Cancellara on Croix de Fer
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Well, he's a power rider doing a power thing!
He's given it his all for a few km and will now ride slowly back home, the whippet like climbers will climb the mountain quiker overall than Cancellara who will have given it absolutely everythingYou live and learn. At any rate, you live0 -
Perhaps because he did the damage on the easy part, at 2 to 5%. As soon as the hard bit came, he went out the back.0
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He didn't actually drop that many people. The bunch was still 40-50 strong when he peeled off.
The only people he put in trouble were the sprinters, the domestiques and the guys like Nibali and Cunego who were already in trouble for varying reasons.0 -
Or of course there's the anwer that I think the OP wants...Cancellara is on super duper EPO version 6.9 which not only increases blood's ability to carry oxygen...but also reduces the effect of gravity on the body.
Seriously though the part of the climb which Cancellara was pulling on would have suited the power riders, and by whippet like climber, do you mean someone like Cunego? Who is to be frank, useless this year!You live and learn. At any rate, you live0 -
Yeah, it was the easier section and he was basically time trialing for that distance and then he's gonna be dropped BIG time afterwards.0
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Except he wasn't dropped big time and is back with them...Rich0
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He's over 12 minutes down at the top of L'Alp, so question answered?Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0
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The only question worth asking is whether the controls are sophisticated enough to detect whatever he's on. I doubt it.0
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Cancellara did what Riis told him to - help to keep the pace high all day so that Evans wouldn't be able to chase Sastre. He's just a domestique now - it was OK for him to wreck himself for the rest of the race to help Sastre's attack.<hr>
<h6>What\'s the point of going out? We\'re just going to end up back here anyway</h6>0 -
Peakraider wrote:The only question worth asking is whether the controls are sophisticated enough to detect whatever he's on. I doubt it.
Well whatever CSC are on, it's evidently not as effective as what Ricco was on.
Hmmm...perhaps it's nothingYou live and learn. At any rate, you live0 -
Oscar Freire held on for quite awhile too,suggesting the pace wasn't that high.
Cancellara was 22-13 down and voigt 28-020 -
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That is called riding for the team, aka killing yourself so your teammate lives. If you can only think of doping while watching that, I suggest you try a nifty little activity. It's called bike racing. You'd learn a bunch.0 -
drenkrom wrote::roll:
That is called riding for the team, aka killing yourself so your teammate lives. If you can only think of doping while watching that, I suggest you try a nifty little activity. It's called bike racing. You'd learn a bunch.
The Ostrich has spoken.0 -
It's a sad fact, that whoever does a good ride, will be subject to speculation along the lines of "What's he on then"?Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0
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on the positive side, Sastre looked to get up Alpe d' in 40.5 - 41 minutes this afternoon. Good bit slower than Marco (and one or two other thicker-set riders). so there is reason to hope...0
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doh!
just seen the 'set your stopwatch at the foot of Alpe d' ' thread.
think S. was slower than 39 though. The climb was 10 m less this year apparently.
(not that that would take 1 min)
(well possibly if it was me)0
