Julian Alaphilippe

[Eagle]

My favorite part was how much Christian VandeVelde was enjoying it

 

[doperhopper]

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I think what happened today in Cali is of such magnitude it deserves it's own thread.

Alaphilippe acounts for 10% of tonight's sad show.

Today's miracles can be explained only by the power of shamanic ghosts living in these sacred mountains... or perhaps there was the "AMGEN(*) Day" today.
(*) = proud "creator" of EPO

 

[snccdcno]

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This is all I have found

https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/599704866638983168

@faustocoppi60
Alaphilippe, only 10 seconds slower than Horner-Leipheimer record time on Mt. Baldy. #ATOC

That's Jens twitter account, so yeah very fast...

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Today was just ridiculous.

 

[Ferminal]

Boslol too.

 

[WildspokeJoe]

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This is all I have found

https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/599704866638983168

@faustocoppi60
Alaphilippe, only 10 seconds slower than Horner-Leipheimer record time on Mt. Baldy. #ATOC

Alaphilippe was flying. 10 seconds slower, eh. I think year's field is the weakest one I can remember.

Sky looked to be the only team that fielded a true World Tour Team. BMC, Trek, and Cannondale's teams felt sub-par.

 

[ebandit]

entitled

seriously, give fuking Armstrong his titles back.

awesome post................not!

that's like saying alaphippe's performance is just cause to annul all team sky wins

and for the record the etixx boys only care about winning not what we think

Mark L

 

[SkyTears]

so Kwiatkowski wants 4 mil / year ?

no problemo say Lafevere & Ibarguen. we have the Julien rabbit in the hat

 

[The Hitch]

Re: entitled

seriously, give fuking Armstrong his titles back.

and for the record the etixx boys only care about winning not what we think

Mark L

So did Armstrong and di Luca and ricco, and vino and dekker and flandis etc. And that makes it ok then? No use complaining about doping, let's just ignore it because the perpetrators "don't care" what we think

 

[ebandit]

who said it was ok..............doh!

Mark L

 

[SkyTears]

this guy can sprint on flat to

give me a fking break

 

[Eagle]

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this guy can sprint on flat to

give me a fking break

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25728
Hes got some good results in sprints

 

[SkyTears]

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this guy can sprint on flat to

give me a fking break

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25728
Hes got some good results in sprints

yes i know, he showed talent from a young age

like Zakarin maybe ... ? lol

 

[Angliru]

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i heard UCI let USADA do antidoping tests here

i hope they catch both Julian and Sagan

this is so ridiculous that words can't describe, Armstrong and all his EPO era mates were 10x more believable.

I'd say it's on the same level as Hincapie going from cobbled classic specialist, to winning Tour mtf's to being talked up as Armstrong's successor.

 

[Eagle]

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this guy can sprint on flat to

give me a fking break

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25728
Hes got some good results in sprints

yes i know, he showed talent from a young age

like Zakarin maybe ... ? lol

Dont see any similarity to Zakarin

 

[Alexandre B.]

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i heard UCI let USADA do antidoping tests here

i hope they catch both Julian and Sagan

this is so ridiculous that words can't describe, Armstrong and all his EPO era mates were 10x more believable.

I'd say it's on the same level as Hincapie going from cobbled classic specialist, to winning Tour mtf's to being talked up as Armstrong's successor.

It's Tour of California here, a non-WT event with a weak field. Not the greatest stage race.

 

[Tonton]

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i heard UCI let USADA do antidoping tests here

i hope they catch both Julian and Sagan

this is so ridiculous that words can't describe, Armstrong and all his EPO era mates were 10x more believable.

I'd say it's on the same level as Hincapie going from cobbled classic specialist, to winning Tour mtf's to being talked up as Armstrong's successor.

It's Tour of California here, a non-WT event with a weak field. Not the greatest stage race.

Still, Alaphilippe raced yesterday's final climb only 10 seconds slower than super-doped Horner and Levi, Sagan finished only 30 seconds or so behind, that's pretty suspicious.

 

[Benotti69]

Re: Re:

i heard UCI let USADA do antidoping tests here

i hope they catch both Julian and Sagan

this is so ridiculous that words can't describe, Armstrong and all his EPO era mates were 10x more believable.

I'd say it's on the same level as Hincapie going from cobbled classic specialist, to winning Tour mtf's to being talked up as Armstrong's successor.

It's Tour of California here, a non-WT event with a weak field. Not the greatest stage race.

Not the greatest race, but that doesn't stop riders from doping. The level of competition never stopped people from cheating.

 

[frenchfry]

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Still, Alaphilippe raced yesterday's final climb only 10 seconds slower than super-doped Horner and Levi, Sagan finished only 30 seconds or so behind, that's pretty suspicious.

Tailwind?

 

[Tonton]

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Still, Alaphilippe raced yesterday's final climb only 10 seconds slower than super-doped Horner and Levi, Sagan finished only 30 seconds or so behind, that's pretty suspicious.

Tailwind?

Le Mistral

 

[luckyboy]

Good to see he is back to full form after his mono!

 

[gazr99]

Is the clinic losing its touch or is everyone too busy saying Sky is doping, with Landa pulling out? I like to believe most riders are clean and it is the odd 1% mixed with the sports history that ruins it for everyone, so I don't like to say he must be doping as the fact is, we can almost never be 100% sure.

However watching Alaphilippe basically sprint for almost the entire last 2km up Gibraltar Road had me sit up and think well that looks suspicious. He was flying whilst everyone else suffered, so I am surprised no one has mentioned anything on here or am I missing something?

 

[vedrafjord]

‏@ammattipyoraily says Alaphillippe's VAM was over 1700 - more info later today apparently.

 

[vedrafjord]

Incidentally Stetina is on Strava (no power meter, just GPS) - here's the climb in question https://www.strava.com/activities/579679493#14088875813 with a VAM of 1684. Alaphillippe finished 15 seconds ahead of Stetina.

 

[gazr99]

So we have an initial reference this is Lauren's Ten Dams data who finished 6th 33 seconds behind
https://mobile.twitter.com/procyclistsdata/status/732911831552032770