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Originally Posted by classic1  I don't recall Hinault or Lemond publicly referring to 87 or 88 as 'joke' Tours either.
Why the boner for Contador? You forget that Contador would not have won in 2007 without Rasmussen in the race. He was dead set lucky to have Robochicken dragging him around before Rabobank pulled the pin on him. Contador has won his three GT's by a combined total a shade over 3 minutes. Hinault and Indurain used to win individual TT stages by that much. Yeah, Contador won, but it's hardly the second coming of Merckx IMO. He is beatable.
Also, LOL at last years Giro and Vuelta fields. |
Whilst they never actually reffered to them as 'joke' tours, they both publicly say that if they'd been riding they'd probably have won. LeMond said many a time that if he hadn't have had the shotgun accident he'd have won at least 5 tours.
A boner for Contador? Huh? The guy attacks in the hills and livens things up a bit. In the two stages of the pyrenees (2007)where he and the chicken were having at it, they attacked more than than the entire cast of last years tour managed in three ******* weeks. That's what I liked about watching Lance too - you always knew that on at least one mountain top finish there'd be at least one big dig to try and open **** up that wouldn't just fizzle and die when he looked around and saw someone within 20 feet of his back wheel. On Hautacam it took him about 3 or 4 good tries to get rid of Zulle. Last years tour was pretty dire - the guys would attack and then look over their shoulders about 20 seconds later, if they could still see someone they'd sit up and that'd be it.
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