Pereiro to retire?

[issoisso]

Caisse have yet to offer him a contract extension.

Says this Tour was a test to see if he could regain form after his injury. Says he failed the test, and therefore is considering retirement.

 

[AlHooKoo]

en espanol, como se dice,
punk b!tch?

 

[Escarabajo]

Caisse have yet to offer him a contract extension.

Says this Tour was a test to see if he could regain form after his injury. Says he failed the test, and therefore is considering retirement.

Can not hold a good form without the good Gear. With Bio Passport and the increase testing it is very hard to go back to the old form. I should not say this in this side of the forum but honestly that is my belief.

 

[BroDeal]

He is going to retire like he stole it--which he did.

 

[Clemson Cycling]

His victory might be the most undeserved victory I have ever witnessed in all of professional sports.

 

[craig1985]

In my own mind Carlos Sastre is the moral winner of the 2006 Tour de France.

 

[BroDeal]

In my own mind Carlos Sastre is the moral winner of the 2006 Tour de France.

Looking at the line of winners who came before Landis, Riis, Ullrich, Pantani, Armstrong, I have a hard time thinking that FLandis is not the legit winner.

 

[Alex99]

Looking at the line of winners who came before Landis, Riis, Ullrich, Pantani, Armstrong, I have a hard time thinking that FLandis is not the legit winner.

Yup. And he did it on a rotten hip.

 

[Cloxxki]

Semi off-topic.
Did anyone notice how Cadel Evans attacking early in a mountain stage had some similarities with Landis' famous solo effort, winning (and later losing) the TdF that day?
Cadel had the legs, needed many minutes, and didn't see another way to win the whole thing another way. So, he committed to a day of suffering. He was called to order. Landis...all the favorites were looking at him leave. Landis' power logging showed he was not doing anything out of the ordinary, the rest was just too weak or scared to chase.
But, Evans of course was stupid to try something, being one of the favorites and all.

Doping or no doping, Landis tried, hurt, and did it. He was the hero of the day until complications hit. Have the rules changed? Is hard work without a pre-paid insurance fee for guaranteed success a big no-no now?

 

[mambo#5]

Pereiro just shat on his legacy. Everyone knows he is the accidental cyclist where the maillot jaune landed after the Landis fiasco. But to abandon the tour because of lack of form? WTF? He could have departed gracefully by assisting his team all the way to Paris, even if it meant being 1 hr down in the GC.

 

[ilillillli]

Pereiro just shat on his legacy. Everyone knows he is the accidental cyclist where the maillot jaune landed after the Landis fiasco. But to abandon the tour because of lack of form? WTF? He could have departed gracefully by assisting his team all the way to Paris, even if it meant being 1 hr down in the GC.

i agree. a true champion.

 

[issoisso]

Actually, he says he quit because this Tour was a test of his injury and the efforts show it's not yet fulle healed. Continuing would aggravate it.

The reason he's thinking of retiring is that he's doubting it will ever fully heal.

 

[Epicycle]

Semi off-topic.
Did anyone notice how Cadel Evans attacking early in a mountain stage had some similarities with Landis' famous solo effort, winning (and later losing) the TdF that day?
Cadel had the legs, needed many minutes, and didn't see another way to win the whole thing another way. So, he committed to a day of suffering. He was called to order. Landis...all the favorites were looking at him leave. Landis' power logging showed he was not doing anything out of the ordinary, the rest was just too weak or scared to chase.
But, Evans of course was stupid to try something, being one of the favorites and all.

Doping or no doping, Landis tried, hurt, and did it. He was the hero of the day until complications hit. Have the rules changed? Is hard work without a pre-paid insurance fee for guaranteed success a big no-no now?

Cadel wasn't going to do what Landis did. Landis did something out of the ordinary. He took a risk by ratcheting up his doping program and he got caught. He made a mockery of the race like Sella did at the Giro. If Sella had not crashed and had won the Giro would anybody have been celebrating his heroic effort? He was openly mocked during the race. Doping is one thing but that is quite another.

Pereiro won the Tour because he didn't take the stupid risk. Neither one of them would have even been in the conversation if Ullrich and Basso had ridden anyway.

 

[dgodave]

Actually, he says he quit because this Tour was a test of his injury and the efforts show it's not yet fulle healed. Continuing would aggravate it.

The reason he's thinking of retiring is that he's doubting it will ever fully heal.

Ahhh. Its the "old wound". He will be departing the Gray Havens soon.
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