Omega Pharma Quick Step: Are you kidding me??

[Moose McKnuckles]

Uran looked fresh when he crossed the line

Yep. He looked ready to go do it again. Amazing.

 

[zlev11]

that was even more ridiculous than Croix de Fer 2012

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Basso obviously has cleaned up his act so to speak.

 

[meat puppet]

optimal cadence and pineapple juice do wonders even in other teams once the rider has learnt to master them

 

[GuyIncognito]

Screw it, I'll say it if no one else will

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Not bad for a classics team?

 

[doperhopper]

btw, italians mention his allergies and respiratory problems in the discussion (that got better) - is this Rigo's version of badzilla?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Uran obviously paid attention during the "marginal gains" lessons at Sky.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Screw it, I'll say it if no one else will

btw there is a thread for him started by roundabout.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Basso obviously has cleaned up his act so to speak.

He crashed in the final 4 Km...

 

[Jamie1012]

Screw it, I'll say it if no one else will

What could you possibly be implying?

 

[ScienceIsCool]

Too funny. I decided to very quickly look at Uran's numbers from previous TT's like I did with Froome. Looking at only the last two years, Uran was very consistently 4-6 seconds per km slower than the winner. That is... until this year at Romandie!!

The parallels are just too perfect. I can't wait to see if this a permanent change in Uran's power output or just something he pulls off for a few races. I suspect that like Froome, he has found a permanent and massive boost in FTP.

What a joke.

John Swanson

 

[movingtarget]

Basso obviously has cleaned up his act so to speak.

I wonder how much time the crash cost him. Might have been a very good ride.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Edit, yep, sorry, I didn't realize Basso crashed.

 

[doperhopper]

Too funny. I decided to very quickly look at Uran's numbers from previous TT's like I did with Froome. Looking at only the last two years, Uran was very consistently 4-6 seconds per km slower than the winner. That is... until this year at Romandie!!

The parallels are just too perfect. I can't wait to see if this a permanent change in Uran's power output or just something he pulls off for a few races. I suspect that like Froome, he has found a permanent and massive boost in FTP.

What a joke.

John Swanson

don't worry, just badzilla effect, getting rid of allergies (looks like Sky doctors specialize only on exotic diseases and thinning the trackies)

 

[Rollthedice]

Brambilla in the top 50 of a TT was the most outrageous part

You mean Top 5?

 

[Cookster15]

Too funny. I decided to very quickly look at Uran's numbers from previous TT's like I did with Froome. Looking at only the last two years, Uran was very consistently 4-6 seconds per km slower than the winner. That is... until this year at Romandie!!

The parallels are just too perfect. I can't wait to see if this a permanent change in Uran's power output or just something he pulls off for a few races. I suspect that like Froome, he has found a permanent and massive boost in FTP.

What a joke.

I agree. It's a bit hard to take this sport sometimes. I mean the general consensus on here is they all dope. Yet we see what OPQS did today - 4 riders in the top 10 on the stage. Even if they all dope obviously all doping is not equal .... you would think we learned this with Armstrong.

 

[CycloAndy]

optimal cadence and pineapple juice do wonders even in other teams once the rider has learnt to master them

Whilst I share your general scepticism about Sky's marginal gains, I can't see how a rider improving drastically after leaving Sky is a sign of Sky doping. If anything it would suggest the contrary.

 

[GuyIncognito]

You mean Top 5?

No, I mean literally what I said

 

[meat puppet]

Whilst I share your general scepticism about Sky's marginal gains, I can't see how a rider improving drastically after leaving Sky is a sign of Sky doping. If anything it would suggest the contrary.

hear hear, but on the other hand, opqs seems to have a few tricks "up its sleeve" as well. see ibarguren taus, for starters.

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

Big Pharma just had a good day.

Wout Poels always was a TT talent.

Brambilla, uh, yes, he too.

Duran. Duran. Well, uh, uh, when taking this as a yardstick he improved a bit over winter:
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=24012

 

[hrotha]

Oh Ibarguren. You so silly.

 

[BYOP88]

(Ok as no one will defend OPQS, I'll do it )

You guys are so bitter, why do you even watch cycling?

Duran Duran wasn't able to show his true talent until now because he had a random South American disease and in case you didn't know in South America they don't have proper roads, so he missed some key developmental time and this year was the first year he went into a wind tunnel etc etc etc etc etc.

 

[unamused]

it takes a couple years after you stop eating nutella for it to get out of your system

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I agree. It's a bit hard to take this sport sometimes. I mean the general consensus on here is they all dope. Yet we see what OPQS did today - 4 riders in the top 10 on the stage. Even if they all dope obviously all doping is not equal .... you would think we learned this with Armstrong.

To be fair, DeGendt was a TTler before, Brambilla had his outcome today with other suspect italian performances, Poels is a CG rider (only that he crashed badly some years ago, otherwise he´d be even further). So all that´s left after clearing the noise is Urans strong performance of today. A rider who gradually improved over the years.