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Tour de France 09 - Pre Race Thread
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| BenBarnes |
Posted on 03-06-2009 16:11
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Lance will for sure be ahead of Levi. Levi can't maintain the form he had at the beginning of the year through July. It already slipped off during the end of the Giro while Lance was getting faster.
I do like when teams establish leaders before the races start, however. If Basso wouldn't have powered up the mountain in stage 5 and lost Pellizotti around a minute, it could have made for an even more interesting end to the Giro. |
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Posted on 03-06-2009 16:29
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CrueTrue wrote:
I don't believe for a second that Lance is 3rd captain. Come on .. why would Levi be above Lance, seeing how the Giro evolved?
exactly what I was thinking. Rather another attempt of fooling the opponents with Lance's 'weakness' like on that Alpe d'Huez stage in 2001(?)
Edited by YtimK on 03-06-2009 16:29
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Posted on 03-06-2009 16:32
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Haha Lance won an Oscar on that stage B)
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"What would Lance do?"
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Posted on 03-06-2009 17:28
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And johan brunyeel of best helper |
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Posted on 03-06-2009 19:31
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As doddy said previously, there's some information coming on letour.fr, but still no profiles
The TTT will be very hilly, quite hard, maybe like this year's Romandie's TTT.
Nothing in common with the Giro one. |
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Posted on 03-06-2009 19:35
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I know Moncaco is a small place, but only 0.5km of actual road racing in it.
I loled.
It goes through Nice though, as expected. |
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Posted on 03-06-2009 20:15
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Dont ask why but I made the long TT in openrunner. I'm 1km off but thats because the program is stupid and first heads in the wrong direction for a couple of hundred meters before heading toward my first waypoint, plus there's a road somewhere which is one-way trafic which I think is the reason it wont let me use the road, but the cyclist will probably take it as 'shortcut'.
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Posted on 03-06-2009 20:17
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that's it : 25 km flat + 3 km climb and then descent |
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Posted on 03-06-2009 21:16
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YtimK wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
I don't believe for a second that Lance is 3rd captain. Come on .. why would Levi be above Lance, seeing how the Giro evolved?
exactly what I was thinking. Rather another attempt of fooling the opponents with Lance's 'weakness' like on that Alpe d'Huez stage in 2001(?)
Classic Bruyneel bull shit..before the race..same time with race ..and after race..he will never stop!
"I spoke with Alberto during the Giro and [he] told me there was nothing about the rumour that he met with the Caisse d'Epargne [team]. Trust us," said Bruyneel.
Never!
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Posted on 03-06-2009 21:24
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Team Liquigas' Pelizotti will co-captain a team with Roman Kreuziger and Vincenzo Nibali.
They are gonna repeat Giro tactic..? Cycling team need a Riis to play with 3 co-captain's other wise it is anarchy.. |
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Posted on 03-06-2009 23:52
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But they don't have a Riis. |
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Posted on 04-06-2009 00:57
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Talking about the Tour, Silence-Lotto did a TTT training on monday on the circuit of Zolder with 11 riders, I think these are the preselected riders now.
Tomorrow, when I am awake again that is, I'll post who. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 04-06-2009 01:00
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Evans, Lang, Wegelius, Delage, Dekker, Van den Broeck, Sentjens, Van Avermaet, Staf Scheirlinckx, Vansummeren and Aerts.
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Posted on 04-06-2009 08:01
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I could be wrong, its 3am, but I believe that Johann officially claimed that Armstrong would be number 2 for the Tour. I see Astana pulling a CSC from last season. They will get the Yellow Jersey (wont be Contador) and then Contador will have a great stage on a Mountain top finish to take yellow from his team mate. Dare I say another yellow for Lance? |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 04-06-2009 09:50
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To Het Laatste Nieuws, Bruyneel said yesterday that Armstrong would be third after Leipheimer and Contador. |
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Posted on 04-06-2009 16:45
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The numbers aren't important, unless n°1. Being n°2 or n°69 won't give you better form.
But will Ballan race the Tour ?
I think so, but...
And thinking about Contador's weakness :
Edited by Juan on 04-06-2009 16:52
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 04-06-2009 16:56
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ahhh but was it weakness or a lack of food/drink?
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Posted on 04-06-2009 16:57
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doddy13 wrote:
ahhh but was it weakness or a lack of food/drink?
both, but then it's a lack of tactics |
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| ruben |
Posted on 04-06-2009 17:05
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I just received the 'Tour special' of Wielerrevue and took a detailed look at the route.
WOW, it sucks.... Even 3/4 mountain stages will probably do nothing for the favourites and escapers will win there. Why so many long descents and flat after the last climb?
This route is so easy, even Cyril Dessel could ride top 10 again. |
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| niconico |
Posted on 04-06-2009 17:14
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Ruben wrote:
I just received the 'Tour special' of Wielerrevue and took a detailed look at the route.
WOW, it sucks.... Even 3/4 mountain stages will probably do nothing for the favourites and escapers will win there. Why so many long descents and flat after the last climb?
This route is so easy, even Cyril Dessel could ride top 10 again.
I was thinking the same. The only mountain stage where I could see some of the favourites gaining a lot on each other is the Mont Ventoux stage.
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