Rivalry within team

[gunara]

I always thought Radioshack post good Andy aimed for high team classification in the Tour by having no one helping another for GC.
And also my avatar at Worlds

 

[Red Rick]

Valverde and Rodriguez at the worlds. That was one helluva screwjob

 

[SeriousSam]

The younger members and newer fans might not recall it, but veteran cycling fans such as myself still reminisce about the great rivalry between Aru and Landa at the Giro 2015.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Jurgen VDB and Phil Gilbert on the TdF stage of 2012 to Planche des belles fille (not sure however). VDB attacked and looked to sneak to victory like only a VDB-type cyclist could do but teammate Gilbert brought the bunch back.

 

[May0maniac]

Team Gadret vs. Dupont.

 

[staubsauger]

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I remember in older Watts videos circa 2003 there were those two midgets having a boxing match on the middle of road propably in Giro but i sadly don't know who they were.
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https://youtu.be/QwKaeWkYbqk

 

[kingjr]

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Jurgen VDB and Phil Gilbert on the TdF stage of 2012 to Planche des belles fille (not sure however). VDB attacked and looked to sneak to victory like only a VDB-type cyclist could do but teammate Gilbert brought the bunch back.

Mur de bretagne, the one evans won is the one you mean I think. And yeah that was weird indeed, cause Gilbert had nothing left after he closed the gap. Probably overconfidence, since this was the year where he could do almost everything.

 

[Moviestar]

Olano vs Jimenez within Banesto Vuelta 98'. Olano slamming his team in the media for a lack of support after the stage with finsh uphill on the Alto de Nevacerrada. Indirect he refers to Jimenez, who was the best climber of the two in the Vuelta. Jimenez took the leaders jersey with two/three stages to go, but Olano re-took the jersey on the closing timetrial.
A quote of Michel Wuyts in that time: ''Spain has only one hero. It doesn’t matter who wins the Vuelta, he will always be in the shadow of Jose Maria Jimenez.''

 

[Kwibus]

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Etixx vs Terpstra

Specially last year there were some dodgy things going on, but recently in an interview Terpstra said for example what a great job he had. Even training camps where you leave your family behind for 2-3 weeks just to train were a pleasure as he had a great time with his teammates which is a team without big egos despite it having a lot of winners.

We probably see more to it then there really is. Just like it always it from the outside most of the time.

 

[Billie]

Gaspa stealing the maglia rosa from Di Luca at the opening TTT of il Giro 2007. il Killer was not happy

 

[Kwibus]

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The younger members and newer fans might not recall it, but veteran cycling fans such as myself still reminisce about the great rivalry between Aru and Landa at the Giro 2015.

Certainly not pretty, but I don't think there was a big rivalry. Landa did a lot of work for Aru, despite him climbing better than Aru. Only once he really ignored orders.

Well Landa said he should've been leader afterwards, but they chose for the Italian as it was in Italy. Besides that he doesn't moan or cry about it.

 

[Red Rick]

Yeah. Landa was also pretty happy to work for Aru in the Vuelta once he had gotten his stage. Seemed like koek en ei as the Dutch would say

 

[Red Rick]

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Gaspa stealing the maglia rosa from Di Luca at the opening TTT of il Giro 2007. il Killer was not happy

Pretty cool to see Nibali on his way to occupying 3rd place overall already there

 

[Tonton]

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Cunego & Simoni at the 2004 Giro comes to mind. Olano & Chava at the 1998 Vuelta, too (this one was pretty entertaining, as Olano's wife, Karmele, wasn't shy about speaking her mind on the radio during the race itself).

This...

Did you become a mod recently or do I have a really bad memory?

Recently. Literally days ago. This site has given me a lot. As I stated somewhere else, it took me two years to become a member due to all the trolling that took place before Lance met Oprah. It's unfair. There are many fans, more or less knowledgeable, who should be able (or feel comfortable) to give their two cents without fera of negativity. CN is for fun. Not aggression. There has to be rules, or this site will turn into YouTube, troll capital of the world.

Hey, BTW: That's what happens when you're a fan of FDJ: sometimes you win the lottery .

I stand by Olano vs. Chava. Other good nominations. LA vs. Contador, I could mention Boyer and LeMond (that one still bothers me - doesn't bother Saronni ). But go watch the Olano-Jimenez stuff: that is insane and makes the '86 TdF plot quite lame actually .

 

[del1962]

Demare versus Bouhanni at FDJ was pretty special, the classic insider versus outsider scenario, much like Roche in 1987 Giro

 

[Volderke]

This beats them all:

Baffi vs. Cipollini 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Y_KOwa5pA

 

[movingtarget]

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Cadel Evans. Not so much rivalry as being isolated by his own team. Seemed to happen quite a lot.

I think it was more of a case of him wanting to be isolated but if you are talking about being isolated in races, he simply never had the firepower in the mountains to help him until Horner came along and then Tejay. Mostly the other climbers would be gone at the bottom of the final climb. He seemed to be much more comfortable at BMC than Lotto and the way his team rode for him in the 2011 Tour did not indicate a team that was not willing to work for their leader. No doubt Evans was a prickly character though, especially when things did not work out for him.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

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Jurgen VDB and Phil Gilbert on the TdF stage of 2012 to Planche des belles fille (not sure however). VDB attacked and looked to sneak to victory like only a VDB-type cyclist could do but teammate Gilbert brought the bunch back.

Mur de bretagne, the one evans won is the one you mean I think. And yeah that was weird indeed, cause Gilbert had nothing left after he closed the gap. Probably overconfidence, since this was the year where he could do almost everything.

I came online during my work break to fix my mistake but you already did it

 

[jens_attacks]

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Gaspa stealing the maglia rosa from Di Luca at the opening TTT of il Giro 2007. il Killer was not happy

dove cazzo vai gaspa, porco dio!

danilooooo

 

[rghysens]

Hinault and Lemond
Merckx and Van Looy
Roche vs. Carrera

 

[IndianCyclist]

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This beats them all:

Baffi vs. Cipollini 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Y_KOwa5pA

This is a really horrible crash . How did he comeback after this and in 42 Giro Stages?

 

[TheGreenMonkey]

Evans - Vandenbroek 2009 Tour.

 

[TMP402]

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Gaspa stealing the maglia rosa from Di Luca at the opening TTT of il Giro 2007. il Killer was not happy

Nibali looks on...

 

[staubsauger]

Killer intention was to lead the Giro from the start until the end like Bugno did. Gaspa ruined that.

 

[Arredondo]

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Oscar Sevilla vs Aitor Gonzalez.