CycleSport front cover this month

gattocattivo
gattocattivo Posts: 500
edited May 2010 in Pro race
My copy of Cycle Sport has just arrived with:
Christian Vande Velde
America's No.1 Tour Contender?
emblazoned on the front. Terrible timing.

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  • Rodrego Hernandez
    Rodrego Hernandez Posts: 1,436
    It won't beat their Tour preview issue that hit the shelves at roughly the same time that Puerto kicked of involving about 5 out of 6 riders on the cover!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Then there was the Floyd Tour de France winner cover, or was that Cycling Weekly? They have to quickly print loads of "Tour Scandal" stickers to put on the front of them IIRC.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Pro Cycling's July and August 2006 Issues too

    "Basso Vs. Ullrich: The battle that really matters this July!"

    Followed by "It's Floyd!"
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    Followed by "It's Floyd!"

    Actually that's cleverly worded — allows for various possibilities.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interesting quote from the article:

    "I have the capacity to withstand beating myself up a lot, really bad - I can sustain a really high workload for a long time. I produce a lot of lactate, but my body is really good at eating it all up. I have a bigger engine than almost everybody in the whole peloton. It's just that my chassis is all screwed up."

    Big words from him. Funny that the self-proclaimed biggest engine hasn't the results I would have thought someone with this description would have.

    Tests, potential mean nothing - the road and the race results count.

    I hope he recovers well and sets these A-grade qualities to work and gets top 5.

    Another thing he says, talking of Lance's criticism of his 08 Tour 4th:
    "I was really pissed. I told him that right away. He apologised right away. That's all I asked for."

    :lol:
    Contador is the Greatest
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Big words from him. Funny that the self-proclaimed biggest engine hasn't the results I would have thought someone with this description would have.

    Perhaps it's because other cars are putting special fuel in their tanks.

    But we already know you don't care about that...
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    gattocattivo wrote:
    My copy of Cycle Sport has just arrived with:
    Christian Vande Velde
    America's No.1 Tour Contender?
    emblazoned on the front. Terrible timing.

    Scuse my ignorance, but why is it terrible timing? :shock:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I presume the OP was referring to CVV crashing out of the Giro.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    ... which seriously messes with his Tour prep.
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I presume the OP was referring to CVV crashing out of the Giro.

    Ah right, that sucks for him. What's the damage?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Broken collarbone I think which has been seen to and now he is at home recovering.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Broken collarbone I think which has been seen to and now he is at home recovering.

    He's already training on the turbo.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    iainf72 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Broken collarbone I think which has been seen to and now he is at home recovering.

    He's already training on the turbo.

    "You have to be pretty f***ing mean to get back on your bike with a broken back" - CVV :)
    Contador is the Greatest

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