pmcg76 said:This Vuelta is totally weird and raises a lot of questions. Perhaps the so called experts can help.
Why are the guys who done the Giro so crap at the Vuelta, a lot of people were saying these same guys like JRod, Scarponi, Anton etc were doped to the eyeballs at the Giro. If so, why are they doing so bad here?
According to the experts, anyone who rides for RadioShack is an undoubted doper but once again their GC men are failing spectacularly. If they are doped to the gills, why are they doing so bad? No crashes to blame for poor performances at the Vuelta.
Tiago Machado has not really improved much since he moved to RadioShack. Again if he was to get on the Bruyneel super programme, he should have improved immensly or is that programme solely reserved for Levi, Horner.
Some of the guys who have been going well are huge surprises, Froome, Mollema, Poels even the likes of Monfort, Kessiakoff etc. Not the names of riders expected to be seen in a GT Top 10, especially one with a lot of proven riders. Why are they so good here as opposed to the bigger names.
Radioshack are a mystery, but maybe Bruyneel is absolutely paranoid so his riders are below using their normal sized lunch bags instead of super sizes! Remember how Bruyneel ran like a rat out of an aqueduct from the Giro when the Italian police turned up. Radioshack have only perfromed in the USA and TdS where the UCI are based. Nowt strange about that. Kloden's early form is a mystery. But then again Bruyneel is living on borrowed time.
It is only stage 14 wait and see GC sunday week.