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Tour de France, Stage 16 - Wednesday, Pau - Bagnères-de-Luchon
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:30
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Alakagom wrote:
Zubeldia - 5th Tour de France
Wow, the competion is very strong as this year's Tour...
Sky are TOTAL amazing. They put 50 seconds on Nicholas Roche on Mountain stage. Wow, amazing  Incredible ! Out of this world !
Zubeldia's best years were when he followed the US Postal train. He can do it again this year following the V2 Version by Sky.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:31
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kgarvey wrote:
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I CANT STAND WIGGINGS.......Cocky little prick......Hopefully tomorrow Nibali destroys him and his doping Sky Team on the huge mountains!
What's he done to suggest he is so cocky? I think some just still feel like he doesn't have the 'right' to be competing for the yellow jersey along side these natural climbers, with him making his breakthrough from a pure track/tt background in recent years.
Maybe his f**king w**kers and c""ts comment is a little much?
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:32
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kgarvey wrote:
aquilotti1 wrote:
I CANT STAND WIGGINGS.......Cocky little prick......Hopefully tomorrow Nibali destroys him and his doping Sky Team on the huge mountains!
What's he done to suggest he is so cocky? I think some just still feel like he doesn't have the 'right' to be competing for the yellow jersey along side these natural climbers, with him making his breakthrough from a pure track/tt background in recent years.
Which as never happened and could not phsically happen before... but let's stay on topic. Wiggins has done nothing this whole tour exept one time trial.
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| kgarvey |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:35
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A bit much in terms of the outburst, but there was nothing really cocky about it in my opinion. Lots of abuse is given on twitter by keyboard warriors, I hardly feel sorry for them that Wiggins gave a bit back. |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:37
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kgarvey wrote:
A bit much in terms of the outburst, but there was nothing really cocky about it in my opinion. Lots of abuse is given on twitter by keyboard warriors, I hardly feel sorry for them that Wiggins gave a bit back.
Ummmm... It was just suspicious, and it comes with the jersey. If he's not ready he can finish in the grupetto and not get publicity.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:38
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baseballlover312 wrote:
kgarvey wrote:
aquilotti1 wrote:
I CANT STAND WIGGINGS.......Cocky little prick......Hopefully tomorrow Nibali destroys him and his doping Sky Team on the huge mountains!
What's he done to suggest he is so cocky? I think some just still feel like he doesn't have the 'right' to be competing for the yellow jersey along side these natural climbers, with him making his breakthrough from a pure track/tt background in recent years.
Which as never happened and could not phsically happen before... but let's stay on topic. Wiggins has done nothing this whole tour exept one time trial.
Doing nothing is so easy I can't imagine why there weren't more than 3 guys doing nothing in that lead GC group - laziness evidently  |
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:40
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Sprinters come in what I think is well within the time limit. Guess tomorrow might be tougher. |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:41
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ianrussell wrote:
baseballlover312 wrote:
kgarvey wrote:
aquilotti1 wrote:
I CANT STAND WIGGINGS.......Cocky little prick......Hopefully tomorrow Nibali destroys him and his doping Sky Team on the huge mountains!
What's he done to suggest he is so cocky? I think some just still feel like he doesn't have the 'right' to be competing for the yellow jersey along side these natural climbers, with him making his breakthrough from a pure track/tt background in recent years.
Which as never happened and could not phsically happen before... but let's stay on topic. Wiggins has done nothing this whole tour exept one time trial.
Doing nothing is so easy I can't imagine why there weren't more than 3 guys doing nothing in that lead GC group - laziness evidently
They've been attacking and fighting, while Wiggins was on Froome's wheel being paced the whole Tour. Plus: https://pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread....rowstart=0
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:43
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Well if Wiggins has been boring, then what about all the other so called GC hopefuls, they have all done f**k all except for Nibali  |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:44
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ianrussell wrote:
Sprinters come in what I think is well within the time limit. Guess tomorrow might be tougher.
Riders who can't come back after the Menté will have huge problems reaching the limit I think.
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:46
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Not gonna lie i was about to sleep during the stage. Then Nibbles attacked. |
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| kgarvey |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:47
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baseballlover, I don't understand what you want him to do? How can Wiggins win here? If he relies on a stronger natural climber in Froome to help him in the mountains, he is a cocky wheelsucking bore who doesn't deserve to win the tour. If he, for some retarded reason, decided to ignore the help of his team and attack despite already leading the tour then he would be called a 100% doping, cheating disgrace.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:48
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sutty68 wrote:
Well if Wiggins has been boring, then what about all the other so called GC hopefuls, they have all done f**k all except for Nibali
Van den Broeck, Rolland, Pinot, Brajkovic, Van Garderen, Evans have all attacked. Froome is too loyal. So yes, that would be the case, but it's not.
Edited by baseballlover312 on 18-07-2012 16:52
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:51
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sutty68 wrote:
Well if Wiggins has been boring, then what about all the other so called GC hopefuls, they have all done f**k all except for Nibali
To attack you don't need only the guts, but also the legs. They can't even keep up with Wiggins, let alone attack him.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:52
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baseballlover312 wrote:
ianrussell wrote:
baseballlover312 wrote:
kgarvey wrote:
aquilotti1 wrote:
I CANT STAND WIGGINGS.......Cocky little prick......Hopefully tomorrow Nibali destroys him and his doping Sky Team on the huge mountains!
What's he done to suggest he is so cocky? I think some just still feel like he doesn't have the 'right' to be competing for the yellow jersey along side these natural climbers, with him making his breakthrough from a pure track/tt background in recent years.
Which as never happened and could not phsically happen before... but let's stay on topic. Wiggins has done nothing this whole tour exept one time trial.
Doing nothing is so easy I can't imagine why there weren't more than 3 guys doing nothing in that lead GC group - laziness evidently
They've been attacking and fighting, while Wiggins was on Froome's wheel being paced the whole Tour. Plus: https://pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread....rowstart=0
Riding on wheels is so easy can't imagine why none of the other GC guys didn't do it today on Wiggins wheel - laziness evidently...
Don't get me wrong I'm an admirer of the way Nibali rides and enjoyed the attacks today - if nothing else it's made him a strong favourite for the podium - but clearly that isn't the way Wiggins wins races, especially ones with 100km of TT in. All he had to do today was ride strong in the group and close down the last Nibali attack - why would he do more than that? Those 3 are clearly the strongest in the race and that's why there was no-one else there. |
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:54
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Taken from Twitter "All riders finished now. Jan Ghyselink of Cofidis was 6 seconds late for time cut... but the officials let him fight another day."
Thank god they let him off the 6 secs - would have been totally gutting |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 18-07-2012 16:54
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I hate this Tour.
Sky's wonder doping is just impossible to beat.
The routes of the stages are lame and just designed for Sky.
Sky controls everything.
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| Wilier |
Posted on 18-07-2012 17:01
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Apart from a lack of MTF's, the route isn't that bad. Sky's dominance and a lack of fit GC riders make this race boring. |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 18-07-2012 17:03
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fcancellara wrote:
I hate this Tour.
Sky's wonder doping is just impossible to beat.
The routes of the stages are lame and just designed for Sky.
Sky controls everything.
Couldn't disagree more. Thank god there aren't many summit finishes. Otherwise this would definitely be the dullest Tour ever. With the descents you at least had Nibali who could make things a bit interesting
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 18-07-2012 17:03
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Wilier wrote:
Apart from a lack of MTF's, the route isn't that bad. Sky's dominance and a lack of fit GC riders make this race boring.
Agreed. Actually, I wouldn't even need one more MTF, just change some stupid positions from mountains (stage 10, 12, 14).
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