Teams & Riders Nairo Quintana discussion thread

[movingtarget]

Quintana obviously thinks the only way to beat Froome is to keep giving him three minute leads with a week to go. He must be an optimist or he simply believes that Froome has to weaken. Trouble is that Froome has not had to do much in the mountains so far.

 

[peterst6906]

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...In Ventoux, he was the first and the only that attack, besides Valverde. No one from the other GC guys attack, and all the people said that Quintana was outclimbed. I cant belive it. He even respond to the first attack from Froome. ..

How does your last sentence quoted support the view that no one from the other GC guys attack? You even said Froome attacked.

I'm no Froome supporter, but Quintana didn't make either of his attacks stick and was then dropped within 30 seconds of Froome attacking.

 

[HelloDolly]

Interesting on Quintana producing more power than Dumoulin in the TT ...so he is not sick
As I said before its the wind what did it

http://www.stickybottle.com/coaching/analysis-power-that-won-ventoux-how-being-aero-hugely-effected-tt/

 

[SeriousSam]

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He had a lot of unluck in the second weak beacuse of the wind, and the team that didnt defend. The wind is the worst enemy to a guy that weight 55-57 kilos. Its physics.

Yet the similarly sized Porte is going strong and unlike Quintana, he has actually had incredible misfortune. Quintana is lucky to be only 3 minutes back. Had it been the full climb, had there been no crash, it would probably be 4 minutes back

 

[DanielSong39]

Quintana tried; he's just not good enough this year.

At least he was exonerated in the motorbike incident - the entire footage makes it clear that he held on to the motorbike for a couple of seconds to maintain balance then let go.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re: Re:

He had a lot of unluck in the second weak beacuse of the wind, and the team that didnt defend. The wind is the worst enemy to a guy that weight 55-57 kilos. Its physics.

Yet the similarly sized Porte is going strong and unlike Quintana, he has actually had incredible misfortune. Quintana is lucky to be only 3 minutes back. Had it been the full climb, had there been no crash, it would probably be 4 minutes back

Porte and Quintana are not very similar tho. Porte is much more of a natural rouleur than Quintana, excelling one one climb mountain stages

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re: Re:

He had a lot of unluck in the second weak beacuse of the wind, and the team that didnt defend. The wind is the worst enemy to a guy that weight 55-57 kilos. Its physics.

Yet the similarly sized Porte is going strong and unlike Quintana, he has actually had incredible misfortune. Quintana is lucky to be only 3 minutes back. Had it been the full climb, had there been no crash, it would probably be 4 minutes back

porte is 10 kg heavier than quintana, so how are they similar?

 

[portugal11]

Re: Re:

He had a lot of unluck in the second weak beacuse of the wind, and the team that didnt defend. The wind is the worst enemy to a guy that weight 55-57 kilos. Its physics.

Yet the similarly sized Porte is going strong and unlike Quintana, he has actually had incredible misfortune. Quintana is lucky to be only 3 minutes back. Had it been the full climb, had there been no crash, it would probably be 4 minutes back

porte is 10 kg heavier than quintana, so how are they similar?

Porte has 58 kg. So you are saying that nairo has 48 kg

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re: Re:

He had a lot of unluck in the second weak beacuse of the wind, and the team that didnt defend. The wind is the worst enemy to a guy that weight 55-57 kilos. Its physics.

Yet the similarly sized Porte is going strong and unlike Quintana, he has actually had incredible misfortune. Quintana is lucky to be only 3 minutes back. Had it been the full climb, had there been no crash, it would probably be 4 minutes back

porte is 10 kg heavier than quintana, so how are they similar?

Porte has 58 kg. So you are saying that nairo has 48 kg

porte is 58? according to every place in internet he is 62 kg. I know this may not be true but I have no other sources to look at. quintana is 52 kg at start of a gt and probably around 50 kg now

 

[portugal11]

Re: Re:

He had a lot of unluck in the second weak beacuse of the wind, and the team that didnt defend. The wind is the worst enemy to a guy that weight 55-57 kilos. Its physics.

Yet the similarly sized Porte is going strong and unlike Quintana, he has actually had incredible misfortune. Quintana is lucky to be only 3 minutes back. Had it been the full climb, had there been no crash, it would probably be 4 minutes back

porte is 10 kg heavier than quintana, so how are they similar?

