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Posted on 13-03-2009 11:10
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Levi4life wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Teams for Roubaix:
BMC.
Woo!
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Posted on 13-03-2009 11:38
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Voeckler is awesome. What he did yesterday in the break....he crashed and broke his collarbone midway throught the break.....AND KEPT ON GOING.
He's in the hospital now.
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 13-03-2009 11:40
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That man is amazing, driving like he did with a broken collarbone, incredible.
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Thor wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 13-03-2009 11:49
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Voeckler just went 5 steps up on the awesome-ladder in my mind.
THE THOMAS VOECKLER PROPHET OF PCM DAILY
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 13-03-2009 12:32
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Right up there with Tyler Hamilton.  |
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Posted on 13-03-2009 12:40
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| rodda |
Posted on 13-03-2009 12:42
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issoisso wrote:
CONI's expected to announce the suspension of Alejandro Valverde next week. If all goes according to normality, the UCI will follow by making the suspension global.
And if that's the case, bye bye Piti.
The "alleged" offense was "supposedly" commited back when suspensions were only 2 years, so if he's suspended, he'll probably be back later.
where did you get that from isso?
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| Ildabaoth |
Posted on 13-03-2009 12:50
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fenian_1234 wrote:
Right up there with Tyler Hamilton.
I'd put him over Hamilton. Being doped it isn't that hard to do that. |
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Posted on 13-03-2009 12:52
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rodda wrote:
issoisso wrote:
CONI's expected to announce the suspension of Alejandro Valverde next week. If all goes according to normality, the UCI will follow by making the suspension global.
And if that's the case, bye bye Piti.
The "alleged" offense was "supposedly" commited back when suspensions were only 2 years, so if he's suspended, he'll probably be back later.
where did you get that from isso?
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| ruben |
Posted on 13-03-2009 13:11
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I tell you, something will happen that will block this. Although I keep hoping Valverde gets banned |
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Posted on 13-03-2009 13:31
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Ruben wrote:
I tell you, something will happen that will block this. Although I keep hoping Valverde gets banned
Agreed. Somehow Valverde's lawyers will find a loophole that allows him to compete. Either that or a really leniant sentence (remember Di Luca's that banned him from racing over the off-season?) |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 13-03-2009 13:49
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I'm pretty sure the spanish government will jump in to protect him any way they can. Just as they've done every time one of their stars got caught.
And it's not a recent phenomenom, either. Back in 1988 Delgado was about to win the Tour when he tested positive. They fought tooth and nail to get him off the hook on a technicality. And they did. And thus he won his only Tour.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 13-03-2009 13:58
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issoisso wrote:
Voeckler is awesome. What he did yesterday in the break....he crashed and broke his collarbone midway throught the break.....AND KEPT ON GOING.
He's in the hospital now.
According to euronews, he actually started today's stage, only to crash again and retire. THEN he went to the hospital.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 13-03-2009 14:46
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Ildabaoth wrote:
fenian_1234 wrote:
Right up there with Tyler Hamilton.
I'd put him over Hamilton. Being doped it isn't that hard to do that.
I don't think the dope will help making the pain smaller when riding with a broken collar. |
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| Ildabaoth |
Posted on 13-03-2009 15:43
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CrueTrue wrote:
Ildabaoth wrote:
fenian_1234 wrote:
Right up there with Tyler Hamilton.
I'd put him over Hamilton. Being doped it isn't that hard to do that.
I don't think the dope will help making the pain smaller when riding with a broken collar.
Yes, you are probably right. But I didn't said it was less painful, but easier. So I wouldn't put him over a clean rider even with that collarbone broken. Actually, when he did that, I thougt he was great too, just to get frustrated later. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 14-03-2009 09:51
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Anybody read the Procycling interview with Langeveld?
What an ass. The 5 pages can basically be summed up by "I hate working for others. I don't want to ride any race where I'm not the leader. waaaaah"
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Posted on 14-03-2009 10:36
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That's not how I know Langeveld, and I'm in daily contact with him
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Posted on 14-03-2009 10:50
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Ruben wrote:
That's not how I know Langeveld, and I'm in daily contact with him
To exemplify, here's a couple of short sentences (the interview's far too long to transcribe in full)
I just don't feel comfortable at the Tour. I signed a contract at Rabobank so that I could be a rider who could win big races, not to be a domestique.
I really wanted to do something for myself. At the Tour, I knew I had to work for others like Denis Menchov and Oscar Freire. So I went to France a bit disappointed.
A big part of the interview is his explaining the reasons (that being the main one) why he doesn't want to ride the Tour.
He might not always be like that, but it comes accross pretty strongly in this interview.
Edited by issoisso on 14-03-2009 10:51
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Posted on 14-03-2009 11:04
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I interviewed him for his own website this winter, and there he said he didn't want to ride the tour, because he is clearly not a good enough rider for that, especially in the mountains. He said he felt he came up short, and after the Tour he was pretty much waisted for the classics and the worlds, and that was a major dissapointment.
That's why he doesn't want to ride the tour, if he has to bust his balls off for Freire and Menchov again he'll again miss out on the late classics. It's not that weird for a leader to say he doesn't prefer working, though he always worked for others without a problem, see Paris Nice for Garate, who even failed.
However you know how interviews work right? It's still the journalist who decide how you get into the news, sadly
Sebastian is definately not an ass, from the seven riders I update the website from, he is one of the most open and friendly cyclists there is. Not as egocentric and selfish as some of the others. And definately not arrogant, you'll never hear him say "I want to win here and there and I'm the best" or something like that. So that's why I'm confused by your message. He is not like that at all. Very friendly guy
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Posted on 14-03-2009 11:54
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Ruben wrote:
from the seven riders I update the website from, he is one of the most open and friendly cyclists there is. Not as egocentric and selfish as some of the others.
Way to do PR for them 
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