Teams & Riders Nairo Quintana discussion thread

[ICEROCK]

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quintana will be a domestique for valverde, he has no chance against the likes of gilbert, martin or rodriguez. OMG, this man is so overrrated, even think he has chances to win these classics lol

He definitely is going to do a long range attack in LBL, it it sticks good for Movie, if not the others will toll AV for free. So either way, movie should be in a good position.

 

[Dedelou]

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quintana will be a domestique for valverde, he has no chance against the likes of gilbert, martin or rodriguez. OMG, this man is so overrrated, even think he has chances to win these classics lol

He definitely is going to do a long range attack in LBL, it it sticks good for Movie, if not the others will toll AV for free. So either way, movie should be in a good position.

I'ts always fun when GT candidates show their noses in the Ardennes Classic. I know these days every rider is put in a box as to where they can or can't perform, but the presences of a twin weapon from Movistar makes LBL or AGR even more attractive for us spectators

 

[hfer07]

I doubt Nairito will glow in the Ardennes- He tends to suffer from allergies, which always diminishes desirable performance -plus Valverde is the default leader for these classics...... Although, I don't discard he might try something on L-B-L, but I don't see it- he's not that explosive on short climbs....

 

[ILovecycling]

Im pretty pi.sed off about him riding ardennes even tho I expected it.He won't do any solid result but he is risking injury.I dont like it at all.

 

[DBotero]

Im pretty pi.sed off about him riding ardennes even tho I expected it.He won't do any solid result but he is risking injury.I dont like it at all.

Come on,even Froome might show up there,have a little faith.This year we should have everybody healthy in Le Tour,no more injuries

 

[SeriousSam]

Froomey taking the lead had him quaking in his cycling shoes today. He will need to show some courage and overcome the frighting prospect of being attacked by the Dawg if he wants to win the Tour this year.

 

[sir fly]

Quintana really needs something longer than today's climb.
Additional altitude meters should help, too.

 

[Mr.White]

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Quintana really needs something longer than today's climb.
Additional altitude meters should help, too.

How much longer, we had 20+km of climbing in last 35km, it hardly gets longer than that

 

[SeriousSam]

lol at the climb not hard enough rhetoric. Too bad there is no Tour stage from the sea level up to Base Camp at Mt. Everest, seems like we will hence never see Quintana at his best.

 

[sir fly]

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Quintana really needs something longer than today's climb.
Additional altitude meters should help, too.

How much longer, we had 20+km of climbing in last 35km, it hardly gets longer than that

15+k's in a piece.
Edit
And it's not about absolute numbers, but relative to what the others can handle the best.

 

[rm7]

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Quintana really needs something longer than today's climb.
Additional altitude meters should help, too.

Yeah, it would also have helped Froome and some of the other guys too..... It was a very hard finish.

 

[ILovecycling]

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Froomey taking the lead had him quaking in his cycling shoes today. He will need to show some courage and overcome the frighting prospect of being attacked by the Dawg if he wants to win the Tour this year.

Yep, fully agree with you.He is too terrified by Froome, I saw that in previous races too,maybe that was the reason why he didnt ride more aggresive,Im a bit disappointed by his Tour-centric season.

 

[DBotero]

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Froomey taking the lead had him quaking in his cycling shoes today. He will need to show some courage and overcome the frighting prospect of being attacked by the Dawg if he wants to win the Tour this year.

Yep, fully agree with you.He is too terrified by Froome, I saw that in previous races too,maybe that was the reason why he didnt ride more aggresive,Im a bit disappointed by his Tour-centric season.

Maybe he had some bad dreams after that Ventoux stage

 

[ILovecycling]

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Froomey taking the lead had him quaking in his cycling shoes today. He will need to show some courage and overcome the frighting prospect of being attacked by the Dawg if he wants to win the Tour this year.

Yep, fully agree with you.He is too terrified by Froome, I saw that in previous races too,maybe that was the reason why he didnt ride more aggresive,Im a bit disappointed by his Tour-centric season.

Maybe he had some bad dreams after that Ventoux stage

Might be
Hopefuly he won't be so Tour-centric after he wins the Tour.

