ATOC Stage 3 Post-Race Thread
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 17, 2009 7:30 PM EST
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A bunch sprint! The cruel peloton hones its "let's catch the break with 4km to go" skills.
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Thor!!
"...The mind has to rule the body and tell the body, shut up and do what I tell you to do..." Jens!
+1
Cool as cucumbers
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by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 17, 2009 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
Ah, 'tis enjoyable to see Cervélo smite the big names.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
per CN (so far...)
1 Thor Hushovd (Cervélo TestTeam)
2 Oscar Freire (Rabobank)
3 Mark Renshaw (Team Columbia – Highroad)
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
good ride from renshaw
but uh, cav, dude, you’re s’posed to finish ahead of your lead-out guy, ’kay?
Or Cav will be on a team full of Steegmans stage win stealers.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
Man that crash looked ugly.
Surprised there weren’t Levi pancakes under all that.
Light dudes going 20+ mph hurt more than otherwise.
Plus Levi’s like, a peanut.
Obviously this is a poor likeness of Levi...
The peanut has hair.
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Jimmy Carter?
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by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 17, 2009 7:48 PM EST up reply actions
No no
that’s for emergencies.
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by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 17, 2009 8:35 PM EST up reply actions
Jimmy Carter ref included...
Did you see this chris…?
http://lnmc.crooksandliars.com/maxmarginal/late-nite-music-club-welcomes-ben-fold
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
Saw it
but it had NSFW flags all over it…
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by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 17, 2009 8:37 PM EST up reply actions
Cervelosians?
Were they not bad guys on the original Star Trek?
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Thanks VS
Back in 95, I was watching the San Jose Sharks in the playoffs. In the middle of the playoff game, the cable people switched the coverage to the Oakland A’s regular season pregame. WTF I thought. They claimed that 5 times more people watch a regular season baseball game than a playoff hockey game in the Bay Area. Prior advertiser commitments, follow the money, yada, yada.
I have come full circle (or something). Once I was pissed at baseball for ruining my hockey experience. Now I am angry at hockey for ruining my cycling experience. I’m switching to badmitton so cycling can pre-emt that.
+1000
"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."
Tom Boonen
See U guys later...i gotta go buy sardines...Mr Percival's eyeing the dog
errrr....am i supposed to sign this??
Two spots left on my VDS roster...
up to -3 points left from -7 points…
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I've got a package
of about 7 150 pt teams that I can sell you.
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
Thanks eGoat... but I don't need...
7 variations on Oscar Freire + 24 4-pointers :D
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lol
Ii’ve changed i tell you!
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
That can only mean you have a 25 pointer
Bert or Valv Piti?
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
I'm trying to exhibit restraint...
… and for what it’s worth… I can’t bring myself to put Valv Piti on any roster… ever… just like I can’t bring myself to leave Hincapie off.
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Thanks. The rest of the team is the problem, but
I hope to have some beginners luck… Thanks to ursula and majope, they’ve screwed my head with all the rational and calculated posts. :D
You're 50% right...
…and since I coined the phrase “Leipheimered” last season, I’ll leave you to decide which 50% it is. The ToC doesn’t count for VDS squat.
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Well... actually... I just had a change of heart on Contador...
… about 2 minutes ago… and am wondering how i could plow that extra 10 or 15 into boosting the street cred of my 1 pointers…
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He won TWO grand tours last year...
He has a chance at 50% of that glory this year… no extra points for winning le tour vs. el vuelta vs. il giro.
If I was a true fanboy… I’d pick a team with Lance AND Bert on it thinking i could pick up Giro and Tour wins… but that’s putting way too many eggs in one basket.
Seriously… that’s three eggs.
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Hold it one darn minute
Your rationalizations are gonna get you close to last place again.
For this year Bert should at absolute minimum (meaning he doesn’t get hurt or OP lands on him tomorrow, which it won’t), get 1000 points. That’s if Bert doesn’t win a race because even if he doesn’t win he’ll place high in the standings for every race except maybe Paris-Nice. You drink that kool-aid? You just saw Levi last year get 1500+ points without winning a VDS race and scoring zip in the Vuelta too. Bert could do the same this year.
Then you have Bert’s upside- a cool 3000 points if he wins everything. Maybe he won’t do that- but he’ll enter every race as the favorite.
Levi? As I just said Levi won 1500+ without actually winning anything but a couple of stages here and there. That scenario looks plausible again this year.
Lance? He’s looking better than I expected at Cali. Still I’m not sold on him winning much because the competition at California isn’t that formidable compared to what he’ll face starting in a month. He will get better- but so will everyone in this field, including Levi. He’s the big risk of the three IMO.
I did...
… but she doesn’t get entered in THIS spreadsheet. Did Jens ever reply to what the rules were on restraining orders in Sweden?
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No I did not
I do know roughly what the law says but I also know the penalties in Sweden for aiding and abetting a crime.
nope
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
NO WAY!
And the Earth’s rotation suddenly stopped.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Yeah! This makes no sense.
Goat boy with no Oscarito? He buys him last year at 25 but not this year at 18? WTF???
Still love him
BUT IT’S TIE TO MOVE ON…
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
time*
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
I'm mid pack (Cav) fodder
nothing (Cav) to see here…
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
Holy crap Egoat.
That was a long winter for ya, huh? ha ha.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
i waited all day for that
in the rain… well, okay, not quite. i mean, it is raining, but i wasn’t in it.
um, anyway
You say you don't love cancer Gav...
… but we’re not sure anymore.
