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carton said:
Alexandre B. said:
slosada said:
How come would Uran help Bardet? He had Woods ahead and with a faster sprint
Because he was strong enough to had a significant gap? Lopez vs. Woods, come on, we all know who is the strongest between those two.
He rode to lose. He lost.
Come on. You need to ride with your teammates, not your bravado. He played his cards perfectly, but if the leaders stayed away you have to trust your teammate in that group. If Cannondale had no faith in Woods they'd had told him to stay on Lopez' wheel, or even wait for Rigoberto. That clearly wasn't the case. Woods has a pretty good kick, too.
Besides, Uran's got bigger fish to fry. He can't attack behind his teammates in a race like this and then expect their full support when it matters.
Great win by Superman.
Urán is to win Lombardia, for him this is not an importat goal, the team is more important...it wast sure he couid drop anyone and Woods is an strong rider. For sure Wood will give back this respect on saturday.
The problem is than although Uran race day by day more clever, in the big scenarios he use to make mistakes, he use to be there, but no often win, he need more instinct, as Nibali or other riders. And he use to fail when you more expect him
But Bardet or Aru are serious rivals looking at Lombardia, and I think he was stronger today, I dont think they were saving more energie than Urán. Of course the big names are Nibali, the clear favourite with Chaves, Valverde, Purito, even Contador has a chance, but we dont know his curret level, Valverde should be very tired, Purito was out of cyclism... and even in his best level Uran can beat them with this hard profile. Urán was podium in Lombardia with 21 years old... he was helping Purito and Purito failed, other way maybe he could have won so young this monument, there was no time to catch Cunego. His enemy is the rain, there are better riders than him with rain for this race.
Uran need a hard race to eliminate domestiques and to select the race a lot...in the final flat he is better than people as Chaves or Bardet. He nneed toplay well his card. And to do a hard race Wood is important