Roman Kreuziger Discussion Thread

[Squire]

Horrible decision. No real top riders are listed for the Tour de Suisse so far, and Kreuziger has been looking good on the climbs this year. The Dauphiné can't be that important?

 

[Kokoso]

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Bad choice from Tinkoff.. Need to let these high paid doms ride their own chances too, otherwise they won't perform that extra 5-10 % when it really matters.

And because he could have Dauphine win and Suisse win. This way he will only have Dauphine.

I'm not sure what exactly you are smoking, but I want some of that too. It must be some pretty good material

What am I smoking? I'm smoking hot, man.

Edit: I've just realized that I didn't put smiley there...for some

 

[Jakub]

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Bad choice from Tinkoff.. Need to let these high paid doms ride their own chances too, otherwise they won't perform that extra 5-10 % when it really matters.

And because he could have Dauphine win and Suisse win. This way he will only have Dauphine.

I'm not sure what exactly you are smoking, but I want some of that too. It must be some pretty good material

Taxus's pot.

 

[Netserk]

 

[portugal11]

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Ahaahahahahahahahahaah

 

[Kokoso]

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Is that you, Netserk?

 

[portugal11]

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Is that you, Netserk?

This guy is taxus...

 

[Kokoso]

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Is that you, Netserk?

This guy is taxus...

That's a great picture, anyway. Taxus looks like one hack of happy guy there.

 

[Kokoso]

Shame Kreuziger isn't at Giro. Profiles would suit him best of the last years. No really steep climbing, diesel mountain stages, MTT, TT, technical prologue and some descending - all he can do very well.

 

[Jakub]

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Shame Kreuziger isn't at Giro. Profiles would suit him best of the last years. No really steep climbing, diesel mountain stages, MTT, TT, technical prologue and some descending - all he can do very well.

Yes, he could succesfull finish with Valverde today

Anyway, it was a correct decision to send Roman to Dauphine. The team in Suisse is gonna be all for Sagan. If he miraculously caught his 2013 form, they could be 1st and 2nd or 3rd in Dauphine.

 

[Kokoso]

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Shame Kreuziger isn't at Giro. Profiles would suit him best of the last years. No really steep climbing, diesel mountain stages, MTT, TT, technical prologue and some descending - all he can do very well.

Yes, he could succesfull finish with Valverde today

Why do you think so?
Edit: at Ruta del Sol he was climbing decently, lost only 20 seconds on Majka and it was his first race of the season. Majka on the other hand had already San Luis in his legs.

 

[Kokoso]

I feel sorry for him today. Maybe he could win the stage, we'll never know. He's just loyal.

 

[liamito]

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I feel sorry for him today. Maybe he could win the stage, we'll never know. He's just loyal.

Today had nothing to do with being loyal

 

[jmdirt]

I lost a lot of respect for RK. He flat out lied, not just once, but several times using different lies. That few minutes of racing followed by his lies is the worst thing he could have done for his 'job interview'. I can't see teams lining up to sign a guy who can't be trusted in a race, and is dishonest.

 

[jmdirt]

spiritualride wrote:
"The TV coverage was so poor for me, I don't know what happened. Could anyone give a simple overview? I don't understand what RK did wrong. If it was a case of losing +30 seconds in order to possibly give Contador an extra second or two... I just don't see how that makes sense to waste all that time if I am RK's DS and want to have a highly placed GC rider."

Pecs wrote: "Nothing. The advantage of drafting at that sort of speeds is ZERO."

He didn't do his job, and then he lied (several different ways) about it.

 

[bikinggirl]

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What a jerk!!!

 

[bikinggirl]

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I lost a lot of respect for RK. He flat out lied, not just once, but several times using different lies. That few minutes of racing followed by his lies is the worst thing he could have done for his 'job interview'. I can't see teams lining up to sign a guy who can't be trusted in a race, and is dishonest.

What do you know???

 

[bikinggirl]

One of "CyclingNews" header "are Tinkoff in crisis" I don't think so but I am pretty sure that Frome and SKY is in crisis...Look at him he cant even ride a bike really!!!

 

[jmdirt]

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I lost a lot of respect for RK. He flat out lied, not just once, but several times using different lies. That few minutes of racing followed by his lies is the worst thing he could have done for his 'job interview'. I can't see teams lining up to sign a guy who can't be trusted in a race, and is dishonest.

What do you know???

Recap of what I know:
He didn't do his job
He lied
I lost respect for him

What do you know?

 

[gooner]

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I lost a lot of respect for RK. He flat out lied, not just once, but several times using different lies. That few minutes of racing followed by his lies is the worst thing he could have done for his 'job interview'. I can't see teams lining up to sign a guy who can't be trusted in a race, and is dishonest.

What do you know???

Recap of what I know:
He didn't do his job
He lied
I lost respect for him

What do you know?

At your request

Kreuziger was told to wait for Contador but didn't. Tinkoff apparently not happy.

 

[Mr.White]

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I lost a lot of respect for RK. He flat out lied, not just once, but several times using different lies. That few minutes of racing followed by his lies is the worst thing he could have done for his 'job interview'. I can't see teams lining up to sign a guy who can't be trusted in a race, and is dishonest.

What do you know???

Recap of what I know:
He didn't do his job
He lied
I lost respect for him

What do you know?

At your request

Kreuziger was told to wait for Contador but didn't. Tinkoff apparently not happy.

What a selfish scumbag! I wish him nothing good in this Tour!

 

[deValtos]

Well that was with 350m to go and he did drop back then (rather pointlessly at this point.)

Ofc hhe should've dropped back earlier but I don't get what the photo shows.

 

[Carols]

Well that was with 350m to go and he did drop back then (rather pointlessly at this point.)

Ofc hhe should've dropped back earlier but I don't get what the photo shows.

It shows that he lied when he claims he didn't know Contador was struggling. He was looking right at him!

 

[bikinggirl]

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I lost a lot of respect for RK. He flat out lied, not just once, but several times using different lies. That few minutes of racing followed by his lies is the worst thing he could have done for his 'job interview'. I can't see teams lining up to sign a guy who can't be trusted in a race, and is dishonest.

What do you know???

Recap of what I know:
He didn't do his job
He lied
I lost respect for him

What do you know?

At your request

Kreuziger was told to wait for Contador but didn't. Tinkoff apparently not happy.

What a selfish scumbag! I wish him nothing good in this Tour!

I wonder who are the scumbag here..what kind of language to use against an athlete???

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Well that was with 350m to go and he did drop back then (rather pointlessly at this point.)

Ofc hhe should've dropped back earlier but I don't get what the photo shows.

It shows that he lied when he claims he didn't know Contador was struggling. He was looking right at him!

It shows that he knew Contador was struggling with 350m to go. It doesn't show that he knew that he'd lost Contador when it mattered. The evidence for that isn't this picture. It's what Tinkov's DS said about radioing him four times.