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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
I have been noticing that Discovery has fielding it's B team riders
for the classics. Their Tour of Romandy team features no significant riders. |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
On May 1, 7:57 pm, " wrote:
I have been noticing that Discovery has fielding it's B team riders for the classics. Their Tour of Romandy team features no significant riders. Is Brajkovic insignificant? |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
I am just surprised to see riders like Antonio Cruz riding. But I am
more concerned about Discovery's tour riders. On May 1, 5:55 pm, Dwayne wrote: On May 1, 7:57 pm, " wrote: I have been noticing that Discovery has fielding it's B team riders for the classics. Their Tour of Romandy team features no significant riders. Is Brajkovic insignificant? |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
On 1 May 2007 20:44:40 -0700, "
wrote: I am just surprised to see riders like Antonio Cruz riding. Cruz was on the USPS classics team in the past -- he rode the Tour of Flanders and Paris to Roubaix and perhaps others. -- JT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
On May 2, 3:05 am, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote: On 1 May 2007 20:44:40 -0700, " wrote: I am just surprised to see riders like Antonio Cruz riding. Cruz was on the USPS classics team in the past -- he rode the Tour of Flanders and Paris to Roubaix and perhaps others. And he looked pretty good doing it too. They didn't rehire Tony because he was a poor water carrier. |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
On May 1, 4:57 pm, " wrote:
I have been noticing that Discovery has fielding it's B team riders for the classics. Their Tour of Romandy team features no significant riders. There might be a backstory here. Discovery could be playing to a potential new sponsor (since this is Discovery's last year) and deploying A-riders accordingly (saving them for the Tour or keeping them in North America). They''re also being realistic. Some Protour teams are not targeting the major tours and stack their deck for the spring classics. My favorite theory: Bruyneel has been playing to the Tour for so long he can't manage the tactics required during a 1-day effort. In a major tour you've got a lot to play with and 3 weeks to work it, but the classics require some rapid fire thinking on your feet (or pedals). Who do you put in the break, how do you respond to 5 attacks from a tier 2 team, how do you slowdown the peloton without letting armchair sprinters take the win, etc. Also, Bruyneel is not the kind of DS to let his riders call the shots from the peloton (not since Lance retired). Discovery also has a poor contingency on the sprint side. Outside of O'Grady in the P-R for CSC, most of the spring classics were contested in a sprint, although with a limited break group coming to the line. Schumacher is good classic rider (very much like Hincapie). He can handle enough rollers and still launch an attack with 10km to go. And he can hang with the strongest riders on an uphill finish, although its hard to beat Valverde and Bettini in such a situation. Without Hincapie (strongest rider in the long classics) they may have just decided to focus on hte Tours. The "in-between" tours are training rides (Romandie, Dauphine and Tour of Switzerland) for THE tour or the Giro, in my opinion. I'd like to see Levi or Danielson in Dauphine and the Vuelta this year. Both could win. |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
On May 1, 11:44 pm, " wrote:
I am just surprised to see riders like Antonio Cruz riding. But I am more concerned about Discovery's tour riders. Doesn't look like Cruz is riding. Velonews mentioned that he has some injuries from the Classics. But yeah, the Disco team isn't that impressive. |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
On May 3, 2:04 pm, paolo wrote:
My favorite theory: Bruyneel has been playing to the Tour for so long he can't manage the tactics required during a 1-day effort. In a major tour you've got a lot to play with and 3 weeks to work it, but the classics require some rapid fire thinking on your feet (or pedals). Who do you put in the break, how do you respond to 5 attacks from a tier 2 team, how do you slowdown the peloton without letting armchair sprinters take the win, etc. Also, Bruyneel is not the kind of DS to let his riders call the shots from the peloton (not since Lance retired). Is Bruyneel the Discovery DS for the classics? I thought that was Dirk Demol's responsibility... |
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Discovery using b team riders for classics...??
paolo wrote:
I'd like to see Levi or Danielson in Dauphine and the Vuelta this year. Both could win. Levi has never even won a stage in a Grand Tour. Neither of these guys has even finished in a podium position in a Grand Tour. Both of these guys, and Levi especially, are getting kind of old to show things that they have never shown before. Levi is 33. At 33 the trend line is down, not up. I've gotta think someone has to find a lot of blood in the fridge before the field is thinned out enough for either of these guys to have a shot at a Grand Tour. The Dauphine's a possibility though. That's a training race and Levi's won it before. If I had Copperopolis in my palmares I'd take a crack at the Dauphine. Bob Schwartz |
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