thanks for the info.

To defend him, it was not a racist tweet in my eyes. A lot of people thought that too.

 

[Arredondo]

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Don't think Purito has to worry about selection for the Olympics, he and Valverde should be certainties regardless of their results unless they get ill/injured.

Not if you're best result is 11th in Catalunya.

I mean, guys like Dani Moreno, Ion, Navarro and others are banging on the door.

Even Sammy can still be there.

Lets chill until the second stage in Pais Vasco, maybe he has had some sickness, a bad day or whatever. 11th in Catalunya should indicate he is on the right path and with the route suiting him down to the ground, I cannot see him not winning one stage or at least get top-5.

I expect a good result too. Based on how he finished the race, just chatting with Zandio, he took this race purely as training. Just like he did in 2012, for example.

But you never know ofcourse.

 

[boris03]

Anyone knows top 10?

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Veeeeenga Ion! One of my fav riders, definitely. He almost never gets to win, did he really outsprint Henao on 8%? Anyways, seemed like a nice race, unfortunately I couldn't catch it (it was televised, aight?)

The last few hundred meters were very technical, once in there passing Izaguirre was very hard

Oh thanks. Just looked at the results and thought dafuq for a sec, Ion winning races is as rare as Gilbert winning these days.

 

[BigMac]

Fred Figueiredo 10th, trevim must be happy.

 

[yaco]

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Adam Yates was never going anywhere by himself..Would have been better sitting the peloton and getting others to work

Once OGE missed the break Yates was doomed - Its been a bad 2 weeks for OGE.

 

[Brullnux]

Why did Nairo DNF? Traning ride?

 

[HelloDolly]

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By the way, where is Aigor Galdeano, the Basque clown of Twitter, 0 post for 5-6 months.

You mean Mr. Fiestina?

He was blocked by twitter because of a 'racist' tweet and deleted his account

Gosh, how this man who seemed very nice can turn like that, too bad. Thanks for the info.

To defend him, it was not a racist tweet in my eyes. A lot of people thought that too.

I felt so sorry for this guy...produced some very good stuff

made one stupid mistake ...mostly because of ignorance rather than malicious intent and he gets castigated on Twitter...The outraged masses with the holier than thou attitude were out in force...the vitriol was in hyper drive
If he had murdered someone I doubt he would have had the same reaction
Social media are full of people who love to hate rather than point out the latest line that cannot be crossed in relation to racism


Only the other day a student group at the British University wanted to ban a yoga class becasue it is "cultural appropriation " ???

No wonder he cancelled his accounts

 

[DNP-Old]

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Why did Nairo DNF? Traning ride?

Because the race was pretty much over after the Izaguirre/Henao group got away.

 

[rick james]

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Don't think Purito has to worry about selection for the Olympics, he and Valverde should be certainties regardless of their results unless they get ill/injured.

Out of intrest what would be your Spanish team and who would be the leader?

 

[WheelofGear]

Lol. Some on the cyclist pundits were predicting Matthews as a favorite in a hard race like this. They will never learn.

 

[boris03]

Hugh Carthy finished 8th today.After fantastic perfomance in Catalunya,he did great again.

 

[Anderis]

Ben King 14th less than 3 months after he broke his fibula. Not bad.

And Moser hadn't been this strong in hilly race since 2013, I think?

 

[Brullnux]

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Why did Nairo DNF? Traning ride?

Because the race was pretty much over after the Izaguirre/Henao group got away.

fair

Ben King 14th less than 3 months after he broke his fibula. Not bad.

And Moser hadn't been this strong in hilly race since 2013, I think?

Moser had glimpses, very very small glimpses but glimpses nonetheless last year. A couple of times in Poland he made it to the finale in the front group or thereabouts. Actually I checked he made it once, in Zakopane. He didn't even make the top 10 there

But he came 8th up Willunga last year, and 7th in the Cuddles race. Also 3rd on a Vuelta stage after being in a break, the one Schleck one. His best performance since 2013 was probably 10th in the WC ITT, but in a hilly race I think this is his best. Against a decent field too. He should be happy. A massive step in right direction. Next stop Brabanste Pjil.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Man it would be great if Moser could back to his 2012 level. He was so good. His stage win in Tour of Poland when he overtook Henao was perfectly done. He truly had a killer instinct.

 

[ice&fire]

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Why did Nairo DNF? Traning ride?

I saw his poker face leading Movistar train chasing the break at the beginning of the TV broadcast with 70kms to the finish.