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Vuelta a Castilla a Leon
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| Immortal |
Posted on 25-03-2009 14:49
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Thanks 
Edited by Immortal on 25-03-2009 14:50
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| t-baum |
Posted on 25-03-2009 15:02
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Knew it would be valverde, similar to tdf first stage.
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race." |
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 25-03-2009 23:30
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Spain's Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d'Epargne team won the third stage of the Tour of Castilla y Leon in a sprint finish at the San Isidro ski station. oh yes well done Valverde, back to what he does best, winning.  |
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| chrica04 |
Posted on 26-03-2009 02:22
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Guy has so much potential, just doesn't use it when it comes to the big show! |
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| ringo182 |
Posted on 26-03-2009 10:31
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Valverde doesn't have the consistency to win a GT. he always has at least one really bad day where he looses 3/4/5 mins on the leaders. or at least he has in the past. maybe he'll improve with age. he's reached his peak now so if he wants to win one now is the time.
he should stick to shorter stage races and one day hilly classics. |
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| E_Hagen |
Posted on 26-03-2009 15:06
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| Roman |
Posted on 26-03-2009 15:23
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Cobo Rocket! 
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 26-03-2009 15:28
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1. Cobo
2. Menchov
3. Moreno
4. Valverde
5. Deignan
Finally some success for Fuji. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 26-03-2009 16:08
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1 - Cobo
2 - Menchov op 8"
3 - Moreno op 9"
4 - Valverde
5 - Deignan
6 - Clement
7 - Mosquera
8 - Contador
9 - Leipheimer
10 - Zabriskie
Stef Clement  how the hell did that happen |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-03-2009 16:19
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Ruben wrote:
1 - Cobo
2 - Menchov op 8"
3 - Moreno op 9"
4 - Valverde
5 - Deignan
6 - Clement
7 - Mosquera
8 - Contador
9 - Leipheimer
10 - Zabriskie
Stef Clement how the hell did that happen
Damn it Ruben, he's dutch, it's not "how did it happen", it's "of course it happened  " 
Anyway, he mentioned he was working on climbing this year to detriment of time trialling.
That and the climbs weren't massively hard. |
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| mrlol |
Posted on 26-03-2009 17:00
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What Clement's job should be at rabobank is to do good GC's in smaller tours. Like the Tour of Romandie. Though, his climbing wasnt good enough at all for that so far. He hadnt a clue why not.
Now, they've finally found out his position on his bike is in such a way that he cannot preform a lot of power on the pedal. Now he's working on that, and it seems to be paying off. Although it migth be a bit early to say that. But smaller tours are his goal. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 26-03-2009 17:40
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I took a dive into Clements results, and from what I can find, he was once a good climber, until he broke a 'nek-wervel' (neck vertebrae or however you spell it?)..since then he only has been good at TT's |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-03-2009 22:54
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What's it going to take for people to start believing me when I say Zabriskie's climbing is quite underrated and his time trial is quite overrated? |
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| chrica04 |
Posted on 26-03-2009 23:12
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I wouldn't say its overrated issoisso....... he does seem to have on and off days on the tt bike though. Last year in Dauphine, he did climb with the best. |
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| kida |
Posted on 27-03-2009 00:11
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issoisso wrote:
What's it going to take for people to start believing me when I say Zabriskie's climbing is quite underrated and his time trial is quite overrated?
Milk and cookies should do it, but i agree with your point. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 27-03-2009 00:30
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chrica04 wrote:
I wouldn't say its overrated issoisso....... he does seem to have on and off
Name an on-day that wasn't one of the two 2005 GT stage wins he got because of huge wind changes....
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| t-baum |
Posted on 27-03-2009 03:00
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issoisso wrote:
What's it going to take for people to start believing me when I say Zabriskie's climbing is quite underrated and his time trial is quite overrated?
I concur.
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
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| chrica04 |
Posted on 27-03-2009 04:01
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issoisso wrote:
chrica04 wrote:
I wouldn't say its overrated issoisso....... he does seem to have on and off
Name an on-day that wasn't one of the two 2005 GT stage wins he got because of huge wind changes....
World Championships 3 Years ago..... 2nd to Cancellara. But as I said, I didn't really really disagree
I still like him though.... DZ NUTS! |
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