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Fat Robert
03-22-2008, 05:46 AM
some dude won
Climb01742
03-22-2008, 09:58 AM
no, a horse did. seeing photos of fabian when he won the italian race on the strada bianca, i thought he looked as strong as a horse. the boy is flying. can he hold form through the classics?
e-RICHIE
03-22-2008, 10:01 AM
zipp wheels rule atmo.
Fixed
03-22-2008, 10:02 AM
super rider can do it all imho
cheers
coylifut
03-22-2008, 10:10 AM
he looks bulkier this year. No?
swoop
03-22-2008, 10:44 AM
the world is as it should be.. an italian won. now i need to find free video of it online...
hold it... is he swiss? i can't remember...
Fat Robert
03-22-2008, 10:44 AM
went with 2k left
sprint? he don't want no sprint.
how do you think he could tear up the pursuit?
i love that guy
coylifut
03-22-2008, 10:50 AM
the world is as it should be.. an italian won. now i need to find free video of it online...
hold it... is he swiss? i can't remember...
yes. an Italian speaking Swiss. Shot out of the group at 3k to go and held-em off. We're seeing the maturation of a champion.
GregL
03-22-2008, 11:04 AM
yes. an Italian speaking Swiss. Shot out of the group at 3k to go and held-em off. We're seeing the maturation of a champion.
Cancellara is getting more impressive each year. First a prologue specialist, then a longer TT rider, then a cobbled classic specialist. Now he can hang over the hills with a small group and use his TT speed to get away at the finish. He has the makings of a great all-arounder. I can't wait to see how he does at Flanders and Roubaix.
Regards,
Greg
Fat Robert
03-22-2008, 11:08 AM
yes. an Italian speaking Swiss. We're seeing the maturation of a champion.
he's been building towards this for years, ever since people started stopping him on the sidewalks of europe and saying,
"hey, you look just like the jerk."
Fixed
03-22-2008, 12:41 PM
kinda like the old lemond jumping from way out to win
cheers
saab2000
03-22-2008, 01:56 PM
the world is as it should be.. an italian won. now i need to find free video of it online...
hold it... is he swiss? i can't remember...
He's not Italian. He is Swiss, from Bern.
saab2000
03-22-2008, 01:57 PM
yes. an Italian speaking Swiss. Shot out of the group at 3k to go and held-em off. We're seeing the maturation of a champion.
He is also a native German speaker and is not from Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, IIRC.
Anyway, world class! :beer: :beer:
coylifut
03-22-2008, 02:36 PM
He is also a native German speaker and is not from Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, IIRC.
Anyway, world class! :beer: :beer:
whoops. I saw an interview with him on the tube in Italy. I assumed his Italian wasn't a second language. Maybe he likes sausage and stuff which would explain his thickness. He's thick.
did anyone find a video link yet?
Avispa
03-22-2008, 07:29 PM
Well,
I know Bettini is great.... But I really don't get it sometimes; they make more of a big fuss of one rider than he sometimes can actually deliver.
But that's just me, the armchair critic! :p
..A..
PS
check out some video clips:
http://www.steephill.tv/classics/milan-san-remo/
swoop
03-22-2008, 08:58 PM
http://www.dailymotion.com/burnie87/video/x4t3xh_milano-san-remo-2008_sport
coylifut
03-22-2008, 09:21 PM
http://www.dailymotion.com/burnie87/video/x4t3xh_milano-san-remo-2008_sport
Pozzato is going to catch it in the press tomorrow. He's looking around for someone else to do the work and BANG - it's over.
cs124
03-22-2008, 09:32 PM
Pozzato is going to catch it in the press tomorrow. He's looking around for someone else to do the work and BANG - it's over.
...and he'll deserve every bit of it too, especially given Cancellara's heroic finish. Doesn't Pippo have a reputation as being somewhat of a "nancy boy"?
cs124
03-22-2008, 09:37 PM
http://www.dailymotion.com/burnie87/video/x4t3xh_milano-san-remo-2008_sport
awsome link! thanks swoop.
Fat Robert
03-23-2008, 02:18 PM
re: pozzato --
if ferretti says you suck, then you suck.
PeterNorth
03-23-2008, 02:47 PM
cancellera has some serious nutz
gomez308
03-23-2008, 03:43 PM
Don't ya just love the way the announcers say Fabian Cancellara?
