Will Contador Be Juiced Up Again Upon His Return

[Bicycle]

it will be interesting to see how alberto goes after the rest day

a possible indicator of the type of 'recovery drinks' employed

Just look what you can achieve clean! Makes you wonder why anyone uses PEDs.

 

[Trek1000]

Contador up to his old tricks on the rest day. Nothing has changed

 

[spalco]

Just look what you can achieve clean! Makes you wonder why anyone uses PEDs.

It's a good joke, but I really can't laugh at that.

 

[ebandit]

there you go

it will be interesting to see how alberto goes after the rest day

a possible indicator of the type of 'recovery drinks' employed

2hr 30min later we get the answer................alberto wins the stage blowing the race apart

 

[roundabout]

Contador up to his old tricks on the rest day. Nothing has changed

Nah, without that loser Tiralongo Contador wouldn't have won.

It's just the previous leader who was caught with his pants down.

Now Paulinho outpacing the Sky train is a whole different matter.

 

[burning]

here we go again

 

[bpickford]

The 2007-9 Contador vintage would have won that stage by minutes, not a handful of seconds.

 

[Walkman]

The 2007-9 Contador vintage would have won that stage by minutes, not a handful of seconds.

2007 AC would beat 2009 Contador in the mountains but that does not mean he was clean in 2009.

 

[djlovesyou]

very true. The rants of Wiggins and JV -- previously in the san millan thread -- are in conflict with the high standards they put on themselves. Whenever they are caught by surprise and respond spontaneously (like Wiggo at the press conference or JV in the San Millan thread), they show their real faces and tend to get patronizing and condescending. I don't recall Contador ranting like that. He's not in that club of hypocricy.

So what you're saying is because Wiggins denies doping angrily and Contador denies doping (and does most press conferences) with pre-written statements concocted by his PR people, this makes Wiggins a 'worse' doper than Contador? (forgetting for a moment only one of them is a convicted doper.)

Contador is right out of the Rafael Nadal mould. He's not smart enough to speak for himself and has a whole bunch of people telling him what to say, do and think in any given situation. There's little wonder he always seems to say 'the right thing'.

 

[Havetts]

Holy **** Contador is hilarious.

 

[the sceptic]

all marginal gains im sure. Maybe warming down?

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

Holy **** Contador is hilarious.

He looked pretty fresh at the end of that it must be said. As someone said its amazing what a rest day can do for some people.

 

[roundabout]

I may have been watching a different stage, but he suffered massively in the last 10km.

Althought I don't know how much work he did before the coverage started.

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

I may have been watching a different stage, but he suffered massively in the last 10km.

Althought I don't know how much work he did before the coverage started.

He lost time near the end for sure but he looked pretty fresh getting of his bike. I thought he would have collapsed but perhaps it was an adrenaline rush at the finish.

 

[burning]

There is NO way he looked pretty fresh at the end, he was clearly in big pain

 

[hrotha]

He lost nearly a minute and a half to Valverde in a mano-a-mano with Valverde. His success today was largely tactical. I think everything went down as you'd expect once he made his move.

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

Althought I don't know how much work he did before the coverage started.

Sounds like Tiralongo repaid him back by doing a big pull.

 

[Parrulo]

He lost nearly a minute and a half to Valverde in a mano-a-mano with Valverde. His success today was largely tactical. I think everything went down as you'd expect once he made his move.

exactly, today was mostly a great tactical success and a massive fail from rodriguez who was on tremendously bad day.

granted i highly doubt contador didn't have a nice fresh just out of the fridge refill last night but that wasn't the only reason why he did what he did today.

also he was completely dead 10k out and i am thinking piti didn't really go all out to catch him on the last 2 k as he was still strong enough to easily catch henao's attack with 2k to go and to outsprint his group for second.

 

[roundabout]

He lost nearly a minute and a half to Valverde in a mano-a-mano with Valverde. His success today was largely tactical. I think everything went down as you'd expect once he made his move.

He lost 30ish seconds to Valverde. Rest of the time it was Quintana/Valverde and Intxausti/Valverde.

Valverde also found it difficult to close the gap in the last 2km. From 17 seconds to 6 in the end and some of it was certainly down to sprinting.

And yes, Piti didn't go all out to catch Contador. A few seconds more, a few seconds less, a 3rd in the Vuelta or a second. Same ****. Just as long as Conta wins.

 

[hrotha]

He lost 30ish seconds to Valverde. Rest of the time it was Quintana/Valverde and Intxausti/Valverde.

Good point.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Had nothing to do with the rest day, it was his special gears (see here, http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/tech-alberto-contador-rides-srams-new-wifli-red-at-vuelta ) which allowed him to ride at a higher cadence than everyone else.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Plus of course he dropped all the GC riders for 20 seconds on a steady Cat 2 climb to get the initial gap - he must have gone like a rocket. There was a 25+ rider breakaway with 1:15 at the bottom of that Cat 2 and he caught them before the top

 

[Tyler'sTwin]

This is silly. He attacked in the 2nd to last climb to catch the breakaway group, 18 seconds ahead of the J-Rod/Valv group. He then drafted until the sprint, where he attacked with Tirralongo and they worked together for like 5k before the final climb started, on which he was more or less matched by Henao, Verdugo and Nocentini and lost 2 minutes to Valverde.

 

[Markyboyzx6r]

I might as well laugh. It's all you can do.

What was that JV was saying about things being much cleaner now? Course they're clean. One day's rest often has one up and dancing on the pedals again, following a 5 hr stage with a 24% climb. Easy. Yer granny could do it.

Maybe Alberto put his feet up and drank a few sherries yesterday, maybe he got a bit of a massage. But with all that we know about rest days for the recent past it appears he had one large bloody mary, intravenously.

Does anybody actually believe this rubbish anymore?

 

[The Hitch]

So what you're saying is because Wiggins denies doping angrily and Contador denies doping (and does most press conferences) with pre-written statements concocted by his PR people, this makes Wiggins a 'worse' doper than Contador? (forgetting for a moment only one of them is a convicted doper.)

Contador is right out of the Rafael Nadal mould. He's not smart enough to speak for himself and has a whole bunch of people telling him what to say, do and think in any given situation. There's little wonder he always seems to say 'the right thing'.

Wiggins with the one hand holds up Armstrong's arm and touts him as a legend of the sport, with the other throws stones at Landis, Rasmussen, Vino, Ricco Di Luca and Contador. Yes that is worse, though since your type never looks past the flag, the problem of hypocricy will be lost on you.