ILovecycling said:yep,it is,plus he apologized after that
Thanks, I'm inclined to go with the exaggerated racing incident but I guess we'll never really know.
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ILovecycling said:yep,it is,plus he apologized after that
He also justifies it by saying that those type incidents happen all the time.BeagRigh said:Thanks, I'm inclined to go with the exaggerated racing incident but I guess we'll never really know.
LaFlorecita said:Yeah yeah, whatever I know you haven't got a single good word to say for Alberto since la Vuelta 2012. Not sure what happened.
Pricey_sky said:Ok I will try and remain partially serious despite you using the words 'poo poo' (language my 3 year old niece uses )
What was written in the book was obviously blown up to sell copies, from what I've seen this year Froome and Contador have a great respect for each other. Read the tweets when both were forced to abandon the Tour, also you regularly see them chatting away and laughing amongst themselves before a stage or in the rollouts ect.
Agree with the last sentence re Valverde
Ryo Hazuki said:if you honeslkty get punched by a 56 kg flo and you go whine after a stage you're a goddamn **** who should be thrown out of the vuelta for being a b***
thehook said:I put the Poo Poo in there. Trying to keep my post Family friendly
Froomes book. "Hows the coffee Alberto"
The Hitch said:IMO if you want to win the stage from a 2 man group you work with the person.
Doubly so if you are the leaders jersey who has shown the whole race so far you are way stronger than the second person.
Its hardly a maverick opinion. Its pretty much common practice in cycling that the leaders jersey lets the other person get the stage if they leave them to do all the work. Happens all the time. Often even if they share the work they let them have the stage (Nibali Santa, Contador Rujano)
But if you make them do all the work you give them the stage. You want the stage you share the work.
Afterall Contador himself let Schleck have the win on Tourmalet after he left all the work for Schleck. In that same Tour he was in a situation with Rodriguez where he wanted the stage for himself so he did the work.
UpTheRoad said:If you punch someone in a bicycle race, you should be tossed regardless of how small you might be or how "whiny" the other guy might be.
If what occurred is true why should JRod get any leeway? If he punched another rider, no matter which one, why shouldn't he be thrown out?
Ryo Hazuki said:if you honeslkty get punched by a 56 kg flo
LaFlorecita said:leave me out of this mess please
Obviously. If he had meant Flo he wouldn't have written 56kgRed Rick said:Wut, this is prolly a translational error
Jagartrott said:Well, seems like this argument is handled by using the media - Kennaugh calling Purito a lying *** on twitter: https://twitter.com/Petekennaugh
fantomas said:About the alledged wheelsucking and "Contador should have worked with Froome or handed him the stage". Contador probably was afraid of not being the strongest and didn't want to risk being humiliated. Along the way he realized, that he could follow Froome's numerous accelerations and then, when he was certain he could keep his speed all he way to the finish, decided to say: "Hey, dude, this time I'm the strongest, so bye, bye." Forget about the uwritten rules and so-called fairness. There's more to the picture, and Contador needed to show he's the stronger one this time around. Froome is very competitive and probably is totally okay with this, I'd guess.
yespatterns said:Yeah, pretty sure Froome never looked to Contie for assistance. He had his own agenda and put in some pretty good attacks. Ugh. I hate appreciating Froome in any respect, but he put in a good ride without a doubt.