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Now, they may have access to confidential information and that is why they engaged in this raid. But otherwise it is pretty hilarious to imagine that they watched this Tour and thought, "Arkea Samsic, now that is the team that looks the most suspicious!"Does Nairo’s pre tour build up count?
Nairo Quintana's hotel room searched by French police on Tour de France
Arkéa-Samsic manager confirms raid on team hotel at Méribel to L’Équipewww.cyclingnews.com
UAE was the next hotel over. Probably got confused.Now, they may have access to confidential information and that is why they engaged in this raid. But otherwise it is pretty hilarious to imagine that they watched this Tour and thought, "Arkea Samsic, now that is the team that looks the most suspicious!"
I'd have to say that elephant in the room of "Why" was pointedly not addressed in the article. Not even a "no information on why Quintana was targeted was immediately available" or some other...you know...journalistic remark was given.Now, they may have access to confidential information and that is why they engaged in this raid. But otherwise it is pretty hilarious to imagine that they watched this Tour and thought, "Arkea Samsic, now that is the team that looks the most suspicious!"
I would say top 5 easily due to the importance. Landis and his ride is on another level at #1 for me, but there are few other performances that are more shocking than that TT. I was sure that he was pacing himself poorly and I though Roglic was going to pull him back. At one point on the early part of the climb, they showed the virtual difference in GC and he was losing seconds with every pedal stroke and then it was clear that it was Heras/ Nozal redux from that point.I agree with you that it's top 10 and likely top 5.
Sounds like you started watching about the same time I did.
He wasn't terrible in the rest of the Giro. He was actually getting better with the days.Froome 2018 Giro stage 19 was easily better than Pogacar's TT, especially because he was absolutely terrible the entire race except for 1 other stage
Froome was getting stronger as the race went on and he won on Zoncolan in the week before the raid – hardly terrible..
Race was blown to pieces already on lower slopes of Finestre, Yates dropped, then it was pretty much a Froome vs Dumoulin TT, with Dumoulin getting some attacks instead of any help.
Still a crazy performance, yes, but I don't think it's the same level as a good-but-not great TTer who looks to be getting weaker during the race smashing some of the worlds top TTers by 1:20 and 2 minutes...
Froome was getting stronger as the race went on and he won on Zoncolan in the week before the raid – hardly terrible..
Race was blown to pieces already on lower slopes of Finestre, Yates dropped, then it was pretty much a Froome vs Dumoulin TT, with Dumoulin getting some attacks instead of any help.
Still a crazy performance, yes, but I don't think it's the same level as a good-but-not great TTer who looks to be getting weaker during the race smashing some of the worlds top TTers by 1:20 and 2 minutes...
I agree and I saw all 3 live. Pogacar was strong all race while Froome was struggling for the most part. Landis was just alien.Landis and Froome are easily above Pogacar's TT. Pogacar is up there, just not at that level.
are we ignoring the 2 crashes Froome had?Froome 2018 Giro stage 19 was easily better than Pogacar's TT, especially because he was absolutely terrible the entire race except for 1 other stage
are we ignoring the 2 crashes Froome had?
That TT at the weekend was on another planet compared to froome
Annency doesn't even come close tbh. It was barely an outlier He beat Cancellara but overall gaps in that ITT were really smallI'd say by pure performance in the last 18 years, these TTs made me say "WTF" out of loud:
2004 Besancon
2007 Albi (Vino+Rasmussen)
2009 Mendrisio
2009 Annecy
2013 Mont-Saint Michel
2003 Tour de France Ullrich TT, forgot the name of the place
And, Saturday will be a part of one of these performances.
Can I nominate Nairo for the most forgettable doped performance? I mean come on, if they found something compromising that would actually say a lot about the current state of the sport. Doped Nairo, a shadow of his former self. What would be the conclusion for the others then? Especially for the two Slovenians or WvA?