Uphill cheese roll ***SPOILER***
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Top 10
1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
2 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx - Quick-Step
3 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx - Quick-Step
4 Wouter Poels (Ned) Team Sky
5 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert
6 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
7 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-GreenEdge
8 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida
9 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin
10 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre - Merida
What were Paddy Power thinking re. Albasini?0 -
Vino'sGhost wrote:proper racer
He bloody is, you know. Hat.It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0 -
FW: Watch one, watch them all."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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Nice that none of the other favourites missed their chance through being boxed in or badly positioned at foot of climb - they had their chance but Valverde was more than equal to their charge0
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dish_dash wrote:Top 10
1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
2 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx - Quick-Step
3 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx - Quick-Step
4 Wouter Poels (Ned) Team Sky
5 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert
6 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
7 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-GreenEdge
8 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida
9 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin
10 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre - Merida
What were Paddy Power thinking re. Albasini?
They kept their cash!!0 -
Apparently Valverde has won this more times than anyone else. Presumably they'll be renaming the hill after him now?0
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Oh come on... if Cancellara gets a stretch of strade bianche named after him for winning it three times than surely the Mur de Huy should be named after Valverde. He's mastered it.0
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ive no idea why hes not popular, he's aggressive, has panache, and is a canny rider too. I suppose it's because he's spanish0
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What a shame this convicted doper has won.
3 wins for Argentin and Rebbelin and 4 for Valverde. Illustrious company indeed.
And he even got a hug from Erik (I-tried-it-once-and-I-didn't-like-it) Zabel.
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Vino'sGhost wrote:ive no idea why hes not popular, he's aggressive, has panache, and is a canny rider too. I suppose it's because he's spanish
Yes. That's it fer shure. Ole!0 -
Richmond Racer 2 wrote:Vino'sGhost wrote:ive no idea why hes not popular, he's aggressive, has panache, and is a canny rider too. I suppose it's because he's spanish
Yes. That's it fer shure. Ole!
You don't like him because he doesn't speak English!0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Richmond Racer 2 wrote:Vino'sGhost wrote:ive no idea why hes not popular, he's aggressive, has panache, and is a canny rider too. I suppose it's because he's spanish
Yes. That's it fer shure. Ole!
You don't like him because he doesn't speak English!
Meester Fauuulty, I am from Barcelona0 -
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so its because hes a non english speaker. I dont know, i go away and come back and nothing changes.0
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I don't like him because his name starts with a V but doesn't continue with "an". It's wrong. All f those V's should change their name to Vansomethingorother or van Somethingorother. Voigt, Vaughters, Valverde, Vichot. Wrong wrong wrong.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0
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dish_dash wrote:
What were Paddy Power thinking re. Albasini?
Probably something along the lines of "we're quite exposed on This Bunch of Riders, but nobody is backing This Other Lot. Better cut the prices for this bunch and hike them for this other lot."
Presumably Albasini was in This Other LotTeam My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy0 -
More philosophical answer: when you place a bet, you're not betting against the bookies.Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy0
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Vino'sGhost wrote:ive no idea why hes not popular, he's aggressive, has panache, and is a canny rider too. I suppose it's because he's spanish
It's because 90% of his wins come from sucking somebody's wheel until he gets to the sprint. He's gutless and he showed at the Worlds, when he left that mediocre Portuguese rider take the jersey, to avoid working... when he was clearly the fastest of the 4 fugitives.
He's the opposite of Sagan, who everybody love... it doesn't help that he was a Fuentes regular and sneakily tried to get away with it, when all the others had already been bannedleft the forum March 20230 -
Your English is amazingly good, ugo (and you know more British slang than I do), but very occasionally you make a funny word choice. Like fugitives! So apt here.0
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straight from Italian, I guessleft the forum March 20230
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Ugo, what's the Italian perspective on Moscon? Get much press there?
He's put in some excellent performances so far this season, might be booking himself a place on the Giro.
PS - I've heard "escapees" used quite often in English.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
they talked about him on the Gazzetta today... didn't know him before... but I don't follow to the same level you guys do.left the forum March 20230
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Oh I'm pretty casual, compared to some. Especially those on the UK amateur scene who know all the British riders.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0
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Gasp o led in the bunch! Barguil looks comfy
Alaphilippe living up to expectations0 -
Alaphilippe was excellent today
Good man0 -
ugo.santalucia wrote:they talked about him on the Gazzetta today... didn't know him before... but I don't follow to the same level you guys do.
Probably because he fell off, today.
It's other thing guaranteed to get folks Sky talking, you're telling me lies. :P"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Vino'sGhost wrote:so its because hes a non english speaker. I dont know, i go away and come back and nothing changes.
Tch...But then that's solitary confinement for you: so difficult to keep abreast of the whole Jonny Foreigner thing.0