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TeoSheva

TeoSheva

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Zinoviev Letter said:
Canuti with about 17 seconds over Brammeier and 19 over Degenkolb. After that only Van Winden and Kluge are also under 20 mins.
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Degenkolb lost 1 minute on this morning: he lost the chanche for a top 10!
 
Parrulo

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shouldn't bert have some world champ stripes on his tt suit? or tt'ers don't use the stripes like the roadies?
 
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skidmark said:
I think maybe he was expecting Manchester United, and realized that as far as cycling teams go, you don't get much better than Wigan.
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I think youre being very generous to brad. Sky have done everything they can for him, and in 2012 are doing everything that can as far as the olympics go. After most of the team went back for him on Tuesday to try and bring him back into the field, saying later in the week that hes not bothered about missing the time trial is a bit of a kick in the teeth to them. Swift, Sutton etc may as well have saved their energy and stayed in G1.
 
Francois the Postman

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I get the feeling that the switch back to track is just another excuse for Wiggo. After Beijing he had three Olympic golds and six rainbow jerseys, which is everything he could have hoped for on the track barring the individual pursuit world record, and even without that he was clearly the best pursuit rider of his generation. With the IP gone from London 2012 it made sense for him to ditch the track and spend the rest of his career on the road, and for a while it looked like that was his plan.

2009 was obviously a great year for him but 2010 was a huge let-down and I think he would rather run back to the comparative comfort of the track than tough it out on the road. It's not as though Team GB is short on guys for the TP squad. Using 2012 as an excuse to not really try on the road is a big mistake, it puts a ton of pressure on him and if he doesn't lead the team to gold next year he is going to have effectively wasted more than a year of his career.
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Snap. If he ever had the delusion that he would be a genuine Tour contender or team leader, then all the races since that fantastic 4th spot will have hammered reality home by now. Which means that he has no real place to go. Leader's salary but unable to fill the boots. No other team to go to. And Sky is quietly rejigging its team to refelect their reawakening that the new British wave isn't quite causing the professed ripples, and are starting to behave like a "normal team". And doing quite decently, actually, given the way their #1 investment is panning out. Great new signing too.

But for Wiggo? Showing up, realizing that you can't fill the boots once again, and tweeting on the way home, it seems. Sad. It could well be that that 4th place in the Tour has given him a huge salery, but also drawn a premature line under his career, it seems.

And the Olympics might be in London, with the scaled down track event, it's starting to look like pretty thin straws to clutch onto, for road race Bradley.
 
Dekker_Tifosi

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I saw raindrops on the lens... hope it stays dry.

Also, a lot of people seem to lose a lot of time in the 2nd part, more than the earlier starters. The wind might have gotten stronger
 
roundabout

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Flens hasn't exactly blown the field away here.

Grabsch at 75 rpm is always good for a comment or two. :D
 
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