Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián. **Spoilers **

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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Brilliant from Froome's super domestiques.
    Landa is getting good as a top team player. :D

    All the shots of Landa show him looking delighted at team-mates victories. If he is promised a sole leader role at Sky for Vuelta/Giro next he would be foolish to leave - Sky team look so strong and he would thrive. Far better to play second fiddle to Froome at Sky than second / third to Quintana and perhaps Valverde at Movistar.

    Kwia looks just more and more awesome and a perfectly complete cyclist as the year goes by
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    MY MAN!!!!!!!!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    website is pretty poorly
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Kwia is so strong. Also like that he uploads all his training rides and races to Strava, interesting to see the detail of what he can do.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    This thread is like Scooby doo where the scenery keeps repeating. Something wrong with the forum?
  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    That was almost perfect by Sky. Superb win. Although I preferred when they were crap at one day races. Gave something to laugh at.

    And the forum is broken, or at least was 15 minutes ago.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    This thread is like Scooby doo where the scenery keeps repeating. Something wrong with the forum?



    If it hadn't been for those pesky kids...
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    KWIATO!!!!!

    Landa too was fantabulous
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,935
    Textbook from Sky.
    Kwia deserves that after his awesome efforts at the Tour - he's some rider.

    Landa would be mad to leave Sky - he'll be behind Quintana and Valverde at Movistar whereas at Sky he can be a leader at one GT and superdom at others - afterall Geraint is almost guaranteed to have a crash putting him out of GC contention.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    Textbook from Sky.
    Kwia deserves that after his awesome efforts at the Tour - he's some rider.

    Landa would be mad to leave Sky - he'll be behind Quintana and Valverde at Movistar whereas at Sky he can be a leader at one GT and superdom at others - afterall Geraint is almost guaranteed to have a crash putting him out of GC contention.

    Or else be struck by lightening.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    If Landa goes to Movistar surely he will be the main man. Spanish rider on a Spanish team.

    Why would they persist with Quintana? They know he can't beat Froome.
  • type:epyt
    type:epyt Posts: 766
    Had to record the race but after checking the result watched the last 20km ... Pretty much everything you'd want in a race, including a winner who had to wait a week or so to be rewarded (once more) for what is clearly the form rider of the season ...

    Tom D looking decent for the Vuelta ...
    Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    If Landa stays, is there a role for Thomas, who's looking increasing like a jack of all trades?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    This Kwiatkowski kid is building an exceptional high quality palmares.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    TailWindHome wrote:
    If Landa stays, is there a role for Thomas, who's looking increasing like a jack of all trades?

    Cobbles.
    _
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,006
    Just watched this - Really enjoyed the route and race. Kwiatkowski is the business.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    Just spent six hours getting from Bayonne to Burgos by car and now I know why, didn't know this race was one, coupled with all the toll booths that now propergate the Basque country.

    Basically they charge you a loaf of money to sit in queues of their making!!
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    type:epyt wrote:
    Tom D looking decent for the Vuelta ...

    Not riding it, unfortunately
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,158
    Kwiatkowski's last five wins (excluding nationals)

    San Sebastian (2017)
    Milan-San Remo (2017)
    Strade Bianche (2017)
    E3 Harelbeke (2016)
    Amstel Gold (2015)

    It's A list races or nothing with him
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    If Landa stays, is there a role for Thomas, who's looking increasing like a jack of all trades?

    Cobbles.



    This. Very much this.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,649
    RichN95 wrote:
    Kwiatkowski's last five wins (excluding nationals)

    San Sebastian (2017)
    Milan-San Remo (2017)
    Strade Bianche (2017)
    E3 Harelbeke (2016)
    Amstel Gold (2015)

    It's A list races or nothing with him

    Where's Iain's chippers list? I'm sure San Sebastian isn't A-List
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,642
    I thought anything calling itself a classic couldn't be one.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    If Landa stays, is there a role for Thomas, who's looking increasing like a jack of all trades?

    Cobbles.



    This. Very much this.

    Wishful thinking, his position when crashing out of Grand Tours probably gives him and the management enough confidence that if only he can finish a race he can contend. I'd much rather see he back at the Classics though.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,868
    smithy21 wrote:
    If Landa goes to Movistar surely he will be the main man. Spanish rider on a Spanish team.

    Why would they persist with Quintana? They know he can't beat Froome.

    beat froome at the Vuelta?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm

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