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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 25-07-2008 23:01
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T-baum - what does the Giro have to do with it?
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| jacknic |
Posted on 25-07-2008 23:11
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In the Giro the GT riders were spent and took secondairy placings in the final ITT. Something simmilar might happen saturday. I hope millar can take it. |
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Posted on 26-07-2008 00:34
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Millar:
On his role for the remaining few stages, the Scot was pinning his chances on the time trial and not necessarily on an escape. "I'm feeling tired and my strength is shrinking day-by-day. I feel fine on the bike but I'm having problems recovering off it. Perhaps I just trained too much after the Giro, but I'm paying for it now."
Millar could be entering a new phase of his career, that of a super domestique for Vande Velde. "With Christian being our GC guy now it gives me other goals that I can train for and to help him suits me. I can still do other races during the year and then come here and work for Christian at the Tour. It gives me a lot of pleasure."
Those other goals start soon enough though, at the World Time Trial Championships in September. "I'm going to take a short holiday but I'm going to fix my eyes on the Worlds. I've got my time trialling confidence back for now."
Flecha:
Spaniard Juan Antonio Flecha regretted his attack on stage 19 of the Tour de France that forced him to chase and end his day outside of the time limit. "Shit happens. I will never attack again," Flecha said after entering the team Rabobank bus, according to directeur Sportif Erik Dekker.
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Posted on 26-07-2008 00:35
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jacknic wrote:
In the Giro the GT riders were spent and took secondairy placings in the final ITT. Something simmilar might happen saturday. I hope millar can take it.
Yup
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Posted on 26-07-2008 01:36
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My vote is for Robbie to win tommorow  |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-07-2008 07:37
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In the Giro, a strong headwind lifted midway through, which meant that anyone who departed after a certain point had much worse times than they usually do.
It pretty much always happens. wind is a huge factor when deciding the winner of a TT. heck, Zabriskie won a yellow jersey due to winds changing direction...
So, bad example 
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-07-2008 07:56
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I liked Induráin's view about the TT today. he says he'd like Sastre to win (duuh), but expects Evans to win. Says it's going to be oh so very close, due to Sastre having yellow.
But here's what I thought was interesting: he said that the reason having yellow improves your TTs has nothing to do with motivation: it's that so many motorbikes are escorting you that you get a good draft off them.
Listen to the man carefully. he rarely makes predictions, but I've never seen him miss one. And he mostly just makes insane predictions that everyone laughs at (Armstrong for the win in 99, for example)
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| alex153 |
Posted on 26-07-2008 09:02
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I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see Sastre keeping his lead after the TT. He just didn't get enough time on Evans in the mountains. |
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| Totalrage |
Posted on 26-07-2008 09:27
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I hope Cadel gives Sastre a beating |
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| Silence |
Posted on 26-07-2008 10:07
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Why? He's a complete psycho  Have you seen what he does, when journalists comes just a little too close?
alex: Sastre recuperation is a tad better than Cadel's, and only 20% of the times, the two has rode against eachother on the last timetrial of a GT, Evans has actually taken more than one minute on Sastre  On the other hand it was last year when Evans had the chance of taken the yellow jersey, he took 2 minutes, but that's the only time he has taken more than 1'10 on Sastre on the last timetrial of GT
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-07-2008 10:12
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Silence wrote:
Why? He's a complete psycho Have you seen what he does, when journalists comes just a little too close?
To be fair to him, he had repeatedly warned just about every journalist that his left should was badly hurt and should not be touched, for the collarbone might snap. Yet the sporza guy kept touching the shoulder despite repeated warnings.
That said, I think Cadel should lighten up a bit.
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alex: Sastre recuperation is a tad better than Cadel's, and only 20% of the times, the two has rode against eachother on the last timetrial of a GT, Evans has actually taken more than one minute on Sastre On the other hand it was last year when Evans had the chance of taken the yellow jersey, he took 2 minutes, but that's the only time he has taken more than 1'10 on Sastre on the last timetrial of GT
whatever happens, it's going to be very close. but I still say Cadel has a 90% chance of being in yellow today.
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Posted on 26-07-2008 10:33
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Lets not forget the battle for the Lanterne Rouge! All 3 are now out on the course.
Here is how it currently stands going into the day's stage:
143 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.45.17
144 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Silence - Lotto 3.46.29
145 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Columbia 3.47.11
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| popkorn |
Posted on 26-07-2008 10:42
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I think Lövkvist will power down the TT and take the yellow today. he's just 1h 25m down ^^
But I hope that Sastre or Kohl takes the yellow after today. And that Kreuziger takes the white for Andy Schleck  |
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Posted on 26-07-2008 10:58
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In the Lanterne Rouge fight, Wim Vansevenant has already lost 37 seconds on Eisel, cutting the Austrian's advantage to just 5 seconds.
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Posted on 26-07-2008 11:10
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issoisso wrote:
Silence wrote:
Why? He's a complete psycho Have you seen what he does, when journalists comes just a little too close?
To be fair to him, he had repeatedly warned just about every journalist that his left should was badly hurt and should not be touched, for the collarbone might snap. Yet the sporza guy kept touching the shoulder despite repeated warnings.
That said, I think Cadel should lighten up a bit.
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alex: Sastre recuperation is a tad better than Cadel's, and only 20% of the times, the two has rode against eachother on the last timetrial of a GT, Evans has actually taken more than one minute on Sastre On the other hand it was last year when Evans had the chance of taken the yellow jersey, he took 2 minutes, but that's the only time he has taken more than 1'10 on Sastre on the last timetrial of GT
whatever happens, it's going to be very close. but I still say Cadel has a 90% chance of being in yellow today.
So you missed Evans' head-butt? He's better than Zidane |
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Posted on 26-07-2008 11:11
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Wim Vansevenant has only got to drop off tomorrow, Eisel should be taking part in the sprint |
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Posted on 26-07-2008 11:12
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Shouldn't Ricco's and Piepoli's wins be withdrawed? Because on the Eurosport site it still says that they won those stages. Shouldn't it be Valverde,Efimkin,Cobo instead of Ricco,Ricco,Piepoli? |
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Posted on 26-07-2008 11:12
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The differences are already big at point 1. I think there is headwind, and this could make the TT really interesting. The difference could be as much as 2'30 between nr 1 and 2, like in Ullrich/Indurain/Armstrongs old superdays |
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Posted on 26-07-2008 11:13
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Zimao91 wrote:
Shouldn't Ricco's and Piepoli's wins be withdrawed? Because on the Eurosport site it still says that they won those stages. Shouldn't it be Valverde,Efimkin,Cobo instead of Ricco,Ricco,Piepoli?
Won't happen until they are officially banned.
Besides, as far as I know, Piepoli hasn't tested positive, and his win will therefore stay. |
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| helGn |
Posted on 26-07-2008 11:13
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BO EISEL! |
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