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...no such thing as a boring Tour...this one was great, every golden second. (oops, LA didn't win...tisk, tisk)

I was yawning a bit with this year's Vuelta, tho. But I seriously enjoyed the trip thru The Nederlands and Belgium (living there at one time helped).

Loved this year's Giro...

...if LA can get cycling on TV again...GO LANCE...
 
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...no such thing as a boring Tour...this one was great, every golden second. (oops, LA didn't win...tisk, tisk)

I was yawning a bit with this year's Vuelta, tho. But I seriously enjoyed the trip thru The Nederlands and Belgium (living there at one time helped).

Loved this year's Giro...

...if LA can get cycling on TV again...GO LANCE...
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Lance fans are banned on this forum:rolleyes:
 
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Reminiscent of 2007 route, one of the best in years.
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i sure hope so!

hopefully there are two TT's (excluding prologue) of at least 40km each, and get rid of that stupid team time trial. 07 was so close becoz the TT specialists could get major time back on the climbers, which made it very interesting to watch, and less dependence on having the strongest team (liek this year)
 
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it might go to la Mongie. it would be a bloody long and hard tt. maybe the orgainsers are learning from their mistakes his year on the course and are building a course based around many exciting stages and not just one stage at the end. I hope they make a course which has a lot of ITT km's as then it will make it a bit harder for AC to win but he'll still be hard to beat.
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Have to disagree especially if you have an itt up the Tourmale. AC has proven in a number of races that he is no push over in the race against the clock.


I still don't get why people think this tour was boring? I must have watched a different race:confused:
 
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I still don't get why people think this tour was boring? I must have watched a different race:confused:
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+1 on that. I loved every minute of it, including the Pyrenees. The GC in Pyrenees was a bit lame apart from AC in Andorre, but there was some good racing like the stage to Tarbes between Pellizotti and Fedrigo + the battle between Cav and Hushovd.
 
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Have to disagree especially if you have an itt up the Tourmale. AC has proven in a number of races that he is no push over in the race against the clock.


I still don't get why people think this tour was boring? I must have watched a different race:confused:
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I'm saying that if their wan't a itt up the tourmalet then it would be a little bit more intersting
 
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+1 on that. I loved every minute of it, including the Pyrenees. The GC in Pyrenees was a bit lame apart from AC in Andorre, but there was some good racing like the stage to Tarbes between Pellizotti and Fedrigo + the battle between Cav and Hushovd.
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Absolutely! and the number of breaks that made it was, I though a refreshing change like the stage that Thomas Voeckler won. I like to see the head bangers win now and again! Pellizotti was fab the whole race, I think he has a real shot at winning the Giro if he improves his TT.

Anyway, I think that a longer ITT would be a good thing, it makes for a more deserving winner. I still think that Contador will win, but at least then people will stop saying he isn't that good of a time trialist (is he not the Spanish champ?) Sorry to go on about this but... it's just not true.
 
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St. Elia said:
Have to disagree especially if you have an itt up the Tourmale. AC has proven in a number of races that he is no push over in the race against the clock.

I still don't get why people think this tour was boring? I must have watched a different race:confused:
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I watched 95%+ of all major and medium classics and tours, and the Tour was the most boring of them all I say. 7 times Cav alone does it for me, let alone the dissapointing mountain stages (bad design). The waaier stage and the Lance/Contador strife were some of the highlights. Watch it again and compare with Giro this year. (reason: 7 MTF, and 20 boni on every finish line, and yes, Di Luca's doping of course :) )

OT: 4 MTF in the Pyrenees would be overkill. Probably a way of compensating for last year's debacle. But overkill is what we prepare for pro cyclists, and why we all like the sport (isn't Roubaix or the Angliru overkill as well?). Bring it on! :cool:
 
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How accurate is that usually? I'm quite looking forward to this now.

Tourmalet ITT would be cool though
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Last year was very accurate. Not much difference between the two sites, they agree on most of it.
Cycling Weekly had an article that claimed that there is an ITT on Tourmalet.
 
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Anyway, I think that a longer ITT would be a good thing, it makes for a more deserving winner. I still think that Contador will win, but at least then people will stop saying he isn't that good of a time trialist (is he not the Spanish champ?) Sorry to go on about this but... it's just not true.
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How's the competition in the Spanish TT championships? and the distance?

I think he manages a decent TT, but he's hardly as good as a TT specialist and I don't think the spanish championships reflects his "amazing" talent in the TT. The TT's in this year's tour were a 7.5k hill climb with a tricky decent, and a 40km course will a cat 3 climb in there. Hardly what you call a traditional tour TT.

From memory, contador lost almost 1 minute in the last 12km of the 40k TT against cancellara. 1 minute in 12km!!

Throw in two TT's over 50km and I think we'll see contador win the 2010 tour by something closer to his 2007 outcome, or may even be challenged for the win. CN reports that the time trial on the penultimate day of the 2010 tour will be 60km. Now that's more like the tours of old!!! I'd like to see contador win that one = never going to happen.
 
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Tourmalet ITT - Andy Schleck must be grinning at this prospect right now considering the time he normally surrenders on a TT.
And Wiggins won't be happy at having to try and lose even more weight to compete on this stage:p
 
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IMO they should have stage finish on the Muur de Huy, and do what they did in 2004 and put in some pave in the stages. And if any big-name contender has a whinge, tell them to HTFU and ride Paris-Roubaix.
 
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Just where on the Tourmalet are they going to have a stage finish? :confused: They could finish at La Mongie, but then it would say they are finishing at La Mongie, and after you keep climbing the next 4km to to the summit, there is a cafe and then you go down the other side. Not sure how they can fit everybody up there.
 
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Just where on the Tourmalet are they going to have a stage finish? :confused: They could finish at La Mongie, but then it would say they are finishing at La Mongie, and after you keep climbing the next 4km to to the summit, there is a cafe and then you go down the other side. Not sure how they can fit everybody up there.
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They did in 2004. I doubt there will be a Mountain TT up the tourmalet.If it's to la Mongie if they do have the tt to there it will go for 12.8km and with an average gradient of 6.9% though the final 7 km are around 8 to 10%.
 
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They did in 2004. I doubt there will be a Mountain TT up the tourmalet.If it's to la Mongie if they do have the tt to there it will go for 12.8km and with an average gradient of 6.9% though the final 7 km are around 8 to 10%.
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Then technically the stage finish would be at La Mongie. Trust me, I have ridden the beast and I know all about how steep it is.
 
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