Team Ineos (Formerly the Sky thread)

[deeno1975]

Team Sky trolling the clinic today, 6 Sky riders on a diminished peloton with 11 km to go... ( make that 5 as "G" exits)

 

[SeriousSam]

choo choo choo

 

[DanielSong39]

Truly a clinic-worthy performance from Sky.

No sight of Froome alien mode, however.

 

[Marco Pantani]

Motodoping at work. Thank you Sky. Cycling is dying rapidly.

 

[Saint Unix]

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Truly a clinic-worthy performance from Sky.

No sight of Froome alien mode, however.

He doesn't have to bring out the egg beater, and if it reduces the critical questions, he won't want to either. The Tour is already over in any case.

 

[Electress]

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Motodoping at work. Thank you Sky. Cycling is dying rapidly.

I stopped watching in week 1. Not done that since Postal days. I keep thinking 'surely, someone soon will start asking properly difficult questions when they see this?'.

Then I remind myself it is cycling.

 

[CheckMyPecs]

Y'all missing the point.

Sky doesn't win because they use blood doping.
Sky doesn't win because they use mechanical doping.

Sky win because they've got mountains of cash to hire the best riders money can buy.

 

[zlev11]

yes, it's one thing to sign a bunch of good riders, but it's completely another thing to have them all on top form at the same time

 

[SeriousSam]

Sky wouldn't win if they didn't have the most doped up rider in the peloton leading them.

 

[thehog]

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Sky wouldn't win if they didn't have the most doped up rider in the peloton leading them.

I actually laugh when I'm watching these days. It gets funnier and funnier.

Porte, Froome then Yates on a MTF, lol! :lol:

 

[hrotha]

Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

 

[carton]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

Did you see Poels up Zoncolan? Or Alpe d'Huez?

 

[PremierAndrew]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

His level at OPQS was ridiculously low compared to what he's showing at Sky, especially this season. At Vacansoleil, he was still young-ish, but who would have thought that he would one day be decimating the entire TdF peloton apart from the sky leader and an ex-sky rider.

 

[Enrico Gimondi]

Sky makes US Postal look like pikers.

 

[DFA123]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

Agree, this is definitely a new level for him. Especially the consistency he's shown over three weeks. Interestingly Henao - the only one of the doms who has had anything clinic related close to actually sticking on him - looks by far the weakest of their climbers at the moment.

 

[hrotha]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

Did you see Poels up Zoncolan? Or Alpe d'Huez?

Yes, hence why I didn't cry foul before today.

 

[DFA123]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

Did you see Poels up Zoncolan? Or Alpe d'Huez?

They were one-offs; he's doing it day after day here. Dropping Quintana and Aru with ease despite having been at the front for half the climbs in the race.

 

[PremierAndrew]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

Did you see Poels up Zoncolan? Or Alpe d'Huez?

They were one-offs; he's doing it day after day here. Dropping Quintana and Aru with ease despite having been at the front for half the climbs in the race.

Fwiw, Poels is still very inconsistent, and he's always shown in the past that on his day, he's a really really top climber. But today was just ridiculous

 

[thehog]

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Now this performance does go beyond what I'd consider normal of Poels elsewhere.

Did you see Poels up Zoncolan? Or Alpe d'Huez?

They were one-offs; he's doing it day after day here. Dropping Quintana and Aru with ease despite having been at the front for half the climbs in the race.

Fwiw, Poels is still very inconsistent, and he's always shown in the past that on his day, he's a really really top climber. But today was just ridiculous

Sky have certainly got there threshold power to the maximum of boredom levels.....

 

[BullsFan22]

Re: Sky

No update on the Zakarin thread? What gives?!?

 

[markene2]

Re: Sky

No update on the Zakarin thread? What gives?!?

Because beating Pantano and Majka from a break aint exactly groundbreaking from Zaka.

 

[Stilletto]

Seriously does sky think people just forgot about US Postal?

This is beyond a joke.... Proper Trump plagiarism

 

[Enrico Gimondi]

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Seriously does sky think people just forgot about US Postal?

This is beyond a joke.... Proper Trump plagiarism

"I would like to thank my guys George, Tyler and Frankie for helping me up the climb today." -Chris Froome

 

[doperhopper]

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Seriously does sky think people just forgot about US Postal?

This is beyond a joke.... Proper Trump plagiarism

not plagiarism anymore, UKPostal is better: when did the last Uniballer's dom, idling after his job was done, incidentally pace the 2nd GC man to the line?

 

[PremierAndrew]

Today reminded me of the sick feeling after PSM last year, that was previously only there in the USPS days