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| issoisso |
Posted on 24-09-2007 19:24
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Cofidis pair Michiel Elijzen and Bradley Wiggins won the category 2 Duo Normand 2-man TTT.
extremely weak field this year, mostly because everyone prefers to go instead to the LuK Challenge 2-man TT in Germany, which means the Duo Normand is getting less and less important
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| Setzel |
Posted on 24-09-2007 19:25
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issoisso wrote:
Cofidis pair Michiel Elijzen and Bradley Wiggins won the category 2 Duo Normand 2-man TTT.
extremely weak field this year, mostly because everyone prefers to go instead to the LuK Challenge 2-man TT in Germany, which means the Duo Normand is getting less and less important
I think wiggins would have won it alone 
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| ruben |
Posted on 24-09-2007 21:16
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-09-2007 21:35
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Go Wiggins!
Wiggins might have been able to do it alone, but thats not the whole point of it is it? (Although if he did a rider similar to the Albi TT at the Tour de France, I think it would have been close).
Wiggins definately looked the stronger though (As you would expect):
Good warm-up for the Worlds.
And Isso, the LuK Challenge was cancelled, so it's no really an excuse for the not-so-strong duos in Normande.
I find it funny that the 2 Designa Kokken teams both got the same time!
Edited by SportingNonsense on 24-09-2007 21:37
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| ruben |
Posted on 24-09-2007 21:39
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"Wiggings looks stronger" based on 1 picture...
omfg..and then I'm the chauvinist? Give Elijzen some credit too please? |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-09-2007 21:42
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I had to make a pro-Wiggins post to follow your fairly anti-wiggins post.
I did not say that Elijzen was crap, merely just trying to annoy you by pointing out that Wiggins looked stronger (Which he probably was).
I like how you cant seem to accept a Dutch victory when it is a joint win with a Brit!
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| ruben |
Posted on 24-09-2007 21:45
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No I did accept it. The comment "wiggins could've won it alone" is bullshit ofcourse. So I had to react with realism.
Btw, Elijzen did win a Pro Tour prologue, yes helped by weather, but still beating prologue specialists like Verbrugghe en Nuyens. So, please, don't underrate the guy.
You might anger Plakker with anti-elijzen attitude btw |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-09-2007 21:48
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I could find better ways to annoy Plakkernl if I wanted to, but theres no point. Youre fighting a losing battle if you try to argue with Plakker, particularly if you do it on the PPDB forums
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| issoisso |
Posted on 24-09-2007 22:04
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SportingNonsense wrote:
And Isso, the LuK Challenge was cancelled, so it's no really an excuse for the not-so-strong duos in Normande.
I'm sorry then. I was sure I'd read about Julich and Voigt "finally winning it" 
anyway, about the Wiggins-Elijzen thing, Ruben is right for the most part. you're just as chauvinistic as he is. only you're not aggressive when doing it, but you still see only Brits, Brits, Brits. just like Ruben with his Dutch and a certain other forum member with Americans (he'll respond to this when it's late at night over here  )
and Ruben:
the sentence that does not annoy Plakker is yet to be uttered. and I have no idea what it is....if it actually exists
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| Crommy |
Posted on 24-09-2007 22:04
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I'm going to annoy both of you by saying they both contributed equally
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| issoisso |
Posted on 24-09-2007 22:06
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Crommy wrote:
I'm going to annoy everyone by saying they both contributed equally
considering their relative quality, that's the most likely bet 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 27-09-2007 00:28
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The Tour of America I shit you not!. This will never get off the ground! America is just to big and the race to long!
https://www.velonews.com/race/dom/arti...387.0.html
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 27-09-2007 00:34
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27 Stages?!?! Crazy!! They want a 410km stage too?
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 27-09-2007 00:37
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They obviously don't know how bike raceing goes. After 21 stages each rider is Emaciated how are they supposed to do 27 even harder stages. They need the Tour of the West Coast and Tour of the East Coast or something like that if they want to do a big tour.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 27-09-2007 00:46
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LoL i just saw a pole on Velonews asking if the Proposed GT of America is Realistic. A resounding 97 percent of more than a thousand people say 'no'
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 27-09-2007 10:55
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I mentioned it in the September news. It's crazy. With the prize winnings and the length of the stages you almost beg for doping. |
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| dave92 |
Posted on 27-09-2007 13:25
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CrueTrue wrote:
I mentioned it in the September news. It's crazy. With the prize winnings and the length of the stages you almost beg for doping.
Yea, i would like to see a big race here, but this could be nothing but trouble, its like an endurance test rather than a race. Doping would be partially understandable, 410 km? only Voigt would have the balls to attack at the gun(maybe Slipstream).
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 27-09-2007 17:52
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American's are crazy
(porbably the only time i'll get away with that)
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 04-10-2007 16:26
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Aurélien Clerc won Stage 1 of the Circuit Franco Belge. Cavendish punctured with 2km to go!
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Posted on 04-10-2007 19:47
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1 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 4.04.14 (43.557 km/h)
2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole
3 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
4 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
6 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel
7 Borut Bozic (Slo) Team L.P.R.
8 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen
9 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team
10 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium
11 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team
12 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC
13 Aliaksandr Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance
14 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner
15 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto
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