Kittel

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited September 2015 in Pro race
Anyone know what's going on with him? Team deliberately keeping him out of racing? Injured? Lazy? Scared?

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  • daninexile
    daninexile Posts: 45
    I had wondered where he'd disappeared to it seems he was suffering from a virus last month so maybe its a hangover from that.


    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... rus-162230
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    He was quite ill - I believe he's on the mend now and should be back soon
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited April 2015
    Gotcha, that doesn't sound too good.

    They must be very happy that they have got Degenkolb without their main sprinter racking up the wins.

    They are going to struggle to pay enough to keep Degenkolb after his performances this season, and OPQS are going to have to lay out a shedload more than they probably anticipated. A bit like Gavria who came a lot more expensive after they waited then he started beating Cavendish.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    From the man himself

    https://instagram.com/p/1dE2v8jMq6/
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I guess we will see him at the Tour of Turkey next then.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • alanparsons
    alanparsons Posts: 529
    I think he is so impressed with the new sponsor, he has spent most of the early season washing his hair.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    One thing Cookson bought to the table is the English sense of fair play

    He's sidelined Kittel to let everybody else have a go for a bit
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/kitte ... intensity/

    Not very well, nor has he recovered yet.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Where is the other Fella - Cavendish. ??
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Looks like both Cav and Kittel will be at AToC...
  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    I've been wondering where Kittel has been too, seems to have vanished from the face of the Earth for the past two months.

    Maybe he's been hiding on a Siberian training camp like Drago from Rocky 4, chopping trees with his bare hands and getting injected with Adamantium from Wolverine.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    dish_dash wrote:
    Looks like both Cav and Kittel will be at AToC...

    Cav and Boonen are doing Tour of Turkey as well so lets hope Kittel goes there as well, although given the week only break it may be too tough for him.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    deejay wrote:
    Where is the other Fella - Cavendish. ??

    I think i ve just read a Friebos article on that just now - I lost the link though soz, it ll be in one of the usual places
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    ddraver wrote:
    deejay wrote:
    Where is the other Fella - Cavendish. ??

    I think i ve just read a Friebos article on that just now - I lost the link though soz, it ll be in one of the usual places

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/cav ... ights-back
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    In mildly related sprinter news, Cav and Boonen going to Turkey, then Cav goes to AToC as Tommeke goes to the Giro
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Tom's never ridden the Giro before.
    _
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Tom's never ridden the Giro before.

    Is he riding as Uran's superdom?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    @giroditalia · Apr 14
    Giro d'Italia 2015: 43,000 vertical metres to climb.
    It's like climbing Mt. Everest.
    5 times.
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    frenchfighter wrote:
    @giroditalia · Apr 14
    Giro d'Italia 2015: 43,000 vertical metres to climb.
    It's like climbing Mt. Everest.
    5 times.

    Domestiques are like sherpas anyway, all the work none of the glory
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    dish_dash wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Tom's never ridden the Giro before.

    Is he riding as Uran's superdom?

    Needs some GT miles in his legs to be peak for Worlds, but doing Tour & Worlds is too tough to get peak right for Worlds, so Giro it is.
    _
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,608
    frenchfighter wrote:
    @giroditalia · Apr 14
    Giro d'Italia 2015: 43,000 vertical metres to climb.
    It's like climbing Mt. Everest.
    5 times.

    With or without Oxygen?

    Climbing Everest without bottled Oxygen is a gazillion times harder than the hardest bike race. To the end of 2010, only 142 people had achieved this.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    I'm not sure that was to be taken that literally..
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,608
    ThomThom wrote:
    I'm not sure that was to be taken that literally..

    Indeed. But why liken something to climbing Everest 5 times if that's what is meant?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    edited April 2015
    Same height ascent

    Except one could argue that actually a climber would start from Lukla airport and not sea level so actually the cyclists are climbing further and that all climbers are pussys...or as Thom says you could not take it so literally...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Kittel is waiting til next year when Cav becomes his lead-out man.

    Could you imagine the angry little face? ;)
  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    Would Cav ever be anyone's lead-out man?
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Ashbeck wrote:
    Would Cav ever be anyone's lead-out man?
    Would you have asked that about Alessandro Petacchi a few years ago. ??
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    Who would want Cav leading them out he's so low you may as well be on the front for all the shelter you'd get.
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  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    deejay wrote:
    Ashbeck wrote:
    Would Cav ever be anyone's lead-out man?
    Would you have asked that about Alessandro Petacchi a few years ago. ??

    Probably not, but I think Petacchi probably has a different mentality to Cav in that respect.

    Cav strikes me more as the sort of person that if he's not the one winning the sprints, he would rather quit at the top and become a tv pundit. I couldn't see him going beyond his 'winning limit' for another 5 years being the next big things lead-out man, like Petacchi did. I might be wrong, but I just don't think thats in Cavs nature.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    Ashbeck wrote:
    deejay wrote:
    Ashbeck wrote:
    Would Cav ever be anyone's lead-out man?
    Would you have asked that about Alessandro Petacchi a few years ago. ??

    Probably not, but I think Petacchi probably has a different mentality to Cav in that respect.

    Cav strikes me more as the sort of person that if he's not the one winning the sprints, he would rather quit at the top and become a tv pundit. I couldn't see him going beyond his 'winning limit' for another 5 years being the next big things lead-out man, like Petacchi did. I might be wrong, but I just don't think thats in Cavs nature.

    I agree with most of this, but - Cav as a pundit ???

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