Stage 8: Station des Rousses - Morzine-Avoriaz 189km

[39*23t]

Didn't contador win 3 straight GTs?

Nope there was a tour de france in the middle of it in which he did not compete.

 

[bobs nob]

He rode a very tactically smart race up until that point. I was surprised that he jumped over to close down Kreuziger. He wasn't a threat to him and should have let someone else do it. And that, I think, is his weakness. He is a competitor. Hopefully Martinelli makes it clear to him tonight that he wasted energy covering those early attacks.

Yup. He paid a small price for it today. about 10 seconds. Hopefully that won't happen again. He did look pretty much at the limit, though. Hope he gets better in the pyrenees. That is what he states as his target for where the race will be won.

 

[Cerberus]

Didn't contador win 3 straight GTs?

no he has either won 4 straight GTs (Tour, Giro, Vuelta, Tour) if you only count the ones he rode or he has never won two consecutive GTs if you include the one he didn't ride.

 

[bobs nob]

I bet RBR is like the Cambodian killing fields. That place should be good for a yuck or two.

They are up to post 162, what is that? Like 8:1 ratio? I think a lot of the fans have split, the posts i just peeked at didn't look too suicidal and similar to what is here.

 

[editedbymod]

Yes, people can "just tell" lots of things about Armstrong.

Who's sock account are you by the way?

"My Tour has finished," said 38-year-old Armstrong. "But I will stay in the race.

"I will enjoy it, I'll try and take some pleasure out of it, to support the team. I'm not complaining."

"I've had a bad day, a very bad day. At the start, it was going OK, I felt strong.
"And then came the roundabout before the Col de la Ramaz. I clipped a pedal and then my tyre rolled off and the next thing I was rolling along the ground at 60 to 65 kph.

"It's already hard to come back, hard on the body."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8808770.stm

 

[perico]

...today looked like normal armstrong.

the one from 1993-96.

no ability to recover.

losing a dozen minutes in one mountain stage.

this is probably what he would have done his whole career without ferrari and the complicit uci.

that is why he is the worst of frauds.

That's Bullsh!t. Look. I don't particularly like the guy either, but even LeMond thought Armstrong could one day turn into a potential Tour champion when Lance was still quitting before the Alps at every tour (he was 22 years old for chrissakes).

LeMond on Armstrong's potential as a future Tour winner (from 1994):

"Can he win the Tour? You can't even say yet what his capabilities are, what his capabilities will be in five years. He might be able to blow away everybody. Or he might just be a 1 day racer."

Full quote can be found on pp. 11-12

Abt, Samuel. A Season In Turmoil. Boulder, CO: Velopress, 1995.

 

[redtreviso]

I bet RBR is like the Cambodian killing fields. That place should be good for a yuck or two.

Jonestown.. new flavor

 

[Anonymous]

"My Tour has finished," said 38-year-old Armstrong. "But I will stay in the race.

"I will enjoy it, I'll try and take some pleasure out of it, to support the team. I'm not complaining."

"I've had a bad day, a very bad day. At the start, it was going OK, I felt strong.
"And then came the roundabout before the Col de la Ramaz. I clipped a pedal and then my tyre rolled off and the next thing I was rolling along the ground at 60 to 65 kph.

"It's already hard to come back, hard on the body."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8808770.stm

I hope he stays in. It would be fitting for him to roll across the actual finish line regardless of what happens after that.

 

[Larrybud]

He doesn't want to copy you and threaten to beat people up....call people cowards and then brag about your ignore list....refuse to back up your arguments and thus show you don't believe you are right.

That's how you lose.

Thanks for your support. But you know when you have them "Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken" and "Adam Myerson" quotes that's pretty frightenin' to me. Them boys must had to google for 2 or 3 minutes to find 'em some big boy quotes. Next thing you know they'll be tellin' us how many miles they rode. Oh wait, one of 'em already did. My bad. I gotta stop drinkin' the Jack so early in the mornin' it clouds the irony of my memory.

 

[sublimit]

Sky aren't feeding him enough whale blubber and rice cakes?

