Radioshack in top team position

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LOL @ Lance now being a non-GC rider after having an entire team built around him.

Hey did you hear RS is leading the team classification? No thanks to Lance apparently.

Yes, he is well out of the GC category, as is many guys who aspired to it.

For RS to win the team classification makes the Vuelta snub look awfully curious. But we all know the Vuelta organizers didn't really have to balls to say why RS wasn't invited.

 

[saganftw]

rs came to TdF to win it...obviously they cant do that now,next goal is Levi top 10 and stage victory (which they have now)

they dont have sprinter for green,young rider for white or anyone for polka dot jersey

so team classification is the only other achievement they can get (forget lantern rouge,you dont go for it,its going after you)

i know that many of you have mentality of just giving up when things dont go your way (and laugh at others who try despite fail of their previous goals) but its nice to see them trying to get as much as they can with the riders they have

would you like them to just pack their bags and go home coz they cant win TdF?

 

[sublimit]

are you serious?

 

[Hugh Januss]

Maybe I didn't have the perfect bird's eye that you had, so I don't have as much an opinion about it.

I like that about you. Nothing to say never stops you from saying it.

 

[palmerq]

Radioshack haven't been doing too badly this tour... they've had a couple of guys go into good breaks and paulinho won a stage :S.... levi is in the top 10 for gc and should stay there... they're doing better than sky :S.....

I dont care about the team gc... I guess it's nice thing to be top of though.....

Radioshack haven't lived up to expectations though.....but i would say this tour is not a disaster for them...

I would have liked brajkovic to have done more(not his fault) though.

 

[sublimit]

Yes, he is well out of the GC category, as is many guys who aspired to it.

For RS to win the team classification makes the Vuelta snub look awfully curious.

are you serious?

 

[hrotha]

Yes, he is well out of the GC category, as is many guys who aspired to it.

For RS to win the team classification makes the Vuelta snub look awfully curious. But we all know the Vuelta organizers didn't really have to balls to say why RS wasn't invited.

I think the Vuelta organizers did RadioShack a favour by not talking explicitly about the reasons why they were not inviting them.

 

[MacRoadie]

For RS to win the team classification makes the Vuelta snub look awfully curious. But we all know the Vuelta organizers didn't really have to balls to say why RS wasn't invited.

You're joking, right?

 

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I like that about you. Nothing to say never stops you from saying it.

What? LL finished with the rest of the GC guys. What else is there to really talk about? If Levi can manage a 3rd or 4th to finish, it will be because a great showing in the Pyrenees when the support really comes under scrutiny.

 

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You're joking, right?

You believe RS is not a strong team? I must have missed other discussions/news on other Vuelta organizer expressions.

 

[metaCYCLE]

What? LL finished with the rest of the GC guys. What else is there to really talk about? If Levi can manage a 3rd or 4th to finish, it will be because a great showing in the Pyrenees when the support really comes under scrutiny.

Leipheimer Fights to Defend Sixth Overall

he's trying to defend 6th overall... 6th for chrissake!!!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Yes, he is well out of the GC category, as is many guys who aspired to it.

Really? What other GC contender with an entire team built around them is 25 minutes back at this point?

 

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Leipheimer Fights to Defend Sixth Overall

he's trying to defend 6th overall... 6th for chrissake!!!

Does that bother you? Evans aspires to a top 10 finish too and is willing to finish it out with dem bones broke. Out of 20+ teams, there are only so many top 10 spots to go around. Some won't even come close to top 20.

 

[Polish]

would you like them to just pack their bags and go home coz they cant win TdF?

Of course that is what they want duh.

First they wanted Lance not to even start the TdF.
He started

Or face a grand chorus of boo boo boo boo if he did start.
He is being cheered.

"Lance will not make it into France."
He made it into France.

"But he will drop out."
But he is still there....

Yes, "they" want him to pack his bags and drop out lol.


Did you notice after yesterdays stage, Lance left his bodyguards and personal team car behind, and RODE all the way down the slope all the way into town to his Hotel?

RODE amongst the 100,000+ fans on that jam packed road down into town.
Lance is enjoying and savoring his final miles in the Greatest Race in the World. Believe it, its true.

 

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Really? What other GC contender with an entire team built around them is 25 minutes back at this point?

Christian. Sucks too. Want to see Americans do well who are riding clean. Right?

 

[Hugh Januss]

What? LL finished with the rest of the GC guys. What else is there to really talk about? If Levi can manage a 3rd or 4th to finish, it will be because a great showing in the Pyrenees when the support really comes under scrutiny.

What? What you said in the post that I referenced was that you didn't see the event that Cobblestones was talking about and so you had no opinion...... in otherwords ....nothing.

 

[metaCYCLE]

i simply never imagined that i'd see a serious GC contender use the words "6th" and "defend" in the same sentence with a week still to go in the race... especially one that has an armada of super-domestiques...

 

[Publicus]

Radio Shack's goal was to win the overall. They built there team in that fashion. Measured against their stated goal, their strength has been rather meaningless. They can't control the race. They can't attack. They can't cover attacks. They can however suck on just enough wheels that they have enough riders that finish in the top 20.

Yes, an impressively strong team.

 

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What? What you said in the post that I referenced was that you didn't see the event that Cobblestones was talking about and so you had no opinion...... in otherwords ....nothing.

Nothing to talk about is definitely not getting an opinion. But if you insist on talking about nothing, we can.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Of course that is what they want duh.

First they wanted Lance not to even start the TdF.
He started

Or face a grand chorus of boo boo boo boo if he did start.
He is being cheered.

"Lance will not make it into France."
He made it into France.

"But he will drop out."
But he is still there....

Yes, "they" want him to pack his bags and drop out lol.


Did you notice after yesterdays stage, Lance left his bodyguards and personal team car behind, and RODE all the way down the slope all the way into town to his Hotel?

RODE amongst the 100,000+ fans on that jam packed road down into town.
Lance is enjoying and savoring his final miles in the Greatest Race in the World. Believe it, its true.

Sometimes I don't know who's funnier Polish or Wonderlance.

 

[sublimit]

Christian. Sucks too. Want to see Americans do well who are riding clean. Right?

Christian has been out for several days. come on man sort yourself out.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Nothing to talk about is definitely not getting an opinion. But if you insist on talking about nothing, we can.

I don't think I could keep up with you on that subject.

 

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i simply never imagined that i'd see a serious GC contender use the words "6th" and "defend" in the same sentence with a week still to go in the race... especially one that has an armada of super-domestiques...

Well, that's a good thing he never used those words either, for your sake. I just re-read the article now that you have insisted on it, and I can't find what you are looking at.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Really? What other GC contender with an entire team built around them is 25 minutes back at this point?

Wigans?.......

 

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I don't think I could keep up with you on that subject.

It would be a competition for the Lanterne Rouge of the forum.