Tour of California Stage 7: Los Angeles TT (33.6 km)

[issoisso]

Hardly surprising, Zabriske and Rogers are better time triallers than Leipheimer.

What makes you say that?
He tends to beat them

 

[santacruz]

Hardly surprising, Zabriske and Rogers are better time triallers than Leipheimer.

Levi is normally better... when he has his special formula rice cakes.

 

[kjetilraknerud]

What makes you say that?
He tends to beat them

He should be the USA TT champion then. And be a multiple world champion

 

[Cervelo77]

Phil: "We're seeing the magic legs now of Dave Zabriskie"

Magic legs. I wish I had magic legs.

 

[Publicus]

Gadzook is not looking like he's got it today.

 

[issoisso]

He should be the USA TT champion then. And be a multiple world champion

Since when does that mean anything when comparing two riders' abilities when they don't go head to head in those races?

Leipheimer aims for GTs. Rogers for the worlds, Zabriskie for the nationals. Different races. Whenever they meet in TTs, Leipheimer tends to win.
As for Rogers....the EPO days were different. Not to mention Rogers took advantage of lean years in the Worlds TT. Check his other TTs in those years. He sucked. He got beaten by a ton of people.....who didn't do the Worlds TT in those days.

For reference, this year they met only in Catalunya. Leipheimer won.
Last year, Zabriskie beat Leipheimer once in 7 time trials.

 

[Faserr]

Levi is riding on the wrong side

 

[issoisso]

Bottle lost a bit more in the second lap than in the first

 

[The Sheep]

Sagan finished yet?

 

[Publicus]

What's crazy is that Tony Martin was doing a ton of work yesterday in the mountains. A little surprised that he's put in this kind of performance the day after.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Very bad coverage. They missed half of the riders coming in.

ToC fails again

 

[maltiv]

I noticed Rogers has a saddle bag. Perhaps he has bought himself one of those?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYqKBUEelw&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[Moondance]

WHY are they showing aerial shots... Now?!?

 

[issoisso]

Sagan finished yet?

Not yet. His time should suck, anyway. He's awful at TTs. He was passed by Zabriskie around the halfway mark (I wrote Leipheimer, but I meant Zabriskie)

EDIT: And as I write this, the commentators take back the time when they said that.

I wish I could punch them. hard. I really do.

 

[Moondance]

The ToC clearly isn't ready for primetime.

 

[santacruz]

ugh Sherwen just called Sagan a Slovenian.

OMFG SHOW THE RIDERS TIRED OF AERIAL SHOTS

 

[Publicus]

Gadzook is not going to make history this year.

 

[Moondance]

ugh Sherwen just called Sagan a Slovenian.

To be fair, everyone in Europe confuses Slovenia and Slovakia.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

WHY are they showing aerial shots... Now?!?

Kirby reckons that the host broadcasters were on a break, so they were losing all their relevant coverage.

He's also becoming apoplectic at the lack of respect being shown to Peter Sagan, who has been totally ignored by the cameras all of the way round and not even given a split time.

So, DZ is ahead of The Dullest Rider In The World®

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Tony 'the Beast' Martin wins the time trial

 

[kjetilraknerud]

Whenever they meet in TTs, Leipheimer tends to win.

I'd say all three of them are about the same level.

2009 Tour of Missouri:
Zabriskie 1st
Leipheimer 5th
Rogers 15th

For example. Leipheimer wins some, Zabriskie wins some. Rogers hasn't been in good form the last few seasons because of injuries.

And today, Rogers was the best of them...

 

[issoisso]

Tony 'the Beast' Martin wins the time trial

And that means I win money \o/


Off now. See you guys at Zoncolan time. Can't wait.

I'd say all three of them are about the same level.

2009 Tour of Missouri:
Zabriskie 1st
Leipheimer 5th
Rogers 15th

For example. Leipheimer wins some, Zabriskie wins some. Rogers hasn't been in good form the last few seasons because of injuries.

And today, Rogers was the best of them...

So, of the truckload of TTs in the past few years they competed with each other, you chose the only one where Leipheimer didn't beat Zabriskie.

Selective fact checking FTW

 

[Jamsque]

Rogers takes 2nd on the TT and wins the overall. Dull dull dull.

 

[The Sheep]

To be fair, everyone in Europe confuses Slovenia and Slovakia.

They both chose the same flag to confuse us even more

 

[Moondance]

Marc..... NoooOOoOo!!!!