Wishes for 2011

[hfer07]

Two days left for this year to conclude, so it's time to express some wishes for this coming new year:

1-) Most of all, I want to see exiting cycling, fierce battles, dramatic stages & rightful winners.
2-) Less doping-but not due to the lack of testing or the UCI modus operandi, but because the peloton has decided to ride cleaner
3-) I'd love to see the end of LA's federal investigation with him either behind bars or his lies publicly exposed and his reputation trashed.
4-) less BS from Pat/UCI and-why not- his resignation due to the LA trial.
5-) the AC case resolved, regardless the outcome.

*Happy New Year to all of you

 

[ak-zaaf]

Cycling wishes for 2011.

-Nys for CX Worlds
-UCI & ASO get bought out by an insanely rich guy who is a true cycling lover.
-The weather will be horrible in the Benelux until the Scheldeprijs.
-Mollema wins the TDF
-Vino also wins the TDF
-A good year for Tom Boonen
-Contador back in action at Murcia, no ban.
-Valverdes ban gets lifted
-Dekker makes a good comeback
-Some big drama like Festina '98 or Fuentes.

 

[nobilis]

My wishes:

- A non-boring tdf
- Farrar beating Cavendish in the sprints
- Tony Martin beating Cancellara in TTs
- Valverde's ban gets reduced
- I win the CQ Ranking CN fantasy game
- And a personal one: I get a new bike

 

[Siriuscat]

Armstrong behind bars for Fraud and Perjury, His legacy publicly trashed
McQuaid to be forced to PUBLICLY resign over the Armstrong Fiasco
Cancellara to win nothing in 2011 (someone elses year)
Contador to be acquitted and wipe the floor with everyone else next year..again
Contador to win Paris-Nice, Le Dauphine, Le Tour and La Vuelta, make his mark in the classics winning Fleche Wallonne and LBL.
The weather in Northern Europe to be cold and wet through March and April to remind todays "soft" peloton what proper racing is.
All the Grand Tours to live up to what the Giro offered in 2010
Cav to win the worlds....

 

[jens_attacks]

this:

Most of all, I want to see exiting cycling, fierce battles, dramatic stages & rightful winners.

and this:

-Vino wins the TDF
-Contador back in action at Murcia, no ban.
-Valverdes ban gets lifted
-Dekker makes a good comeback

+
paris-roubaix in huge rainstorm and a lot of mud
ricco winning giro,or rujano
cancellara taking liege-bastogne-liege and giro di lombardia
armstrong winning tour of california and deciding to have another shot at the tour de france
no positive tests,no suspensions like in almighty football
cipollini new uci president bringing back the dignity and the respect for cycling.

 

[theswordsman]

Contador winning the Tour and going for the Vuelta.

The Bio Passport dismantled and testing done by an organization outside the UCI.

The truth to come out, well documented, about Armstrong, Bruyneel and everyone concerned.

Team Luxembourg stars to remain healthy but have off years.

A really strong Giro performance from Nibali. But mostly a Giro as epic as last year.

A lot of success for Richie Porte and other Saxo Bank Sungard given opportunities due to the former stars leaving.

Less hype about the ATOC.

Honesty from riders and the press

 

[ingsve]

My wishes are:

- Hushovd doing the rainbow jersey justice and hopfully winning a major race. with it.
- EBH taking another step by featuring in the final moments of some of the bigger one day races.
- Löfkvist to get a top 10 in the Giro.
- Armstrong to get exposed in the doping investigation.
- Gilbert or Cancellara taking another new win in the race to get all 5 monuments.
- For cheaters to get 4 year suspensions rather than 2 years.
- Joker - Merida and Team Cykelcity.se to have great seasons in Europe.
- For Contador and Mosquera to get suspended for their positives.
- For Gustav Larsson to win another medal at the ITT Worlds.
- For Cavendish not to win green or the worlds RR.
- For sprints in GTs to be close and unpredictable with no single rider dominating.
- For the GTs to be close and exciting.

 

[kurtinsc]

I'd like to watch a year of cycling where the focus is on the racing rather then drugs.

To be honest, I'm less concerned if the drug use stops. I just want to see exciting races where drug use isn't constantly being discussed for a good performance

 

[Hugh Januss]

I'd like to watch a year of cycling where the focus is on the racing rather then drugs.

To be honest, I'm less concerned if the drug use stops. I just want to see exciting races where drug use isn't constantly being discussed for a good performance

Look over there......sunflowers.....ahhh.....

 

[The Hitch]

1 Doping investigation attempting to prove cycling is the only sport that dopes, accidentaly stumbles and is unable to hide evidence that all sports were doing it and that cycling has for 20 years been paying the price for everyones sins.

Id kill for that.

2 Plans for 4th Grand tour - October- November in colombia announced hereby extending the cycling season by a month or 2.

Now for more realistic hopes.

3 Big crowds on Zoncolan, Alpe and Angliru.

4 Samu to win the Tour.

5 Cav to win worlds. I dont care if he doesnt win another race all year. He needs to do it to increase profile of the sport in this country.

6 Colombia es Passion in Gts.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Contador winning the Tour and going for the Vuelta.

