Steve Austin
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still a minute back and vino has left his team for dead on the climb :?:
Stage 5 - spoiler
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Steve Austin
The Marmalade Kid
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vino came in 1.20 down by my watch :?:
chris42
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Steve Austin said:
Wow now thats an upset :?:
bulldicker
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that must be the best first week stage in many years
Steve Austin
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Millar did a flyer 2k out too... almost got it
Tim Bennet.
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Excellent stage.
Funny, but I find it difficult to be overly sympathetic to Vino. There's something about the whole Astana set up I don't like. It doesn't seem to exude the sort of sqeaky clean image I was hoping to see this year in the Tour.
Funny, but I find it difficult to be overly sympathetic to Vino. There's something about the whole Astana set up I don't like. It doesn't seem to exude the sort of sqeaky clean image I was hoping to see this year in the Tour.
spesh
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Tim Bennet. said:
This business with the team cars being cleared from behind the peloton after Vino's crash, unlike for other riders caused a few raised eyebrows on the ITV team.
Anyone for the conspiracy theory? :?:
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Tim Bennet.
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Yes, they certainly were saying it was unfair, but they also thought he had been hit by a motorcyclist, whereas other people think he just had a puncture / mechanical. Does that make a difference to a riders culpability? Don't know.
But it was much later in the race than with the other examples they gave and I should think the commissaires were pretty nervous about that last hill. I guess the last thing they would have wanted was riders passing through the cars on the decent! Perhps they were just overly cautious.
But it was much later in the race than with the other examples they gave and I should think the commissaires were pretty nervous about that last hill. I guess the last thing they would have wanted was riders passing through the cars on the decent! Perhps they were just overly cautious.
SamNichols
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given that fact that Kloeden got to follow the cars, it certainly doesn't have something to do with the team itself.
The mixed reaction of Astana versus the rest of the riders was good, the jist seemed to be - Astana: 'if one of the favourites gets left behind now. we definitely won't go back for him.'
The rest: 'He's the favourite, there's no way we were going back for him.'
And yes, there is something about the whole Astana set up that seems a little dodgy.
The mixed reaction of Astana versus the rest of the riders was good, the jist seemed to be - Astana: 'if one of the favourites gets left behind now. we definitely won't go back for him.'
The rest: 'He's the favourite, there's no way we were going back for him.'
And yes, there is something about the whole Astana set up that seems a little dodgy.
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Keith Oates
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I also have reservations about Astana but can't put my finger on what it is. The finish was good though and Friere put up a good fight in the end, again I'm suprised by the apparent lack of form by Boonen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I find the attitude to Astana perplexing - if they are guilty by association, which is the only inference we can make, then applying the same logic, Discovery, CSC and Quick Step are at least as culpable. Vino demonstrated the tenacity that shows he's a valued protagonaist and without his attacking style, cycling would be at a loss as a spectacle - at least it makes it exciting rather than the boring procession that the Tour has been reduced to in recent years.
