Why Team Sky will dominate cycling till 2018

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May 14, 2009
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Sky are by far the most snoozefest team since US Postal.

Cycling is A LOT more than the Tour, and the races that build up to it.
 
Jux1893 said:
Cycling is A LOT more than the Tour, and the races that build up to it.
Exactly, track cycling at the World Championships and Olympic
Games have a storied history of legendary athletic competition
and accomplishment that predates the Tour and many parts of
the world that don't pay attention to the Tour do pay attention
to the Quadrennial gathering of the planet's finest athletes and
the medals that are won there.
 
Aug 16, 2009
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oldcrank said:
Exactly, track cycling at the World Championships and Olympic
Games have a storied history of legendary athletic competition
and accomplishment that predates the Tour and many parts of
the world that don't pay attention to the Tour do pay attention
to the Quadrennial gathering of the planet's finest athletes and
the medals that are won there.

and what was on the back of all the winners? SKY!

Is obvous that their track program is having tremendous positive impacts on the pro cyling world obviously it is much harder to win a gold medal than a wordtour race and the effort on the track is then easily transfered to the road.
 
WonderLance said:
obviously it is much harder to win a gold medal than a wordtour race
Yes, absolutely. A hand full of Olympic medals are up for
grabs every four years, whereas there are a couple of
dozen World Tour events each and every year. Look at
Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins OBE...he was able to win more
World Tour events in two years than Olympic medals
that he won over twelve years and three Olympics.
 
Mar 12, 2009
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WonderLance said:
It was like watching ballet crossed with poetry and keira knightley,

Love it.

You don't have to be that subtle on this forum in order to reel in bite after bite, do you?
 
Aug 16, 2009
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rghysens said:
money will deliver them the scientists they need.

Obviously money is very important. But you need to have the best people to spend the money, only skye has this. Omega-Farmer Quickstep and Patrick Lefeverer have twice the budget that Sky has and they can only get wins by poaching riders that Sky developed.
 
WonderLance said:
Obviously money is very important. But you need to have the best people to spend the money, only skye has this. Omega-Farmer Quickstep and Patrick Lefeverer have twice the budget that Sky has and they can only get wins by poaching riders that Sky developed.

I think you mean "riders that US Postal developed" ;)

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Aug 16, 2009
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Netserk said:
I think you mean "riders that US Postal developed" ;)

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And what has he won lately for his $3,000,00? Tour of nobody gives a rats. Sky could turn him into a real cyclist. he would make an excellent flat stage dom for froome
 
Jun 6, 2013
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WonderLance said:
And what has he won lately for his $3,000,00? Tour of nobody gives a rats. Sky could turn him into a real cyclist. he would make an excellent flat stage dom for froome

:D:D

This thread just keeps giving!
 
Jun 29, 2010
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Personally the greatest scientific reason why Sky will dominate in my opinion is the fact that they have access to the metric system.
 
Jan 3, 2011
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WonderLance said:
And what has he won lately for his $3,000,00? Tour of nobody gives a rats. Sky could turn him into a real cyclist. he would make an excellent flat stage dom for froome

Love the way you troll :D:D


fraserhughes said:
:D:D

This thread just keeps giving!

Indeed.
 
Aug 16, 2009
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BigMac said:
Did i get a previous post deleted calling him a troll?

Getting pretty sick and tired of peple calling me a troll. If its 'trolling' to point out superiour cycling and tactical finess when you see it, and not being all bitter and twisted because your favoriet buchers boy can win bike races sure, im a troll. But whatever,

I'm here to talk about proffessional cycling and the most proffessional team is Sky, thats why they dominate races I'm sure we can all agree on that much.