SELLA

frenchfighter

Since coming back he has been at the forefront of the races and placing well. He has been riding really aggressively and entertainly.

He has just won stage 3 of Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali like this:
-He and a few others bridged up to a small break making a lead group of 21 riders about 30kms from the finish.
-On the 2nd ascent of the finishing circuit Sella bridged to two riders, one got dropped so the two continued with 16km to ride.
-On the final ascent he attacked the other rider and took a solo win.

Class ride, pure attacking spirit right there.

I am guessing that most of you think he is still 'flying high'.

calvjones

Gosh no. I'd bet my house he's as clean as a whistle.

I mean, once you're caught doping, you'd learn your lesson, no?






:roll:

andyp

When a team of climbers win a pan flat TTT (stage 1b won by Androni Giacattoli) what's your initial reaction?

frenchfighter

See Classica Sarda video. He came 2nd after going for the win solo for maybe 5kms or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQ9DdTGA9U

blazing_saddles

andyp wrote:

When a team of climbers win a pan flat TTT (stage 1b won by Androni Giacattoli) what's your initial reaction?

Exactly what I thought when I watched it the other night.
A team of midgets winning a TTT? WTF?

Unlike FF, I've had the opportunity to follow Sella's career throughout.
After a couple of quiet seasons riding under the radar by finishing races between 8th-15th. This season, he's flying high again.

Clearly, he's back on the high octane. For Sella read Sinkewitz.

frenchfighter

Ah Blazing. You don't even know about the best Stage racer's palmares.

You mean when he was with Carmi. He didn't ride many races and not big ones. His placings weren't amazing but weren't bad. He is going very strong this year after changing teams. Maybe, maybe, who knows.

blazing_saddles

frenchfighter wrote:

Ah Blazing. You don't even know about the best Stage racer's palmares.

You mean when he was with Carmi. He didn't ride many races and not big ones. His placings weren't amazing but weren't bad. He is going very strong this year after changing teams. Maybe, maybe, who knows.

Lightweight.
Eddy Merckx has nothing to do with Saucy Sella.

shinyhelmut

Personally when a rider comes back from a ban just as good as before, or even better, then that rings alarm bells for me, and time after time my instincts have been proved right.

Pokerface

ShinyHelmut wrote:

Personally when a rider comes back from a ban just as good as before, or even better, then that rings alarm bells for me, and time after time my instincts have been proved right.

If they come back and are indeed clean - and are better or as good as before they went away, makes you wonder why they were on the juice in the first place, huh?

Bakunin

Sella -- filled to the brim with grim.

Kléber

FF, you're trying to provoke a reaction. Me, I'm more inclined to side with Italian pro Marco Pinotti who gave words of caution to the press earlier this week, expressing the same caution as forum members when a busted rider comes back as strong as they were when they were heavy on the hot sauce.

wicked

Kléber wrote:

FF, you're trying to provoke a reaction. Me, I'm more inclined to side with Italian pro Marco Pinotti who gave words of caution to the press earlier this week, expressing the same caution as forum members when a busted rider comes back as strong as they were when they were heavy on the hot sauce.

Correct. He is getting more desperate (and ridiculous).

deejay

Vinokourov-DiLuca-Sella, are you kidding me.

No grovelling in the bunch but straight back, Wham.
First class winners, they make me Puke. :shock:

dougzz

A cynic might say that FF makes these clearly baited posts simply to sit back and enjoy the reaction he knows they'll produce. But he wouldn't do that would he?

RichN95.

dougzz wrote:

A cynic might say that FF makes these clearly baited posts simply to sit back and enjoy the reaction he knows they'll produce. But he wouldn't do that would he?

That's the conclusion I've come to. No-one can actually be that pompous and blind to doping.

I don't think he started out as a wind-up, but he's grown into the job.

frenchfighter

Blazing Saddles wrote:

andyp wrote:

When a team of climbers win a pan flat TTT (stage 1b won by Androni Giacattoli) what's your initial reaction?

Exactly what I thought when I watched it the other night.
A team of midgets winning a TTT? WTF?

Have you guys checked the results of the ITT? No AG in top17 riders.

Whoever stole Visconti's beautiful bike should give it back.

dennisn

dougzz wrote:

A cynic might say that FF makes these clearly baited posts simply to sit back and enjoy the reaction he knows they'll produce. But he wouldn't do that would he?

Well put. I think he's definately in the running for the overall title of "Best Troll Ever". I've got to hand it to him, he's one hell of a Pied Piper and has whole bunches of people following him.