Lance Armstron broke away on Tour Down Under!

[Polish]

Lance does not take kindly to FAKE TdF winners.

That is why he chased down and neutralized the Pereiro beak.

Óscar can take THAT message back to his Team Leader

Bwahaha haha

Oh, and I don't mean Vino....

 

[Publicus]

Lance does not take kindly to FAKE TdF winners.

That is why he chased down and neutralized the Pereiro beak.

Óscar can take THAT message back to his Team Leader

Bwahaha haha

Oh, and I don't mean Vino....

I'm pretty sure Alberto will say "Qué?". And then laugh at how the Boss is merely a shadow of himself. And then get back to
training...

 

[BroDeal]

Lance does not take kindly to FAKE TdF winners.

Armstrong knows all about FAKE TdF winners. He has to look at one every day in the mirror.

 

[Tugboat]

Lance does not take kindly to FAKE TdF winners.

That is why he chased down and neutralized the Pereiro beak.

Ok um yeah... cause Floyd was such the real deal.

 

[Anonymous]

This thread's as lame as the headlines in the New Zealand newspapers this morning... "Kiwi heads off Lance Armstrong in tour prelude"

Thats a pretty appaling article...Does the reporter not realise that the cancer classic was not a 3 week, 20 stage race including 5 mountaintop finishes and two time trials..

 

[Anonymous]

I actually don't think Pereiro's actions were about sending any message to Lance or Radio Shack. It looked to me the goal was to have HTC-Columbia, Team Sky and other big train teams to use up
their energy chasing down the rabbits. Neither Astana nor Radio Shack (or Liguigas or FDJ or CdE) have trains to setup their sprinters (or what passes for a sprinter on their teams), so they have to look for ways to chip into the train led teams advantage. Armstrong and Pereiro were just serving as rabbits so to speak.

It's not all about Radio Shack v Astana. Not yet anyway.

In this instance I really just thought Pereiro was giving the new jersey some TV time, testing his own fitness a bit, and enjoying that he was out racing a bike and not retired and looking for something to do. I do like the one Graham Watson photo where it was Pereiro's turn on front, they were rounding a corner, and Armstrong's eyes were fixed on the middle of Oscar's back. It was probably just his way of staying in position, but...

Personally I'd be happy if it's never about Radio Shack versus Astana. I try my best to ignore The Shack completely,but Armstrong spends more time talking Smack than Shack. But various teams have a lot to prove this year, and once its on the road, I think it's fair to say that guys might try to do well against people who insulted them, like put Ricco in a classic against Cav.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Oh god... one race into the season and already a "lance went for a **** this morning" thread...

Just how many threads are we going to rack up by the end of the year devoted to the guy..?

Settle down Dim, though I do agree with you

 

[auscyclefan94]

Thats a pretty appaling article...Does the reporter not realise that the cancer classic was not a 3 week, 20 stage race including 5 mountaintop finishes and two time trials..

Still better than Tour of britain...

 

[Tugboat]

Thats a pretty appaling article...Does the reporter not realise that the cancer classic was not a 3 week, 20 stage race including 5 mountaintop finishes and two time trials..

Sports reporters here don't understand any sport that doesn't involve a ball being tossed around a patch of grass. I'm actually a little surprised that there's even an article at all.

 

[hfer07]

indeed LA broke away during the Race....
Will the news be published the same way when he bonks?

 

[Anonymous]

Sports reporters here don't understand any sport that doesn't involve a ball being tossed around a patch of grass. I'm actually a little surprised that there's even an article at all.

You would have thought henderson finished ahead of robbie mcewan and greipel would be more relevant than kiwi beats two tour de france winners in a crit that they where unsuited for..

My loathing of liggett and sherwen has hit an all time high today.. Im so glad im not american..

 

[auscyclefan94]

You would have thought henderson finished ahead of robbie mcewan and greipel would be more relevant than kiwi beats two tour de france winners in a crit that they where unsuited for..

My loathing of liggett and sherwen has hit an all time high today.. Im so glad im not american..

is that due to the continual lance talk?

