Luis Leon Sanchez - what on Earth has happened???

[orbeas]

Lls

T-Mobile used to be the same - Savoldelli, Botero, Julich, Evans to name just a few.

its those horrible Giant bikes !!!!!

 

[greenedge]

I think he is struggling to adjust. He will win some races later in the year probably and will be aggresive in the TDF. It will be a good tactic for Rabo and Gesink to send him and Mollema up the road on easier stages. T-Mobile just had too many leaders.

 

[Escarabajo]

the thing is it really happened, when jvdb was a junior. this is why de cauwer shouldn't talk about dopers and doping because he was one of the worst influences himself.

I also know of some Belgians who don't like JvdB because they don't trust him and think he is doping. He has some kind of arrogant air. Like the annoyed responses against the press last year. Reminds me of T.Dekker

He scored high on the "UCI Black List" no?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

yeah but according to lotto that had to do with the altitude camps

anyway that list was entirely random so i don't take that one seriously anyway

 

[Escarabajo]

yeah but according to lotto that had to do with the altitude camps

anyway that list was entirely random so i don't take that one seriously anyway

I don't trust the UCI one bit, but I won't say that the list is "entirely random" either.

Regarding Lulu's drop in performance, let's wait after the Tour de France. I know a change in teams can affect some riders a lot, but some other things can be even worse.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

that list doesn't say anything, it's just a list for uci to see who they want to test the most, this has to do with sudden improved results, which is totally random, or even sickness of a rider which changes bloodvalues and uci want to be sure. I laughed hard at people believeing that crappy list, especially look at berredo, lol, if he doped is another proove it's all between your ears

 

[hrotha]

What's particularly strange about an ex-Liberty young gun doping?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

it's not strange only it wouldn't matter in the results anyway unless it was mental. which could be true because all doping nowadays is mental

 

[hrotha]

it's not strange only it wouldn't matter in the results anyway unless it was mental. which could be true because all doping nowadays is mental

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mental ?

 

[movingtarget]

I don't know if Sanchez will make it as a GC rider in grand tours. He does well in one week stage races but then so does Tony Martin.........sometimes. I see Sanchez as more of a stage hunter. With his solid climbing and time trialling you would think he would do well in some of the classics. Usually when he wins it's an opportunist type move like Voeckler. He times his attacks well. This year he has been invisible.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Fastest time for Sanchez halfway through the Spanish ITT champs.

 

[Hiddas]

And also at the end. LLS stays TT champoin of Spain:


1. Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank) 56m43s
2. Jonathan Castroviejo (Euskaltel-Euskadi) + 1m01s
3. Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard) + 1m12s
4. José Ivan Guttierrez (Movistar Team) + 1m47s
5. Jesus Herrada (Movistar Team) + 2m10s
6. Alejandro Marque (Onda) + 2m32s
7. Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) + 2m35s
8. Jesus Del Nero (Team NetApp) + 3m07s
9. Jesus Rosendo (Andalucía-Caja Granada) + 3m17s
10. Lluis Mas (Burgos 2016) + 3m19s

So it seems like he is getting his top form we haven't seen this year yet

 

[Kwibus]

More then a minute on nr.2.

Also beats Contador, but that doesn't tell us jack as this was the first race Contador did after the Giro.

I hope for LLS that he will perform well in the TdF.

 

[mewmewmew13]

And Lulu's back!!

 

[jaylew]

By a 4 years older Sioutsou, meh, not that bad.

By 4 you mean 2, right?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Let's make it 2 and 10 months or sth.. allknow is at the time Sivtsov was 23 and Dekker 20

 

[jaylew]

I have their birth dates as Sept 6, 1984 and August 9th, 1982 so I'll give you 2 years and 1 month assuming those are correct. But yes, Dekker was certainly younger by a couple of years.

 

[webvan]

Bertie looks like he's going to be more "human" at this year's TDF...Good for Lulu anyway.