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Nominees for Todays Podium Cafe Snuggie Jersey
I nominate Drew for tripping over the PC server plug resulting in the 3 hour outage
Is it confirmed that it was
Rollin who was the leadout guy for Thor?
This could set up to be a dominant force this year…ala Cipollini & Lombardi.
Yeah... Rollin and uh... another guy...
whose name has escaped me.
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Ian MacGregor
Team Type 1 is reporting that his injuries are minor – stitches in his chin and left leg. He sidewswiped a car on the descent off Sierra.
Thor, Rollin, Haussler, Florencio, Lloyd, Hammond, Klier, Rasch, Reimer
Between today and what the B team did in Qatar, Cervelo will be a load this year in the sprints. And by sprints I eean the classics too.
Do you realize that commentary on the Cervelo Test Team kit here at PdC...
… is the third link when you google “Cervelo Test Team”
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PodiumCafe...
… throwing spitballs from the back of the class at the Cycling Journalism world…
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I mean... I know it's podiums and everything... and much has been said of the stature of certain riders...
… but … I mean… damn.
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He's sad
Everyone else got a fancy new jersey.
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by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 17, 2009 8:40 PM EST up reply actions
Thought the "Chin" was Bill Cower?
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
Hmm... I would say Bill Cowher is more "Captain Underbite" than "The Chin"
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Fair enough
But has been referred to as that several times in the local and national press. Of course his replacement was referred to as the “Jaw” during the playoffs for his profile. so go figure
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
AAAARRRGH!
We had a training run tonight, so I taped the Versus coverage. I set it to run an hour over in case the stage went long. Watched two fricking hours worth of the race, and then they cut out and say, “Oh, watch the rest online.” The rest that had been over for a couple of hours at this point but which we might have still caught when we got home if we hadn’t been avoiding the internet because we were going to watch the freaking tape of the race.
Damn it, damn it, damn it.
Google is my domestique.
Eh. I'll get over it.
Once I get done mangling this little Versus voodoo doll and stomping on the bits.
Google is my domestique.
Make a stomp or two for me.
Yesterday, I taped it longer than it suggested. I sat down and watched/fwd through over 4 hours and it clips off. I was pissed. All I wanted to watch was the ending and it cut off just after Levi came up to Tom and Jason. UGH. I think I’m done with versus live showings this week. At least the hour recap shows the ending, well sort of.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Bummer, I missed the lat 30km
but just finished watching the ctv as-live, was like watching the race live. Ctv has been getting their as live coverage up really quickly this week so you should try ctv next time, if you miss another finish.
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
Qoute of the day
from cyclingfans, after explaining that eurosport has moved their ToC coverage to Eurosport 2, which they say practically no one has
Eurosport 2 would be a good place for Versus to export Professional Bull Riding (PBR) to
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
and by qoute I meant quote
err, long day
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
Go for it, I'm curious to see just how one qoute's someone
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
There's a handy back-up in Europe
Abu Dhabi Sport on Hotbird are carrying it too, complete with Phil and Paul commentary.
Strange
Not according to the TV Guides on Eurosport’s sites.
Bork, bork, bork!
by TheFigurehead on Feb 18, 2009 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not a happy girl.
I got home from the opera last night in plenty time to watch the closing stages, and what happened? No internet connection. Nothing. Switched the computer off and on and off and on…nothing. If I have no internet tonight I will cry.
But thank god you can twitter with your cell phone!
Btw.. My internet connection also lost.. Think of some conspiracy theory of Lance.. Do you also don’t like the guy?
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
Post Stage three wrap up....
I have thought long and hard about that sprint for the line in Modesto today whilstI have been protecting my dog from the local bird life when she plucks up enough courage to go out for a poo. It’s obvious innit!!!! No Hansen, No Columbia!! Adam would not have let those ponses from the CTT even get to the front (unless Bretty asked nicely) from after they swamped the break…but where was he?? I’m trying to find out. I’ve even got Cycle Girl offering to change his tyres for him in return for sans CN or VN news. No Hansen…NO Cavendish!!!
I’m riding tomorrow…enjoy stage 4…beware the Saxo Bank train.
BTW…Pelicans like eating fruit….but it’s not a good idea when they’re in ya pool!!!
errrr....am i supposed to sign this??
Just found out...
…he’s not well the poor boy!!
I woke up this morning with pains in my stomach, and never wanted to see food again…. Yes I was one of the many that caught the bug going around……. but you can read about that in the news sections…..
It was raining and I was feeling ok…. not the best, but remember I didnt eat anything since last nights dinner, but then again, I threw all that up so I dont think I had food in my stomach since at least 18hours.
The race started and I was just at the back trying to survie to get healthy again for the next few days. On the first climb I was out the back, I had nothing, no energy, no power, nothing! I had trouble to focus and my decent was scary. As the race went on I was getting worse as I couldnt stomach food and getting no energy. I spent a good part of the day riding in the cars, something I have not done in years. Infact, I was dropped more times today then my whole career I think. I really shouldnt have been on the bike.
I manage to finish, alive which I thought was a good thing. Doing 186km on 140cals was not the smartest things I have ever done! But not the stupidest either
from his blog yesterday…
errrr....am i supposed to sign this??
It's god's way of saying
Not the white shorts!
Am I the only one that was really worried for Flatbagger...
… until you saw the “from his blog yesterday” comment at the bottom? Thought you had picked up Avian flu or somethin…
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this is from Adam Hansen not Cavendish, right?
by ZoeRochelle on Feb 18, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
I will refrain from commenting
Everything I say about Thor is construed as Norway-bashing for some strange reason.
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