The Bio Passport dismantled and testing done by an organization outside the UCI.

The truth to come out, well documented, about Armstrong, Bruyneel and everyone concerned.

Team Luxembourg stars to remain healthy but have off years.

A really strong Giro performance from Nibali. But mostly a Giro as epic as last year.

A lot of success for Richie Porte and other Saxo Bank Sungard given opportunities due to the former stars leaving.

Less hype about the ATOC.

Honesty from riders and the press

..............

 

[The Hitch]

1 Doping investigation attempting to prove cycling is the only sport that dopes, accidentaly stumbles and is unable to hide evidence that all sports were doing it and that cycling has for 20 years been paying the price for everyones sins.

Id kill for that.

2 Plans for 4th Grand tour - October- November in colombia announced hereby extending the cycling season by a month or 2.

Now for more realistic hopes.

3 Big crowds on Zoncolan, Alpe and Angliru.

4 Samu to win the Tour.

5 Cav to win worlds. I dont care if he doesnt win another race all year. He needs to do it to increase profile of the sport in this country.

6 Colombia es Passion in Gts.

 

[Angliru]

Armstrong behind bars for Fraud and Perjury, His legacy publicly trashed
McQuaid to be forced to PUBLICLY resign over the Armstrong Fiasco
Cancellara to win nothing in 2011 (someone elses year)
Contador to be acquitted and wipe the floor with everyone else next year..again
Contador to win Paris-Nice, Le Dauphine, Le Tour and La Vuelta, make his mark in the classics winning Fleche Wallonne and LBL.
The weather in Northern Europe to be cold and wet through March and April to remind todays "soft" peloton what proper racing is.
All the Grand Tours to live up to what the Giro offered in 2010

All of the above plus:

-Freire to win his 4th WC and 4th MSR.
-Samuel Sanchez to win Amstel Gold and podium at the Tour and the Vuelta.
-Igor Anton to win the Giro in an intense battle with Ricco and podium at the Vuelta in another intense battle (at least in the mountains) with Contador, Samuel Sanchez and a back to form Juan Mauricio Soler.
-Juan Mauricio Soler to take the KOM at the Tour and the Vuelta and just miss making the Vuelta podium.
-Juan Antonio Flecha to win Paris-Roubaix in a breakaway and podium at RVV.
-Andy Schleck to mistake his close Tour finish in 2010 as a sign that he's the world's top climber and be reminded by Contador and Soler that he still has a ways to go when he arrogantly attacks early in a climb with Contador and Soler easily countering, then dropping him, leaving him muttering to himself, blaming his SRAM grupo, mumbling that he knew he should've switched to Campy.
-Farrar to give Cavendish something to think about with several head to head wins.
-Haussler to have a great season winning RVV.
-Frank Schleck to finish higher in the Tour gc than his little brother because Frank's alright with me but Andy isn't.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

1. Jurgen VDB to podium the Giro
2. Boonen to win Milan-San Remo and RvV and Paris-Roubaix and the Worlds
3. Haussler to win Milan-San Remo and RvV I like him too and wouldn't mind if he'd win ahead of Boonen
4. Armstrong to FALL! His legacy of clean racing gone and his personal fortune to go to some real cancer research. (his kids should get enough money to study though they didn't do anything wrong.)
5. Gt's like the 2010 Giro
6. Gilbert to win LBL and Lombardy and a couple of Tour stages
7. Devolder to win a Tour stage
8. Cav to win the worlds and prove once again he's the best sprinter in the world by winning every flat stage in the Tour
9. ToC to go bankrupt.
10. Cancellara to win a 5th world title and win amstel gold.

and some of the above about Anton and Soler

 

[kurtinsc]

Look over there......sunflowers.....ahhh.....

More "look at that amazing attack, he's destroying his competition!" without seeing on the message boards later "He's obviously doped, otherwise he couldn't have done that." Then seeing a positive test a few weeks after that.

I miss the days of watching Migue Indurain in awe without thinking in the back of my head like I do with guys now: "He's obviously on something."

I really enjoyed the Sammy Sosa/Mark McGuire homerun season too... an now a guy hits over 40 and I think there must me HGH or roids involved.

I really don't care if we get back there by cleaning everything up or by ignoring what's going on... but the talk about doping is in many ways more damaging to my enjoyment then the actually doping itself. I want my cycling innocence back.

Someone make it happen for 2011.

 

[Hugh Januss]

More "look at that amazing attack, he's destroying his competition!" without seeing on the message boards later "He's obviously doped, otherwise he couldn't have done that." Then seeing a positive test a few weeks after that.

I miss the days of watching Migue Indurain in awe without thinking in the back of my head like I do with guys now: "He's obviously on something."

I really enjoyed the Sammy Sosa/Mark McGuire homerun season too... an now a guy hits over 40 and I think there must me HGH or roids involved.

I really don't care if we get back there by cleaning everything up or by ignoring what's going on... but the talk about doping is in many ways more damaging to my enjoyment then the actually doping itself. I want my cycling innocence back.

Someone make it happen for 2011.

By the same token wouldn't the best way to enjoy a cancer free live be to pretend that cancer doesn't exist and everybody simply dies of "old age" at some point?

