Teams & Riders He's coming home!!!! Alejandro Valverde comeback thread.

[Forever The Best]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXYIKJAe7p/?hl

Fernando Alonso congratulates his win as well.

 

[Kwibus]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

 

[Tim Booth]

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Maybe he should ride Paris-Tours, too. That's becoming less and less a sprinter's classic these days, and going to fast finishers out of smart breakaways.

difficult, as Movistar will not be at Paris-Tours
provisional start list
http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=Mjg1NjQ=

 

[spalco]

Yep, clearly the most deserving champion in the peloton. Seven podiums now in the WC, and finally on the top step. No-one objective wants to see the likes of Woods or Bardet representing the WC stripes.

Either one of them would have made fine world champions too.

But Valverde did deserve it more.

 

[No_Balls]

Shot out to the spanish armada aswell. Freile is a monster.

 

[Red Rick]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that say nothing, but whatever.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that say nothing, but whatever.

You dont seem overly happy that Valverde won. Brian Holm has said many times that the peloton very much likes and respects Valverde, despite the case.

Contador tweeted this yesterday: "No hay un ciclista que se merezca ganar un Mundial más que tú!!! Enhorabuena @alejanvalverde !!!"

 

[Asero831]

Shot out to the spanish armada aswell. Freile is a monster.

imagine that he is a last minute replacement to Landa

 

[Red Rick]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that say nothing, but whatever.

You dont seem overly happy that Valverde won. Brian Holm has said many times that the peloton very much likes and respects Valverde, despite the case.

Contador tweeted this yesterday: "No hay un ciclista que se merezca ganar un Mundial más que tú!!! Enhorabuena @alejanvalverde !!!"

I should have specified. The 2nd GVA quote says nothing. I can perfectly accept that Valverde is well respected in the peloton.

 

[tobydawq]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that say nothing, but whatever.

You dont seem overly happy that Valverde won. Brian Holm has said many times that the peloton very much likes and respect Valverde.

Contador tweeted this yesterday: "No hay un ciclista que se merezca ganar un Mundial más que tú!!! Enhorabuena @alejanvalverde !!!"

Yeah, it's quite annoying to have to live with all this negativity, especially from at poster whose name is written with red letters. On the other hand, there hasn't really been anything else than negativity from that side this whole summer.

I could also have been more negative after Milan-Sanremo because Nibali wouldn't have won it without the motos but who wants to hear those things when a rider you cheer for has just won an unlikely (in Nibali's case) or an incredibly long overdue (in Valverde's case) big victory?

So many riders in the peloton are happy for Valverde. But we can't trust that to be true or what? He seems to be a very nice person, and the riders probably realise that more than the fans, which could explain why he to this day still has so much negativity surrounding him when he wins. Online, that is.

One telling point, though, was that Cyclingnews yesterday tweeted a poll where they wanted to know whom from the front three, the viewers had been cheering for. I was quite surprised that Valverde won that poll with 33% in front of Dumoulin and Woods. So he seems to be more popular than what I would have thought.

 

[Red Rick]

I should have specified, which I did a post later

And since when does being an admin mean I can't state my opinion.

 

[tobydawq]

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Did you even read the last post before yours?

No, that was posted while I was writing.

Still:

"There's no justice in the world

I'll guess I'll wake up in a **** ditch somewhere next saturday"

The first reaction, and then general grumpiness the rest of the evening.

 

[tobydawq]

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I should have specified, which I did a post later

And since when does being an admin mean I can't state my opinion.

It's just a bit grating that your opinions so rarely are positive. But the admin part probably does not have much to do with it, and I would have been annoyed by it either way, so I probably should just have not written the red letter part.

 

[Blanco]

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Spain also has a pretty strong team and can send Mas up the road, but yeah, Valverde seems very susceptible to get on the wrong side of the split on very aggressively ridden races (on the biggest races).

Right now I'm thinking the reverse would be better, but that won't happen.

You're right, it won't happen,
and you're wrong, it wouldn't be better.

Valverde was going downhill at the end of the Vuelta, and was one of the best climbers on one of 8 mountain stages.

Mas came out of the Vuelta a lot better. I just think Valverde is a known entity who isn't gonna win in a W/kg drag race at this point.

You were saying...

 

[Angliru]

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I'll believe Valverde can win Vlaanderen when I see it.

all right, calm down

You do realize that he is saying he is skeptical of Valverde's chances, don't you? Your post implies that you think that Red Rick is saying that he thinks he can win it.

 

[Kwibus]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that say nothing, but whatever.

I dont agree, usually you can notice it when an not liked rider wins something big. You can read in between the lines that they really hate it that rider X won. I thought it was quite clear they had absolutely no problem with Valverde winning, despite his past which got mentioned every time.

Actually I was surprised since some dutch riders are quite outspoken on subjects like this, but they seemed to sincerely feel that he deserved it. From young till old.

 

[Rollthedice]

Pretty much all dutch riders said in their post race interview that Valverde deserved it, despite his past. GVA also said pretty much the same.

Despite his past he is well respected. GVA also said he doesnt believe the old man is still dirty.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that say nothing, but whatever.

I dont agree, usually you can notice it when an not liked rider wins something big. You can read in between the lines that they really hate it that rider X won. I thought it was quite clear they had absolutely no problem with Valverde winning, despite his past which got mentioned every time.

Actually I was surprised since some dutch riders are quite outspoken on subjects like this, but they seemed to sincerely feel that he deserved it. From young till old.

He is likable and professional. About his "past", well he is riding better after 35 and, as seems the general consensus of the riders his "past" is past time. Logical, no?

 

[Moviestar]

Hats off to Valverde, since the beginning of this season he was talking about the Worlds as a big objective and even with his downfall in the Tour and the last days of the Vuelta he always reminded everyone that he wanted to be 100% at the Worlds and he truly pulled it off.

 

[joe_papp]

Did anyone else suffer through reading Caley Fretz's disgusting anti-Valverde screed, "I wish Valverde hadn’t won", published by CyclingTips?

https://cyclingtips.com/2018/10/i-wish-valverde-hadnt-won/

 

[Bardamu]

Long way to say that he preferred the others.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Did anyone else suffer through reading Caley Fretz's disgusting anti-Valverde screed, "I wish Valverde hadn’t won", published by CyclingTips?

https://cyclingtips.com/2018/10/i-wish-valverde-hadnt-won/

Disgusting indeed, disgusting indeed. What a moron. *** the US media.

 

[Red Rick]

Apart from being seemingly naive about riders who haven't popped up in the clinic, I have trouble seeing what's so outrageous about that article.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Apart from being seemingly naive about riders who haven't popped up in the clinic, I have trouble seeing what's so outrageous about that article.

Just seen and read way too much of this stuff coming from Anglo and especially American media to have any kind of sympathty towards it, especially from this particular dude

 

[GuyIncognito]

I don't see a problem with that article.

He seems to be saying nothing bad about Valverde himself, just that he would've preferred someone else won simply because that would mean we wouldn't have to listen to the passive-aggressive doping comments that seem to be all over the place.

If anything the article seems to slightly take Valverde's side.

 

[Angliru]

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Did anyone else suffer through reading Caley Fretz's disgusting anti-Valverde screed, "I wish Valverde hadn’t won", published by CyclingTips?

https://cyclingtips.com/2018/10/i-wish-valverde-hadnt-won/

I love the text where he says: "He won a race in his first post-ban race, rising up from his handlebars at the line like a human middle finger."