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Angliru said:Of course when a certain rider that you detest states that he is/was sick during a stage race, you categorize that as an "excuse" not as an explanation. Your reasoning being that he's not giving his opponents credit for their succcess against him in that particular instance and using his being sick as a way to minimize his rival's victory.
Can we also categorize you as an anti -------- maniac?
I don't belittle a rider capacities. Never. If you talk about Contador in the 2011 Tour, we discussed it million times and I was always saying he performed better than I expected. In the Pyrenees he showed his objective level, given the Giro. When Contador won the Fuente de stage, I congratulated the fans and said it was an outstanding raid. One doesn't want to tell about fans who wrote 'it's not cycling' when Wiggins won his time trials in the Tour. As to the stage 3 or 4 of this Giro, if you really presume that healthy Wiggins can drop from a 40 guys pack at 3-4% slopes, while the group was riding in a very lenient rhythm, we see different races.
Even Wiggins who we have today looks more winning podium card than Uran and most people would agree with this.