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Yep, I think that anyone who's french should be automatically disqualified.
gunara said:
Yep, I think that anyone who's french should be automatically disqualified.
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I think Uran is the real Zubeldia of the Tour so far
He was spotted in the slow-up replay of the finish today, finishing just behind Froome. The jury is still discussing if he had too much camera time nowcapuldemetal said:
I think Uran is the real Zubeldia of the Tour so far
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Wot? The whole point of being the ninja is that you hang off the back of the heads of state group just enough that you're always just round the bend, but never far enough behind to lose a top 10.
BigMac said:Guys, ninja =/= poor camera time
Wot? The whole point of being the ninja is that you hang off the back of the heads of state group just enough that you're always just round the bend, but never far enough behind to lose a top 10.
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I can't figure out a funny way to contribute to it, but it's simply the best thread here and the first one I check. idk why...it just makes me laugh so.
Please keep this thread going.No_Balls said:Gesinks ninja-bid suffered a severe blow yesterday when crashing with none less then Alberto Contador in the neutralized zone.
I can't figure out a funny way to contribute to it, but it's simply the best thread here and the first one I check. idk why...it just makes me laugh so.
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This is my favourite thread also. How about we discuss some ninjas (or potential ninjas) from the past?
Manuel Beltran: Don't know that much about his career, but seemed to be quite the ninja. Nickname of 'Tricky' is one that I know the ninja club accepts.
Vladimir Karpets: Surely the second greatest ninja of all time behind Haimar.
Patrik Sinkewitz: The almost ninja. This guy could have been one of the greats. I mean I'm told that he was once involved in a 100km plus breakaway on a famous stage on the way to Morzine, but I never even saw him. Alas, his ninja legacy has been damaged a number of times by incidents which cannot be discussed outside of the clinic.
Oscar Perero: The could of been ninja. The Spaniard had plenty of potential and was one of the riders held in the highest of esteem by ninja enthusiasts, however he then gave himself two strikes by getting himself into a breakaway with George Hincapie. The following year he committed the ultimate ninja atrocity. He got into another breakaway.
With Jens Voigt.
Talk about falling on your sword
joe_papp said:Please keep this thread going.No_Balls said:Gesinks ninja-bid suffered a severe blow yesterday when crashing with none less then Alberto Contador in the neutralized zone.
I can't figure out a funny way to contribute to it, but it's simply the best thread here and the first one I check. idk why...it just makes me laugh so.
This is my favourite thread also. How about we discuss some ninjas (or potential ninjas) from the past?
Manuel Beltran: Don't know that much about his career, but seemed to be quite the ninja. Nickname of 'Tricky' is one that I know the ninja club accepts.
Vladimir Karpets: Surely the second greatest ninja of all time behind Haimar.
Patrik Sinkewitz: The almost ninja. This guy could have been one of the greats. I mean I'm told that he was once involved in a 100km plus breakaway on a famous stage on the way to Morzine, but I never even saw him. Alas, his ninja legacy has been damaged a number of times by incidents which cannot be discussed outside of the clinic.
Oscar Perero: The could of been ninja. The Spaniard had plenty of potential and was one of the riders held in the highest of esteem by ninja enthusiasts, however he then gave himself two strikes by getting himself into a breakaway with George Hincapie. The following year he committed the ultimate ninja atrocity. He got into another breakaway.
With Jens Voigt.
Talk about falling on your sword
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The reality is that today's ninja will only be identified in about 10 years time when we'll suddenly realise that a guy we thought retired 5 years ago is still consistently slipping into the top 10.
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Pietro Caucchioli (Tour 2006) is one of my favourite ninjas, as well as Kevin De Weert (Tour 2011).
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According to the criteria in the OP, Uran is currently the most ninja. 6th in GC and a 13th place as his best stage result. Contador is second most ninja. 7th in GC and a 12th place as his best stage result. It could be a great ninja battle between those two.
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Also, I grant the title of best ninja team to RadioShack-Nissan (Tour 2012).
Excellent performance.
Excellent performance.
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Excellent points.
I'm ashamed to say that I come from a country that appears to be so anti-ninja. Our riders seem insistent on winning stage races (Evans), winning world time trial championships (Rogers), sleeping in their own motor homes (goes without saying), or doing everything possible to ensure that they wear yellow during the first week of the Tour (too many to name). I know that we have Adam Hansen, but he is really more ironman than ninja.
And even when we have someone with outstanding ninja credentials, they go and get themselves involved in the most publicised wheel change in the history of the sport.
cellardoor said:
Excellent points.
I'm ashamed to say that I come from a country that appears to be so anti-ninja. Our riders seem insistent on winning stage races (Evans), winning world time trial championships (Rogers), sleeping in their own motor homes (goes without saying), or doing everything possible to ensure that they wear yellow during the first week of the Tour (too many to name). I know that we have Adam Hansen, but he is really more ironman than ninja.
