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Le Tour 09: Stage 5: Le Cap d'Agde - Perpignan
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 08-07-2009 08:22
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PUtting someone in the break when you have the yellow jersey, is a no-go in order of the unwritten rules on how you behave when you hvae a leaders jersey.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 08-07-2009 09:31
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Which is why that Saxo Bank should've gone slower when the stage win was out of reach and let someone else take the leader's shirt. It's time to relax.
Anyway, as I said on page 1, I have a feeling that a break will be allowed to go today - although it probably depends on Columbia. |
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| chuckie |
Posted on 08-07-2009 10:42
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Hushovd has said he wants the win today. Cervelo may be the chasers.
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| Setzel |
Posted on 08-07-2009 10:45
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This is the perfect stage for a brake , columbia is tired , saxo is tired , Cervelo cannot make the chase alone.
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Posted on 08-07-2009 10:59
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You have to remember that the next several stages are not for sprinters so you really think they are going to miss a chance to represent themselves. e.g. cervelo and columbia. Columbia will take it easy tomorrow and some will firday sat and sun  remember if there is achance of a bunch sprint it usually happens in the first week the second and third week is usually when a break is allowed to go. I see tomorrows stage more of a breakaways stage or friday. |
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| viking90 |
Posted on 08-07-2009 11:08
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cervelo and quickstep chasers to day ? If not columbia will i think and hope those 2 teams will do it. |
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| Kami |
Posted on 08-07-2009 11:21
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I doubt Quick-Step will chase, seeing they are lazy, they might send someone in the break tough.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 08-07-2009 11:33
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but they must do something this tour ? now one for top 10 I had hope a little for devolder but with his start and that his not as good as the other in the mountains not even top 40. Barredo maybe go for something in one mountainsstage and chavanel for som breakaway. but with boonen in the team they should take some responsibility and chase in some breakaways. |
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Posted on 08-07-2009 12:09
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Euskaltel only lost 2:10 yesterday i think astarloza is going to be a happy man after looking at evans and menchovs teams performances |
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| ponka00 |
Posted on 08-07-2009 12:13
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There will be lots of wind today, thats at least what every rider and journalist is twittering... Sastre says that Cervélo will assist Hushovd today. Brett Lancaster also said that they wanted to split the peleton.
And Rogers says that Columbia is aming for another stage win for Cav (I don't think they will chase if they don't get any help though).
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Posted on 08-07-2009 13:01
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loads of wind im taping it as im at work  hope the excitment carries in |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:03
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Ad wrote:
loads of wind im taping it as im at work hope the excitment carries in
Moncoutie will loose another 10 min..(this guy is always last man in peloton) |
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Posted on 08-07-2009 13:08
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Lol shame soler isnt in to keep him company at least he would have some help then. I suppose it helps him in his quest for the mountains on sat when there are two big climbs to claim points and he might ride normally tomorrow and go for the stage. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:10
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Besides Rick Reilly's stupid humor, this is essentially what every single American cycling commentator and journalist feels about Lance. Its bullshit:
https://sports.espn.go.com/espn/column...id=4312289
Extra bonus on ESPN right now, Bonnie Ford, ESPN's cycling commentator, just mispronounced Contador's name.
Edited by Deadpool on 08-07-2009 13:12
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:37
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So, Saxo Bank isn't leading at all today, it seems. Columbia is, though. And Garmin. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:47
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And lots of talk about the wind again today. Exciting. |
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:47
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Deadpool wrote:
Besides Rick Reilly's stupid humor, this is essentially what every single American cycling commentator and journalist feels about Lance. Its bullshit:
https://sports.espn.go.com/espn/column...id=4312289
Extra bonus on ESPN right now, Bonnie Ford, ESPN's cycling commentator, just mispronounced Contador's name.
Reilly isn't a cycling comentator... he's just a general sports columnist (and a bit of an arrogant jerk when you see him on TV).
Him commenting on cycling is like some of the people on here who view "football" as only a game played with a round ball commenting on the Dallas Cowboys. It's based solely on stuff that 99% of the population knows... and in the US that's pretty much just Lance.
Most general sports fans in the US couldn't tell yo who won the tour last year and have no idea who Greg Lemond is. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:56
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KurtinSC wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
Besides Rick Reilly's stupid humor, this is essentially what every single American cycling commentator and journalist feels about Lance. Its bullshit:
https://sports.espn.go.com/espn/column...id=4312289
Extra bonus on ESPN right now, Bonnie Ford, ESPN's cycling commentator, just mispronounced Contador's name.
Reilly isn't a cycling comentator... he's just a general sports columnist (and a bit of an arrogant jerk when you see him on TV).
Him commenting on cycling is like some of the people on here who view "football" as only a game played with a round ball commenting on the Dallas Cowboys. It's based solely on stuff that 99% of the population knows... and in the US that's pretty much just Lance.
Most general sports fans in the US couldn't tell yo who won the tour last year and have no idea who Greg Lemond is.
I know that, but I still think its a good representative of how American commentators feel about Lance and the 09 Tour |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 08-07-2009 13:57
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Voeckler on the attack, I think I called that... |
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 08-07-2009 14:38
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Deadpool wrote:
KurtinSC wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
Besides Rick Reilly's stupid humor, this is essentially what every single American cycling commentator and journalist feels about Lance. Its bullshit:
https://sports.espn.go.com/espn/column...id=4312289
Extra bonus on ESPN right now, Bonnie Ford, ESPN's cycling commentator, just mispronounced Contador's name.
Reilly isn't a cycling comentator... he's just a general sports columnist (and a bit of an arrogant jerk when you see him on TV).
Him commenting on cycling is like some of the people on here who view "football" as only a game played with a round ball commenting on the Dallas Cowboys. It's based solely on stuff that 99% of the population knows... and in the US that's pretty much just Lance.
Most general sports fans in the US couldn't tell yo who won the tour last year and have no idea who Greg Lemond is.
I know that, but I still think its a good representative of how American commentators feel about Lance and the 09 Tour
American commentators who don't know anything about cycling... yes.
But honestly... if someone doesn't know anything about what they are talking about... who really cares what they have to say? |
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