La Vuelta'17 **SPOILERS** S.3 Prades Conflent Canigó / Andorra la Vella
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Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
Call the rozzers, that was a proper mugging.0 -
'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP0
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WTF were Chaves, Bardet and Aru playing at? A chance to put a good gap into some GC rivals but they just wanted to sit on Froome and let Nibali back in!0
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RichN95 wrote:
Skyimatfaal wrote:1. FROOME C. SKY 08h 53' 44''
2. DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO D. QST 00' 02''
3. ROCHE N. BMC 00' 02''
4. VAN GARDEREN T. BMC 00' 02''
5. NIBALI V. TBM 00' 10''
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Ex Sky
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Brailsford tried to buy Nibali a couple of times. I just. Any put that in a snappy way.0 -
Pross wrote:WTF were Chaves, Bardet and Aru playing at? A chance to put a good gap into some GC rivals but they just wanted to sit on Froome and let Nibali back in!
Weren't people whinging about people working with Froome to do the same in the Tour though?
Must admit to being rather amused, however - Nibali really ought to have swept past twirling a dastardly moustache...0 -
Unrelated but Gesink was at the race today.
Still in his corset/split thing after his accident on stage 9 in the Tour.0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Unrelated but Gesink was at the race today.
Still in his corset/split thing after his accident on stage 9 in the Tour.
Gesink needs to get a corset designed for a non-lactating geezer and the cameraman needs to get fukcing soundie...
The latter is the reason we're so often subjected to shiteness on't telly. The sound is poor and the picture is wonky.0 -
Other than that, I look forward to today/tomorrow when everyone will be raving about how Team Sky had the balls to take the race on and smash it so early and draw out the real contenders rather than the PR mincers.
C'mon, that was Fenton Flappy Nads wafting his knackers at everyone and asking if they'd like some. The Stickleback of Messina said, yes please, Mr Froome, if it's not too much trouble.
The big difference between Froome and Nibali is that Froome has always won his GTs because he beat the other contenders: Nibali won because the best contenders got taken out by misfortune or weren't there to start with- the 2nd place rider on GC for the 2014 Tour was flipping Peraud! The 2nd place rider on his 2010 Vuelta was doped Mosquera...
That's the the other thing I look forward to being taken into account, in the interests of balanced punditry.0 -
Nibz gave us #TaxiGate for which I for one will be forever grateful
#TeamNibz0 -
OCDuPalais wrote:Other than that, I look forward to today/tomorrow when everyone will be raving about how Team Sky had the balls to take the race on and smash it so early and draw out the real contenders rather than the PR mincers.
C'mon, that was Fenton Flappy Nads wafting his knackers at everyone and asking if they'd like some. The Stickleback of Messina said, yes please, Mr Froome, if it's not too much trouble.
The big difference between Froome and Nibali is that Froome has always won his GTs because he beat the other contenders: Nibali won because the best contenders got taken out by misfortune or weren't there to start with- the 2nd place rider on GC for the 2014 Tour was flipping Peraud! The 2nd place rider on his 2010 Vuelta was doped Mosquera...
That's the the other thing I look forward to being taken into account, in the interests of balanced punditry.
Yep, I've always felt Nibs is hugely overrated. Especially when people talk about his "descending ability" which really isn't anything to write home about.0 -
Has Wout done much racing since his crash? Maybe needs a bit more racing under his belt.
I for one was looking forward to Bertie's retirement as it would mean no more pistolero celebrations (cynics would argue we have been pretty much guaranteed that since brokenleggate if not before), and lo! Along comes that ruddy shark thing. God, please no! (Good mugging of Fenton and the others though, still not enough.)0 -
Kingstonian wrote:OCDuPalais wrote:Other than that, I look forward to today/tomorrow when everyone will be raving about how Team Sky had the balls to take the race on and smash it so early and draw out the real contenders rather than the PR mincers.
C'mon, that was Fenton Flappy Nads wafting his knackers at everyone and asking if they'd like some. The Stickleback of Messina said, yes please, Mr Froome, if it's not too much trouble.
The big difference between Froome and Nibali is that Froome has always won his GTs because he beat the other contenders: Nibali won because the best contenders got taken out by misfortune or weren't there to start with- the 2nd place rider on GC for the 2014 Tour was flipping Peraud! The 2nd place rider on his 2010 Vuelta was doped Mosquera...
That's the the other thing I look forward to being taken into account, in the interests of balanced punditry.
Yep, I've always felt Nibs is hugely overrated. Especially when people talk about his "descending ability" which really isn't anything to write home about.
Isn't the Nibs 'god of descending' thing a Kirbyism? Fenton is better than Nibs at the down bits, Bardet is more than a bit good.0 -
I thought the shark thing was priceless - so tacky and shite. The whole "shark of messina" and calling his dad the wolf and stuff too - Massive pile of cheesy rubbish.yourpaceormine wrote:Has Wout done much racing since his crash? Maybe needs a bit more racing under his belt.
