Would 2013 Horner have been up there with Froome and Contador on the tough climbs? What a spectacle it would have been.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.
Judging by his times up the climbs, he wouldn't have been with them, no.SeriousSam said:Would 2013 Horner have been up there with Froome and Contador on the tough climbs? What a spectacle it would have been.
Last year 3rd and 4th are same as this year.GuyIncognito said:Judging by his times up the climbs, he wouldn't have been with them, no.
He would've been ahead
Agreed.SeriousSam said:Would 2013 Horner have been up there with Froome and Contador on the tough climbs? What a spectacle it would have been.
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!GuyIncognito said:Judging by his times up the climbs, he wouldn't have been with them, no.
He would've been ahead
Oh my. 43 year old Horner dropping Contador while Froome stares at his stem, tapping his SRM, muttering "Is this thing broken?"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
Let's not forget this: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?
Well we know Horner wasn't feeing any pain thats for sureGranville57 said:Let's not forget this:
From most of the numbers I have seen Vuelta Nibali was slower then Tour 14 Nibali. Valverde appears to have been much stronger at Vuelta 13, perhaps the strongest of his career.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.
Any potential contender is either:Granville57 said:Let's not forget this:
LMAO. We may see such farce... (even though I hope Horner is either retired, un-signed... or better caught for his ongoing blood doping before such events could take place).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?"
Yeah right.Granville57 said:Let's not forget this:
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.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.
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).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.
So that gives him what, two to three years left in his career?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.
I'm only a youngster at 53, if I can sort out my programme I could be up there.Granville57 said:So that gives him what, two to three years left in his career?
If you ever can tell that for all riders I am sure you'll have a great career at WADA. Glad you are now actually committed to a particular mechanism. I have been waiting on that for a while now. I am optimistic he will be back. Don't suffer it too hard.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.