Is Pro Racing Less Exciting?

[trinfryit]

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[El Pistolero]

If we're going to make comparisons I'm going to compare Cadel Evans with Belgian football

 

[theyoungest]

If we're going to make comparisons I'm going to compare Cadel Evans with Belgian football

Cadel Evans is not utterly crap.

 

[El Pistolero]

Cadel Evans is not utterly crap.

Then he's like Holland. Losing when it matters, winning when it doesn't.

 

[Black-Balled]

Didn't read the thread...

I thought this year's Tirreno-Adriatico was a damn good race! Looked painfuL!

 

[Black-Balled]

Andy Schleck = Holland. Loads of talent, occasionally puts in a great performance, but just as likely to get drunk, chase girls and get sent home.

Lucky bastid!

 

[Angliru]

This is the problem. Spain have for so long been the Igor Antón of football, exciting, impressive, but collapsing in a heap before the end. Now they've hit on the success formula (and for this I blame José Mourinho in part, just cos he's the figurehead of it, not because he created it): be boring.

See also: Alejandro Valverde. Sure, he'd had a LOT of success from doing interesting things, and continued to have a lot of success from creating excitement in races in 2010 too (see Paris-Nice, Romandie, País Vasco). But in Grand Tours, the one time everything was all a-ok was the 2009 Vuelta, in which he did... well, not very much.

Well he did have that impressive Lazarus like comeback on La Pandera, but of course he didn't win the stage, impressive and quite exciting (at least for me) nonetheless.