Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
_____________________________________________ PCM Velogames Championship - Top Results
* 1st Tour de Suisse ('23)
* 1st Tour de Romandie ('19, '18)
* 1st Tour de Pologne ('20, '19)
* 2nd Tour of California ('19)
* 2nd Tour de Suisse ('18)
* 3rd Tour de France ('23, '21)
* 3rd Giro d’Italia ('22)
* 3rd Vuelta Espana ('23)
* 3rd Autumn Classics ('19, '18)
* 9th Spring Classics ('18)
Ian Butler wrote:
I didn't watch cycling back then, but looking back at some archive footage, I get the feeling this Skytrain thing is even worse than Us Postal. I mean I see Armstrong actually attacking, not from 200 m from the finish. There seems to be animo in these races.
Or am I mistaken, seeing things out of context?
well Froome attacks at least sometimes I guess, remember that famous Planche des Belles Filles stage. Yesterday Sky has just hidden a very bad Froome day very well. Why should he attack when he's dead empty?
Ian Butler wrote:
I didn't watch cycling back then, but looking back at some archive footage, I get the feeling this Skytrain thing is even worse than Us Postal. I mean I see Armstrong actually attacking, not from 200 m from the finish. There seems to be animo in these races.
Or am I mistaken, seeing things out of context?
well Froome attacks at least sometimes I guess, remember that famous Planche des Belles Filles stage. Yesterday Sky has just hidden a very bad Froome day very well. Why should he attack when he's dead empty?
And why the f*** do I defend Team Sky?
Froome attacks when he can/needs to. At the moment he knows he'll put over a minute into everyone on the final tt so there is no immediate need to attack, especially if he is on a bad day like yesterday.
He'll be waiting for stage 18 which is a Froome climb. Long and steady.
"Ringo is exactly right", Shonak - 8 September 2016
Hopefully Contador and Quintana go at Latrape or Agnes followed by Landa. Then Landa goes all-in and gets earpieces out. Bardet, Aru and Uran to attack on either Col d' Agnes or Mur de Peguere and drop Froome. Landa wins the stage 2 mins ahead of Aru/Bardet/Uran and Froome loses additional 1-1:30 to Gr.Aru. Portal gets mad at Landa
Probably it will be a boring stage and the GC contenders will finish together.
Fuglsang is still here. Good on him as a teammate but hope he doesn't make it all worse or put himself through too much
Also Voeckler right on the wheel of the comisseur's car. Come on Tommy
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
The Schleck Fan wrote:
Hopefully Contador and Quintana go at Latrape or Agnes followed by Landa. Then Landa goes all-in and gets earpieces out. Bardet, Aru and Uran to attack on either Col d' Agnes or Mur de Peguere and drop Froome. Landa wins the stage 2 mins ahead of Aru/Bardet/Uran and Froome loses additional 1-1:30 to Gr.Aru. Portal gets mad at Landa
Probably it will be a boring stage and the GC contenders will finish together.
Contador and Landa attacking on Latrape! Expecting sth from Quintana was wrong though since he will probably just ride to an anonymous top-10
