I just realized something. Remember how we all laughed at the Hagen fan boys when they said that he could he finish in a top 10 or podium in a Grand Tour? Well, now that he's with Sky...
I´m also really impressed by performance of Ian Stannard in Poland yesterday. He spent all day in break, survived all hard climbs together with Kreuziger and Huzarski. Just before being caught, he switched into full throttle mode helping Henao to jump out from bunch. Then he was finally caught. After several km´s was Henao caught and Stannard found himself in front of P. with nice gap again, spent some time in time-trial mode and eventually being caught about 3km to go. What a performance!!!
PS. final part of stage was much more entertaining than whole Tour
beagle wrote:
I´m also really impressed by performance of Ian Stannard in Poland yesterday. He spent all day in break, survived all hard climbs together with Kreuziger and Huzarski. Just before being caught, he switched into full throttle mode helping Henao to jump out from bunch. Then he was finally caught. After several km´s was Henao caught and Stannard found himself in front of P. with nice gap again, spent some time in time-trial mode and eventually being caught about 3km to go. What a performance!!!
PS. final part of stage was much more entertaining than whole Tour
alexkr00 wrote:
I just realized something. Remember how we all laughed at the Hagen fan boys when they said that he could he finish in a top 10 or podium in a Grand Tour? Well, now that he's with Sky...
To be fair, most of those fanboys were Golberger
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Simply releasing numbers to the masses is dangerous. They will look at individual numbers in isolation and never truly understand what they are seeing. The human body is extremely complex and is affected by so many factors. Yes, at a basic level we might expect to see haematocrit drop during a grand tour, but factors like dehydration can artificially increase it.
Ah, one of Pantani's excuses for having a haematocrit over 60% - dehydration
alexkr00 wrote:
I just realized something. Remember how we all laughed at the Hagen fan boys when they said that he could he finish in a top 10 or podium in a Grand Tour? Well, now that he's with Sky...
To be fair, most of those fanboys were Golberger
Thanks , edit: my name is Goldberger I know you like being picky Edited by Goldberger on 16-07-2012 21:01
alexkr00 wrote:
I just realized something. Remember how we all laughed at the Hagen fan boys when they said that he could he finish in a top 10 or podium in a Grand Tour? Well, now that he's with Sky...
To be fair, most of those fanboys were Golberger
Thanks , edit: my name is Goldberger I know you like being picky
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Froome just stated that he still has the diagnose "snails-disease" which is what it's called in danish. Dont know what it's called in english. Either way he says he couldnt touch his bike in 3 months because of the extreme hard treatment. The disease can actually be deadly, so its some serious stuff he has in his body. He says he still being holded a bit back because of this disease......
Ybodonk wrote:
Froome just stated that he still has the diagnose "snails-disease" which is what it's called in danish. Dont know what it's called in english. Either way he says he couldnt touch his bike in 3 months because of the extreme hard treatment. The disease can actually be deadly, so its some serious stuff he has in his body. He says he still being holded a bit back because of this disease......
Wonder how far he will get then ?
Ummm... what is he trying to do? He's dropping the best climbers in the world bar Conta and Schleck and says he's holding back?
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Well i dont know, he says that the disease really is ruining his training for long periods. The reason for this is that the treatment kills everything in his system.
So if he gets 100 percent cured, then nothing would bother him or ruining his training, then he really can try to reach his full potential.
I dont see him ever drop Contador og Schleck, but lets see.
When he was riding for Barloworld, they thought he had kissing disease (thats the name in danish, again dunno know the diagnose in english), so the treatment was wrong for 2years which is why he couldnt make any results. Then SKy found the correct diagnose which was this "snails disease" and the treatment is working, but also making him unable to train for long periods.. Quiet interesting.
Kissing disease is called mononucleosis, and that slows you down, which might explain the "snail disease" translation.
Still I thought it was something more exotic he had, unless he's gotten a mono too, as a mononucleosis normally cures in a couple of weeks once it's been diagnosed.
Edited by Aquarius on 17-07-2012 18:48
Perhaps he's trying to insert into our minds the idea that he has potential to be the new Eddy Merckx so we won't get so much surprised when he wins 11 GTs in the following years
lluuiiggii wrote:
Perhaps he's trying to insert into our minds the idea that he has potential to be the new Eddy Merckx so we won't get so much surprised when he wins 11 GTs in the following years
At the rate he's progressing, for a 2nd year pro 22 years old, that might not take us further than Giro 2016.
lluuiiggii wrote:
Perhaps he's trying to insert into our minds the idea that he has potential to be the new Eddy Merckx so we won't get so much surprised when he wins 11 GTs in the following years
At the rate he's progressing, for a 2nd year pro 22 years old, that might not take us further than Giro 2016.
Aquarius wrote:
Kissing disease is called mononucleosis, and that slows you down, which might explain the "snail disease" translation.
Still I thought it was something more exotic he had, unless he's gotten a mono too, as a mononucleosis normally cures in a couple of weeks once it's been diagnosed.
I am 100% certain Froome doesn't have mononucleosis. However, last spring and this spring as well he had active bilharzia parasites in his system which he had cured just in around april/may time.
I know you like being picky 
