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Thoughtforfood said:Do you think you are?
no, but at least i'm not being a d-bag.
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Thoughtforfood said:Do you think you are?
ilillillli said:ok, just to clarify... your point is that everyone in cycling, or at least everyone good in cycling, is doping (whether or not they've been caught). so cycling is a fake competition between drugged-out weirdos and you're a big fan and like to talk about it online. that's what you're saying, right? just for my edification.
ilillillli said:ok, just to clarify... your point is that everyone in cycling, or at least everyone good in cycling, is doping (whether or not they've been caught). so cycling is a fake competition between drugged-out weirdos and you're a big fan and like to talk about it online. that's what you're saying, right? just for my edification.
Better written would have be : everyone with good results in cyling is doping.ilillillli said:ok, just to clarify... your point is that everyone in cycling, or at least everyone good in cycling, is doping (whether or not they've been caught). so cycling is a fake competition between drugged-out weirdos and you're a big fan and like to talk about it online. that's what you're saying, right? just for my edification.
Good Post.Angliru said:Bruyneel has stated that it's his intention to try to keep Contador, Armstrong and Leipheimer as high up in the gc as possible for the entire 3 weeks thus increasing their chances of overall victory should any of the 3 have a bad day. The same probably applies to Kloden who in my opinion is the better all around grand tour rider when compared to Leipheimer. As stated more than once earlier sending any of the 4 off in a break will make the other contenders' teams have to work to bring them back or at the least to limit their time losses all while Astana sits in for the ride. If the break is brought back, Astana has the guns to keep launching attacks with different riders that are definite threats/or to answer attacks, each time with a rider that is a threat to take the overall.
I think the only given is Contador, who has proven over the past 2 years that he is head and shoulders above the rest of the contenders. Armstrong, while his record is incomparable, is still an unknown in terms of what he's capable of after his 3 year "vacation" from competition. Unlike in the 7 years that he won the Tour where in the preceding events that he used as "training" he always at least showed that he was rounding into shape even while still punishing his opponents, this year we have not seen that level of fitness.
The last time we saw him versus elite competition he was getting dropped on the climbs and showing little of the TT dominance that he showed prior to retirement. Yes he showed improvement as the Giro progressed but he was but a shadow of the climber that he used to be. Add to the equation that this is the first time that he will have ridden the Giro and Tour in the same season, at age 37, I would bet that even he deep down is less than the confident, cocky rider he normally is going into Saturday's 1st stage, especially with his strongest competitor being on his own team.
Leipheimer, also 37, many believed peaked too soon with one peak being for the ToC where he targeted the overall and the other being for the Giro, where he was thrust into the ride leadership when Armstrong injured his clavicle crashing in Castilla de Leon (is that name right?). After a competitive
first 2 weeks at the Giro, Leipheimer ran out of steam and was soon unable to even hang on to Armstrong's wheel in the later climbs. While Armstrong was getting stronger, Leipheimer was struggling. Leipheimer appeared to have carried over his fitness to the CdL and began losing it about midpoint of the Giro. Still holding out hope for that unanswered attack that puts him over the top, in the yellow jersey and ultimately the top step of the Tour podium, he's hoping to creep into Tour history by nature of the overwhelming strength of his team. It could happen but I'm personally hoping and praying against it for strictly personal reasons.
If I were Kloden I would go off on an epic attack building up a 25 minute lead on the peloton and coast my way to a shocking overall Tour victory, shocking the world and in his podium acceptance speech he would dedicate his win to his family and his good friend Jan Ullrich!! That would be classic.![]()
Angliru said:Yes he showed improvement as the Giro progressed but he was but a shadow of the climber that he used to be.
That was by no means the "queen stage". Try looking at the one finishing in Monte Petrano.Ninety5rpm said:I'm not sure the "but a shadow" characterization is accurate.
Consider the results of the queen stage (Stage 10):
1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini 6.30.43 (40.233km/h)
2 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 0.10
3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank
4 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervelo Test Team
5 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.26
6 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 0.29
7 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas
8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana
9 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
10 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad
11 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo
12 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli
13 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana
14 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 0.41
15 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 0.45
16 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 1.23
17 Dario David Cioni (Ita) ISD 1.34
18 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.
19 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo
20 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step
21 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana
Losing only 29 seconds after all that climbing... Not too bad.
Now, he also lost almost 2 1/2 minutes in the Giro ITT, but that was in a 1.5 hour ride. Remember the year he lost two minutes to Mayo on Alpe d'Huez ITT in the Dauphine just a couple of weeks before the Tour?
Since the giro he has lost weight and, by all reports, got stronger.
You've also got to believe that he saves his "best stuff" (cough, cough) for the Tour.
I hear what you're saying, but I wouldn't write him off quite as much you seem to be doing.
Thoughtforfood said:No, that is the typical oversimplification of an uneducated fanboy who comes around to forums about tour time to read how great his hero is only to find out that for the most part, people who follow the sport think said hero is anything but clean. By now, I have had read that troll post hundreds of times.
I wish for once, one of you seasonal fans would break from the herd.
You obviously have a lot of dried semen on yours.....
ilillillli said:ALL HAIL THOUGHTFORFOOD, GRAND MASTER OF THE INTERNET CYCLING MESSAGE BOARD!*
It apparently takes 1,000 posts or a failed marriage to Frankie Andreu to have a legitimate perspective around here. And this dude knows it. He's some how managed to crack over 700 lance-is-a-doper one-liners while simultaneously puttin' the hurt on n00bs. An unprecedented achievement. Which, of course, mean that he's probably doping.
*Possible side-effects include swelling of the head, rose-scented feces, and tendency to collect soiled "summer's eve."
ilillillli said:a tribute to thoughtforfood "geniusing"
well done, sir.
more to come.
Thoughtforfood said:Oh, and sorry your hero is a fraud........man you guys all take that so personally.....
Thoughtforfood said:and Summers Evetm is trade marked, capitalized, and not in need of quotes.
Dang.
ilillillli said:
dimspace said:wow.. certifcates, badges and awards are really taking off around here arnt they..![]()
Thoughtforfood said:Funny, i just noticed the guy had a Summers Eve douche on his own certificate and still didn't know how to present the information correctly............I guess I will have to wait for someone else more esteemed to give me an award....this is like getting a writing award from the Grocery Boys Union......
Thoughtforfood said:Funny, i just noticed the guy had a Summers Eve douche on his own certificate and still didn't know how to present the information correctly............I guess I will have to wait for someone else more esteemed to give me an award....this is like getting a writing award from the Grocery Boys Union......
Thoughtforfood said:I'm just guessing here, but I think someone needs to explain the "Ignore" function to this mororn.
ilillillli said:i think armstrong in a break makes sense... if the peloton will let him go. armstrong will ride his a$$ off to try and gain time and meanwhile the rest of the team can take care of contador, control the peloton and drop off one by one as they put the hurt on the final group of contenders. does that make sense?
otherwise, maybe have no plan until stage 7, winer of the stage gets the team.
fpcyclingn said:Wow... is this a serious post?
Yeah, I'm sure the other racers have already written that nobody has-been called Armstrong off. He can't race now. He's no threat. They'll just let him ride away because he couldn't possibly win. Yeah man, yeah. You have it all figured out.
Chalk another one up for the failure of the anti-Lance crowd.