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Delgado-Indurain? Nope. Roles were clearly defined, see BigMig sacrificing himself for Perico in '90. That's when the change took place: Delgado proved that he didn't have it anymore. Then Indurain became the leader.Moviestar said:The second fiddle thing is nothing new. Unzue usually prefers to have 2 leaders, Think of Delgado/Indurain, Mancebo/Menchov, Valverde/Pereiro and more recent Valverde/Quintana. ''May the best claim the leaderspot''
Irondan said:Landa looks very "tranquil" in this pic...
Yeah, I think that's what I was discerning from this photo too.Zinoviev Letter said:Irondan said:Landa looks very "tranquil" in this pic...
I love this kind of awkward team enforced "unity" photo shoot. You can practically hear the team PR person hissing at them to smile.
Or implode. They'll probably do either-or...Tonton said:Moviestar said:The second fiddle thing is nothing new. Unzue usually prefers to have 2 leaders, Think of Delgado/Indurain, Mancebo/Menchov, Valverde/Pereiro and more recent Valverde/Quintana. ''May the best claim the leaderspot''
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With this three-headed monster (and a good TTT), (one rider from) Movistar can win the '18 Tour.
Zinoviev Letter said:Irondan said:Landa looks very "tranquil" in this pic...
I love this kind of awkward team enforced "unity" photo shoot. You can practically hear the team PR person hissing at them to smile.
Irondan said:Or implode. They'll probably do either-or...Tonton said:Moviestar said:The second fiddle thing is nothing new. Unzue usually prefers to have 2 leaders, Think of Delgado/Indurain, Mancebo/Menchov, Valverde/Pereiro and more recent Valverde/Quintana. ''May the best claim the leaderspot''
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With this three-headed monster (and a good TTT), (one rider from) Movistar can win the '18 Tour.
I wonder who Quintana's looking at to get him to actually smile? :lol:Koronin said:Tried to upload this picture, but it won't let me. So I figured I'd just put in a link to where it's at. This is a picture of Valverde, Quintana, Landa and Unzue but the smiles appear more genuine in this picture compared to the above picture.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNtdFJRXcAEt2yy.jpg:large
hrotha said:This is a trainwreck in slow motion. It'll be hilarious.
Lol.hrotha said:This is a trainwreck in slow motion. It'll be hilarious.
Mayomaniac said:As long as nobody misses the respective main goal it should work.
Valv.Piti said:Its annoying these news are dominating the headlines (because there isn't racing going on), but I think its about to pump the brakes a little. Seeing to many ignorant comments in comment sections etc. just bashing everyone left and right. We don't even know what the schedules exactly will look like and we haven't seen them race together..