So ... BMC

[WildspokeJoe]

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This stinks!!

Gilbert on Sunday: “[BMC] don’t show me confidence. I am fresh after Giro, I climbed better than ever.”

BMC today: “Gilbert’s leg is broken"

Anyone else think GIlbert had a positive and has been sent home for being a naughty boy????

I think Gilbert wants to ride the tour but he also wants to be a free agent and ride for himself. BMC wants to put all their eggs in one basket (Read TJVG)

 

[58teeth]

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This stinks!!

Gilbert on Sunday: “[BMC] don’t show me confidence. I am fresh after Giro, I climbed better than ever.”

BMC today: “Gilbert’s leg is broken"

Anyone else think GIlbert had a positive and has been sent home for being a naughty boy????

Just thought the same thing!

 

[The Hitch]

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This stinks!!

Gilbert on Sunday: “[BMC] don’t show me confidence. I am fresh after Giro, I climbed better than ever.”

BMC today: “Gilbert’s leg is broken"

Anyone else think GIlbert had a positive and has been sent home for being a naughty boy????

Sent home by who? According to you the teams and authorities are complicit in letting riders dope. Why then would they punish someone for doing it?

 

[IzzyStradlin]

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I think Gilbert wants to ride the tour but he also wants to be a free agent and ride for himself. BMC wants to put all their eggs in one basket (Read TJVG)

Yep, Gilbert is not exactly a workhorse.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Good grief!?

Of course, I was motivated for the Tour because it is going to pass in a part of Belgium and there is also the nice finish on the Mur de Huy. But the Tour de France is every year. It is not like I am missing something like the Olympic Games. So every year you have a chance to do it and I have already done it a few times and have had a lot of success at this race already.

Missing the Tour (big $$$$) is ok.
Missing the Olypic games (no money) is not.



For real?

 

[SeriousSam]

So Gilbert publicly complains about BMC and the next piece of news that he's suffered a broken leg. Very interesting.

 

[IzzyStradlin]

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Missing the Tour (big $$$$) is ok.
Missing the Olypic games (no money) is not.



For real?

Olympics gives a much bigger chance to get endorsements outside of cycling. A gold medal would be worth millions.

One TdF isn't going to change much. He's already on a huge contract, full slate of sponsors.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

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Missing the Tour (big $$$$) is ok.
Missing the Olypic games (no money) is not.



For real?

Olympics gives a much bigger chance to get endorsements outside of cycling. A gold medal would be worth millions.

One TdF isn't going to change much. He's already on a huge contract, full slate of sponsors.

How come Wiggo didn't get millions? Is that only for road racing gold medals?

In fact, I don't know any Olympic gold medaling cyclist who are millionaires due to Olympic endorsements. Can you help me out there?

 

[veganrob]

When is his contract up anyway? He'd be a good fit at Katusha. They have the get out of jail free card.

 

[Taxus4a]

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About BMC, I really love Dottore Ferrari's allusions on 53x12.com

"GILBERT: the world champion flunked his spring campaign, showing obvious limitations even at the distance, confirming the under-performances of 2012 (world championships apart), very different from those of previous years: an "involution" common with other leaders of the BMC team, such as Evans and Hushovd"

"involution" : does he clearly mean they stepped their program down ???
What does he know about them ? A lot, IMHO...

link to the article

Others interesting stuffs about Wiggins, Porte, even though I haven't got the key to decode everything (as Wiggins "focusing on "special" training for the Giro"... what can he mean as "special"... Ferrari knows so well why training in Teneriffe is great...)

Evans had an age when he started to get down, something very different to Gilbert... but we talk of the transitional era still in 2011.

Ferrari, if someone read Hamilton book, was a training doctor, not a doper, he make clearly the difference between that. There were people that doped with the training programs of Ferrari, but that doesnt mean everybody that went to Ferrari doped. Other doctors as Fuentes were just dopers.

The important with Evans, and I agree, is this:

http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/article/2015/01/22/lemond-doping-era-denied-evans-his-best-years

 

[IzzyStradlin]

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How come Wiggo didn't get millions? Is that only for road racing gold medals?

In fact, I don't know any Olympic gold medaling cyclist who are millionaires due to Olympic endorsements. Can you help me out there?

Yeah the Olympics did nothing for him, or any of the Brits. They were always top-shelf celebs. They love track world cups over there.

Chris Hoy would still be a Sir without the olympics, right?

If Wiggins were just a Tour winner like Lance, would he be where he is now?

 

[del1962]

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How come Wiggo didn't get millions? Is that only for road racing gold medals?

In fact, I don't know any Olympic gold medaling cyclist who are millionaires due to Olympic endorsements. Can you help me out there?

Yeah the Olympics did nothing for him, or any of the Brits. They were always top-shelf celebs. They love track world cups over there.

Chris Hoy would still be a Sir without the olympics, right?

If Wiggins were just a Tour winner like Lance, he would not be where he is now.

It is the multiple medals that does it though, unless you think Steve Burke is famous

Anyway on Phil, the guy is obviously injured,

 

[Benotti69]

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Anyway on Phil, the guy is obviously injured,

Did you not read "climbing better than ever"...........

Also as Dan Martin proved, he laughed at his fractures......

 

[fmk_RoI]

So. A bad day at the office for BMC at the Vuelta today? Or bad fish?

 

[nayr497]

Yeah, interesting as Sky brings their entire team to the front...Roche and Teejay go backwards. Hmm. I'll go with bad fish.

 

[climb4fun]

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Blimey, when was that?

I think there have been a few times with the team doping - USPS, Mapei, etc.

I think it was PDM that everyone got sick, but I can check on that if it is important.

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