ChinookPass
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| 07/18/2014 11:40 AM |
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Nibali looks seriously fit. He could have given AC and Froome a real challenge.
Agreed, hard to cheer for Valverde today.
Two Frenchman battling for the last podium spot. Maybe someone will put a pump in Valverde's wheel and they'll both make it on the podium. |
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Oldfart
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| 07/18/2014 12:18 PM |
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I think Nibali worked really hard to prepare this year. Certainly the class of the field. Smart early racing put Froome and Contador on the back foot and trying to make up time I think may have had a hand in their crashes.
I think most of the peloton dislike Valverde. He rarely seems to get favours and if he has a mechanical or crash everyone frickin' pins it. |
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Orange Crush
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| 07/18/2014 12:42 PM |
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Anyone remember Thibaut's 2013 tour?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pinot-asks-what-am-i-doing-on-the-tour
He worked on it; fixed it and is now battling for GC. Impressive.
French dudes battling for GC is good stuff. |
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Keith Richards
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| 07/18/2014 01:58 PM |
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| I totally forgot he was THAT guy! Chapeau to the French...three guys in the top 10. |
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It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong. |
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SideBySide
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| 07/18/2014 04:52 PM |
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Wow, I had forgotten he was that guy too. I have to give him serious props for persevering.
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79pmooney
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| 07/18/2014 05:34 PM |
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I was routing for Valverde but what I saw today wasn't pretty. Battling with Pinot was dumb. He doesn't even matter to Valverde. Valverde should have let him do whatever, paid him zero attention and work at minimizing losses to Nibali. That even if Pinot sucks his wheel to the finish and zips around him for the place. Do that and you look like the man, Pinot looks small and you have done all you can to preserve your GC. And next time, Pinot (or whoever) is much more likely to realize that if I work with this guy, I do better against everybody else.
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longslowdistance
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| 07/24/2014 10:13 AM |
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| Don't know if it will stick, but valverde and his team's move is brilliant. |
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Yo Mike
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| 07/24/2014 10:48 AM |
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| Geezer alert.... |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 07/24/2014 10:54 AM |
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*Attention - The Geezer Alert for the July 24th stage of the Tour de France has been lifted.*
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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Yo Mike
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| 07/24/2014 10:56 AM |
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LOL
Nibbles is taking a big, big bite today. |
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ChinookPass
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| 07/24/2014 10:58 AM |
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| What are "Astana Motors" and where can I get one? |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 07/24/2014 11:04 AM |
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Nibbles laying down the law today.
Uh-oh.....Valverde just cracked!! |
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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ChinookPass
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| 07/24/2014 11:05 AM |
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| Who's job was it to babysit Valverde in the last 5k today??!! |
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Orange Crush
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| 07/24/2014 11:43 AM |
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I won!
Left home when they had about 14 k to go; OK theirs was all uphill; my 14k is mostly flat but I was riding a 30lbs bike, first had to put on my gear, get bike out of basement, deal with traffic lights and some construction, get bike down in parking garage at work, lock it up, ride the elevator up and then get the CN live stream online in my office.
By the time I had all that done, Nibali was only at the 1k to go marker. And I wasn't even hurting  |
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stronz
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| 07/24/2014 01:05 PM |
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| Nibali looks so good riding. Fun to see Horner have a dig -- things are a little different this July than they were last September in Spain, eh? As good as Nibali is I still think AC would have found some time in the pyrenees. AC is just too good a strategist and still a better climber tho it would have been close -- probably would have bombed down the descent after the Tourmalet and stormed up the Hautacam. Anyway -- the TT will be interesting -- who is the best TTer in the top 4? Can either of the french guys TT? TJ may move up but at 11 min down I think the podium is out of reach. Valverde surprised everyone and won a TT this year early on if I remember. |
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