Paris - Nice 2014 *Spoilers*

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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    All Nibali needed here was a bit of wet roads.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    Nibali clearly stung into action, by yesterday's harsh words of an irate fan.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    edited March 2014
    Betancur goes, Fuglsang and Bob Jungels form 3.

    10s with 4,2km
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Alléz Birdsong!!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    ThomThom wrote:
    Alléz Birdsong!!

    He's no Bak.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited March 2014
    Very few are.

    But he has - together with Kiryienka - the best style on a bike in the peloton.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    OPQS take up the chase.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    ThomThom wrote:
    Very few are.

    But he has - together with Kiryienka - the best style on a bike in the peloton.

    Very smooth, agreed.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited March 2014
    Jakob couldn't win a sprint if his life depended on it...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Betancur takes it, Birdsong too long at the front.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    ThomThom wrote:
    Jakob couldn't win a sprint if his life depended on it...

    Not if he rides it like that.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Where you going Carlos?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    I do like it when I get a PTP win having looked at completely the wrong stage profile.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    Betancur 2 Degenkolb 1. :D

    Top 3: No change
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    edited March 2014
    Reccomend you all have a look at T-A btw...(deliberatly trying not to give anything away)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • MartinGT
    MartinGT Posts: 475
    He was threatening to go yesterday. Looked good.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Top 10 within 19 seconds.
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  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    When Nib's attacked on the descent and Thomas got on his back wheel, They both went round a tight corner and Thomas lost a place ...Nibali the master at descending

    My man Chavenel was better.
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Nibs always looks on the ragged edge descending ... Not a wheel I'd choose to follow too close ...
  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    It's entertaining stuff though.

    Nib's and Chav gave us a bit of excitement.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Nibs has ave ry small hole to Betancur & Thomas at the front of a strung out descending peloton.


    'scuse me?

    :wink:
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    I'm all for the excitement Nibali's descending brings. But has he ever been rewarded for the amount of risk he takes? His aggressive style may have cost him a rainbow jersey, in Italy, and one day his luck will run out on another GT spill.

    It's a predictable trademark move. Odd he hasn't binned it.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Exciting final 50ks or so. Shame on the 'climbers' though...amount of sprinters, albeit not pure sprinters, is telling.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    So Betancur was pretty overweight coming into this year. He has won twice already. Not bad for a fat man. Impressive.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    It's very entertaining for a much maligned parcours
  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'm all for the excitement Nibali's descending brings. But has he ever been rewarded for the amount of risk he takes? His aggressive style may have cost him a rainbow jersey, in Italy, and one day his luck will run out on another GT spill.

    It's a predictable trademark move. Odd he hasn't binned it.

    What was the GT thingy he won last year :wink: .I recall him riding pretty fast downhill and dropping Wiggo :lol:

    Rememeber when the Schleck bro's lost a lot of time in the tour because they could not descend in the wet.

    It can do damage and win a big race.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    rayjay wrote:
    What was the GT thingy he won last year :wink: .I recall him riding pretty fast downhill and dropping Wiggo :lol:

    Rememeber when the Schleck bro's lost a lot of time in the tour because they could not descend in the wet.

    It can do damage and win a big race.

    Didn't Nibali slide off on the same stage as Wiggins? Fortunately he had a soft landing. Hell of a risky way to take on a GT when you can smoke the peloton uphill - as he did while winning that Giro thingy.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Agree with Macca - I do genuinely wonder if its said by any other cycling commentator or if it's just something Phil/Paul/Carlton have just sort of made up and perpetuated...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    rayjay wrote:
    What was the GT thingy he won last year :wink: .I recall him riding pretty fast downhill and dropping Wiggo :lol:

    Rememeber when the Schleck bro's lost a lot of time in the tour because they could not descend in the wet.

    It can do damage and win a big race.
    That was more a case of those riders losing time rather than Nibali gaining it. Plenty of riders took time out of them. NIbali was far from unique.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Nibali is a mad descender - but his crash rate is pretty high

    I actually think someone like Samu is a great descender

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