Omega Pharma Quick Step: Are you kidding me??

[Benotti69]

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Out of nowhere, Alaphillippe comes in 2nd in his very first Fleche Wallonne, just behind Piti. This team never fails to disappoint.

New clean era and a young talent like Allaphilippe can come to the surface,why are you surprised?

Must be all the new testing Cooskon introduced and made independent.....oh wait......SSDD.

 

[nayr497]

Yikes, never even heard of Alaphilippe, I guess because he was riding in camouflage until three years ago...

 

[Gung Ho Gun]

Well every rider has to come out of "nowhere" at some point in time ...

 

[JRanton]

Out of interest, when was the last time a Quickstep rider tested positive?

 

[ebandit]

been cleaning up for a long time............move along nothing to see here...........

Mark L

 

[Ferminal]

Alaphillipe was a rocket in 2013. If anything I'm surprised it has taken him this long.

 

[neineinei]

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Out of interest, when was the last time a Quickstep rider tested positive?

Not a positive test, but Barredo got results from his Quickstep years annulled in the bio passport case:
17 October 2007-24 September 2011 DQ, of which 2007. 2008, 2009 and 2010 were in Quicksteps colors.

 

[burning]

I think the last positive is from Boonen, which does not count as a real one.

 

[hrotha]

We got a climber all of sudden.

 

[GuyIncognito]

This is too funny. This guy never had a top 40 in a mountain finish in his life, pro or youth.
Today he's dropping Henao

EDIT: Damn it hrotha

 

[infeXio]

Quite enjoyable, this! rofl

 

[luckyboy]

What the hell is Sagan doing up there

 

[GuyIncognito]

I'm laughing out loud, this is so ridiculous

 

[classicomano]

Anybody else wondering of Kwiatkowski got a warning letter from the UCI? Hes is been pack fodder for months now.

 

[Lyon]

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Anybody else wondering of Kwiatkowski got a warning letter from the UCI? Hes is been pack fodder for months now.

Getting a letter from the UCI is exactly what is meant by the phrase 'the curse of the rainbow jersey'.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

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Anybody else wondering of Kwiatkowski got a warning letter from the UCI? Hes is been pack fodder for months now.

I think its more to do with leaving the HotSteppers. No access to quality supplements anymore.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Ibarguren has really upped the level this year

 

[Netserk]

Why? Terpstra and Stybar hasn't really changed much, certainly not for the better. Tommeke isn't the best benchmark as his prep was worse last year. Alaphilippe is still so young that you'd expect him to improve somewhat. Dan Martin is also pretty much the same level.

 

[therhodeo]

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Why? Terpstra and Stybar hasn't really changed much, certainly not for the better. Tommeke isn't the best benchmark as his prep was worse last year. Alaphilippe is still so young that you'd expect him to improve somewhat. Dan Martin is also pretty much the same level.

Kittel beat Viviani and Bouhanni and De La Cruz won with a well timed attack over a group who wouldn't organize and lacked most of the big instigaters. Not exactly smoking guns there.

 

[burning]

I think they were more ridiculous in 2014, for example, it was a festival here after the Giro TT.

 

[Netserk]

Reminds me of this: http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=30929

That smelled.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Yeah pretty much Gilbert is performing on a level you wouldnt expect.

Netserk: He mainly won that time trial by throwing his bike around corners on the wet roads than anything else. You would expect him to follow Henao Mur de Fayence, but he was pretty mediocre despite that performance in the ITT

 

[Netserk]

It was more about the team performance, but Ala's was eyebrow-raising as well.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Oh okay.

I don't think thats eye-browsing. They might have had better material for those specific conditions or simply just risked more, that particular time trial wasn't all about FTP and w/kg and what have you.

 

[StryderHells]

Ibarguren has really upped the level this year

I think he is doing what he's always done and nothing different outside that he's reunited with his star responder in Gilbert. Quickstep have 23 victories so far this season compared to 21 at the same point last season.