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Would be great to see Nibbles and Contador in the same team, and both going to the Vuelta. Epic stuff.
But I kind of like the idea of him going to Etixx and being forced to ride the cobble classics.
Anything is better than Astana at this point.
But I kind of like the idea of him going to Etixx and being forced to ride the cobble classics.
Anything is better than Astana at this point.
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Lol, Nibali, Landa and Aru at same GT, that will be very interesting.
damian13ster said:Rollthedice said:
Wait, what? Astana to take whole podium if Froome doesnt show up?
Lol, Nibali, Landa and Aru at same GT, that will be very interesting.
Re: Nibali discussion thread
Now seriously a battle between Nibali,Aru and Landa all going for the win and ignoring the team orders will be epic.Bring it
Now seriously a battle between Nibali,Aru and Landa all going for the win and ignoring the team orders will be epic.Bring it
He looked much better today. Considering he was saying he has been lacking explosiveness he somehow finished top 10
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Yes please. Tinkoff, if your reading this, make it happen!
And throw Aru and Landa on the team as well and lets get some epic inner-team battles at the Giro.
SafeBet said:
Yes please. Tinkoff, if your reading this, make it happen!
And throw Aru and Landa on the team as well and lets get some epic inner-team battles at the Giro.
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Nibs won't go to Oleg team I think
wtf Afrank? welcome backAfrank said:SafeBet said:
Yes please. Tinkoff, if your reading this, make it happen!
And throw Aru and Landa on the team as well and lets get some epic inner-team battles at the Giro.
Nibs won't go to Oleg team I think
Re: Nibali discussion thread
I just realized that if Nibali rode like this in the mountains last year, the French would have won a Tour
I just realized that if Nibali rode like this in the mountains last year, the French would have won a Tour
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IF my grandma had wheels she'd have been a trolley.
phanatic said:I just realized that if Nibali rode like this in the mountains last year, the French would have won a Tour
IF my grandma had wheels she'd have been a trolley.
Re: Nibali discussion thread
sky is rumored to be interested in Landa. So Landa might very well go to Sky. Contador isn't going to Ettix. That's like a career suicide. Why the move? he got a great team mate around him And i have never seen him feel at home around his other team mates. (He used to be surrounded by his patsy _noval, hernandez, paulinho). Now he got basso, rogers as his training mates. He is at end of his career, better stay at TS. He has the good support to win another GT as farewell. Maybe one last straw to win TDF since 2010*. I wonder where Uran is going? Ettix clearly is the morque for GT rider. On paper Nibali will fit TS. But no way they will share leadership on the Tour. Nibali doesn't obsess to win Tour. Maybe he likes to be back to Giro?
'Mozart92 said:
sky is rumored to be interested in Landa. So Landa might very well go to Sky. Contador isn't going to Ettix. That's like a career suicide. Why the move? he got a great team mate around him And i have never seen him feel at home around his other team mates. (He used to be surrounded by his patsy _noval, hernandez, paulinho). Now he got basso, rogers as his training mates. He is at end of his career, better stay at TS. He has the good support to win another GT as farewell. Maybe one last straw to win TDF since 2010*. I wonder where Uran is going? Ettix clearly is the morque for GT rider. On paper Nibali will fit TS. But no way they will share leadership on the Tour. Nibali doesn't obsess to win Tour. Maybe he likes to be back to Giro?
Re: Nibali discussion thread
They would likely come into conflict with the Giro as well. Contador might very well focus more on Giro-Vuelta the rest of his career (which wouldn't be a bad idea).
Lampre or katusha come to mind as interesting teams for Nibali. Then again, staying with Astana could be his best option. Overall he's done very well with the team.
Jelantik said:
They would likely come into conflict with the Giro as well. Contador might very well focus more on Giro-Vuelta the rest of his career (which wouldn't be a bad idea).
Lampre or katusha come to mind as interesting teams for Nibali. Then again, staying with Astana could be his best option. Overall he's done very well with the team.
Nibs makes it sound like his numbers in training were good, but something went wrong during the Tour
Am I the only one thinking that it was Nibali at his best (Tour 2014 level)? The difference was, that there were only Froome, Quintana and Contador instead of Bardet, Pinot and Peraud this time.