And even when we have someone with outstanding ninja credentials, they go and get themselves involved in the most publicised wheel change in the history of the sport.
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I must make you feel sad guys, I spotted our Maester Z during depart of some early flat stage (3rd or 4th iirc) next to the Prudhomme car
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Absolutely. No team will ever compete with this one.
And they always tried to protect their number one ninja. Remember when Kloden was berated for riding past Zubeldia and not acting as a domestique? He actually was, for Andreas knew that he'd briefly gained the interest of the television cameras with a wheel change, and thus climbed past Haimar quickly to avoid him gaining media exposure
Alexandre B. said:Also, I grant the title of best ninja team to RadioShack-Nissan (Tour 2012).
Excellent performance.
Absolutely. No team will ever compete with this one.
And they always tried to protect their number one ninja. Remember when Kloden was berated for riding past Zubeldia and not acting as a domestique? He actually was, for Andreas knew that he'd briefly gained the interest of the television cameras with a wheel change, and thus climbed past Haimar quickly to avoid him gaining media exposure
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Joe_papp: Glad you like it! This is an awesome thread indeed and a fight as good as for any jersey.
Gregrowlerson: It looks like riders from the iberian peninsula have that natural gift to keep it quiet - keep it low. And your previous question makes me think of another shadowmaster from Spain: Santiago "Santi" Blanco. Hailed for his extraordinary gifts on a bike and widely accepted as the successor to Indurain people looking back would wonder wtf happened. And no one can fully answer that question because of his sublime gifts in keeping it hidden. And as a true ninja he also was a expert escape artist why no one really can say when he left.
There or thereabout-Ninja: Oscar Sevilla.
Ilovecycling: You are blessed thou not many could say the same. I take it as sensei while out of the contention have left it over to his students and is beginning to show himself a little.
Today a true test for the next generation ninjas: Team time-trial. Whoever fares under the radar here will be going places for the overall. Team time trials are like the Zoncolan for the invisible jersey.
Joe_papp: Glad you like it! This is an awesome thread indeed and a fight as good as for any jersey.
Gregrowlerson: It looks like riders from the iberian peninsula have that natural gift to keep it quiet - keep it low. And your previous question makes me think of another shadowmaster from Spain: Santiago "Santi" Blanco. Hailed for his extraordinary gifts on a bike and widely accepted as the successor to Indurain people looking back would wonder wtf happened. And no one can fully answer that question because of his sublime gifts in keeping it hidden. And as a true ninja he also was a expert escape artist why no one really can say when he left.
There or thereabout-Ninja: Oscar Sevilla.
Ilovecycling: You are blessed thou not many could say the same. I take it as sensei while out of the contention have left it over to his students and is beginning to show himself a little.
Today a true test for the next generation ninjas: Team time-trial. Whoever fares under the radar here will be going places for the overall. Team time trials are like the Zoncolan for the invisible jersey.
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I remember De Weert attacking a climb in that Tour. Lasted the whole of a minute if I recall correctly. Not like the commentary team rushed to mention him anyways. It was a thing of sheer invisible beauty. Always hanging around 11th for a team like Quickstep should be worthy, but nope. Never mentioned, never shown. A true challenger for Señor Zubi that year.
For the record, Zubeldia is 93rd today. I still tip him for at least a top 30 out of sheer stubborness
Alexandre B. said:
I remember De Weert attacking a climb in that Tour. Lasted the whole of a minute if I recall correctly. Not like the commentary team rushed to mention him anyways. It was a thing of sheer invisible beauty. Always hanging around 11th for a team like Quickstep should be worthy, but nope. Never mentioned, never shown. A true challenger for Señor Zubi that year.
For the record, Zubeldia is 93rd today. I still tip him for at least a top 30 out of sheer stubborness
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You know how the current grand tour stage gets its thread stickied so that it stays at the top of the first page no matter what has been posted in most recently?
I'm wondering if we can anti-sticky the ninja thread so that it never makes it beyond the top of the second page of this forum? It's far too exposed currently for my liking, not that I'm helping matters....
I'm wondering if we can anti-sticky the ninja thread so that it never makes it beyond the top of the second page of this forum? It's far too exposed currently for my liking, not that I'm helping matters....
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Lol.
Btw, not the Tour, and not quite top 10, but I remember looking for Francis Mourey in 2013 Giro, and kept missing him. I missed a stage and someone shouted he's in a breakaway group, I checked a ticker and he's definitely not there. Never noticed him at any stage since except on the top 20 list.
gregrowlerson said:
Lol.
Btw, not the Tour, and not quite top 10, but I remember looking for Francis Mourey in 2013 Giro, and kept missing him. I missed a stage and someone shouted he's in a breakaway group, I checked a ticker and he's definitely not there. Never noticed him at any stage since except on the top 20 list.
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He thought that yesterday he could sneak in behind the GC group but unfortunately Nibali was dropped and finished behind him so the cameras replayed it a few times.
