el_peras said:Video taken 3km from top of Hoz, Contador is 30s behind the first group and 7 seconds after are Purito and Valverde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAN4RI8Y6zU
Carnage.....
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el_peras said:Video taken 3km from top of Hoz, Contador is 30s behind the first group and 7 seconds after are Purito and Valverde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAN4RI8Y6zU
cineteq said:He didn't have a bad day per se, his team did. Otherwise he wouldn't have finished 2.38 off Contador without any help. If anything he should have followed, right away, Contador when he attacked, especially knowing his team couldn't help him. Decisions, decisions, decisions....
el_peras said:Video taken 3km from top of Hoz, Contador is 30s behind the first group and 7 seconds after are Purito and Valverde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAN4RI8Y6zU
He must have known, although ultimately it came down to this:SafeBet said:What I've been wondering is: the very moment Contador attacked did he know that his team was going to collapse?
Cause I can't believe he didn't follow knowing Moreno and Menchov wouldn't pull a metre for him.
Also from the video: escapada, contador, valverde/purito, peloton froome and the
BISONTE
el_peras said:Video taken 3km from top of Hoz, Contador is 30s behind the first group and 7 seconds after are Purito and Valverde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAN4RI8Y6zU
mp4-4a said:Great video, thanks!
Did you make it?
el_peras said:Video taken 3km from top of Hoz, Contador is 30s behind the first group and 7 seconds after are Purito and Valverde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAN4RI8Y6zU
Jelantik said:OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE WON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in style!!!!!!!!!! CHAPEAU... He does really race with his heart..... O my, o my... i got a goosebump.. This is really really thrilling!!
icefire said:I don't think it was a matter of a bad physical condition. Purito didn't read properly the race situation. Intxausti made some wise comments after the stage. Movistar saw SBTB moving men to the front and they did the same. Katusha? Then, Purito said that when Alberto attacked he was just scared to go that early. We don't know if he could have followed Alberto's wheel, but he said he chose to stay close to his teammates. From then on it was first a TTT with SBTB better than Katusha (actually Losada). Purito asked Valverde if his teammates were going to wait him to chase and Valverde said that his team car had a different plan. After Losada dropped, the race was an ITT with Alberto better than Purito. It was a bad day for Katusha as a team. Moreno had a crash in one of the weekend stages and is not in top condition. And Purito was forced to put his nose in the wind for longer that he's ever done. Using his own words when he described the climb to Cobertoria, yesterday he couldn't hide as a rat behind two towers.
Howard Thomas said:I think the stage showed that the individual titles have no relevance. I am new to this cycling lark and I can see plain as a pikestaff, that both sprints and climbs, you name it, are all down to teams. They might have one strong rider who can go away, but without the team and tactics, the slipstreaming nature of cycling means that only teams make the difference.
The task is to break the tow.
LaFlorecita said:I feel like I'm having a deja vu moment... didn't you post all that before
Howard Thomas said:I think the stage showed that the individual titles have no relevance. I am new to this cycling lark and I can see plain as a pikestaff, that both sprints and climbs, you name it, are all down to teams. They might have one strong rider who can go away, but without the team and tactics, the slipstreaming nature of cycling means that only teams make the difference.
The task is to break the tow.
icefire said:I don't think it was a matter of a bad physical condition. Purito didn't read properly the race situation. Intxausti made some wise comments after the stage. Movistar saw SBTB moving men to the front and they did the same. Katusha? Then, Purito said that when Alberto attacked he was just scared to go that early. We don't know if he could have followed Alberto's wheel, but he said he chose to stay close to his teammates. From then on it was first a TTT with SBTB better than Katusha (actually Losada). Purito asked Valverde if his teammates were going to wait him to chase and Valverde said that his team car had a different plan. After Losada dropped, the race was an ITT with Alberto better than Purito. It was a bad day for Katusha as a team. Moreno had a crash in one of the weekend stages and is not in top condition. And Purito was forced to put his nose in the wind for longer that he's ever done. Using his own words when he described the climb to Cobertoria, yesterday he couldn't hide as a rat behind two towers.
Howard Thomas said:I think the stage showed that the individual titles have no relevance. I am new to this cycling lark and I can see plain as a pikestaff, that both sprints and climbs, you name it, are all down to teams. They might have one strong rider who can go away, but without the team and tactics, the slipstreaming nature of cycling means that only teams make the difference.
The task is to break the tow.
burning said:I think whole team is tired as they were working at the front since 2 weeks and they simply couldnt place riders everywhere like saxo and movistar did.
Btw, what is Menchov doing??
Howard Thomas said:I think the stage showed that the individual titles have no relevance. I am new to this cycling lark and I can see plain as a pikestaff, that both sprints and climbs, you name it, are all down to teams. They might have one strong rider who can go away, but without the team and tactics, the slipstreaming nature of cycling means that only teams make the difference.
The task is to break the tow.
webvan said:Some good insight here on stage 17 : http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/the-day-after-the-attack-how-contador-won-in-fuente-de
webvan said:Menchov has to be mutiple GT winner with the worst career ending, this is really shameful, hopefully he'll resign at the end of this season.
zapata said:Then cycling is obviously not for you. Go away and watch something else.
Howard Thomas said:What a lovely bunch you cyclists are. Your comments on here are among the very worst I have read anywhere on the net.
Just count all the green grinning men (it would be OK if the comments actually were witty).