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- Mar 2008
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- The Deep South of England
- JPS Lotus
- Shortcake ...no, Custard Cream! ...no, Jammie Dodger...
Hello all. Just returning after a hiatus of a year or two (and not re-read the entire thread, so apologies for any doubling-up, but...)
I agree this has been a classic Tour so far. However, I actually think that Thomas might just be coming good (enough) now, after that early crash unsettled him and possibly hurt him more than he let on, too. But Alaphilippe has been looking amazing, and Pinot has put in some remarkable standalone performance too. So I think this is going to go down to the wire - possibly the closest Tour in a long time. Just a shame it's not an individual time trial onto the Champs-Elysees! ;-)
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I never used to like Sagan either Ray. He was just seemed to win the green jersey every year by finishing third in every sprint, killing off the competition without being a top notch sprinter.
But the wheelies changed it for me - the no hander up Alpe d'Huez in particular. He might try too hard to be a character, but I don't see anyone at the side of the road rolling their eyes at each other. He's different in a sport where, like ice hockey, people all kind of look the same.
Every day is a Sagan day to me. (He's nowhere near knocking Britain's Geraint Thomas off top spot in my affections though.)
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Sagan is cycling's Frankie Dettori, where the exuberance occasionally threatens to overshadow the brilliance. I really like him (although I dislike Dettori, probably as I don't back him because of lack of value due to his name recognition, so it annoys me when he wins).
I love it in the sprints where the teams are engaged in complicated, difficult to follow manoeuvres to place their squad in the best position, while he just buzzes around doing his own thing and nearly always finds the right wheel to be on. Am I right in thinking he is not well liked in the peloton? It's the impression I get.
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Don't really have anything to add apart from love Ala, love Pinot, love christlike Kruijswijk, love Le Tour, love love love that racing at the weekend. Love all of them, even the Ineos riders, apart from Moscon and Keisse who can bugger off to miserytown.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostUnzue confirms that Quintana and Carapaz are leaving Movistar, with the Giro winner going to INEOS.
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General churn rather than anything else really. Carapaz won't have been on huge wages and INEOS have presumably offered him more. Landa didn't get offered a new contract - as Pippa York said recently, every Grand Tour sees him losing time in the first week and spending the rest of the race trying to catch it up. They've also got Soler still under contract.
Astana's bad day has continued with Luis Leon Sanchez abandoning - he had back problems and now Fuglsang has gone doesn't feel it worth carrying on. Think Lutsenko might save their race in the next few days - he's had a strong season, keeps getting in the right moves and now has no leader to work for. He's 25th on GC which is an ideal position from which to win stages, he's far enough down overall not to be a threat to any significant position but it shows he's strong enough to be a factor at the business end if a break sticks.
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