When is the smackdown on Chris Horner?

[gooner]

When did he say this? And even if... nobody is perfect.
Horner took it easy or not: "Amazing performance" to finish 17th just a few months after almost crashing to death. There is no other explanation than that he was fueled by BBs (but too less), he tested how much he needs more to prevail at the Vuelta. Now he knows it. That´s why he is so arrogantly confident in his latest BS interviews.
My personal guess is he´ll use at least 6 BBs to make sure he is "winning" and literally piss at all true cycling fans again with a grotesque alien performance. Wish him to crash out

Thursday will tell a lot about Horner's form.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Thursday will tell a lot about Horner's form.

Without even trying the guy is top 20 in TDF on bad form and look at his statement

Luckily, last year I was the best climber in the world, so it was easier to make up time in the mountains

He is going to be in top form no matter what.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Yop. 6 BBs. But I learned something this week: The UCI takes 3/4 years to finally open BP cases (see Kreuziger) to make them waterproof. So around 2016/17 Horner is caught. His results terminated. Nibali won the Vuelta 2013 (if clean/ish that´s another matter, but the worst doper ever will suffer like LA. Burn in hell Chris Horner.).

 

[BYOP88]

Horner is going to make Froome look like the Froome of Poland 2011 on the climbs.

 

[markene2]

Horner is going to make Froome look like the Froome of Poland 2011 on the climbs.

Cant wait!!!

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Horner is going to make Froome look like the Froome of Poland 2011 on the climbs.

Honestly I have no idea how this will end. But one thing is for sure: A pure death metal match. 550 Indurain-like-watts sprinting up the mountains. Horners head about to explode from all the extra blood he´ll carry, Froome putting on the afterburner, Horner counters on one leg and half head. It will be an absurd freak show. Unseen before. Not even Hautacam 1996/2000 or Chicken vs AC will come close.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Honestly I have no idea how this will end. But one thing is for sure: A pure death metal match. 550 Indurain-like-watts sprinting up the mountains. Horners head about to explode from all the extra blood he´ll carry, Froome putting on the afterburner, Horner counters on one leg and half head. It will be an absurd freak show. Unseen before. Not even Hautacam 1996/2000 or Chicken vs AC will come close.

Grand Pappy certainly appears to be ready for this.
Contador? We'll see.
Sky's grand tour squad can't seem to put more than a few good days together without huffing on an inhaler.

I certainly didn't imagine 2014 would end with a super-Vuelta. Let's see if ASO "disinvites" riders before the Vuelta.

What will be interesting is how many leave the Vuelta and deliver at the World Championships. If they were cleans, a good Vuelta is a strong predictor for WC.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Grand Pappy certainly appears to be ready for this.
Contador? We'll see.
Sky's grand tour squad can't seem to put more than a few good days together without huffing on an inhaler.

I certainly didn't imagine 2014 would end with a super-Vuelta. Let's see if ASO "disinvites" riders before the Vuelta.

What will be interesting is how many leave the Vuelta and deliver at the World Championships. If they were cleans, a good Vuelta is a strong predictor for WC.

AC isn´t riding. So it will be a battle of two, and Quintana just does

 

[DirtyWorks]

AC isn´t riding. So it will be a battle of two, and Quintana just does

Freak show at the front. Quintana's to lose?

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Freak show at the front. Quintana's to lose?

Yes.

Funny thing is last year the excuse for Horner was that everybody was tired and him having less race days.
Well this year he´s got a fresh Vroom-Vroom and himself the TdF in his legs. I am eager to hear the fanboys explanations this year when Blood-Horner smashes a super strong field...

 

[Granville57]

So let me get this straight old man horner takes it easy in TdF while still on a program of course to give himself enough left in the tank to challenge at the Vuelta?

Hasn't anyone been following this unfolding saga close enough?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/horner-not-fazed-by-strong-vuelta-field-as-he-prepares-for-title-defense

Not only did he easily cruise into the Top 20 at the TdF. He did it while contending with a chest infection of his own!

The first stage at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah proved to be an easy day for Chris Horner, the Lampre-Merida leader who hopes to recover from a slight case of bronchitis he came down with during the Tour de France.

But all is well.

"It could be spectacular," Horner said of the Vuelta.

"Always in Spain is a really good course for me," Honer said. "There are a lot of climbs that are short and steep. And more importantly, the climbs come really close to each other. So when you finish one climb the next one starts.

 

[Oldman]

Yes.

Funny thing is last year the excuse for Horner was that everybody was tired and him having less race days.
Well this year he´s got a fresh Vroom-Vroom and himself the TdF in his legs. I am eager to hear the fanboys explanations this year when Blood-Horner smashes a super strong field...

If Froome continues his spectacular bike handling displays it could be a Vuelta for the climbing jackrabbits. Horner is just fine but Quintana is the serious deal, IMO.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

If Froome continues his spectacular bike handling displays it could be a Vuelta for the climbing jackrabbits. Horner is just fine but Quintana is the serious deal, IMO.

So what´s your prediction?

Mine; (The battle of the aliens live on TV; ladies and gentlemen here comes the freak show)
Horner
Vroom-Vroom +/- 1 min
... nothing
... more nothing
Quintana + 9 mins like in the heavy Epo days (when Ullrich in 1997 was beating the field by that amount)

 

[Oldman]

So what´s your prediction?

