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pugdog said:Funny how his knee heals and he rejuvenates after every rest day.
will10 said:I thought we already had a Europcar thread?
iZnoGouD said:this is a joke, they let French people dope!
Cancellator said:I don't think he's clean - but he's not THAT ridiculous. Sky are more than happy to let the breakaways go, so he only has to beat the guys in the break, and he has a history of being a good climber.
Also, we all know how he loves to exaggerate - the pain faces and all. So, maybe he overplayed the gravity of the knee injury, so he doesn't have any GC pressure on a course that does not suit him and to be able to focus on stage wins.
Cancellator said:I don't think he's clean - but he's not THAT ridiculous. Sky are more than happy to let the breakaways go, so he only has to beat the guys in the break, and he has a history of being a good climber.
Yellow jersey for 10 days through the Pyrenees in 2004 - his first ride in the Tour de France. Held the Tour's mountain jersey in 2005 and 2008. Won the Mountain's jersey in the 2007 Paris-Nice...patrick767 said:Does he have a history of being a good climber before last year?
Robert21 said:Yellow jersey for 10 days through the Pyrenees in 2004 - his first ride in the Tour de France. Held the Tour's mountain jersey in 2005 and 2008. Won the Mountain's jersey in the 2007 Paris-Nice...
will10 said:I thought we already had a Europcar thread?
hrotha said:Voeckler was 23rd in the GC of the 2010 Giro. He's always shown he's a capable climber when he wants to. Last year was ridiculous, but the only guy in the break I'd say might outclimb him in a given day is Sørensen (what with Martin blowing himself up and Vino being past it).
Well, I'm not sure I bought all those knee injuries, to be honest. To me it looked like a way to justify their predictable drop in performance after those scares they had with Turgot, Charteau and the investigation.roundabout said:I thought the reason for this thread was the whole knee saga and not Voeckler's climbing ability in general.
The guy abandoned Dauphine, Route du Sud, didn't ride the National Championships, there was talk during the first week of how bad his knee still is, and now he seems to have hit form. Not 2011 form, but still pretty impressive.
I certainly did not expect him to win 2 stages, almost win a 3rd and likely end up as the KoM after all the disrupted preparations.
Robert21 said:Yellow jersey for 10 days through the Pyrenees in 2004 - his first ride in the Tour de France. Held the Tour's mountain jersey in 2005 and 2008. Won the Mountain's jersey in the 2007 Paris-Nice...