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Sootyam

Sep 29, 2020
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SHAD0W93 said:
Ben Swift getting 18th is pretty eye opening.
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This was purely a product of getting in the right breaks, some of which were allowed ridiculous amounts of time. Once you get outside the top 10 (especially with such a weak field) on a GT, the positions are much more random than you might think. Occasionally someone even sneaks into the top ten by just being in the right breakaways.
 
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pastronef

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this Giro comeback win after the Tour debacle, with Tao, a British kid riding with the team at the launch at The Mall ten years ago, all during the Freeman trial is priceless for Skineos. it´s a strike back, BANG! take this.
and I like that very much
 
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SHAD0W93

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Sootyam said:
This was purely a product of getting in the right breaks, some of which were allowed ridiculous amounts of time. Once you get outside the top 10 (especially with such a weak field) on a GT, the positions are much more random than you might think. Occasionally someone even sneaks into the top ten by just being in the right breakaways.
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This isn't a breakaway specialist who can hang on for a top 20 that climbs okay (Chavanel, Voeckler) , a super strong domestique that still hangs on to that top 20 (G. Thomas pre win) , or a fringe 10-25 GC rider that makes a breakthrough top 10 (Navarro, LuLu, Karpets, Monfort). This is a semi hardy C sprinter that has none of those qualities, that finished 18th. Thor Hushovd, the God of Thunder, was not only a better climber and engine than Swift but won 2 stages from a break, team won the TTT, and lead GC finished 68th. A sprinter who finished second best on his team and the riders in 19-22 are way better GC riders. Now at 32 he is 18th, next year what, 10th or higher?
 
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Parker

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SHAD0W93 said:
This isn't a breakaway specialist who can hang on for a top 20 that climbs okay (Chavanel, Voeckler) , a super strong domestique that still hangs on to that top 20 (G. Thomas pre win) , or a fringe 10-25 GC rider that makes a breakthrough top 10 (Navarro, LuLu, Karpets, Monfort). This is a semi hardy C sprinter that has none of those qualities, that finished 18th. Thor Hushovd, the God of Thunder, was not only a better climber and engine than Swift but won 2 stages from a break, team won the TTT, and lead GC finished 68th. A sprinter who finished second best on his team and the riders in 19-22 are way better GC riders. Now at 32 he is 18th, next year what, 10th or higher?
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He hasn't really been a full time sprinter for a long while. He did come second on Alpe d'Huez in the Dauphine three years ago though so he can obviously climb a bit when he needs to. And that was from a 16 strong break which included Herrada, Vuillermoz, Vanendert, Ulissi, Sicard, Clarke and Kennaugh who won
 
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SHAD0W93

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Parker said:
He hasn't really been a full time sprinter for a long while. He did come second on Alpe d'Huez in the Dauphine three years ago though so he can obviously climb a bit when he needs to. And that was from a 16 strong break which included Herrada, Vuillermoz, Vanendert, Ulissi, Sicard, Clarke and Kennaugh who won
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He's still been competing in sprints since 2017, he's just a C or maybe even D sprinter. Yes he finished second on probably his best day but hasn't really shown anything close to that or being able to come close over 3 weeks.
 
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Sootyam

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SHAD0W93 said:
He's still been competing in sprints since 2017, he's just a C or maybe even D sprinter. Yes he finished second on probably his best day but hasn't really shown anything close to that or being able to come close over 3 weeks.
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Looking back over his stage results, you're right actually. He was finishing top 30 on most of the high summit finishes. Guess this takes us back to the age-old question of whether someone can change what type of rider they are and be decent at it. (For those of you about to try and answer this, I'll save you the effort: some people say no, some people say yes, you'll argue about it for a bit, and no conclusions will be reached other than us all getting a little bit more annoyed)
 
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Pantani_lives

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Cookster15 said:
Time for a bump .......

The Clinic really has fallen away from its glory days. This thread should be white hot with the news on Freeman. Instead the only thing being discussed is MVdP.
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I have the same problem. To me Team Sky 2011-2018 looks like the biggest doping ring since US Postal, but there isn't really a thread to discuss this anymore. In spite of all the evidence WADA and UCI aren't even investigating this team. No one seems to care anymore.
 
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Good read. Has anyone read the whole book?

https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains

The fate of British Cycling changed one day in 2003.

The organization, which was the governing body for professional cycling in Great Britain, had recently hired Dave Brailsford as its new performance director. At the time, professional cyclists in Great Britain had endured nearly one hundred years of mediocrity. Since 1908, British riders had won just a single gold medal at the Olympic Games, and they had fared even worse in cycling’s biggest race, the Tour de France. In 110 years, no British cyclist had ever won the event...
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Edited by King Boonen: Please don't quote other webpages verbatim. A small section and the link is enough.
 
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