Vervaeke will save the day!Red Rick said:Poor Dumoulin. Gets isolated for Giro in March
Logic-is-your-friend said:Broken colarbone and a fractured cervical spine (neck vertebra).
Sunweb are a weird team with useless protocols and no flexibility. They assign leaders months before races, no matter who is or isn’t in form by then. One would think they’d reschedule Oomen or something, but knowing them they’ll have a reserve list and whoever is on there be in no matter the need in capabilities or fit.Salvarani said:I wonder who they select now instead. Or if they rethink the the schedule for some riders so Tom will have a good team around him, in Giro.
Boy oh boy oh boyDekker_Tifosi said:Born in 1991 and already in a class of his own.
While still so young, he already wins mountain stages, hilly stages, time trials, prologues and even mass sprints in the U23 category. The guy seemingly has no weaknesses. Except ofcourse the dutch falling disease.
It's commonly accepted among insiders that the moment Kelderman becomes pro we will forget all about Sagan, Gesink, Hagen, Rolland and other Taaramae's of this world. As Kelderman easily has more talent in his left toe then all others.
We are at the dawn of the Wilco Kelderman-era.
This is his official thread. Better start it early!
Honours
http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=36834
Truer words were never spoken.Dekker_Tifosi said:The guy seemingly has no weaknesses. Except ofcourse the dutch falling disease.
Red Rick said:Truer words were never spoken.Dekker_Tifosi said:The guy seemingly has no weaknesses. Except ofcourse the dutch falling disease.
Thanks for that summary, very interesting.Lengthy radio interview. It's in Dutch obviously, but for those who speak it, i think it's interesting.
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Wilco Kelderman: 'Ik ben mentaal heel wat sterker geworden'
De 29-jarige Kelderman kijkt uit naar het wielerseizoen nu hij terug is van ernstig blessureleed.www.nporadio1.nl
He says all the bad luck and crashes have made him mentally stronger, yet i can't help getting the impression a bit, that he's not far from throwing in the towel. That's probably a bit overstated (due to the lack of a better word.. in Dutch we'd say "een gelaten indruk"), but as if he lost some "hunger". He says he's realistic and doesn't dream about winning the Tour de France. But he would like to battle for a podium again "one day" in a GT. Giro is his favorite race, and from all the things he says, it seems he would like to ride the Giro more than the TDF this year, but on the other hand, after not having raced for such a long time, it's tempting to go to the Tour, because it starts 5 weeks earlier. He also says he'd rather be a leader than a domestique, when asked.
I'm not the biggest follower of Kelderman, but you get the impression that he is a gentle guy, rather emotional, and well, maybe even a bit "down" (emotionally/mentally). I don't know if he's always been like this, and i think i've read things like that before, that he lacks a bit of a fighters spirit, a burning ambition. That he's to much of a nice guy to be a real winner?
Doesn't have a pretty good record in stages like yesterday in stage races?I hope I'm wrong but this is probably yet another Wilco Kelderman tease so we're all back believing he can podium a GT. I'll wait at least until the second week of the Giro before making any assessment about his chances.