If he rode like that last year it would look like he destroyed all the others.
If he rode like that last year it would look like he destroyed all the others.
Nibali looked good today, even if he was dropped in the end. I think he is actually near his best level now, but Q/F are of another level than Pinot and Peraud
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He beat Valverde last year too. Also, we can calculate times up climbs and whatnot now. Only retards and trolls are claiming that the Nibali of last year wasn't ridiculously strong. Strong enough to be anywhere near Froome? That is something else entirely
D_T, Valverde is also a common denominator. Nibali destroyed him last year. Yet today Valverde was just behind Quintana and Froome
rm7 said:
He beat Valverde last year too. Also, we can calculate times up climbs and whatnot now. Only retards and trolls are claiming that the Nibali of last year wasn't ridiculously strong. Strong enough to be anywhere near Froome? That is something else entirely
D_T, Valverde is also a common denominator. Nibali destroyed him last year. Yet today Valverde was just behind Quintana and Froome
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We will see in the last week if he can get to his best. Usually he can at least stay with Valverde even on this kind of climb, not the case today.
Dekker_Tifosi said:
We will see in the last week if he can get to his best. Usually he can at least stay with Valverde even on this kind of climb, not the case today.
Getting better, but still far from 2014 shape. I don't know, and never will know, if 2014 Nibali would beat 2015 Froome, but top shape Nibali definitely would've stayed with Quintana and Froome today.
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He has posted some, but he definitely isn't as active as last year....makes sense of course. It's easy to say the things he said when his man was the top dog for just 21 days last year.
Red Rick said:
He has posted some, but he definitely isn't as active as last year....makes sense of course. It's easy to say the things he said when his man was the top dog for just 21 days last year.
This Tour is definitely doomed for Nibali. Somebody stole his sunglasses and money while he was at breakfast this morning. He won Le Tour last year with those glasses.
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Yeah Its the Glasses
Nibs was fantastic last year but yet to see him compete at the highest level with Froome or a top form Bertie.
It would have been great to see him at his best and he his racing like a champion and fighter.
I dream of Nibs doing a Landis ,,,,,that would be AWESOME
Rollthedice said:
Yeah Its the Glasses
Nibs was fantastic last year but yet to see him compete at the highest level with Froome or a top form Bertie.
It would have been great to see him at his best and he his racing like a champion and fighter.
I dream of Nibs doing a Landis ,,,,,that would be AWESOME
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Just think about it, Nibali attacks early on the Col d' Allos in the Pra-Loup stage and Quintana attacks later and catches Nibali before the descent. Nibali helps Quintana to gain a lot of time on Froome on the descent and gets the stage win, for me that would be the best case scenario
A stage win and helping Quintana because he wants Froome to loose the Tour would be enough for me.ray j willings said:Rollthedice said:
Yeah Its the Glasses
Nibs was fantastic last year but yet to see him compete at the highest level with Froome or a top form Bertie.
It would have been great to see him at his best and he his racing like a champion and fighter.
I dream of Nibs doing a Landis ,,,,,that would be AWESOME
Just think about it, Nibali attacks early on the Col d' Allos in the Pra-Loup stage and Quintana attacks later and catches Nibali before the descent. Nibali helps Quintana to gain a lot of time on Froome on the descent and gets the stage win, for me that would be the best case scenario
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I would be happy with that. Long as Sky lose.
Mayomaniac said:A stage win and helping Quintana because he wants Froome to loose the Tour would be enough for me.ray j willings said:Rollthedice said:
Yeah Its the Glasses
Nibs was fantastic last year but yet to see him compete at the highest level with Froome or a top form Bertie.
It would have been great to see him at his best and he his racing like a champion and fighter.
I dream of Nibs doing a Landis ,,,,,that would be AWESOME
Just think about it, Nibali attacks early on the Col d' Allos in the Pra-Loup stage and Quintana attacks later and catches Nibali before the descent. Nibali helps Quintana to gain a lot of time on Froome on the descent and gets the stage win, for me that would be the best case scenario
I would be happy with that. Long as Sky lose.
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