Hagen has consumed too much whale meat by the looks of things but then he's from Norway., Wiggans just didnt have the legs and backed off to avoid blowing completely apparently.

 

[roundabout]

That's Bullsh!t. Look. I don't particularly like the guy either, but even LeMond thought Armstrong could one day turn into a potential Tour champion when Lance was still quitting before the Alps at every tour (he was 22 years old for chrissakes).

LeMond on Armstrong's potential as a future Tour winner (from 1994):



Full quote can be found on pp. 11-12

Abt, Samuel. A Season In Turmoil. Boulder, CO: Velopress, 1995.

Phil Anderson didn't think so.

 

[Wergeland]

wiggo 2.45 down overall still sits at 14th. i hope it was a hunger knock he got and not just outridded. and he is still within a minute of the top 5. i shall be praying tomorrow for a good recovery and that he can stick there with the big boys over the madeleine. i think he can still do a top 3 as i reckon that was his bad day and some of the other contenders have yet to have theirs.

i hope

The way Sky was riding today, I think this actually was one of his better days.

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

At least he will have that prologue GC win to savour.

Yeah he totally blew the whole field when he won that prologue.

Oh wait.
________
NEW STARCRAFT 2 REPLAYS

 

[labratty]

That's Bullsh!t. Look. I don't particularly like the guy either, but even LeMond thought Armstrong could one day turn into a potential Tour champion when Lance was still quitting before the Alps at every tour (he was 22 years old for chrissakes).

LeMond on Armstrong's potential as a future Tour winner (from 1994):

"Can he win the Tour? You can't even say yet what his capabilities are, what his capabilities will be in five years. He might be able to blow away everybody. Or he might just be a 1 day racer."

In that quote he does not say that or support your statement in any way. He makes no predictional at all, actively avoids doing so. Stop making stuff up.

 

[editedbymod]

I hope he stays in. It would be fitting for him to roll across the actual finish line regardless of what happens after that.

Come Tuesday he'll do a Floyd and win by 12 minutes.

 

[D Avoid]

Menchov was in the main group, but was toward the back at the top of the climb. I think Lulu was dropped, but I can't be sure.

Is it Lulu or Twiggi? I'm canfused

 

[BroDeal]

Come Tuesday he'll do a Floyd and win by 12 minutes.

It's gonna take more than Jack Daniels. He had better load up on Jim Beam plus some bathtub hooch.

 

[Tyler'sTwin]

How come Contador isn't superhuman?

1. No refill yet?
2. No artificial blood this year?
3. No special treatment anymore?

 

[bobs nob]

game changer be gone.

You are all welcome.

 

[marinoni]

That Schleck needs at least two minutes on Conti before the TT seems to be accepted fact. Of course, based on previous occasions that's true. Then again, Pantani wasn't supposed to keep his lead after the TT in the 98 Giro and things didn't look too good for Sastre in 08 either. Tiny climbers with no TT pedigree can do amazing things with a GT overall on the line.

 

[badboyberty]

It's gonna take more than Jack Daniels. He had better load up on Jim Beam plus some bathtub hooch.

Um, aren't Jack Daniels and Jim Beam signed to Footon? I'm sure that's what Wikipedia told me.

 

[zapata]

so evans has twenty seconds on schleck. contador/vandenbroeck/hesjedal/kreuziger ca one minute behind.

http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=klassement&editie_idd=MTk2NjI=

 

[BroDeal]

How come Contador isn't superhuman?

1. No refill yet?
2. No artificial blood this year?
3. No special treatment anymore?

Contador may have sapped some of the snap in his legs by responding to too many attacks before Schleck went. Now he will have the opportunity to follow Schleck and choose the time he wants to attack.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

game changer be gone.

You are all welcome.

Why are you saying welcome? You had nothing to do with it.

Susan

 

[hfer07]

I hope he stays in. It would be fitting for him to roll across the actual finish line regardless of what happens after that.

Of course he will-- Do you think he's anxious about going back to the states to respond to Jeff Novitzky/the Feds at all?