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Tour de France 2010: Stage 2 Bruxelles - Spa
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| Roo |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:05
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kumazan wrote:
Actually Cancellara is the guy who acted as you'd expect, defeding his team's interests. It's Sastre's (or Gesink's, Menchov's, Hushovd's, etc) attitude what I don't understand.
Maybe they don't want to win that way. |
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:12
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filmmaker14 wrote:
first of all, try using less negations next time.
secondly, nobody's life was threatened, drama queen.
First of all: If i had an Euro for everytime someone resorted to feigning ignorance or attacking me instead of dealing with what i write, i would have quite a bit by now...
Secondly: Rainy road? Downhill? Alleged oil spill? Im pretty sure a lot of people had their health at stake here. Drama queen.
Edited by Waghlon on 05-07-2010 19:39
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:13
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felix_29 wrote:
I can understand them. They want to win by beating the others in a direct fight and not because the others crashed in stage two and then lost five minutes
In the end, what's the difference with attacking in a descent ? Or say, a random rainy descent. |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:15
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Christer wrote:
Hushovd reacts because of the sprint being cancelled.
ok, so what did he say?
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Posted on 05-07-2010 19:15
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People seem to ignore the fact that several riders claim that there was oil on the road - meaning it wasn't just a "random rainy descent". Oil makes some difference, don't you think? |
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:18
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Aquarius wrote:
felix_29 wrote:
I can understand them. They want to win by beating the others in a direct fight and not because the others crashed in stage two and then lost five minutes
In the end, what's the difference with attacking in a descent ? Or say, a random rainy descent.
Attacks would have forced further crashes, and why taking the risk of a crash so early in the race?
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| ruben |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:18
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So? Passage du Gois was slippery and not normal as well.
Did armstrong wait there in 99?
No.
Still think it's a field of stinking hypocrits and some teams (Rabo included) should've ignored Cancellara and ride |
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| ember |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:20
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doddy13 wrote:
Christer wrote:
Hushovd reacts because of the sprint being cancelled.
ok, so what did he say?
He said he was pissed because they wasn't allow to sprint for second place. He thought that was the wrong decision, he also called Prudhomme right after the stage and asked which rule they relied on for cancelling the points for everyone except Chavanel 
I think he got a point, I think they should have been allowed to sprint for second place. |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:21
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So in short, he's scared of Cavendish
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| ember |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:23
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Of course he is  And it was a clear advantage for him and Farrar that they cancelled the points today, if they hadn't, I'm pretty sure Cavendish would be out of the race of green after tomorrow. |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:24
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doddy13 wrote:
So in short, he's scared of Cavendish
I'd be too, after what he did in the Tour de Suisse. |
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Posted on 05-07-2010 19:26
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ember wrote:
Of course he is And it was a clear advantage for him and Farrar that they cancelled the points today, if they hadn't, I'm pretty sure Cavendish would be out of the race of green after tomorrow.
Tommorrow, Cavendish out of green race? HA! The cobbled sectors aren't too hard tomorrow, and Cavendish isn't exactly a novice at riding cobbles, ok he's not as good as Hushovd, but it doesn't matter, there's a large distance.
@Kumazan - Don't get me started on that, Cavendish was not 100% responsible for that crash, and if you want my wealth of information on that crash can be called on. But save yourself the hassle of that.
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| ruben |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:27
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Farrar will probably have to give up.
Vandevelde is a question mark.
Garmin loses its leaders already... Bad day |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:30
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ruben wrote:
Farrar will probably have to give up.
Vandevelde is a question mark.
Garmin loses its leaders already... Bad day
Seriously? That really sucks. 
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| kumazan |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:31
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doddy13 wrote:
@Kumazan - Don't get me started on that, Cavendish was not 100% responsible for that crash, and if you want my wealth of information on that crash can be called on. But save yourself the hassle of that.
I don't care if he was 100% or 99% responsible, I was just joking.
But it's still funny how you Brits rabidly defend Cavendish.
ruben wrote:
Farrar will probably have to give up.
Vandevelde is a question mark.
Garmin loses its leaders already... Bad day
Oh well, that's really bad luck. Farrar looked pretty strong yesterday.
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| BouBBox |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:31
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ruben wrote:
Farrar will probably have to give up.
Vandevelde is a question mark.
Garmin loses its leaders already... Bad day
Seems like Vandevelde is the most unluckiest rider in the peltoton he crashes in GTs nearly every year and always loses much time...
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| Christer |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:32
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McEwen at twitter:
https://twitpic.com/22q5pn How an elbow shouldn't look.
All I can say is: Ouch!
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:34
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kumazan wrote:
doddy13 wrote:
@Kumazan - Don't get me started on that, Cavendish was not 100% responsible for that crash, and if you want my wealth of information on that crash can be called on. But save yourself the hassle of that.
I don't care if he was 100% or 99% responsible, I was just joking.
But it's still funny how you Brits rabidly defend Cavendish.
Umm, i'm defending him
1) Because no body else does, everyone seems to critise him
2) Because on this case i'm right, you just need to watch the video footage to see that. I've always said if the "blame" has to go anywhere on that crash it should be 75% Cavendish, 25% Haussler. But anyway, that discussion is not for here, go ressurect the tour de suisse topic.
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| ember |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:37
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Doddy says: Tommorrow, Cavendish out of green race? HA!
Assuming that Hushovd would have done well today, and assuming that he will do better than Cavendish tomorrow, he would had the 26 points from yesterday, 15-20 points from today, and another 10-20 points tomorrow. That would have been an advantage of 50-70 points to Cavendish. I can't see hovw Cavendish should have taken that back.
I'm not ruling Cavendish out for tomorrow, he will have a whole team that will try to place him well, still I rate Hushovd better for tomorrows stage, and I think he will gain 10-20 points to Cavendish.
So yes, I think Cavendish would have been out of the green jersey contest if Hushovd had gained points today..
Luckily he isn't, and hopefully it's going to be a great fight between him, Hushovd, Ciolek, and hopefully Petacchi 
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 05-07-2010 19:39
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ember wrote:
So yes, I think Cavendish would have been out of the green jersey contest if Hushovd had gained points today..
You've just changed your point
You said after tomorrow. I said to SN during the stage that Cavendish was out of green jersey race today. As the points were frozen, that is no longer the case.
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