Vino still with chances?
05-21-10, 03:20 PM
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Of course Vino has chance. Anyone who wears a jersey like this always has chance.
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05-21-10, 03:39 PM
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Oh yeah! Vino is known for making some breakaways. He can be real good but he can also lose time so it's aleast 50/50. Plus Sasstre (spelling?) really sucked on one of the previous stages with a short gentle climb. Shocked that he lost time on that stage!
Cadel's best bet would bet to punch his main competitors in the nose! That dude is crazy!
Cadel's best bet would bet to punch his main competitors in the nose! That dude is crazy!
05-21-10, 06:59 PM
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Sastre (tailor in english) as a racer is not that good and i bet he will lose time tomorrow, cadel and vino teams need to to prepare something together or both will go down big time. It is amazing how cadel is still running practically by himself no matter in which team he is, and at this point wonder if it has something to do with his temper. Vino can't do much also wit h the team he has... Vino was in my book as a winner also...
05-21-10, 07:25 PM
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Sastre (tailor in english) as a racer is not that good and i bet he will lose time tomorrow, cadel and vino teams need to to prepare something together or both will go down big time. It is amazing how cadel is still running practically by himself no matter in which team he is, and at this point wonder if it has something to do with his temper. Vino can't do much also wit h the team he has... Vino was in my book as a winner also...
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05-21-10, 07:44 PM
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Sastre (tailor in english) as a racer is not that good and i bet he will lose time tomorrow, cadel and vino teams need to to prepare something together or both will go down big time. It is amazing how cadel is still running practically by himself no matter in which team he is, and at this point wonder if it has something to do with his temper. Vino can't do much also wit h the team he has... Vino was in my book as a winner also...
05-21-10, 08:05 PM
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Don't have much hope for Vino or Cadel to win now. But both of them have showed some major form this spring between their classics wins and this Giro. Both should be a lot more formidable later this year when they have their full team supporting them later this year. Though obviously that's less likely for Vino because of Contador. But Cadel should benefit by having guys like Hincapie with him.
05-21-10, 08:25 PM
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I doubt contador (accountant in english) will do something this year, last race he basically dropped because of allergies? Nobody knew he had allergies before... I believe the kid was at 100% and is going down big time, and now is time for vino to pull up something because he is going up. Coming back to the giro, vino and cadel together need to basically do the "cancellara" in at least 2 stages and drop everybody from their wheels. Liquigas wont let them go and the only way is to do a "Cancellara". Sastre doesnt have legs and the italians arent that good as years before.
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05-23-10, 08:04 PM
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He's been affected by allergies in spring races in years past. He was struggling with them two years ago when he won the Giro.
Here's from a VeloNews interview with Antonio Colom last year:
and the link
VN: Do you continue with the treatments?
TC: I still take the vaccinations and I will be for the rest of my life. Throughout the entire year
I have to take pills, a vaccination once a month, and, if I have a crisis, I have a spray. It’s not
to be able to breath better; it’s simply to be able to breath. When I look back, I wonder, how
did I race before? I would just die. The sport directors always thought I was crazy because
every time it rains or it’s cold, I’d happy. Why? Because, for the first part, half of the riders in
the peloton don’t like rain. But for me, it was because I could breath like a normal person and
– boom! – I could go. Last year at the Giro, Contador is like me, very allergic, and every night
we were at the TV, watching the weather with rain, we were like, yes! Rain!
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05-23-10, 09:09 PM
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My hat's off to Basso, with a threat of another team captain, he doesn't sweat it or start bigtime drama, just lets the bike do the talking!Tuesday's uphill TT ought to be good!
05-23-10, 09:26 PM
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One of the best stages ever... TOC final stage was not bad, the only problem is that Radio schack planned the trick too late, i noticed they wanted to do the same thing they did with LA years ago... popo waiting for Levi... then nothing happened. Between levi and zabriskie could have kill rogers, the problem is that none of them didnt want to lose the race, makes sense anyways. Even if they could have attached before horner could have had some better chance... Well is better say it that do it anyways... great race also but it needed more attaches in my opinion.
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Vino's riding the Giro, btw...
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Awesome stage today. I don't want to answer this thread based on today. Watch and your answer will be obvious. I will say that given the 15K' of climbing, the GC contenders left it all on the road.
