The fridge in the blue trees said:He's Italian.
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Succinct, elegant, spoken for truth!
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The fridge in the blue trees said:He's Italian.
Enough reasons to do what he wants in 2015.Red Rick said:He's Italian, he's the Italian national champion and he's the reigning TdF champion.
Red Rick said:He's Italian, he's the Italian national champion and he's the reigning TdF champion. To ride the Giro should be the greatest experience he could have in his career. I don't see a single reason why he wouldn't ride it
SeriousSam said:I can think of one
SeriousSam said:I can think of one
Rollthedice said:At that precise point in time the guy in yellow had two and a half minutes in front of the guy in yellow fluo. I don't see any reason why that rider wearing yellow wouldn't like to change that to pink. Except maybe if he likes yellow more.
BlurryVII said:At that precise point, the peloton was just about to enter Contador's territory.
I'd say Nibali isn't too happy about AC's unexpected participation, I've heard (unfounded) rumors that he's been negociating with RCS to have quite an easy route for next year's Giro so that he would have a good shot for the double with the Tour.
Surely he isn't gonna say anything, but this upsets his plans as he must have thought he would have an easy win at the Giro, against an extremely weak field
IronCQ said:And? this means Alberto would have won without any doubts?
Too bad there are no picture of stage 5 finish line, oh well, you should need a video actually....
Report rumors and tell us how can you read minds, should need a proper thread
Dude, you should follow the advice of others and watch stage 5 in HD.BlurryVII said:No, but the main part of race didn't actually begin when AC crashed so quite irrelevant to say that Nibali had 2 min 30 lead in the GC especially when you know that AC is the better climber.
And if he wouldn't have gotten all that time back only on the summit finishes, now imagine peak contador blowing up the race from far out with the team he had. AC would have done anything & Nibali would have suffered like never to keep his lead.
cineteq said:Dude, you should follow the advice of others and watch stage 5 in HD.
BlurryVII said:No thanks, Nibali won the lottery, did his thing with his teammate who did almost all of the work, took risks knowing he was inferior in the mountains and that's about it.
By the way, I can't remember, is TDF raced in 5 or 21 stages?
BlurryVII said:No thanks, Nibali won the lottery, did his thing with his teammate who did almost all of the work, took risks knowing he was inferior in the mountains and that's about it.
By the way, I can't remember, is TDF raced in 5 or 21 stages?
They justify with hotair and not facts the actions of their idols. They're unable to face the truth with dignity.The fridge in the blue trees said:Nibali was stronger on cobbles than Contador.
And see, that's the difference between real cycling fans, like the ones who cheer Contador in Italy, and hyenas. Who do nothing but talk down wins of riders who happen not to be their favorites. Then it's lotteries they have won, luck, profited from the team who did all the work on cobbles, etc etc. Pretty classless stuff.
Uncanny the double standard shown by this fangirl. I'd like to see what she'd say if a member do a similar post in the Contador's thread as she did hereLaFlorecita said:Completely agree. Nibali fans think Nibali was stronger because he got 2'30" minutes in a lottery.
Stronger on the cobbles =/= stronger uphill
But Nibali fanbois don't understand that.
Netserk said:You do know that it's a discussion thread, not the old appreciation thread? Hopefully it's allowed to post more than just praise in such a thread.
BlurryVII said:At that precise point, the peloton was just about to enter Contador's territory.
There won't be any cobbles at the Giro, and things will not always go as conveniently as it did at the Tour for Nibali. It really looked like he was meant to win it.
Tomorrow, you can throw them in the same cobbled stage, you won't have the same result especially without rain, because there is some randomness involved.
Vino attacks everyone said:oh please as if people doesn't go bat**** crazy in the AC thread every time someone says that AC perhas isn't the true son of God
Usualy the response is things like "Idon't care about your opinion, **** off!" or "this is an AC thread, not a AC bashing thread... mods!!"
When was the last time I did that?Vino attacks everyone said:oh please as if people doesn't go bat**** crazy in the AC thread every time someone says that AC perhas isn't the true son of God
Usualy the response is things like "Idon't care about your opinion, **** off!" or "this is an AC thread, not a AC bashing thread... mods!!"
Carols said:There is no need to say disrespectful things about another rider. It does not elevate your favorite in any way.