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Will Tony Martin reach a Top Ten overall finish at this year's Tour de France

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Jul 25, 2011
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Bavarianrider said:
Why so pessemistic?

I listen his injuries, impossible to recover in two weeks, a month at least and we will see then. I mean it's a hot feature of this Tour if Tony Martin gives a go.
 
Apr 7, 2011
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Forunculo said:
I listen his injuries, impossible to recover in two weeks, a month at least and we will see then. I mean it's a hot feature of this Tour if Tony Martin gives a go.

Don't see why it should take 4 weeks.
 
Sep 1, 2010
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time will tell but I think he'll make it back in time, perhaps the accident will have steeled him and he'll come back more determined/focused.
 
Apr 7, 2011
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Machu Picchu said:
time will tell but I think he'll make it back in time, perhaps the accident will have steeled him and he'll come back more determined/focused.

Yeah Tony is tough like leather and hard like Krupp Steel :D:D
 
Feb 1, 2011
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Well, I wish him all the best, I do kind of like Martin, but I don't have your faith. I think the best he can hope for now is being a contender for the TTs in the Tour and then being 100% at the Olympics. I honestly don't think there's anything in the Tour GC for him this year.
 
Apr 7, 2011
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spalco said:
Well, I wish him all the best, I do kind of like Martin, but I don't have your faith. I think the best he can hope for now is being a contender for the TTs in the Tour and then being 100% at the Olympics. I honestly don't think there's anything in the Tour GC for him this year.

At this point of time, Ullrich was still relaxing on his couch, eating a couple of choko cakes a day:D
It's still plenty of time, Tony will be fine, i am confdent:D
 
Apr 10, 2011
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"I am really happy to be able to get back on my bicycle on the road," Martin said. "I pedalled for 30 minutes yesterday on a bike path near home and today I went out again riding my bike for about an hour. Obviously, these aren't training sessions, but just some pedalling to get used to the bicycle and the road again. I am trying to listen to my body and I'm pedalling without taking any type of risk. It's a very pleasant feeling, especially thinking about the fact that a week ago I was lying in a hospital bed."

So all those comments 'No Tour for him, ' four weeks break' were as predicted bit over the top ;)
 
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Bavarianrider said:
At this point of time, Ullrich was still relaxing on his couch, eating a couple of choko cakes a day:D
It's still plenty of time, Tony will be fine, i am confdent:D

Hahaha, good one! But Martin ain't no Ullrich!

One does not simply get called Der Kaiser for no reason!;)

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Jul 24, 2010
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Yeah good to see him back up so quickly.

There is something slightly of The 'Burbs about that picture.
 
Apr 7, 2011
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Tony lost lots of substance, one can clearly see this in this picture.
But it's two months till the Tour starts, this should be enogh.
 
Sep 30, 2011
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Bavarianrider said:
Tony lost lots of substance, one can clearly see this in this picture.
But it's two months till the Tour starts, this should be enogh.

What "substances" ? :p
 
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Tony man of steel:D

The haters had already celebrated their parties cuase they thought Tony would be out of the Tour.
Now he is back on May 1. That's fantastic:D:D
 
Oct 30, 2011
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Bavarianrider said:
Tony man of steel:D

The haters had already celebrated their parties cuase they thought Tony would be out of the Tour.
Now he is back on May 1. That's fantastic:D:D

What the hell?!

No cycling fan, certainly not one that's ever ridden a bike, would ever want a rider to be sidelined because of a car crash.

I would call most of Tony Martin's "haters" more "doubters".

I genuinely think that unless he's taken a lot away from his TTing, he isn't going to have a chance in the high mountains. If he's going to start trying to lose weight to climb better, I really doubt it would be during an Olympic year.
 
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Both him and Fabian will probably not dominate the ITT's at the TDF but they shall probably square off at the Olympics which will be good.