tobydawq said:
DFA123 said:
These excuses lately are becoming a bit Contador-esque. As with Contador, I think it could mean that he can't find any other explanation for his declining form, and hasn't accepted yet that he's just getting too old.
Still, the change of course at LBL has probably done him a favour. Now he might have an outside chance with his sprint, whereas I don't think he'd have any chance on the old finish in Ans.
He said he wouldn't use it definitively as an excuse and that he had been below par at Flèche and very much so at Amstel. You don't think being stung by a bee can influence badly on performance just a teensy tiny bit?
Well, he said "I don't like to make excuses, but it might have had an effect, or it might not." And just by mentioning it, he's making an excuse. Of course, being stung by a bee an hour before the finish, didn't have any impact on his performance on Mur de Huy. Just as the weather being 20C at Amstel, wasn't the reason for him struggling there.
He needs to cut this bs out.