Mine; (The battle of the aliens live on TV; ladies and gentlemen here comes the freak show)
Horner
Vroom-Vroom +/- 1 min
... nothing
... more nothing
Quintana + 9 mins like in the heavy Epo days (when Ullrich in 1997 was beating the field by that amount)

If you're saying Quintana will lead by 9 minutes I'd disagree. He had to have learned something watching Nibali. Plus, Horner can actually climb somewhat. Otherwise we agree.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

If you're saying Quintana will lead by 9 minutes I'd disagree. He had to have learned something watching Nibali. Plus, Horner can actually climb somewhat. Otherwise we agree.

No, no... Quintana 9 mins down to the two aliens. While climbing he´ll do
WTF is going on here. I thought I get prepared "the right way" with Unzue...

 

[DirtyWorks]

If you're saying Quintana will lead by 9 minutes I'd disagree. He had to have learned something watching Nibali. Plus, Horner can actually climb somewhat. Otherwise we agree.

Not seeing Froome delivering a podium. Good times ahead anyway.

BTW, I called Horner tearing up the TdF with just one second-tier race in his legs. He can bail out of Utah and expect great things at the Vuelta.

Almost no racing works miracles in 2014. It's not possible that's a great way to avoid testing.

 

[Oldman]

Not seeing Froome delivering a podium. Good times ahead anyway.

BTW, I called Horner tearing up the TdF with just one second-tier race in his legs. He can bail out of Utah and expect great things at the Vuelta.

Almost no racing works miracles in 2014. It's not possible that's a great way to avoid testing.

Foxxy thinks Quintana hasn't geared up to Horner's level....I'd say he would but that's speculation like the rest. Froome needs some credibility as I think Sky has proven a fairly disloyal employer. He could find himself fighting Wiggens for velodrome time if he's not careful.
Horner will ride Utah because the altitude might lend some credibility to his blood values. Still plenty of time to tune up afterward.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Foxxy thinks Quintana hasn't geared up to Horner's level....I'd say he would but that's speculation like the rest. Froome needs some credibility as I think Sky has proven a fairly disloyal employer. He could find himself fighting Wiggens for velodrome time if he's not careful.
Horner will ride Utah because the altitude might lend some credibility to his blood values. Still plenty of time to tune up afterward.

Yop, as Ferrari suggested to Bertagnolli. OFC Horner knows this...
If Quintana (still young, career in front) risks too much, he runs the risk to be Kreuzigerized in 3/4 years, while Blood-Horner don´t care if he´s caught in 2016. He´ll go all-in again. The 6+ BBs are cooling in Bent... right now.

 

[mewmewmew13]

So what´s your prediction?

Mine; (The battle of the aliens live on TV; ladies and gentlemen here comes the freak show)
Horner
Vroom-Vroom +/- 1 min
... nothing
... more nothing
Quintana + 9 mins like in the heavy Epo days (when Ullrich in 1997 was beating the field by that amount)

LOL Foxxy

 

[red_flanders]

Either way, Horner will have no results at this TdF. If he goes all in again... well, the french will get him, whatever results are "achieved" will be nullified.
But if he keeps things low and inside parameters, he´ll be on the same level as everybody else, only 134 years older than them. Thus he will finish in the middle of nowhere. Where he belongs to. This is not the murky Vuelta with murky winners like Cobo and Horner...

Thought this was worth pulling up given the ongoing Vuelta predictions.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Thought this was worth pulling up given the ongoing Vuelta predictions.

OK I was wrong. So what? I thought the AFLD would get him. Now I know better. He will be Kreuzigerized in 3/4 years with a waterproof BP case. I can live with that. I survived 10+ years until LA came down.

BTW, Year in year out my T-20 predictions lead my to the final. So they can´t be that bad. Would have been nice if you had the guts to show up too.
Sceptic had it, and does pretty well...

 

[DirtyWorks]

OK I was wrong. So what? I thought the AFLD would get him. Now I know better. He will be Kreuzigerized in 3/4 years with a waterproof BP case. I can live with that. I survived 10+ years until LA came down.

3-4 years? That would be inside SOL. We should be so lucky.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

3-4 years? That would be inside SOL. We should be so lucky.

Now that many clobber away at the new punching ball (Cookson) and hail the wrong prophet (Tinkov), I see the positive: They (UCI) take their time. Making BP cases waterproof and then say goodbye to the over the top dopers. I was never that much optimistic as I am now that justice will be done to that crook Horner.
Quintana better fights for 3rd, even though it will be depressing for him being 9 mins down. One day he´ll inherit the Vuelta 2014 win, as Nibali will the 2013 edition...
Horner? Thrown to the dustbin like LA. No one will remember him in 5 years.

 

[del1962]

I don't think Horner will podium

 

[The Hitch]

My personal guess is he´ll use at least 6 BBs to make sure he is "winning" and literally piss at all true cycling fans again with a grotesque alien performance.

. Nibali won the Vuelta 2013 (if clean/ish that´s another matter, but the worst doper ever will suffer like LA. Burn in hell Chris Horner.).

Dude.

Take some advice from Ivan basso

R-E-L-A-X.