airstream said:Everyone but you got I called him so for fun.
Nah I just found it incredibly disrespectful for fun or not.
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airstream said:Everyone but you got I called him so for fun.
Libertine Seguros said:Given the form he's in maybe he can take the Portuguese TT jersey for real this time.
Hopefully they insist on the white outfit with the bands, because it would look so much less crappy than the normal Movistar bands, hopefully TT jerseys get a bit different treatment.
Something like the temporary one he had at Caisse d'Epargne until the win was taken away from him:
Is it the same parcours as last year? I think that last year (or maybe 2 years ago) João Cabreira won on that course, so there is some hope that it won't go for a sprint. I would like Rui to win but he'll be isolated. Radioshack should send the entire team: Oliveira looked decent this week, Paulinho finished Suisse and Machado is always decent. I hope all the foreigners ride it this year.Libertine Seguros said:Championships start on Thursday, finish on Sunday.
The elite ITT is a 34km, pan-flat out-and-back on Friday; the road race is on Sunday and is circuits of an equally pan-flat 12,2km circuit.
Hard to expect any more of a parcours around Pataias, though they are going into Vale de Paredes to provide at least SOME attempt at selectivity. Sérgio Ribeiro will win, probably.
trevim said:Is it the same parcours as last year? I think that last year (or maybe 2 years ago) João Cabreira won on that course, so there is some hope that it won't go for a sprint. I would like Rui to win but he'll be isolated. Radioshack should send the entire team: Oliveira looked decent this week, Paulinho finished Suisse and Machado is always decent. I hope all the foreigners ride it this year.
Ahhh forgot about it since he's been invisible this year Still, I hope both he and Bruno Pires ride the damn thingLaFlorecita said:Paulinho is no Radioshack
trevim said:Is it the same parcours as last year? I think that last year (or maybe 2 years ago) João Cabreira won on that course, so there is some hope that it won't go for a sprint. I would like Rui to win but he'll be isolated. Radioshack should send the entire team: Oliveira looked decent this week, Paulinho finished Suisse and Machado is always decent. I hope all the foreigners ride it this year.
Libertine Seguros said:Championships start on Thursday, finish on Sunday.
The elite ITT is a 34km, pan-flat out-and-back on Friday; the road race is on Sunday and is circuits of an equally pan-flat 12,2km circuit.
Hard to expect any more of a parcours around Pataias, though they are going into Vale de Paredes to provide at least SOME attempt at selectivity. Sérgio Ribeiro will win, probably.
Parrulo said:
even the newspaper cover, considering what he was up against, wasn't that bad.
also his site has been down because too many people have tried to go there and crashed it!!!!
gustienordic said:Olivera? He has a pretty good TT in him, plus he is young, and the youngsters usually seem to try harder at some Nats
maxmartin said:Pretty decent ITT by Costa, let's see if this tour can confirm his GT potential
He should have no problem get into top 10
gustienordic said:The De Gendt of the Tour?