 

[hfer07]

Canal+ Espana prepared a video documentary on Nairito's Tour preparation. Here it is the trailer:

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20150504plucanftb_26.Ves

 

[Oliver]

Canal+ Espana prepared a video documentary on Nairito's Tour preparation. Here it is the trailer:

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20150504plucanftb_26.Ves

I don't understand it but is there anything said about the race he rides as preparation? Normally he would do Tour de Suisse but last week I've seen an article where was mentioned he 'll ride Route du Sud?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Canal+ Espana prepared a video documentary on Nairito's Tour preparation. Here it is the trailer:

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20150504plucanftb_26.Ves

I don't understand it but is there anything said about the race he rides as preparation? Normally he would do Tour de Suisse but last week I've seen an article where was mentioned he 'll ride Route du Sud?

wouldn't surprise me if he didn't do any race before the tour and just flies back from colombia 1 week prior. he did the same in 2013 with success.

 

[Jelantik]

Canal+ Espana prepared a video documentary on Nairito's Tour preparation. Here it is the trailer:

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20150504plucanftb_26.Ves

I don't understand it but is there anything said about the race he rides as preparation? Normally he would do Tour de Suisse but last week I've seen an article where was mentioned he 'll ride Route du Sud?

he is probably choosing to avoid earlier confrontation with Froome at Dauphene (that's probably the choice of Suise). Now that Contador is going to do Route du Sud, he is switching to that, maybe getting a taste of how well he matches Contador, would be a little more calming for him..

 

[Dedelou]

Canal+ Espana prepared a video documentary on Nairito's Tour preparation. Here it is the trailer:

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20150504plucanftb_26.Ves

I don't understand it but is there anything said about the race he rides as preparation? Normally he would do Tour de Suisse but last week I've seen an article where was mentioned he 'll ride Route du Sud?

he is probably choosing to avoid earlier confrontation with Froome at Dauphene (that's probably the choice of Suise). Now that Contador is going to do Route du Sud, he is switching to that, maybe getting a taste of how well he matches Contador, would be a little more calming for him..

Route du Sud gives a chance to prepare the Pyrenees Mountains stages but we all have to remember that Nairo remains a bit intimidated in the big confrontations. I am pretty much convinced that last year it was " jitters" that caused him to crash in the TT as he was going all out face to face with Contador and Froome at the Vuelta..

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Canal+ Espana prepared a video documentary on Nairito's Tour preparation. Here it is the trailer:

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20150504plucanftb_26.Ves

I don't understand it but is there anything said about the race he rides as preparation? Normally he would do Tour de Suisse but last week I've seen an article where was mentioned he 'll ride Route du Sud?

he is probably choosing to avoid earlier confrontation with Froome at Dauphene (that's probably the choice of Suise). Now that Contador is going to do Route du Sud, he is switching to that, maybe getting a taste of how well he matches Contador, would be a little more calming for him..

Route du Sud gives a chance to prepare the Pyrenees Mountains stages but we all have to remember that Nairo remains a bit intimidated in the big confrontations. I am pretty much convinced that last year it was " jitters" that caused him to crash in the TT as he was going all out face to face with Contador and Froome at the Vuelta..

lol at your delusional mind

 

[SeriousSam]

He's got a point. Ever since Froome took his soul at Mt. Ventoux, Quintana has been, at times, terrified of his attacks. I think he'll overcome this at the Tour if he proves the strongest climber, as seemy likley now, but if he finds himself on the receiving hand of yet another Dawg Attack whilst unable to respond, he will crumble and wilt, and might just ask Valverde to take over as GC leader

 

[fauniera]

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Ever since Froome took his soul at Mt. Ventoux, Quintana has been, at times, terrified of his attacks.

That's why Nairo dropped Froome a few days later and put more than a minute in him? What nonsense.

 

[ray j willings]

I expect that Quintana will take some big time out of Frome " around a minute" on at least 2 tour stages.
He will attack around the 5k and just pull away. Froome has now become a 2 trick pony.
Looks at his stem rides tempo all the way to the top or follows team mates until the last 2 or 3 k and try and take off. The later tactic was not working last year as Bertie and even Talansky and Ryder beat him and Sky when they tried to dominate. The other tactic is just a way to limit his losses against a early attack.

 

[Ataraxus]

Quintana fears nobody in the climbs.
He doesn't fear Froome because: He has plenty of excuses for Ax-3 and Ventoux: 1- He was out in the wind for some time before Froome caught and dropped hime and 2- he was only 24. He has every reason to believe that his improvement curve is the steepest among his rivals.
He dropped Contador big time in Tirreno-Adriatico less than two months ago.

On the other hand his rivals have insecurities about him when they open their big mouths trying to find excuses that they could have caught him hadn't it been for the dragging of other contenders up the road.

 

[Miburo]

Contador destryoed nairito last year too. He had an excuse: the giro just like contador this year has