Alberto Contador is the Greatest

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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    ddraver wrote:
    Just coz - https://twitter.com/robhatchtv/status/8 ... 8245872641

    Hat.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    ddraver wrote:
    Just coz - https://twitter.com/robhatchtv/status/8 ... 8245872641

    Rob Haitch - is he a Palace fan?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Ouch.
    Oleg Tinkoff channeling his inner Trump again:-

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/lates ... ing-320877
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    He's a classy individual that Oleg. :roll:
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Shut it, Tinki troll
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Stay classy, Oleg
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Somewhere in the City of London a trader is frantically trying to find a hitman prepared to bump off a wannabe oligarch!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Pross wrote:
    Somewhere in the City of London a trader is frantically trying to find a hitman prepared to bump off a wannabe oligarch!

    With Polonium-210.

    “What a Champion @petosagan Peter Sagan ! He just won #MilanSanremo 300km race?????!” Tinkov wrote.

    I guess Kwiatowski's win was just fake news. Remind you of anyone?
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    ContadorLandaStage13-800x530.jpg
    “Alberto was animating me to go full-gas,” Landa said. “He told me, ‘Let’s do something big! Let’s pull until we’re dead.’"
    http://www.velonews.com/2017/07/tour-de ... ink_443790

    Panache!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    True Champ ride today. Good lad.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I've never particularly liked him, but I would like for him to have one more big stage win before he retires.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Contador's whole demeanour and body language on the bike has for a while, smacked of someone who know's he hasn't got another GT in him.
    Sad really. End of an era.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Pinno wrote:
    Contador's whole demeanour and body language on the bike has for a while, smacked of someone who know's he hasn't got another GT in him.
    Sad really. End of an era.
    I don't know. I quite admire him raging against the dying of the light.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    I've never particularly warmed to him either (actually, I suspect what I've never warmed to is his cheerleaders) but quite enjoyed watching him today. Also enjoyed his interivew afterwards when (I think Rendell, possibly Friebe) asked him if he had GC ambitions. "No! Stages!"
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    edited July 2017
    Yeah, I thought that was great.

    I wonder what Landa will do next year? hot property now. Under Contadors wing?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    RichN95 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Contador's whole demeanour and body language on the bike has for a while, smacked of someone who know's he hasn't got another GT in him.
    Sad really. End of an era.
    I don't know. I quite admire him raging against the dying of the light.

    He showed guts and determination in Paris Nice. It was only by virtue of the fact that Henao was in a bigger group that Contador lost. No other reason.
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Other than Henao having built up a big enough lead in the previous stages?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    jam1e wrote:
    Other than Henao having built up a big enough lead in the previous stages?

    There is that but Contador went hell for leather a long way out and was seconds from pinching it. No one did him any favours that day.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    jam1e wrote:
    Other than Henao having built up a big enough lead in the previous stages?
    That was mostly down to Luke Rowe, though. A domestique masterclass.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Only Contador would turn round to a breakaway companion and say 'let's go full gas and rip this race apart" for no good reason but to rip the race apart.
    _
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Maybe he should have done a deal with his breakaway companion for the stage win time bonus.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    FocusZing wrote:
    http://www.velonews.com/2017/07/tour-de-france/contador-landa-spains-past-future-link_443790

    Panache!
    Is panache the french word for crashing? :wink:
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    I think it's that time to leave you all to it.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Only Contador would turn round to a breakaway companion and say 'let's go full gas and rip this race apart" for no good reason but to rip the race apart.

    Today he didn't do that, the purpose was to try get a stage win as per his stated intentions. There's nothing romantic about it.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Only Contador would turn round to a breakaway companion and say 'let's go full gas and rip this race apart" for no good reason but to rip the race apart.

    Not sure that's strictly true - there have always been riders who fancy throwing a few handgrenades. Contador's in the lucky position of usually having the legs to do so though.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    FocusZing wrote:
    I think it's that time to leave you all to it.

    What yer sayin' like?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Alright fun sponge.
    _
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Alright fun sponge.

    I hope you're referring to that FZ bloke.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    FocusZing wrote:
    ContadorLandaStage13-800x530.jpg
    “Alberto was animating me to go full-gas,” Landa said. “He told me, ‘Let’s do something big! Let’s pull until we’re dead.’"
    http://www.velonews.com/2017/07/tour-de ... ink_443790

    Panache!

    In that photograph, interesting bidon he's got on the seat tube ???
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    ben@31 wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    ContadorLandaStage13-800x530.jpg
    “Alberto was animating me to go full-gas,” Landa said. “He told me, ‘Let’s do something big! Let’s pull until we’re dead.’"
    http://www.velonews.com/2017/07/tour-de ... ink_443790

    Panache!

    In that photograph, interesting bidon he's got on the seat tube ???


    It's just a cut off bottle for food.
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