 

[greenedge]

I expect Sanchez to go well at the TDF and go for GC maybe at the Vuelta. If not he can always go back to Valverde.

 

[Sophistic]

Bertie looks like he's going to be more "human" at this year's TDF...Good for Lulu anyway.

Ahh just the same stuff as last year, performing subpar a couple of weeks before the big event and then bang the 40 Watts extra are back.

 

[Escarabajo]

And also at the end. LLS stays TT champoin of Spain:


1. Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank) 56m43s
2. Jonathan Castroviejo (Euskaltel-Euskadi) + 1m01s
3. Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard) + 1m12s
4. José Ivan Guttierrez (Movistar Team) + 1m47s
5. Jesus Herrada (Movistar Team) + 2m10s
6. Alejandro Marque (Onda) + 2m32s
7. Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) + 2m35s
8. Jesus Del Nero (Team NetApp) + 3m07s
9. Jesus Rosendo (Andalucía-Caja Granada) + 3m17s
10. Lluis Mas (Burgos 2016) + 3m19s

So it seems like he is getting his top form we haven't seen this year yet

Who are the other riders (Other than Contador)???

Sometimes people question the Colombians when they ride agains other nobody's in their land. Well, what about this!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Jonathan Castroviejo won the prologue at Romandie and at Madrid and is a young, promising rider who is good at ITTs - 8th in Tirreno-adriatico and 9th in the longer Romandie ITT.

José Iván Gutiérrez... you really want me to explain? Multiple national ITT champion, twice Eneco Tour winner, has won and podiumed ITTs at the top level for best part of a decade now including 2nd in the Worlds in 2005, and is one of the most respected domestiques out there.

Jesús Herrada is a very, very promising youngster with a good ITT. He's a neo-pro this year who has been turning some heads.

Alejandro Marque rides mostly in Portugal and has been a good ITT rider and rouleur for David Blanco at Palmeiras for a couple of years. He's always been an ITT specialist.

Gorka Izagirre is another promising Euskaltel youngster with cyclocross experience.

Truth be told, it's not the strongest lineup, for sure, but there are some other decent names further down - David Blanco and David Bernabéu both appear way down but both are out of form, time and aging. Rubén Plaza is a good time triallist who is out injured, Héctor Guerra is banned, the other GC men with good time trials (Sánchez, for example) aren't riding.

But overall, the depth of ITT riding in Spain is pretty weak. Juan José Cobo was roped into representing them in the Worlds ITT in 2009 after the suspension of Guerra.

 

[Escarabajo]

Jonathan Castroviejo won the prologue at Romandie and at Madrid and is a young, promising rider who is good at ITTs - 8th in Tirreno-adriatico and 9th in the longer Romandie ITT.

José Iván Gutiérrez... you really want me to explain? Multiple national ITT champion, twice Eneco Tour winner, has won and podiumed ITTs at the top level for best part of a decade now including 2nd in the Worlds in 2005, and is one of the most respected domestiques out there.

Jesús Herrada is a very, very promising youngster with a good ITT. He's a neo-pro this year who has been turning some heads.

Alejandro Marque rides mostly in Portugal and has been a good ITT rider and rouleur for David Blanco at Palmeiras for a couple of years. He's always been an ITT specialist.

Gorka Izagirre is another promising Euskaltel youngster with cyclocross experience.

Truth be told, it's not the strongest lineup, for sure, but there are some other decent names further down - David Blanco and David Bernabéu both appear way down but both are out of form, time and aging. Rubén Plaza is a good time triallist who is out injured, Héctor Guerra is banned, the other GC men with good time trials (Sánchez, for example) aren't riding.

But overall, the depth of ITT riding in Spain is pretty weak. Juan José Cobo was roped into representing them in the Worlds ITT in 2009 after the suspension of Guerra.

You certaily know your riders very well.

Let's wait for the Tour de France then.

 

[ericthesportsman6]

Thought a bump was appropriate. The real test now is can he use this great position to hang onto a top 10 finish.

 

[craig1985]

Haters gonna hate.