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El Oso said:like July 26th
Read the comments below this article:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/04/news/leipheimer-abbott-win-gila-opener_113582
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Read the comments below this article:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/04/news/leipheimer-abbott-win-gila-opener_113582
Classic.
Dr. Maserati said:Write it down...... May 8th!
This is how Lance is going to win the Tour.
He's on an intensive program. 1 chapter a day.
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Publicus said:
Its bizarre logic that some are applying here. Its doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out if your race form all year has been close to diabolical then your major race goal of the year probably wont be achieved. Yet expert fans suggest; “ The form rule applies to all bar Lance who knows himself very well and can peak at the right time”.
If I was gunning for the Tour and I could barely finish a Euro race in the grupetto and get dropped by US-Semi Pros I’d be worried. But no. This is just indication that the year is well on track and its only March.
thehog said:
I miss the old days when fanboys were brave enough to post regularly on forums. Dang, good times, good times.
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thehog said:
Lance only races hard in the one race he cares about, and that's the Toor-Day-France, the biggest and bestest bike race in the whole wide World. The Toor-Day-France is the only good thing the cheese-eating surrender monkey French people have ever created, and now all French people hate excellence and people who win. Lance is so super-human jacked up on awesomeness that he can soft-pedal all year long untill TDF time where he will crush all the haters by pedaling at a higher cadence than everyone else - all the other stupid pro cyclists have simply never tried spinning their pedals faster like Lance does. At the same time Lance is crushing the haters up the mountains of France he will also kill every remaining cancer cell that exists in the world with laser beams that shoot out of his eyes.
If anyone doubts this let me remind you that it's only April. Lance gifted the win to Levi yesterday in the Gila just like he did to Marco Pantani in 2002 because Lance is the most generous man who has ever lived. Viva Saint Lance!
As Lance's biggest fan in the world, I'm optimistic.
Don't worry, Lance may be old, but fresh blood runs in his veins!
Or at least it will in July. If you know what I mean.
Don't worry, Lance may be old, but fresh blood runs in his veins!
Or at least it will in July. If you know what I mean.
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Thoughtforfood said:
With the Paceline dead and Daily Peloton on its last legs, the fanboys appear to have congregated to Velosnooze. There are fequently some real howlers posted as comments to Velonews stories. After you read them you sit there for a moment, stunned by the sheer stupidity. It is like some of these people are completely incapable of independent thought.
BroDeal said:
Yea, it seems their only safe harbor...well, that and RBR, but that place is dying too. It is one of the reasons I anxiously await the day he retires for good. We will keep watching cycling and commenting, and the fanboys will go the way of the dinosaur. I bet VN goes tits up within a couple of years after his retirement.
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Thoughtforfood said:
This stuff is gold:
- after seeing ALL the Tour favorites duke it out this weekend at LBL, poor Lance can't finish in the Top 20 of a race with 6 pro riders.......I got a feeling this year he will not be in the top 40 at the Tour.....
- You should go back to watching baseball. Lance probably had his training wheels on.I suspect he's in great shape
- There were six proTOUR riders in this race but the whole field was stacked with professional cyclists so next time you might nwant to check your facts before giving yourself up to humiliation
- Lance rarely races for stage wins before the Tour. It is called Periodization. He won't win the TDF but he is much stronger this year than last. Several late 30s guys are winning big races this year....Vino LBL....He's 36....
- Spoken like a true ignoramus, did you really think LA would put the hammer down at the Gila?........or maybe he's here for the miles and his Sponsors. I wouldn’t read too much into it….I would say base on the fact that he was back at the team car, a good two min.s from the break at the bottom of the Mogollon and was able to ride through 180 plus riders and bridge to the break, then set up the winning move for Levi……he looks pretty good.
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altark123 said:
Last year Armstrong used the race as his return event from a broken collarbone.
"It gives me some race stages," he said. "Plus, it's a big field. There's the altitude. There are a lot of pluses to being here."
Leipheimer broke away from a pack near the finish of the final steep ascent in the foothills of the Gila Mountains.
"I definitely had to suffer more," Leipheimer said of his stage-one win. "I haven't been at elevation much this year. I'm still hurting."
Because the elite Tour of California has been pushed back several weeks this year, the Tour of the Gila has drawn a strong field.
"We went faster at the end today than last year," Leipheimer said. "It was more of a traditional race, where the break got away and the pace continued to pick up."
Armstrong, who has trained near Aspen, Colorado, in recent weeks, said it wasn't too soon to start thinking about the Tour de France.
"It's still a long ways away. That's one way to look at it," Armstrong said. "You could also turn it around and say that we're about 80 days out. In some sense, that's not much.
"You've got to be light. You've got to be strong. You've got to climb well, time-trial well and bring a strong team."
Armstrong, Leipheimer and McCartney are racing in the kit of Mellow Johnny's - the name of Armstrong's cycle shop in Austin - under a rule that allows Pro Tour teams to send three riders to national level races.
Armstrong said he was completely over the intestinal virus that forced him to drop out of the Circuit Sarthe earlier this month.
"It was the worst stomach bug I've had, but it passed quick," he said.
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So Lance drops out of MSR takes two weeks off then puts in a respectable Top 30 finish in Rvv.
Then he drops out of the Sarthe, takes another few weeks off enters the Gila then struggles to finish 21st in a national event.
Am I missing something or is this strange to anyone else? Lance is nowhere near a man for the cobbles, yet he does just as well or better than former podium finishers in RvV, after taking two weeks off the bike.
And now he can't even put a top 10, let alone a top 20 in a watered down National field, where he should undoubtedly excel??
Lance claims the altitude caused his struggles in the Gila, but it doesn't add up. He finishes top 30 in a cycling monument after two weeks off, but can't ride in altitude for the Gila? Something just isn't adding up for me.
Then he drops out of the Sarthe, takes another few weeks off enters the Gila then struggles to finish 21st in a national event.
Am I missing something or is this strange to anyone else? Lance is nowhere near a man for the cobbles, yet he does just as well or better than former podium finishers in RvV, after taking two weeks off the bike.
And now he can't even put a top 10, let alone a top 20 in a watered down National field, where he should undoubtedly excel??
Lance claims the altitude caused his struggles in the Gila, but it doesn't add up. He finishes top 30 in a cycling monument after two weeks off, but can't ride in altitude for the Gila? Something just isn't adding up for me.
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Publicus said:
Does any of this make sense?
“People can talk about domestic or American races, but I don’t think that’s necessarily accurate,” Armstrong said. “The field is fast and American pros are strong. The other key thing here is that it’s an altitude race and there are a lot of guys that live at altitude so it’s not a big adjustment for them. Us lowlanders come up here and definitely pay the price for being at five, six or seven thousand feet and making efforts, it’s difficult.”
“It’s only been a few days but yesterday was not a good day, I was off,” Armstrong said. “Today I felt a bit better and we will see about tomorrow, although I feel a little tired after today. We all know the main goal here so I just have to build that up step-by-step. This is important, California is important and whatever [race] we pick in June will be the most important when it comes to preparation and then the Tour.”
“I was on the front and then all of a sudden the little guy attacked around and I said, ‘OK, that’s good, I’ll sit up now thank you very much’,” Armstrong said. “He’s strong and it’s in good time for Cali.”
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Relax people, Armstrong's doing fine. Nothing a little Aicar and a trip to Tenerife to visit an old friend can't fix.
nvpacchi said:
Clearly this must mean that the competition and racing are harder in the US of A.
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