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Energy Starr said:Too bad he wasn't there. I would have liked to see that! But I'll bet he would have been trying to claw back losses from the ITT.
i put little stock in his anecdote about getting sexually molested by the HogDirtyWorks said:If you can sort through the crazy talk, DiCanio's been right far more than a broken clock tells the correct time.
SeriousSam said:Would 2013 Horner have been up there with Froome and Contador on the tough climbs? What a spectacle it would have been.
GuyIncognito said:Judging by his times up the climbs, he wouldn't have been with them, no.
He would've been ahead
SeriousSam said:Would 2013 Horner have been up there with Froome and Contador on the tough climbs? What a spectacle it would have been.
GuyIncognito said:Judging by his times up the climbs, he wouldn't have been with them, no.
He would've been ahead
DirtyWorks said:Veloclinic's model says he would have been in podium contention. As in, going at it with Froomie and Contador. That would have been comedy gold!
http://veloclinic.tumblr.com/post/97430402418/would-defending-vuelta-champ-horner-have-been-a
DirtyWorks said:Veloclinic's model says he would have been in podium contention.
http://veloclinic.tumblr.com/post/97430402418/would-defending-vuelta-champ-horner-have-been-a
“The form is better this year than it was last year,” Horner told reporters last week at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah."
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/08/news/horner-sports-outsider-status-as-reigning-vuelta-champion_341545
This is 2013 Vuelta Nibali (orange):hrotha said:Where would 2013 Vuelta Nibali have been then? Would he have been stronger than 2014 Tour Nibali according to these numbers?
Granville57 said:Let's not forget this:
SeriousSam said:Vuelta Nibali seems weaker. I certainly believe 2014 Tour Nibali and 2013 Giro Nibali > 2013 Vuelta Nibali. If the models said something else, that'd be one against the models imo.
We were robbed!DirtyWorks said:Veloclinic's model says he would have been in podium contention.
Granville57 said:Let's not forget this:
Race Radio said:Oh my. 43 year old Horner dropping Contador while Froome stares at his stem, tapping his SRM, muttering "Is this thing broken?"
Granville57 said:Let's not forget this:
roundabout said:Yeah right.
120th in Quebec and DNF in Montreal say otherwise
Fixed that.roundabout said:120th in Quebec and DNF in Montreal say he may have been riding clean for those.
roundabout said:Yeah right.
120th in Quebec and DNF in Montreal say otherwise
I think that is pretty close to what happenedFortyninefourteen said:I am thinking Lampre busted him pre-Vuelta and he is winding down politely to ride off into a US Conti team until he turns 65.
Fortyninefourteen said:I am thinking Lampre busted him pre-Vuelta and he is winding down politely to ride off into a US Conti team until he turns 65.
Granville57 said:So that gives him what, two to three years left in his career?
FoxxyBrown1111 said:Reminds me of LA. Peaking for a single GT and the pre races, then dissapear in peloton back fodder again (of where they come from before the transfusion period sets in).
He is such a obvious blood doper, it´s a shame the anti doping brigade/MPCC can´t catch him for other than unusal levels of whatever that was he got thrown out before the Vuelta.