 

[kurtinsc]

By the same token wouldn't the best way to enjoy a cancer free live be to pretend that cancer doesn't exist and everybody simply dies of "old age" at some point?

Entertainment is different then living with a disease. That's a silly comparison.


I have no problem suspending my disbelief watching the lord of the rings. I know there are no wizards and orcs but it's fun to watch. I can suspend my disbelief regarding PED's with the NFL just fine as well. Cycling and baseball make it hard to do that... and that lowers my enjoyment some.

Obviously, fixing the problem would be the best answer. But they haven't been able to do that for quite some time... we've known about the problem since at the latest the Festina affair. If we can't fix it, I'd honestly prefer to go back to ignoring it... or at least treating it like the NFL does where there isn't constant doping speculation about the best competitors, and little hard feelings about those coming back from suspensions.

The constant dope conversation overshadowing all else in the sport makes it very hard to just focus on the racing.

 

[auscyclefan94]

-Ricco to test positive again for epo
-Contador being banned for two years
-My CQ team to dominate
-Ballan to win Rvv
-Van Avermaet to win AGR
-Cadel to win LBL, TDF, VaE and any other race he wants to win
-To see an awesome battle between Cadel & TGBM on the Galibier and Alpe D Huez
-Armstrong to finish last in the tdu and for Cavendish to ride past him with ease on Wilunga Hill!

 

[ferryman]

A few in no particular order:

Cunego to win LBL, Lombardia and stages in whatever GTs he rides;
Andy Schleck to win an epic TDF (with AC there);
Greipel to kick early b*tt at TDU;
Cavendish doesn't win Green or Worlds;
Nicholas Roche gets a big win and top ten TDF;
Robert Millar publishes his Auto;
Novitsky delivers and delivers BIG

 

[Hugh Januss]

Entertainment is different then living with a disease. That's a silly comparison.


I have no problem suspending my disbelief watching the lord of the rings. I know there are no wizards and orcs but it's fun to watch. I can suspend my disbelief regarding PED's with the NFL just fine as well. Cycling and baseball make it hard to do that... and that lowers my enjoyment some.

Obviously, fixing the problem would be the best answer. But they haven't been able to do that for quite some time... we've known about the problem since at the latest the Festina affair. If we can't fix it, I'd honestly prefer to go back to ignoring it... or at least treating it like the NFL does where there isn't constant doping speculation about the best competitors, and little hard feelings about those coming back from suspensions.

The constant dope conversation overshadowing all else in the sport makes it very hard to just focus on the racing.

Yeah I admit it was a bit of a stretch, but in my opinion ignoring a problem never makes it go away. Crying that the guys who are agitating for cleaner sport are ruining your enjoyment of said sport seems a little selfish to me. If you can ignore the dope why can't you just ignore the people talking about dope?
NFL is a really poor choice for comparison IMO http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2313476

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

-To see an awesome battle between Cadel & TGBM on the Galibier and Alpe D

yeah... for 14th place maybe?

 

[simo1733]

-Ricco to test positive again for epo
-Contador being banned for two years
-My CQ team to dominate
-Ballan to win Rvv
-Van Avermaet to win AGR
-Cadel to win LBL, TDF, VaE and any other race he wants to win
-To see an awesome battle between Cadel & TGBM on the Galibier and Alpe D Huez
-Armstrong to finish last in the tdu and for Cavendish to ride past him with ease on Wilunga Hill!

Careful what you wish for ACF.A 6 month priaprism wouldn't be much fun now would it?

 

[kurtinsc]

Yeah I admit it was a bit of a stretch, but in my opinion ignoring a problem never makes it go away. Crying that the guys who are agitating for cleaner sport are ruining your enjoyment of said sport seems a little selfish to me. If you can ignore the dope why can't you just ignore the people talking about dope?
NFL is a really poor choice for comparison IMO http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2313476

I guess I'm selfish. I'm not turned off by actor drug usage either. Quite frankly I think Robin Williams on cocaine is much funnier then Robin Williams withou the cocaine. I think a roided out Stallone is a better watch then a fat and flabby Stalone (though we're talking about degrees of suckiness there).

I'll quit posting about it now though... this is probably getting a bit too clinic-ish for a thread that really had nothing to do with it. Just say that I'm hoping for less doping dominating the cycling headlines, and you can assume that the way we'll get there is that everyone is clean.

 

[Matthijs]

Yeah I admit it was a bit of a stretch, but in my opinion ignoring a problem never makes it go away. Crying that the guys who are agitating for cleaner sport are ruining your enjoyment of said sport seems a little selfish to me. If you can ignore the dope why can't you just ignore the people talking about dope?
NFL is a really poor choice for comparison IMO http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2313476

agitating for a cleaner sport is ok. But the problem for some people, like me for instance, is some journalists think they should morally advice their public to be against former dopers who have done their suspension years. Or commentators speculating about doping with no other lead then some rider is attacking in great style. Some people, who are not on any doping board try to fix the sport in ways I think are stupid and not good for spectator enjoyment...

 

[Boeing]

a lot of cyber brats wishing a lot of negativity this year