 

[ravens]

He ain't daft, just old.
Did the same at last year's TDU.
Get in a break, then sit in the pack and the fawning press will write you up an over the top, headline grabbing, load of over hyped twaddle, that will have the fanboys drooling.
The advantage of being the one name, most of these non-cycling hacks, know.
Meaningless.
It's going to be another, long season of such lunacy.

Last season, the lunacy took me by surprise (I take full blame for naivete). This season, i am ready for it, and thus will laugh rather than get enraged. Bring on the fanboys!

 

[Anonymous]

is that due to the continual lance talk?

Erm i cant quite put my finger on it...

I love them really, very talented guys..

 

[Publicus]

Erm i cant quite put my finger on it...

I love them really, very talented guys..

That's awesome. If you could work in Bob Roll as his anus, you'd have
a Versus mascot/image for the TdF.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Erm i cant quite put my finger on it...

I love them really, very talented guys..

Hilarious...

Hey dim, im off to watch the highlights of the down under classic!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Take a look at the cycling central site and look at all the articles and blogs they have on him. It makes me sick...

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Lance does not take kindly to FAKE TdF winners.

That is why he chased down and neutralized the Pereiro beak.

Óscar can take THAT message back to his Team Leader

Bwahaha haha

Oh, and I don't mean Vino....

Uh, yeah. His team leader dropped Armstrong at will in the Tour. I'm sure Contador's really worried that Lance chased down a break in the crit and finished 61st.

 

[Anonymous]

This thread's as lame as the headlines in the New Zealand newspapers this morning... "Kiwi heads off Lance Armstrong in tour prelude"

some of the Aus media are hyping the TDU up as Armstrong and Evans going head-to-head... they just don't get it.

No way the best cyclist the world has ever seen could win the TDU.



Armstrong couldn't either

 

[Azdak6]

He ain't daft, just old.
Did the same at last year's TDU.
Get in a break, then sit in the pack and the fawning press will write you up an over the top, headline grabbing, load of over hyped twaddle, that will have the fanboys drooling.
The advantage of being the one name, most of these non-cycling hacks, know.
Meaningless.
It's going to be another, long season of such lunacy.

Made even longer by the obsessive need by you and the others to reflexively respond to every goofy post with the same tedious posturing.

 

[buckwheat]

Uh, yeah. His team leader dropped Armstrong at will in the Tour. I'm sure Contador's really worried that Lance chased down a break in the crit and finished 61st.

Ya gotta admit. Armstrong apparently is getting his preparations started early this year.

 

[scribe]

Erm i cant quite put my finger on it...

I love them really, very talented guys..

There is two of them. Can't be Lance.

 

[Jancouver]

to all the LA haters:

"When our group was formed, Armstrong's turns were twice as long as ours. He obviously enjoyed being in the front. He was fully on."

Française des Jeux's Mikaël Chérel, the other Frenchman in the break, was also impressed by Armstrong. Chérel was prompt to follow his fellow compatriot off the front and was a bit surprised to see the seven-time winner of the Tour de France joining them in the break.

"It was nice to be out there with him", Chérel said to Cyclingnews. "I don't know if he had something in mind, but he was doing a lot of efforts. It was really impressive. I can tell you that when you are on his wheel when he pedals at threshold, it hurts! He was a step above everybody else in the breakaway."

 

[auscyclefan94]

some of the Aus media are hyping the TDU up as Armstrong and Evans going head-to-head... they just don't get it.

No way the best cyclist the world has ever seen could win the TDU.



Armstrong couldn't either

The aus media have said that evans has alread conceded defeat at the tdu saying he cannot win the race.

 

[Ferminal]

to all the LA haters:

"When our group was formed, Armstrong's turns were twice as long as ours. He obviously enjoyed being in the front. He was fully on."

Française des Jeux's Mikaël Chérel, the other Frenchman in the break, was also impressed by Armstrong. Chérel was prompt to follow his fellow compatriot off the front and was a bit surprised to see the seven-time winner of the Tour de France joining them in the break.

"It was nice to be out there with him", Chérel said to Cyclingnews. "I don't know if he had something in mind, but he was doing a lot of efforts. It was really impressive. I can tell you that when you are on his wheel when he pedals at threshold, it hurts! He was a step above everybody else in the breakaway."

With that kind of form he must be odds on for Amstel Gold?