I for one was looking forward to Bertie's retirement as it would mean no more pistolero celebrations (cynics would argue we have been pretty much guaranteed that since brokenleggate if not before), and lo! Along comes that ruddy shark thing. God, please no! (Good mugging of Fenton and the others though, still not enough.)0 -
I think Froome should start doing one too - I reckon a rhino horn would work.0
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yourpaceormine wrote:Kingstonian wrote:OCDuPalais wrote:Other than that, I look forward to today/tomorrow when everyone will be raving about how Team Sky had the balls to take the race on and smash it so early and draw out the real contenders rather than the PR mincers.
C'mon, that was Fenton Flappy Nads wafting his knackers at everyone and asking if they'd like some. The Stickleback of Messina said, yes please, Mr Froome, if it's not too much trouble.
The big difference between Froome and Nibali is that Froome has always won his GTs because he beat the other contenders: Nibali won because the best contenders got taken out by misfortune or weren't there to start with- the 2nd place rider on GC for the 2014 Tour was flipping Peraud! The 2nd place rider on his 2010 Vuelta was doped Mosquera...
That's the the other thing I look forward to being taken into account, in the interests of balanced punditry.
Yep, I've always felt Nibs is hugely overrated. Especially when people talk about his "descending ability" which really isn't anything to write home about.
Isn't the Nibs 'god of descending' thing a Kirbyism? Fenton is better than Nibs at the down bits, Bardet is more than a bit good.
No.
Quick search on here finds a thread exalting Nibali's descending in 2012.0 -
yourpaceormine wrote:Kingstonian wrote:OCDuPalais wrote:Other than that, I look forward to today/tomorrow when everyone will be raving about how Team Sky had the balls to take the race on and smash it so early and draw out the real contenders rather than the PR mincers.
C'mon, that was Fenton Flappy Nads wafting his knackers at everyone and asking if they'd like some. The Stickleback of Messina said, yes please, Mr Froome, if it's not too much trouble.
The big difference between Froome and Nibali is that Froome has always won his GTs because he beat the other contenders: Nibali won because the best contenders got taken out by misfortune or weren't there to start with- the 2nd place rider on GC for the 2014 Tour was flipping Peraud! The 2nd place rider on his 2010 Vuelta was doped Mosquera...
That's the the other thing I look forward to being taken into account, in the interests of balanced punditry.
Yep, I've always felt Nibs is hugely overrated. Especially when people talk about his "descending ability" which really isn't anything to write home about.
Isn't the Nibs 'god of descending' thing a Kirbyism? Fenton is better than Nibs at the down bits, Bardet is more than a bit good.
I think the Nibs as descending god came about because he was on the same team as Basso, who descends about as well as me (ie terribly)0 -
Frankly, as soon as Nibali is off the bike and talking I quite like him - he is a bit of a sh1t on the bike tho. He did a section on descending for Eurosport during the Giro and it was brilliant. The shark celebration is almost so naff that it is cool - almost but not quite. The teamcar boost was just brilliant dick-dastardly scheming - he deserved to get chucked but it was gobsmacking to watch0
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imatfaal wrote:Frankly, as soon as Nibali is off the bike and talking I quite like him - he is a bit of a sh1t on the bike tho. He did a section on descending for Eurosport during the Giro and it was brilliant. The shark celebration is almost so naff that it is cool - almost but not quite. The teamcar boost was just brilliant dick-dastardly scheming - he deserved to get chucked but it was gobsmacking to watch
It really is one of my favourite moments in all my time watching bike races0 -
That shark thing was what we used to do in the university bar when one of our comrades was out "sharking" a young lady to embarass them from across the room. Brought back memories :-)2015 Canyon Nerve AL 6.0 (son #1's)
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OCDuPalais wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:Unrelated but Gesink was at the race today.
Still in his corset/split thing after his accident on stage 9 in the Tour.
Gesink needs to get a corset designed for a non-lactating geezer
I was instantly reminded of something I saw a while ago, where someone imagined what male superheroes would look like if they were drawn (and costumed) in the same way as female ones...0 -
^^ missed this about Gesink. What happened? Looks more than a tad uncomfortable0
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johnboy183 wrote:^^ missed this about Gesink. What happened? Looks more than a tad uncomfortable
Broke his back on stage 9 in TdF.
Uphill..
Guy is one of the most unlucky in the peloton.0 -
Ouch!0
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I think Nibs descending is more about taking risks than actual skill. The big surprise for me yesterday was he caught Froome but Pozzovivo managed to stay with him.0
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Pross wrote:I think Nibs descending is more about taking risks than actual skill. The big surprise for me yesterday was he caught Froome but Pozzovivo managed to stay with him.
That marries up with the view in the peloton referred to by the likes of the Cycling Podcast, that Nibz is an idiot on the descents0 -
bobmcstuff wrote:The whole "shark of messina"
I was in Messina recently and they had a large outside exhibition of cycling photos, lots of famous faces, none of Nibz.
Correlation is not causation.0
