Vuelta stage 21 ***spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,578
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    I beat you in the GC, I sat on your wheel and beat you in 2 stages and now I'm taking your fiancee :twisted:
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Pross wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    I beat you in the GC, I sat on your wheel and beat you in 2 stages and now I'm taking your fiancee :twisted:

    Is Contador doing the Sprinkler?!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,813
    Pross wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    I beat you in the GC, I sat on your wheel and beat you in 2 stages and now I'm taking your fiancee :twisted:


    Meh.
    Megan got a much better photo with Marcel Kittel, on the Tumble, last Tuesday. :wink:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,648
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Cound with the greatest stage race rider of his generation. Trying to get some tips so Froome can win his second GT (he only has one to Contador's 8 and Nibali's 3).

    Repeat after me:
    'Alberto Contador has only won six Grand Tours.'

    The word "only" in that sentence is a bit redundant. Six is still kind of OK, really
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
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    Not really sure what to say about this photo...
  • Brassknocker
    Brassknocker Posts: 209
    greasedscotsman wrote:
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    Not really sure what to say about this photo...


    ..that photo looks like it could appear in a feature (corner) in Viz.

    A great Vuelta anyway!
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Cound with the greatest stage race rider of his generation. Trying to get some tips so Froome can win his second GT (he only has one to Contador's 8 and Nibali's 3).

    Repeat after me:
    'Alberto Contador has only won six Grand Tours.'

    The word "only" in that sentence is a bit redundant. Six is still kind of OK, really

    Agreed, for me he definitely is the best GT rider of his generation and 6 is brilliant. It's just to remind certain people that he hasn't won 8.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    greasedscotsman wrote:
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    Not really sure what to say about this photo...

    Is that Riis photobombing in the corner?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    greasedscotsman wrote:
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    Not really sure what to say about this photo...


    It looks like he's midway placing a Jelly Mould on the top of the gold bloke's head
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    Cound with the greatest stage race rider of his generation. Trying to get some tips so Froome can win his second GT (he only has one to Contador's 8 and Nibali's 3).

    He's definitely the campest stage race rider of his generation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    agree with all the comments about the pointlessness of such a short TT as a final stage but also - what about the set-up of the finish!?
    There was no decent run-off after the finish line (immediately after it the road bent round to the riders' left, or the barriers did) so that with the wet and the cobbles / flagstones the riders were on the brakes for the last 50-100m!
    Now I'm no meteorologist, but I believe rain is not unheard-of in Santiago DC.
    And I'm no race organiser, but making a TT so 'technical' that riders are forced onto the brakes for the closing straight seems a little counter-intuitive.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,578
    KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:
    agree with all the comments about the pointlessness of such a short TT as a final stage but also - what about the set-up of the finish!?
    There was no decent run-off after the finish line (immediately after it the road bent round to the riders' left, or the barriers did) so that with the wet and the cobbles / flagstones the riders were on the brakes for the last 50-100m!
    Now I'm no meteorologist, but I believe rain is not unheard-of in Santiago DC.
    And I'm no race organiser, but making a TT so 'technical' that riders are forced onto the brakes for the closing straight seems a little counter-intuitive.

    I think the main reason they were rolling the last few minutes was due to the final time being taken prior to what should have been the last corner. It took a while to realise this (and Carlton only noticed on the final couple of riders)!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    Pross wrote:
    I think the main reason they were rolling the last few minutes was due to the final time being taken prior to what should have been the last corner. It took a while to realise this (and Carlton only noticed on the final couple of riders)!

    ah right ok! - but still, the point stands: if they needed to do that then it was an awful / inappropriate course set-up.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    In his hometown of Pinto. People's favourite. Record book's favourite.
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Record book's favourite.

    *sigh*
    The Record Book wrote:
    1. Eddy Merckx = 11 GTs
    2. Bernard Hinault = 10
    3. Jacques Anquetil = 8
    4. Fausti Coppi = 7
    4. Miguel Indurain = 7
    6. Alberto Contador = 6

    He's good, but not that good yet.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    So only two cyclist's in the entire history of cycling that have more GT wins then him. Pretty f*ucking good bike rider I would say.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    5. Good, but not really "the record book's favourite".
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    frenchfighter wrote:
    So only two cyclist's in the entire history of cycling that have more GT wins then him. Pretty f*ucking good bike rider I would say.
    And only one rider in the history of cycling has been stripped of more GTs. So he's nearer to the record book on that count.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,633
    RichN95 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    So only two cyclist's in the entire history of cycling that have more GT wins then him. Pretty f*ucking good bike rider I would say.
    And only one rider in the history of cycling has been stripped of more GTs. So he's nearer to the record book on that count.

    But if the same standards of testing and GT stripping had been applied throughout the history of cycling, he would be an also ran. Still, Lance would take some beating.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Indeed, everyone on that list was doped apart from Hinault. I would say Merckx only did small things.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    frenchfighter wrote:
    In his hometown of Pinto. People's favourite. Record book's favourite.
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    He gets around a bit does Alberto:
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