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That's a nice team.Contador is the Greatest0
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I reckon Quintana will outshine Froome on this one, due to the injuries and lack of racing Froome has undergone in the last few months. Saying that, what has Quintana done sine his Giro victory?Rose X-Lite CRS 3100
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He won Burgos this week. But it didn't look like much of a field that he beat.slap_my_bass_up wrote:I reckon Quintana will outshine Froome on this one, due to the injuries and lack of racing Froome has undergone in the last few months. Saying that, what has Quintana done sine his Giro victory?Twitter: @RichN950 -
Quintana will rip Froome in the mountains dont you worry that. He has more natural talent than any cyclist since Contador. Froome was riding MTBs at Quintana's age.Contador is the Greatest0
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RichN95 wrote:
He won Burgos this week. But it didn't look like much of a field that he beat.slap_my_bass_up wrote:I reckon Quintana will outshine Froome on this one, due to the injuries and lack of racing Froome has undergone in the last few months. Saying that, what has Quintana done sine his Giro victory?
Yea, Froome will probably do the same as when he won his Tour. Let Quintana attack, ride back up to him, sit on him till he is cooked then sprint away for the mountain top win. Quintanas time will come but not yet.0 -
Not a huge amount of time trialling for Froome either. Around 45km all told, with a team time trial to open things up.0
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"There is no place, however, for Commonwealth Games time trial champion Alex Dowsett. The Englishman had been named on the team’s provisional longlist as a reserve but did not make the final squad."
"Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde will lead Movistar’s bid for a second Grand Tour win of the season after the Spanish team unveiled a strong Vuelta a Espana line-up."
And general manager Eusebio Unzue believes both Valverde and Quintana are capable of challenging overall against a strong field. “It will be the race itself which decides who our leader will be,” he explained. “Probably, no Grand Tour has had a stronger field in recent years – almost all big riders in the WorldTour, all of them confident about their chances of overall success.
“As far as we’re concerned, and with all due caution against such a start list, having. Nairo and Alejandro in our team means we have to start the race with the intention ofcontesting the victory.
“Nairo has spent 70 days without racing, but still brought his professionalism to the fore coming in good shape to the race plus Alejandro is a really important man for us, and I also think he can be in the thick of things GC-wise.
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I'm not too keen on easy anti-Sky rants, but I have to say I dislike this form of presenting teams for races (I think Sky did it first, please correct if wrong) with super-domestiques and normal domestiques nicely arranged behind a team leader. MTN did it for their Vuelta team, and now Movistar too. It suggests there always is one clear designated 'team leader'. IMHO that isn't always the case, or at leats it shouldn't. Bring back total cyclingFocusZing wrote:0 -
Leaders have been wearing numbers ending in 1 for as long as any of us have been watching cycling. This isn't much different really.FJS wrote:It suggests there always is one clear designated 'team leader'. IMHO that isn't always the case, or at leats it shouldn't. Bring back total cyclingTwitter: @RichN950 -
FJS wrote:
I'm not too keen on easy anti-Sky rants, but I have to say I dislike this form of presenting teams for races (I think Sky did it first, please correct if wrong) with super-domestiques and normal domestiques nicely arranged behind a team leader. MTN did it for their Vuelta team, and now Movistar too. It suggests there always is one clear designated 'team leader'. IMHO that isn't always the case, or at leats it shouldn't. Bring back total cyclingFocusZing wrote:
Must be a slow day if this is all you could find to be outraged by today!0 -
True. For some reason those images seem to emphasise the single leadership more. Someone has to wear number 1, and someone number 2, but there's other ways of arranging a team for a photo. It's no big deal, just something I noticed.RichN95 wrote:
Leaders have been wearing numbers ending in 1 for as long as any of us have been watching cycling. This isn't much different really.FJS wrote:It suggests there always is one clear designated 'team leader'. IMHO that isn't always the case, or at leats it shouldn't. Bring back total cycling0 -
That didn't read as outrage, I hope? :roll: Just a comment really.r0bh wrote:FJS wrote:
I'm not too keen on easy anti-Sky rants, but I have to say I dislike this form of presenting teams for races (I think Sky did it first, please correct if wrong) with super-domestiques and normal domestiques nicely arranged behind a team leader. MTN did it for their Vuelta team, and now Movistar too. It suggests there always is one clear designated 'team leader'. IMHO that isn't always the case, or at leats it shouldn't. Bring back total cyclingFocusZing wrote:
Must be a slow day if this is all you could find to be outraged by today!0 -
The TTT is very open this year. Trek and BMC look to have the best teams, Orica not. Sky not perhaps quite as good as Movistar but little in it in such a short race.0
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I'd have put that Sky lineup as being stronger than Movistar in a TTT. There's some real engines in there with Kiri, Suitsou, Knees and Rowe. Froome himself is no slouch or Cataldo. Kennaugh not a great individual TT rider but should be decent in a TTT. Only Nieve seems to be a bit of a weak link (not sure about Deignan).0
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Deignan got quite a good result in the TT of the Tour of Poland, not a cracking field but enough to suggest he shouldn't be a liability.0
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Kennaugh was part of the 4km pursuit squad so you'd imagine he'd be alright in a 9km TTT. I can't see there being big time gaps either way though.0
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As Cav explained a year or so ago, a TTT is less about the "engines" and more about the best way to use them as a team.
Of course, if you got Canc, Martin and Dumoulin alongside Wiggins, Dowsett and Evans you'd have a pretty decent chance0 -
Hadn't realised it was so short. Bit of a waste of time really!0
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How did Contador recover so quickly? I thought he had surgery on his leg?
Did they put him up next to the blood bank in the hospital or something?0 -
Pinot is racing but going there for 'fun'.
OPQS: Uran, Boonen, Tony Martin, Wout Poels, Gianluca Brambilla, Pieter Serry, Martin Velits, Nikolas Maes and Carlos Verona.Contador is the Greatest0 -
So then, what's the deal with Dowsett? Strange that he isn't riding seen as he didn't make the Tour team. Is all not well for him at Movistar?
Also, when did Dan Craven sign for Europcar? He was a domestic pro last I heard.....he went well at the Commonwealth's until that barrier interface mind!0 -
Apparently Dowsett hasn't got a contract with them next season.Tom BB wrote:So then, what's the deal with Dowsett? Strange that he isn't riding seen as he didn't make the Tour team. Is all not well for him at Movistar?
Also, when did Dan Craven sign for Europcar? He was a domestic pro last I heard.....he went well at the Commonwealth's until that barrier interface mind!
As for Craven it was announced in July that he would join them in the August transfer window and would ride the Vuelta. Apparently he brings some sponsorship with him.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Dowsett should get a gig in a smaller team as their TT engine. Movistars team is not really about TT power, though they do of course have the last 2 Spanish TTchamps in their squad.0
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Hmm funny one is Dowsett....obviously has the engine, but hasn't really made a mark as a pro yet.
Hard to see Dan Craven finishing the Vuelta.0 -
frenchfighter wrote:Pinot is racing but going there for 'fun'.
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Goven how things have been for him over the last year and a bit I reckon he deserves a bit of fun.Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy0 -
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