Vuelta (spoiler?)

[93legendti]

All hail Contador. Winning all 3 Grand Tours is impressive. Ditto for Levi. He's had a great year.

"...Contador joined Belgian Eddy Merckx, Italian Felice Gimondi and Frenchmen Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil as the only riders to ever win all three Grand Tours..."

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008//vuelta08/?id=results/vuelta0821

[cadence90]

All hail Contador. Winning all 3 Grand Tours is impressive. Ditto for Levi. He's had a great year.

"...Contador joined Belgian Eddy Merckx, Italian Felice Gimondi and Frenchmen Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil as the only riders to ever win all three Grand Tours..."

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008//vuelta08/?id=results/vuelta0821
No kidding. He just joined some VERY impressive company.
I really respect riders that compete in all 3 GTs. Some guys just never do.... ;)
His career palmares is going to be pretty impressive, it looks like.

Gimondi is my absolute favorite rider of all time.

Road Worlds = !!! ITALIA !!!

[93legendti]

I guess he has the TdF to thank...if not for the slight (why was that again? :D ), AC would not have gone for the Giro and Vuelta and his chance at joining the likes of Eddy Merckx, Felice Gimondi, Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil would not have materialized.

[paczki]

Road Worlds = !!! ITALIA !!!

Have you seen that Spanish team?

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Have you seen that Spanish team?
Yeah, but the Italians have a good team too (although they should have put DiLuca on it), home field, Bettini is in form, and Ballerini is a very good coach.

[dauwhe]

Sammy Sanchez!!

:banana:

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http://images.gazzetta.it/Media/Foto/2008/09/22/bettini--346x212.jpg