Easy win for Sanchez in the sprint...
Dont know why Valverde took the lead in the final km, should have stayed on Sanchez wheel
Dont know why Valverde took the lead in the final km, should have stayed on Sanchez wheel
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tobydawq said:Damn. Another gift for Sánchez or has he really become that fast?
Edit: I don't think it was a gift.
Salvarani said:Easy win for Sanchez in the sprint...
Dont know why Valverde took the lead in the final km, should have stayed on Sanchez wheel
GuyIncognito said:tobydawq said:Damn. Another gift for Sánchez or has he really become that fast?
Edit: I don't think it was a gift.
Sanchez used to be fast but not anymore. And this was a gift.
tobydawq said:Salvarani said:Easy win for Sanchez in the sprint...
Dont know why Valverde took the lead in the final km, should have stayed on Sanchez wheel
The problem was that Bilbao had the 3 seconds from yesterday so he couldn't allow the tempo to drop too much.
LaFlorecita said:The applause was obviously just to congratulate him on a great win. Luisle sat on his wheel in the last k and we know he has fast legs this season, while Valverde hasn't yet impressed in sprints. I see no reason to believe it was a gift (and frankly it is a bit insulting).
LaFlorecita said:The applause was obviously just to congratulate him on a great win. Luisle sat on his wheel in the last k and we know he has fast legs this season, while Valverde hasn't yet impressed in sprints. I see no reason to believe it was a gift (and frankly it is a bit insulting).
No offense, but it does seem like you're closing your eyes for the truth here. "Valverde hasn't won yet and he always wins when he sprints, ergo he hasn't sprinted yet" is not a correct conclusion. To me it seems like he is just a little below the level we are used to. Maybe he will reach that level later or maybe he won't, but to argue he must not be trying because he isn't winning is a bit arrogant.Koronin said:LaFlorecita said:The applause was obviously just to congratulate him on a great win. Luisle sat on his wheel in the last k and we know he has fast legs this season, while Valverde hasn't yet impressed in sprints. I see no reason to believe it was a gift (and frankly it is a bit insulting).
Valverde hasn't exactly bothered to sprint yet this year. If he sprints he wins. This was a blatant gift, and a much more blatant one than last year.
LaFlorecita said:No offense, but it does seem like you're closing your eyes for the truth here. "Valverde hasn't won yet and he always wins when he sprints, ergo he hasn't sprinted yet" is not a correct conclusion. To me it seems like he is just a little below the level we are used to. Maybe he will reach that level later or maybe he won't, but to argue he must not be trying because he isn't winning is a bit arrogant.Koronin said:LaFlorecita said:The applause was obviously just to congratulate him on a great win. Luisle sat on his wheel in the last k and we know he has fast legs this season, while Valverde hasn't yet impressed in sprints. I see no reason to believe it was a gift (and frankly it is a bit insulting).
Valverde hasn't exactly bothered to sprint yet this year. If he sprints he wins. This was a blatant gift, and a much more blatant one than last year.
That means as much as his fans saying so, absolutely nothing.Koronin said:Well several of his friends are saying he gifted this to Sanchez.
LaFlorecita said:That means as much as his fans saying so, absolutely nothing.Koronin said:Well several of his friends are saying he gifted this to Sanchez.
Luísle is also from Murcía, and is the defending champion. That's part of his justification for collaborating, once he'd got their gap established so that he was guaranteed to be the best placed of the Astana riders, he sat on to ensure he was most likely to take the win. Risky, but paid off.yaco said:Surprisingly Leon Sanchez worked with Valverde in the last 10km - Thought he would sit on Valverde's wheel and make a certainty of the finish.
TourOfSardinia said:I like gifts.
Would be funny though if the curse of the rainbow extends a month or two.
Let's be honest here, there are still several races he hasn't won that he could win/could have won. Tirreno, Paris-Nice, Tour de Suisse, Tour de Romandie, Brabantse Pijl, AGR...RedheadDane said:I can't help but wonder if it's the "curse" of becoming too content, he has basically won everything he could reasonably hope to win.
So now he'll just have to try to win something unreasonably, such as... a mass sprint in a Grand Tour.
But anyway; Lutsenko just won in Oman.