Bad ettiquette...?

JAPANic said:

Would it be a bad call for the Predictor management to inform Discovery that they would be going all out in the last stage? Better yet, not tell them just go for the win anyway?

I agree that it would take a bold move, a big breakaway and a few other teams helping Cadel....

Reason being: There is a slim chance they could still win! The time difference is not like it usually is.

If you were Cadel would you just let it pass and be happy with 2nd?
If he did go for the 23 seconds he could also lose the 2nd place and end up 3rd....

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Im not sure I want Cadel to win the dirtiest TDF ever - it is fitting that Disco gets it IMO. But...................

I still want Cadel to lay it all on the line. You dont say **** to Disco. You go and drum up all the support you can behind their backs from every other team in the peleton that might have an axe to grind against Disco and to hell with tradition. Attack all day and hope Contador gets a mechanical and then destroy him in his moment of glory.

Its dog eat dog in my world.

Bad form

It's one thing to have the TT on the last day and have the epic battle we all remember and love between Fignon and LeMond in 1989...

but it's the ceremonial normal stage run into Paris this time

i'd be utterly surprised if there were any attacks.


if Contador and Evans were separated by less than 10 seconds? Different story. Cadel got a few seconds the other day in the flat stage finish.

In future years might a GC contender go for sprint bonus times more than they have done in the past??? just to be sure?

Eilert Pilarm said:

Bad form

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I cant stand people who lick out the **** of history. I admire people who create history. Today's race is called a 'stage' because it is PART OF THE RACE. Period. If there were minutes between first and second then fair enough everyone just chill and take it easy but its 23 seconds and 8 seconds....its game on.

This is why I admire LA on many levels. He had the capacity to demand his own reality.

Its friggin game on *****es!!

existence said:

I cant stand people who lick out the **** of history. I admire people who create history. Today's race is called a 'stage' because it is PART OF THE RACE. Period. If there were minutes between first and second then fair enough everyone just chill and take it easy but its 23 seconds and 8 seconds....its game on.

This is why I admire LA on many levels. He had the capacity to demand his own reality.

Its friggin game on *****es!!

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Tickle the duke then...

okay then we'll see what happens.

whatever....

my emotional energy this year was for Cadel from the get-go also...

I never cared for the 'ceremonial' last stage **** either----but the teams have to live with whatever they do....Okay then...let's see D-Lotto burn all their bridges and put Cadel in all the sprints today!

Hell....let's not hope that Contador has a mechanical---let's hope he hits yet another non-leashed dog and splits his head open on the cobblestones. If you hope your opponent, doped up or not, has a mechanical, why not go all out and hope the ****er dies? Game on game off....wax on wax off

First of all Cadel is not powerful enough to do anything today. He simply is not that good on a second rate team. Disco would bury him and LL would take second.

Then, if they did go to the front, the rest of the TDF teams would put them into a ditch.

The TDF is about history and traditions.

wolfix said:

First of all Cadel is not powerful enough to do anything today. He simply is not that good on a second rate team. Disco would bury him and LL would take second.

Then, if they did go to the front, the rest of the TDF teams would put them into a ditch.

The TDF is about history and traditions.

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Not when the entire peleton hates disco. Hardly blame them.

existence said:

Not when the entire peleton hates disco. Hardly blame them.

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No they don't....... Disco is not hated. Just certain members of this board hate disco. Riders know the score. You have to point out to me where a rider says anything bad about Disco or it's riders, then I will point out to you many more good things said about them.

If you want to talk about hate, Cadels sidekick Horner is the most hated American cyclist in this country. And that is a key member of Cadels team. Cadel would be really lonely if he attacked. He would still podium, but it would be on the third step. He simply is not that good.

existence said:

Not when the entire peleton hates disco. Hardly blame them.

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..and why is that since you are so up on exactly what everyone thinks

wolfix said:

No they don't....... Disco is not hated. Just certain members of this board hate disco. Riders know the score. You have to point out to me where a rider says anything bad about Disco or it's riders, then I will point out to you many more good things said about them.

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Millar and Boonen have slagged off Discovery just in the last couple of days.

Tim Lamkin said:

..and why is that since you are so up on exactly what everyone thinks

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What people say and think are two very different things....

classic1 said:

Millar and Boonen have slagged off Discovery just in the last couple of days.

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What did Boonen have to say?

Not at all.

Vinokourov proved that in 2005 and again in 2007.

Anything goes.

From cow blood transfusions to attacking in the feed zone.

Let Contador hold on to his team car door handle for all I care. That kid is going down after his podium

Operation Puerto dossiers will wipe out his wins (Yellow & White) are still up for grabs.

Cadel will probably win the 2007 event, post podium TV presentation.

Doctor.House said:

That kid is going down after his podium

Operation Puerto dossiers will wipe out his wins (Yellow & White) are still up for grabs.

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Only time will tell...not you