Porte has 58 kg. So you are saying that nairo has 48 kg

porte is 58? according to every place in internet he is 62 kg. I know this may not be true but I have no other sources to look at. quintana is 52 kg at start of a gt and probably around 50 kg now

Last year, he said that he would like to be at 58 kg in giro. He said this in paris nice and he looks similar in this tour

 

[Valv.Piti]

"One day more gone, I can't believe he doesn't attack, please entertain me, why is he riding for 2nd again"

 

[Alexandre B.]

Quintana has not lose any time on Mollema.

Looks good for another podium! #SueñoAmarillo

 

[ILovecycling]

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"One day more gone, I can't believe he doesn't attack, please entertain me, why is he riding for 2nd again"

Thank you that you summed up coming 2 pages of this thread


Tbh I think he really doesnt have legs for serious attack.

 

[Valv.Piti]

#SueñoBeatMollema

 

[Gloin22]

I wish if he can finish 2nd in GC without top 10in any stage. That would be an achievement equally worthy of winning Tour imho

 

[PremierAndrew]

Re: Re:

"One day more gone, I can't believe he doesn't attack, please entertain me, why is he riding for 2nd again"

Thank you that you summed up coming 2 pages of this thread


Tbh I think he really doesnt have legs for serious attack.

Yeah, he would definitely have attacked if he had the legs today. Even if he's riding for 2nd, Mollema is over a minute ahead of Nairo

 

[cineteq]

10 LET stage = 16
20 PRINT "I hope the legs will continue to be good. There are still a lot of mountains. We're going to try everything we can"
30 LET stage = stage +1
40 IF stage = 21 THEN 60
50 GOTO 20
60 END

 

[Miburo]

Great racing quintana. Gotta save yourself for tomorrow

 

[Alexandre B.]

The best action from Quintana today was when Froome trolled the group with his fake attack. Quick to respond.

 

[SeriousSam]

10 LET stage = 16
20 PRINT "I hope the legs will continue to be good. There are still a lot of mountains. We're going to try everything we can"
30 LET stage = stage +1
40 IF stage = 21 THEN 60
50 GOTO 20
60 END

If someone_attacks == True:
if Poels_still_there == True:
Unleash_the_Poels()
elif Landa_still_there == True:
Unleash_the_Landa()
elif Henao_stll_there == True:
Unleash_the_Henao()
else:
Full_Retard()

 

[trucido]

10 LET stage = 16
20 PRINT "I hope the legs will continue to be good. There are still a lot of mountains. We're going to try everything we can"
30 LET stage = stage +1
40 IF stage = 21 THEN 60
50 GOTO 20
60 END

If someone_attacks == True:
if Poels_still_there == True:
Unleash_the_Poels()
elif Landa_still_there == True:
Unleash_the_Landa()
elif Henao_stll_there == True:
Unleash_the_Henao()
else:
Full_Retard()

You forgot the yo-yo off the back of the group and pretend to be cooked part before going full ***.

 

[HelloDolly]

What Quintana now needs is that guy from Kungfu Panda ...the master guy

 

[cineteq]

Stick to BASIC

10 LET stage = 16
20 PRINT "I hope the legs will continue to be good. There are still a lot of mountains. We're going to try everything we can"
30 LET stage = stage +1
40 IF stage = 21 THEN 60
50 GOTO 20
60 END

If someone_attacks == True:
if Poels_still_there == True:
Unleash_the_Poels()
elif Landa_still_there == True:
Unleash_the_Landa()
elif Henao_stll_there == True:
Unleash_the_Henao()
else:
Full_Retard()

 

[Tonton]

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I wish if he can finish 2nd in GC without top 10in any stage. That would be an achievement equally worthy of winning Tour imho

Then we'll call him Haimar Quintana .

Seriously, I think he's off. He does the best he can, but he's not performing at his level. All he can do is wait and hope that the form will come. Too bad. At the same time, it's sad for Valverde, who plays dom and looks really strong. Too bad he can't give it a crack...

 

[carton]

Re: Re:

I wish if he can finish 2nd in GC without top 10in any stage. That would be an achievement equally worthy of winning Tour imho

Then we'll call him Haimar Quintana .

Seriously, I think he's off. He does the best he can, but he's not performing at his level. All he can do is wait and hope that the form will come. Too bad. At the same time, it's sad for Valverde, who plays dom and looks really strong. Too bad he can't give it a crack...

Yep, Valverde has been doing a great job. Best teammate of the Tour so far. Missed opportunity for Nairo to have someone that strong helping him. And to be fair, Movistar as a whole have been good. But Sky have the strongest team and the strongest rider so far. Them's the breaks.