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La Vuelta a España 2015 - Week 3 1/2
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| Strydz |
Posted on 12-09-2015 19:05
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Shonak wrote:
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ruben wrote:
Crap.
I'm going to drink myself to smithereens. Cya guys later.
Good Luck! Just remember one thing, when you think you've had enough, you haven't 
Is that your job speaking? 
You know me to well 
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| dienblad |
Posted on 12-09-2015 20:00
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Crap, what a day......
I feel sorry for Dumoulin not being able to hang on. But on the otherhand, he was the weaker climber the entire Vuelta (except some short steep mtf's). Aru was the strongest this Vuelta, but I simply can't enjoy seeing him cycling. Of course the Astana-tactic today was great, but I can't sympathize for a bunch of cheaters and dopers (well, of course not the entire team ).
But because of Aru and Astana, I've started to like Froome and Sky and believe that they're clean 
Overall, this Vuelta has been great and full of excitement. Except the wrong winner (Rodriguez, Majka, Quintana, Dumoulin, Chaves, Valverde, alle okay, but not Aru....).
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 12-09-2015 20:37
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Did he ever think about attacking Aru? “I dreamed about it when I was on the massage table,” the 36-year-old said with a grin. “But finishing second overall, a stage win and a spell in the lead plus two jerseys (the points and the combined) assuming there’s no last minute changes in those classifications, this is still a spectacular result for me.”
shakes head.
Good that Bala will take the points jersey from him tomorrow
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| Vali |
Posted on 12-09-2015 21:07
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Spilak23 wrote:
Did he ever think about attacking Aru? “I dreamed about it when I was on the massage table,” the 36-year-old said with a grin. “But finishing second overall, a stage win and a spell in the lead plus two jerseys (the points and the combined) assuming there’s no last minute changes in those classifications, this is still a spectacular result for me.”
shakes head.
Good that Bala will take the points jersey from him tomorrow
Man I honestly don't know what you are on about the whole time. It was pretty obvious that Purito didn't have it, especially not in the 3rd week. Attacking an undestroyable Astana team while he was struggling would have just been suicide and he might have even lost the podium that way.
EDIT: Yes he might not always be the most exciting rider but in this Vuelta he achieved the maximum, Aru was simply better in the long climbs and in the time trial.
Edited by Vali on 12-09-2015 21:17
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| udoi |
Posted on 12-09-2015 21:19
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hello,
Aru is the winner
Il cavaliere dei quattro mori
the knight of the four dark
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| Strydz |
Posted on 13-09-2015 03:36
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udoi wrote:
hello,
Aru is the winner
Il cavaliere dei quattro mori
the knight of the four dark
udoi
This post is just confusing
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| dienblad |
Posted on 13-09-2015 08:24
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the knight of the four dark rooms??
Doesn't mori mean "dead" or something? So he's the knight of the four dead, so he's a zombie? Well, that explains al hiss facial expressions....
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| Ybodonk |
Posted on 13-09-2015 09:03
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So sad for Dumolain, heartbreaking for him. But he can win the next Giro with 100km TT. I do like we have an old school type of rider in the mix. Indurain and Ullrich, great in the mountains monsters on TT's. With more TT km in the GTs, with dumo and froome in it, we can hope for more long range attacks.
Plazas win was very similar to Virenque and Michael Rasmussens victories, and with the spectacular crack of dumolain, i was almost back to the 90s and early 00s. Nostalgic, hope for more of this next season.
Lastly it nice to see that all the top 6-7 GT stage racer actually has ridden two GTs this year. First time in years, and it was Contador and Tinkov as i predicted started this behavioral change |
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| udoi |
Posted on 13-09-2015 09:45
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Il cavaliere dei quattro mori is not translatable into English |
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| udoi |
Posted on 13-09-2015 09:46
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Great Aru |
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 13-09-2015 10:20
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Guys, what udoi said makes some sense to me. I believe it's 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' in Italian or something like that, could be wrong.
Ybodonk wrote:
Plazas win was very similar to Virenque and Michael Rasmussens victories, and with the spectacular crack of dumolain, i was almost back to the 90s and early 00s. Nostalgic, hope for more of this next season.
Oh, please no. While I love seeing a long-range attack work, the last thing cycling needs is to go back to those dark days.
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| Tafiolmo |
Posted on 13-09-2015 10:27
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OZrocker wrote:
Guys, what udoi said makes some sense to me. I believe it's 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' in Italian or something like that, could be wrong.
Ybodonk wrote:
Plazas win was very similar to Virenque and Michael Rasmussens victories, and with the spectacular crack of dumolain, i was almost back to the 90s and early 00s. Nostalgic, hope for more of this next season.
Oh, please no. While I love seeing a long-range attack work, the last thing cycling needs is to go back to those dark days.
Those dark days were the most exciting in cycling from a viewing perspective, |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 13-09-2015 10:35
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Tafiolmo wrote:
OZrocker wrote:
Guys, what udoi said makes some sense to me. I believe it's 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' in Italian or something like that, could be wrong.
Ybodonk wrote:
Plazas win was very similar to Virenque and Michael Rasmussens victories, and with the spectacular crack of dumolain, i was almost back to the 90s and early 00s. Nostalgic, hope for more of this next season.
Oh, please no. While I love seeing a long-range attack work, the last thing cycling needs is to go back to those dark days.
Those dark days were the most exciting in cycling from a viewing perspective,
Arguably. 60s and 70s were also a hoot!
And the 80s with Hinault.
Seen footage of those era's plenty and it never bores me one bit |
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| Tafiolmo |
Posted on 13-09-2015 11:16
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Ian Butler wrote:
Tafiolmo wrote:
OZrocker wrote:
Guys, what udoi said makes some sense to me. I believe it's 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' in Italian or something like that, could be wrong.
Ybodonk wrote:
Plazas win was very similar to Virenque and Michael Rasmussens victories, and with the spectacular crack of dumolain, i was almost back to the 90s and early 00s. Nostalgic, hope for more of this next season.
Oh, please no. While I love seeing a long-range attack work, the last thing cycling needs is to go back to those dark days.
Those dark days were the most exciting in cycling from a viewing perspective,
Arguably. 60s and 70s were also a hoot!
And the 80s with Hinault.
Seen footage of those era's plenty and it never bores me one bit
What made those eras great was the lack of control outside of sprint stages that the peloton had compared with today. Big mountain stages had the main contenders fighting the stage much earlier, races like the LBL had its selection made on La Redoute etc.
Peloton domination has led to cycling being less exciting to watch and I'd also say creates more crashes as everybody is obsessed with getting to the front of the peloton before the start of a climb etc. |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 13-09-2015 12:24
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sad ..
I did not expect him to win..but 6th. seems to be little unfair after this 3week fight. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 13-09-2015 12:25
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thats what you get for battling gc teams alone. |
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| Tafiolmo |
Posted on 13-09-2015 12:30
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Guido Mukk wrote:
sad ..
I did not expect him to win..but 6th. seems to be little unfair after this 3week fight.
He committed suicide yesterday by not putting at least a couple of men in the huge break up the road like Astana and Movistar did, crazy really. But I guess he was feeling so confident that he might've felt that he didn't need to. |
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 13-09-2015 12:46
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lmao the retards that steal the bikes dont even know their real value.
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| Bikex |
Posted on 13-09-2015 12:58
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A shame I haven't found that bike  |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 13-09-2015 12:59
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