ILovecycling said:I must make you feel sad guys, I spotted our Maester Z during depart of some early flat stage (3rd or 4th iirc) next to the Prudhomme car
He thought that yesterday he could sneak in behind the GC group but unfortunately Nibali was dropped and finished behind him so the cameras replayed it a few times.
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To sum up the day: they say that its the greatest ninja who lets his sword rust in its scabbard and that didnt hold water for the old sensei today unfortunately. I counted it to three times Haimaru was spotted during the course: first time on a parking lot(!) by one of our own members here, the second time in the racing thread and the third time it even seemed as if his teammates were aware of his presence. Unheard of. Such is the power though from this shinobi that even mentioning his name in the same sense as "i saw him" stirs ridicule around. Mastering the art of been spotted but not seen he does. All in all not very good day though and catastrophic for his hope of gaining the 10 maillot l'invisible on the trot.
Make way for the new leader, and it is the most unimaginable rider you could think of as tete de la course amongst shadow riders: Rigoberto Uran. Guy is sixth! Is it good? Yes! Have you seen him? No. I could defintively say i saw him as one of the happy teammates celebrating Panzers yellow jersey but it would have been rude otherwise. Wind the clock back a month, to the Giro, and you would get your fair share of Uran. He would be considered a favorite just behind Contador, Porte, Aru and he would be considered a favorite for the time-trials. If he didnt underperformed there (and being a fixture here on CN because of that) he would crash. I still cannot believe how a Jagger look-a-like can be a contender and potentielly successor to Haimaru, but here we are. Tremendously solid and anonymous TTT despite their huge loss of horse power. Etixx didnt lacked air time but somehow Jagger escaped it with stealth. Worthy jersey holder.
To sum up the day: they say that its the greatest ninja who lets his sword rust in its scabbard and that didnt hold water for the old sensei today unfortunately. I counted it to three times Haimaru was spotted during the course: first time on a parking lot(!) by one of our own members here, the second time in the racing thread and the third time it even seemed as if his teammates were aware of his presence. Unheard of. Such is the power though from this shinobi that even mentioning his name in the same sense as "i saw him" stirs ridicule around. Mastering the art of been spotted but not seen he does. All in all not very good day though and catastrophic for his hope of gaining the 10 maillot l'invisible on the trot.
Make way for the new leader, and it is the most unimaginable rider you could think of as tete de la course amongst shadow riders: Rigoberto Uran. Guy is sixth! Is it good? Yes! Have you seen him? No. I could defintively say i saw him as one of the happy teammates celebrating Panzers yellow jersey but it would have been rude otherwise. Wind the clock back a month, to the Giro, and you would get your fair share of Uran. He would be considered a favorite just behind Contador, Porte, Aru and he would be considered a favorite for the time-trials. If he didnt underperformed there (and being a fixture here on CN because of that) he would crash. I still cannot believe how a Jagger look-a-like can be a contender and potentielly successor to Haimaru, but here we are. Tremendously solid and anonymous TTT despite their huge loss of horse power. Etixx didnt lacked air time but somehow Jagger escaped it with stealth. Worthy jersey holder.
Current Standings.
- With TTT top 3.
1: contador. Although zero ninja potential. (5)
2: Uran. Doing a great job. Got some TV time almost French kissing Martin after his victory but his teammates quickly did a group hug to hide Uran. (6)
3: Kreuziger. Solid performance not even mentioned In this thread. (12)
4: Gesink. First BJ (black jersey) of the TDF. To tall to be a real ninja but excellent ninja potential this tour.(15)
5: Peroud. Despite being French the TV camara just loves the younger French. (16)
6: Talensky. Strong candidate for Paris. (19)
7: Frank. Yes he is in the race. (20)
8: Bardet. Being young and French gives him a big disadvantage. (21)
9: Bakelants. No3 from AG2R. Did an ultimate ninja move a couple of years ago. winning a race while Irizar got the credits.(22)
10. Costa. With GC already ruined will be targeting a stage. (23)
- With TTT top 3.
1: contador. Although zero ninja potential. (5)
2: Uran. Doing a great job. Got some TV time almost French kissing Martin after his victory but his teammates quickly did a group hug to hide Uran. (6)
3: Kreuziger. Solid performance not even mentioned In this thread. (12)
4: Gesink. First BJ (black jersey) of the TDF. To tall to be a real ninja but excellent ninja potential this tour.(15)
5: Peroud. Despite being French the TV camara just loves the younger French. (16)
6: Talensky. Strong candidate for Paris. (19)
7: Frank. Yes he is in the race. (20)
8: Bardet. Being young and French gives him a big disadvantage. (21)
9: Bakelants. No3 from AG2R. Did an ultimate ninja move a couple of years ago. winning a race while Irizar got the credits.(22)
10. Costa. With GC already ruined will be targeting a stage. (23)
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