Fat Robert
03-23-2008, 03:45 PM
i love how the announcer yells "brava cancellara" when he goes. that guy knew cancellara had it when he jumped, like how harry carry would know a guy had knocked it out the moment it came off the bat.
cancellara is the sheeyat. this generation's moser.
swoop
03-23-2008, 04:21 PM
i have to give love to bertolini on the climb too. it was his only shot and he tried. not bad for a guy that was just a dude simoni trained with... and convinced to race.
but yeah.. i still have dreams from the eroica footage too. if he's headed towards a peak the classics are going to be interesting.
stevep
03-23-2008, 04:26 PM
i love a great move,
timing is the whole game.
bang, one look, 2 looks
too late.
beautiful.
swoop, which guy was you?
1centaur
03-23-2008, 05:30 PM
Bettini has trained his top rivals to follow his every move - he has two basic ways to win, jump away a little early on an uphill or jump away a little later on an uphill from a smaller group. It was obvious last year that Valverde saw Bettini as the canary in the coal mine - he stuck to him like glue.
Similarly, Cancellara has only one way to win a race like MSR, which is to look for a slight concentration lapse with 2-3k to go and TT it to the end. However unlike with Bettini, his rivals have only seen the move kinda twice - at the Tour and now here. Paris-Roubaix is a different kind of dynamic. If you jump on Cancellara's wheel when he makes the move he won't win. Pozzato was not paying attention, and I'm guessing 80% of Italy thought Cancellara had won as soon as he accelerated past Landaluze.
Lesson of the day - you can't let Cancellara make a break for it close to the end because he's the world's fastest TT rider and you won't catch him. A bit of a duh, but one the DSs will pound into their riders from now on. Will that mean fewer Cancellara wins in road races going forward?
PeterNorth
03-23-2008, 06:35 PM
I expected more from Hincrapie, but I guess it was just a 'training race' for him....
Anyone else here buy one of his resort properties???
Bud_E
03-23-2008, 06:53 PM
i love how the announcer yells "brava cancellara" when he goes. that guy knew cancellara had it when he jumped, like how harry carry would know a guy had knocked it out the moment it came off the bat.
cancellara is the sheeyat. this generation's moser.
I would rather listen to that guy than Phil Ligget and I only understand about 3% of what he was saying.
davidlee
03-23-2008, 07:08 PM
Bettini has trained his top rivals to follow his every move - he has two basic ways to win, jump away a little early on an uphill or jump away a little later on an uphill from a smaller group. It was obvious last year that Valverde saw Bettini as the canary in the coal mine - he stuck to him like glue.
Similarly, Cancellara has only one way to win a race like MSR, which is to look for a slight concentration lapse with 2-3k to go and TT it to the end. However unlike with Bettini, his rivals have only seen the move kinda twice - at the Tour and now here. Paris-Roubaix is a different kind of dynamic. If you jump on Cancellara's wheel when he makes the move he won't win. Pozzato was not paying attention, and I'm guessing 80% of Italy thought Cancellara had won as soon as he accelerated past Landaluze.
Lesson of the day - you can't let Cancellara make a break for it close to the end because he's the world's fastest TT rider and you won't catch him. A bit of a duh, but one the DSs will pound into their riders from now on. Will that mean fewer Cancellara wins in road races going forward?
One way to win?? Come on , that guy can win a field sprint , jump with 2000 or 200m to go, doesn't matter.
NO ONE had the legs to go with him, every one of those guys knew it was THE move, except there was one problem, they were already on the rivet and he wasn't .
Modern day Merckx?
Most exciting racer I've seen in a long time.
BRAVO!!!
I expected more from Hincrapie, but I guess it was just a 'training race' for him....
Anyone else here buy one of his resort properties???
mr. north,
thank you for posting here. i greatly admire your on-screen work. yours was an era before the advent of performance enhancing drugs. no growth hormone for you. you are a newfoundland national treasure.
as for growth hormone in that race, he was just warming up...for the third group at flanders with the likes of such luminaries as wouter weylandts and other members of torsteiner-landbouwkrediet.
jerk
soulspinner
03-24-2008, 04:34 AM
MSR is a cool race, last years Bettini descent rocked, this year Im scratching my head wondering how you can let Cancellara go so late, especially knowing he just came off a win! Kudos to Frikshcorn on makin the break.
PeterNorth
03-24-2008, 06:47 AM
mr. north,
.... i greatly admire your on-screen work. yours was an era before the advent of performance enhancing drugs.
jerk
where ya to? don't be fooled, the camera makes everyone look bigger, sure.
Spicoli
03-24-2008, 06:57 AM
How many bikes do you think he "KILLS" a season??? Its down right cruel to be one of his rides. He aint a purdy pedaler but HOLY COW does he throw down and nut punch everyone! The dude is a hero in a sport that needs em bad. Also how about Riis for mix & matching his racers so you never really know what race they are shooting for. Hats off to him too.
Im gonna guess he stuck 500-600 watts for that last 2k and thats after one of the top 3 toughest races in the world! :beer: mutant fast! :D
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