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counterofbeans said:
oddball1313 said:
I'm not an expert in any way but GVA's performance over the last 12 months has been outstanding, is he and BMC good enough to challenge for the yellow jersey in this years TDF ?
No. Completely different ball game.Anyway, as well as a win for Van Avermaet, the Juniors Paris-Roubaix was won by promising young Brit Tom Pidcock; adding it to his British, European & World Junior CX Champiopnships......some serious talent!! I should think there'll be managers knocking on his door; in fact, Sven Nys has already expressed some interest.
Edited by Alex Langheck on Monday 10th April 20:05
Alex Langheck said:
Anyway, as well as a win for Van Avermaet, the Juniors Paris-Roubaix was won by promising young Brit Tom Pidcock; adding it to his British, European & World Junior CX Champiopnships......some serious talent!! I should think there'll be managers knocking on his door; in fact, Sven Nys has already expressed some interest.
He absolutely dominated the race. I snapped him coming into the velodrome with 30s over the chasers:https://www.instagram.com/p/BSqhHxTh_KH/
And then caught the team celebrations afterwards
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSqhPxFhrja/
Tom is so tiny to be slaying the cobbles like that. What a future he's got ahead of him.
There's a few more on my Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/darren_franks/ the best of which is this one of the tactical stand-off between GvA and Stybar on the final lap:
Gruffy said:
There's a few more on my Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/darren_franks/ the best of which is this one of the tactical stand-off between GvA and Stybar on the final lap:
outstanding photos and what a great position you had .mcelliott said:
Valverde proving that as long as you've got a good doctor, age is not a barrier. #freakshow
Really?? not sure if you're serious or your record player is broken churning out the same old baloney. I thought his tribute to Scaponi at the end of LBL was very sincere indeed. He gave all his prize money to the Scarpni family and dedicated the win to him!
Dr Imran T said:
mcelliott said:
Valverde proving that as long as you've got a good doctor, age is not a barrier. #freakshow
Really?? not sure if you're serious or your record player is broken churning out the same old baloney. I thought his tribute to Scaponi at the end of LBL was very sincere indeed. He gave all his prize money to the Scarpni family and dedicated the win to him!
Dr Imran T said:
mcelliott said:
Valverde proving that as long as you've got a good doctor, age is not a barrier. #freakshow
Really?? not sure if you're serious or your record player is broken churning out the same old baloney. I thought his tribute to Scaponi at the end of LBL was very sincere indeed. He gave all his prize money to the Scarpni family and dedicated the win to him!
But there's no baloney IMO
Valverde was busted. He never apologised. Or assisted the authorities. An original member of the omerta!
All of a sudden he's smashing people much younger than him. It stinks!
Glad to see I'm not the only person wondering how on earth he keeps doing it.
This article from seven years ago gives a bit of background to what happened. It's also the reason I have never been able to trust Valverde:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/01/alej...
This article from seven years ago gives a bit of background to what happened. It's also the reason I have never been able to trust Valverde:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/01/alej...
Gruffy said:
There's a few more on my Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/darren_franks/ the best of which is this one of the tactical stand-off between GvA and Stybar on the final lap:
Brilliant. Worthy of magazine cover.funkyrobot said:
Glad to see I'm not the only person wondering how on earth he keeps doing it.
This article from seven years ago gives a bit of background to what happened. It's also the reason I have never been able to trust Valverde:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/01/alej...
He's also not exactly contriteThis article from seven years ago gives a bit of background to what happened. It's also the reason I have never been able to trust Valverde:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/01/alej...
https://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/alejandro-valverde...
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