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Why not me? Fabian Cancellara


I heard the mountain stages weren't too bad on this Tour.  Hmmm, reminds me of another Tour I just won.  Perhaps you all missed that one?  I can't wait to send my lieutenant Schleck (sehr schlecht) up those mountains and watch puny Evans and Contador try to follow.  Then I make my move and POWER STRAIGHT UP LIKE IT'S A TT BABY!  ok ok so maybe Armstrong or Menchov take a few seconds out of me on the Ventoux.  That's ok because I take 20 minutes out of them on the TTs!  Do the math people!

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Why I'll win: I'm the man!  Auch bin ich der schweizer König, wusstest du nicht?  I speak this awesome German no one outside my country understands.  I have plenty of experience in the yellow jersey even if I'm not a machine.  My motivation comes from the fun I'll have snickering at the Tour-appointed interpreter who botches all my words at the presser after each stage (see especially 2:10-2:35 for hot laughs).  I've had a nice relax all spring long while these other fools (whom I pity) rode too many miles.  I've been training with Frinkster or Frinster or whatever his name is in Holland for the last week and he says I'm awesome.  I'll be wearing this rad red Swiss national champion jersey and will tell all the Spaniards that the leader's jersey is red this year just like the new Vuelta - causing them to panic and over-exert themselves while I go flying by (hasta luego!).  I go really really fast and I have a big butty like Raúl Alcalá - all muscle.  That's right people, I'm one big muscle.  One big Tour winning muscle, ready to flex.

 

Why I'll lose: Get serious.  Did I mention I'm the man?

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Scheize Sweitzer!

Plus have you seen his ass?

It needs its own soigneur!

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on Jun 30, 2009 9:48 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Lovely!

Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.

by Josenka on Jun 30, 2009 10:10 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Haha nice!

I trained indeed with Cance. Unfortanetely he couldn’t hold my wheel so I dismissed him

by Frinking on Jul 1, 2009 2:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That surprises me

He’s such a good bike handler, I’m surprised that he can’t track-stand ;-)

by Lou... on Jul 1, 2009 4:06 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Fabian was wearing yellow

when the tour last climbed Col de la Colombiere in 2007 (at least at the start of the day)

sometimes life is a false flat

by Willj on Jul 1, 2009 3:48 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Could folks with a reasonable grasp of French...

… please cast your eye over this?

It looks to me like Zabriskie is calling out Tony… but then my grasp of French cannot be described as ‘reasonable’.

by Lou... on Jul 1, 2009 5:55 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Roughly...

After mentioning Contador, Evans, Armstrong, DZ adds “I also think about Andy Schleck and why not Fabian Cancellara. I think that Cancellara could surprise people. He is truly very strong.”

by Ed K on Jul 1, 2009 6:39 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe it is a fellow Time Trial specialist...

giving props to another, and saying hey, we can do more than put out watts.

by profgubler on Jul 1, 2009 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

With this proposed strategic use of Schleck,

could you not have used the phrase “Say hello to my little friend!” in your argument …?

by tedvdw on Jul 1, 2009 8:31 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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