maxmartin said:good to know, let's see how it plays out tomorrow
I think it will go ***. First 2 days after a crash etc etc. Wiggins will laugh
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maxmartin said:good to know, let's see how it plays out tomorrow
Azabael said:I think that's mainly disappointment as he felt he was in really good shape.
You could be right. If he can recover properly and manages to climb among the best, he won't be the first they react to when he would jump out of the fav's group.
Dekker_Tifosi said:I think it will go ***. First 2 days after a crash etc etc. Wiggins will laugh
Dr.Sahl said:Wiggins wont laugh.. he will crash tomorrow.. its in the cards..
SafeBet said:The point is not Gesink himself.
It's Rabobank. That's what you get for sending a horrible team to the Giro and keeping all of your GC men for the Tour.
will10 said:If Rabo had had a terrible day, lost Gesink and Kruijswijk to crashes, we'd be saying at least they still have Mollema for GC. It's immensely bad luck to lose all 3 GC guys in one day.
Pippo_San said:+100000000
They could've at least sent Kruijswijk to the Giro. At least.
Brilliant idea, "let's all go for a massive fail at Le Tour!".
Just brilliant.
Dutchsmurf said:Like or not, Giro is irrelevant for Dutch media. Rabobank isn't doing the sponsoring for charity. In Dutch media it is Tour or nothing.
Dutchsmurf said:I agree, but there is no way of changing that as team or as rider. Gesink might go to the Giro and he might even podium. The reaction here would be "why did he go to the Giro when in that form he could reach top 5 in the Tour?"
boomcie said:Intrinsically, Crash is obviously the strongest rider, but JVDB is the safer bet.
boomcie said:Anyone else wonder why Crash is still in the race? Amazing bike-handling skills.
boomcie said:Yup.
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Logic-is-your-friend said:The race ain't over till the fat... errr... guy reaches paris. Last year i think Gesink had lost time as well... and then JVdB crashed.
theyoungest said:Boomcie used to be a guy with an idiosyncratic sense of humour, who contributed little to the discussion but who was now and then semi-funny.
Now he's just an incessant troll.
Dutchsmurf said:I agree, but there is no way of changing that as team or as rider. Gesink might go to the Giro and he might even podium. The reaction here would be "why did he go to the Giro when in that form he could reach top 5 in the Tour?"
Arnout said:I agree with both boomcie and theyoungest, weirdly.
maxmartin said:Otherwise every year he goes into Tour wondering when he is going to crash with more and more pressure since he is growing older and older.
tell that to GesinkDutchsmurf said:And each year he doesn't go to the Tour is a year wasted, because maybe he would have gotten lucky that year. If you as rider are thinking "when I'm going to fall this time?", you shouldn't be going to the Giro. You should find another job.