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John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:01am PT
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The acceleration that Froome was showing was pretty damn impressive. I'd like to see his power ratings on that climb.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 15, 2013 - 01:26pm PT
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Yes Bruce, that article was INTERESTING!
Things that make you go hmmmm.
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Pajamas
climber
Wilderness, Home
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Jul 16, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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Pretty near disaster on descent today!
Porte is effin killin it. Froome coulda been off on his main man's bike likety split.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 16, 2013 - 11:08pm PT
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Froome was complaining about Alberto's attacks on the descent. What a pussy! Does he expect everyone to sit up and let him win?
Shaddup you whiner!
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Jul 16, 2013 - 11:11pm PT
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Either Froome is on the juice, or he's the greatest natural talent since Merckx (who juiced a little himself). And Froome appeared out of nowhere. Unlike say Lemond, there was no indication in Froome's early career that he'd be like this.
I'd like to believe. But it's really suspicious.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 16, 2013 - 11:49pm PT
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Froome is getting cocky. Makes you wonder. He was signaling Contador to do some work at the end. Really?
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Jul 17, 2013 - 12:13am PT
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he is using bio-pace chain rings rotated 72 degrees, totally illegal
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jul 17, 2013 - 10:12am PT
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One thing I would do to improve the TV coverage would be to totally disable the ZOOM lenses on all the motorcycle cameras.
What's gained by an extreme close shot looking into the vents on the back of a racer's helmet? Or by an extreme close shot into someone's ear canal?
Shitcan the zoom already. Pull back, so we can see the rider's position on the bike, the bike itself, the gears being used, the other racers, the fans lining the course, and the scenery. That's all part of the race too, but we're missing out on it to see yet another tight shot into someone's ear canal.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 17, 2013 - 10:07pm PT
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OH, I was so bummed for Peraud.
He crashes in practice and breaks his shoulder (I did that this year).
Then he goes for it anyway, big time, not holding anything back, in the tt
and crashes again, on the same shoulder around 1 km. from the finish.
I have a feeling he won't start for the double Alpe d'Houez stage.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jul 17, 2013 - 10:49pm PT
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So who scored the winning goal?
Is it over yet?
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 17, 2013 - 11:03pm PT
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Hey climbski2, why do you post on this thread? Do you just rotate through and put in your worthless $0.02 on all threads?
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jul 17, 2013 - 11:12pm PT
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Hate to say it but the last time we saw a performance like Froome's so far in this tour, it was the guy pushing yellow bracelets.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jul 18, 2013 - 12:47am PT
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I'll tell you who's not doping. Cadel Evens. WTF. He must be sick or something.
As for all the armchair doping experts. Give it a rest and enjoy the show. Tomorrow should be awesome!
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highcamp
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 18, 2013 - 01:29am PT
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I think tomorrow would be truly awesome if it was a race amongst equals. Whether Froome is clean or not, his dominance this year is akin to Mike Tyson boxing against Jerry Seinfeld. He's got 4 minutes. Four!! That makes for a boring ass race. Especially when everybody knows that if he lays the hammer down tomorrow like he did on the other key stages that he could realistically stretch that 4 minute gap to 20 minutes... and that's no joke, he's that head and shoulders above everyone else. The rest of them might scrap for podium spots, but c'mon.
As to whether Froome is clean or not, I definitely have my suspicions. But, maybe that pre-2010 parasite really did affect his abilities that much. Maybe he is a late blooming, better-than-Merckx natural talent.
Still, I'm curious to see how Sky plays it tomorrow. I wrote about this on another site, but Thursday's stage should be interesting. With so many press agencies around the world publishing articles calling Froome's performance into question - e.g., making note that if he won these stages by a handful of seconds nobody would really think much of it - I wonder if Sky will take this into account in how they let Froome race. Maybe hold Froome back, have him ride defensive and/or win by just a small margin (sandbag it until the final switchback up the Alpe, give RP a win, etc). Or, if they are fully confident in his 'pane e acqua' performance, let him fly and push out the same wattage and VAM that he did on AX3 or the upper slopes of Ventoux. Basically saying "F you!" to all the doubters. We shall see.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Jul 18, 2013 - 02:36am PT
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About the only positive that Froome has in my book is that considering the current microscope that racing is under, if you are doping the absolute stupidest thing you could do right now is call that much attention to yourself. I don't think he's that much of an idiot, but I have zero trust and very little respect for bike racing right now.
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fluffy
Trad climber
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Jul 18, 2013 - 07:00am PT
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I'll say it for him: 'FU to all the doubters.'
imo Froome is racing clean. unfortunately for them, his main rivals are too.
what's that Cadel? couldn't hear you from the bottom of the standings.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Jul 18, 2013 - 08:13am PT
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I really hope he is racing clean. But now, anytime I see an other worldly performance I have my doubts, given the history of the sport.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Jul 18, 2013 - 09:04am PT
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Reinhold Messner can count the number of clean Tour victories in the last 20 years on his toes, no problem.
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