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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 17:33
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Juan wrote:
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I wonder who will take the green one, maybe one of the favourites after winning some climbs when trying also to win time in the GC?
Soler 
ok... other opinion
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-05-2009 17:40
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Soler will attack the minute the mountains start, now he is 3:26 behind due to stupid flat stages where the peloton split. |
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| rovven7 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 17:46
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Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i saw Joaquim Rodriguez in the group Cavendish-Menchov. If this is true, then Rodriguez went up the final rise faster than Menchov, finishing only 19 seconds behind. |
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| knasen |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:22
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fredrik kessiakoff lost like 1:30.  |
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| viking90 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:24
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knasen wrote:
fredrik kessiakoff lost like 1:30.
yes too bad hope i will come back tomorrow and the other mountain stages  |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:24
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rovven7 wrote:
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i saw Joaquim Rodriguez in the group Cavendish-Menchov. If this is true, then Rodriguez went up the final rise faster than Menchov, finishing only 19 seconds behind.
Rodriguez is better than Menchov in this kind of stages, with small small hills like a classic, so maybe that's why he was faster than Menchov. Remember than Menchov also lost in Le Tour time in a stage like this but I think that he was caught in a crash in the pack there.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:25
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I think Robert Förster can kiss his career goodbye
And Markus Fothen isn't looking too good, either.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:26
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alexkr00 wrote:
rovven7 wrote:
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i saw Joaquim Rodriguez in the group Cavendish-Menchov. If this is true, then Rodriguez went up the final rise faster than Menchov, finishing only 19 seconds behind.
Rodriguez is better than Menchov in this kind of stages, with small small hills like a classic, so maybe that's why he was faster than Menchov. Remember than Menchov also lost in Le Tour time in a stage like this but I think that he was caught in a crash in the pack there.
when he lost time in TdF where when Team Saxobank set up the pace hard in the wind, am I not right ? |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:30
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viking90 wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
rovven7 wrote:
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i saw Joaquim Rodriguez in the group Cavendish-Menchov. If this is true, then Rodriguez went up the final rise faster than Menchov, finishing only 19 seconds behind.
Rodriguez is better than Menchov in this kind of stages, with small small hills like a classic, so maybe that's why he was faster than Menchov. Remember than Menchov also lost in Le Tour time in a stage like this but I think that he was caught in a crash in the pack there.
when he lost time in TdF where when Team Saxobank set up the pace hard in the wind, am I not right ?
I remeber a stage when it rained. And yes there was some wind, but I remember that someone crashed and then Saxo started working hard at the front of the pack. Saunier Duval (with Ricco, oh) and all the Rabo team except Freire were caught in the second pack.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:32
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okay then not all wrong . but i really hope menchov can take time on all the others tomorrow and wednesday, now when Vandevelde is out my hope is Menchov exept the swedes then |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:50
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I was expecting to see Lance losing time in this stages not Menchov, Leipheimer or Basso.
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:58
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rovven7 wrote:
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i saw Joaquim Rodriguez in the group Cavendish-Menchov. If this is true, then Rodriguez went up the final rise faster than Menchov, finishing only 19 seconds behind.
Ofcourse, when you sit in the wheel all the time and don't take over till the last 200 meters, you are faster. He didn't take over once and let Menchov, Ardila and High Road do all the work.
What a brillaint profiteur yes. Mind you, it's more stupid then anything else, if he worked from the beginning he might not have lost 19 seconds, but 15 or even 10. |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 11-05-2009 18:58
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Petacchi again?..well..nice!
And looks like our friend Lance..likes to have a pink..just for a day at least
Edited by Guido Mukk on 11-05-2009 19:00
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| mrlol |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:01
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Ruben wrote:
rovven7 wrote:
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i saw Joaquim Rodriguez in the group Cavendish-Menchov. If this is true, then Rodriguez went up the final rise faster than Menchov, finishing only 19 seconds behind.
Ofcourse, when you sit in the wheel all the time and don't take over till the last 200 meters, you are faster. He didn't take over once and let Menchov, Ardila and High Road do all the work.
What a brillaint profiteur yes. Mind you, it's more stupid then anything else, if he worked from the beginning he might not have lost 19 seconds, but 15 or even 10.
I dont think its stupid. He won't be a podium contender anyway, while Menchov is. And he knows that. Why bother riding for those few seconds then? They arent going to make a huge difference for him.
I understand it perfectly well that Rabo and Columbia where they only ones to relay in that groupe. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:03
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Rodriguez is the designated leader for the GC for Caisse...
So yes, it IS stupid. And he already finished 6th in the Vuelta last year. So why couldn't he do better?
Edited by ruben on 11-05-2009 19:04
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:04
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What do you say, Lövkvist in la Maglia Rosa after tomorrows stage? I know that he has said that he's not riding for the overall, but if he can keep the same pace at the favourites tomorrow, maybe Columbia have to change their minds about his position in the TdF 
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| viking90 |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:06
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G_Larsson wrote:
What do you say, Lövkvist in la Maglia Rosa after tomorrows stage? I know that he has said that he's not riding for the overall, but if he can keep the same pace at the favourites tomorrow, maybe Columbia have to change their minds about his position in the TdF
yeah I like your way of thinking ( and Vacchi )
take the jersey and keep it for a long loooong time |
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:07
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viking90 wrote:
G_Larsson wrote:
What do you say, Lövkvist in la Maglia Rosa after tomorrows stage? I know that he has said that he's not riding for the overall, but if he can keep the same pace at the favourites tomorrow, maybe Columbia have to change their minds about his position in the TdF
yeah I like your way of thinking ( and Vacchi )
take the jersey and keep it for a long loooong time
Yeah, Vacchi, he said that he tried to talk with Thomas about it But he didn't tell us what Thomas answered
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| mrlol |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:08
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Ruben wrote:
Rodriguez is the designated leader for the GC for Caisse...
So yes, it IS stupid. And he already finished 6th in the Vuelta last year. So why couldn't he do better?
As I said, I dont think he's got podium ambitions which Menchov does, plus Cav in the pink jersey. That made them the obvious chasers. There's no point in Rodrigues starting to wasted powers then as well. Those few seconds aren't going to do anything to him(most likely). |
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| Ildabaoth |
Posted on 11-05-2009 19:13
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I can't get Soler's bad luck. Yesterday he wasn't well positioned and he lost time when the peloton splitted. Today he was near the front and he got involved in that stupid crash and, again, he lost time. This is unbelievable. And I don't quite get the critics against him, supposedly because he hasn't done anything after his KOM in the ToF (quite arguably, by the way). The only grand tours he has done after that were last year's Giro and Tour and with his wrist injury there wasn't much he could have done.
At least I hope that, considering his actual position, he will fight hard for the KOM. But I don't like it. It's kind of Virenque's lame tactic of losing time in the very first stages so he could then pick up the mountain points. Fortunately, in this case it isn't voluntary.
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