SundayRider said:I don't think a 7k prologue this early in this season is a good indicator of doping/not doping in all honesty.
Yeah, I agree. Valverde was really pushing it in the technical sections so I don't find the result that surprising.
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SundayRider said:I don't think a 7k prologue this early in this season is a good indicator of doping/not doping in all honesty.
Lanark said:No. Luckily we have plenty of other results that prove Movistar is a complete joke. The 2012 Tour had the effect that many of us feared.
Lanark said:No. Luckily we have plenty of other results that prove Movistar is a complete joke. The 2012 Tour had the effect that many of us feared.
EnacheV said:I think there is no anti-doping control for Valverde after this race. Or ?
As some people noticed, he just put 15 seconds over 7km in to Sir Bradley
BigMac said:Sir Brad was done with road cycling by the end of 2012.
Everything normal with Valverde's performance.
Valverde: ''Primera CRI con la nueva cabra; estreno inmejorable'' which by other words means, Canyon > Pinarello.
Yeah or like that time when Cavendish won a 2km prologue with a few seconds. He would have won with more than a minute if it had been 50kmEnacheV said:I think there is no anti-doping control for Valverde after this race. Or ?
As some people noticed, he just put 15 seconds over 7km in to Sir Bradley
Gung Ho Gun said:Yeah or like that time when Cavendish won a 2km prologue with a few seconds. He would have won with more than a minute if it had been 50km
The Hitch said:Valverde has always owned these smaller Spanish races. Take a look at his palmares. This is a guy who even with a 2 year gap has amassed more cq points or uci points than any other active rider and iirc more cq points than anyone since records began.
Nothing new.
EnacheV said:The first of the moviborg breed ? welcome
Rollthedice said:Valverde is at his level. Nothing to question here. Sir Brad on the other hand is not. No surprise, it's the first race of the season. I really don't see the point in this topic.
As for Movi as a team, it remains to be seen if they applied the same advanced science and hard work as Sky and become a real contender in races that matter.
Rollthedice said:Valverde is at his level. Nothing to question here. Sir Brad on the other hand is not. No surprise, it's the first race of the season. I really don't see the point in this topic.
As for Movi as a team, it remains to be seen if they applied the same advanced science and hard work as Sky and become a real contender in races that matter.
Rollthedice said:Valverde is at his level. Nothing to question here. Sir Brad on the other hand is not. No surprise, it's the first race of the season. I really don't see the point in this topic.
EnacheV said:how do you know valverde is at his level and wiggins is not ? you have a crystal ball ?
Idk, some climber putting 15 secs over a 7km prologue in to Wiggins seems to me like an extremely ridiculous thing. No matter at what levels they are.
You mean since 2010?EnacheV said:Now i remember the ITT and GC destruction in San Luis early this year.
2014 will be the first year when a team wins 2+ GT's, and it won't be Sky
Rollthedice said:Valverde is at his level. Nothing to question here. Sir Brad on the other hand is not. No surprise, it's the first race of the season. I really don't see the point in this topic.
As for Movi as a team, it remains to be seen if they applied the same advanced science and hard work as Sky and become a real contender in races that matter.
Netserk said:You mean since 2010?
Who won the Giro and who won the Vuelta that year?EnacheV said:i added, "after a long time" and 2010 TdF winner is not Contador, so it goes back a little longer since one team wins 2 gt's.
EnacheV said:Now i remember the ITT and GC destruction in San Luis early this year.
2014 will be the first year, after a long time, when a team wins 2+ GT's, and it won't be Sky
Netserk said:Who won the Giro and who won the Vuelta that year?
EnacheV said:Mikkel Condé v2.0 @mrconde
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You know Valverde is flying when he puts in 14 sec on Wiggins in a flat prologue, just coming off "some days with high fever after Dubai".
the sceptic said:no one thinks Valverde is clean.
now, maybe you could explain how this uberdoper Valverde got destroyed so badly by the clean Froome in the tour last year?