http://cyclingbeat.com/cadel-watch-spanish-style/ Cycling Products, News and Views Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cyclingbeat.com/cadel-watch-spanish-style/#comment-35 Damo Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:42:10 +0000 http://cyclingbeat.com/2007/08/16/cadel-watch-spanish-style/#comment-35 Yes, the effort of backing up so soon after a gruelling race like the Tour de France is a huge ask and hardly surprising that it's not possible to back up. I guess you only have to look as far as Levi Leipheimer in the Tour of Germany, just three weeks earlier Jens Voigt would have gotten nowhere near him up a mountain as brutal as Rettenbachferner. Yes, the effort of backing up so soon after a gruelling race like the Tour de France is a huge ask and hardly surprising that it’s not possible to back up. I guess you only have to look as far as Levi Leipheimer in the Tour of Germany, just three weeks earlier Jens Voigt would have gotten nowhere near him up a mountain as brutal as Rettenbachferner.

]]> http://cyclingbeat.com/cadel-watch-spanish-style/#comment-34 Sebastian Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:49:26 +0000 http://cyclingbeat.com/2007/08/16/cadel-watch-spanish-style/#comment-34 I'd love to see Evans pull this off, after missing both the Dauphine and the Tour by tiny margins. Historically, of course, the odds are not on this side. How many times, since the Vuelta moved to September, have we watched a Tour nearly-man (Beloki, Sastre, Botero) go to the Vuelta as the obvious favorite, only to be soundly outclassed by guys we've never heard of before (Aitor Gonzales, Isidro Nozal, Santi Perez)? Of course, all the riders in the latter parentheses have since been torpedoed with drug charges, so maybe if the Vuelta gets as paranoid about dope as the Tour we won't see some dubious dark-horse win. I’d love to see Evans pull this off, after missing both the Dauphine and the Tour by tiny margins. Historically, of course, the odds are not on this side. How many times, since the Vuelta moved to September, have we watched a Tour nearly-man (Beloki, Sastre, Botero) go to the Vuelta as the obvious favorite, only to be soundly outclassed by guys we’ve never heard of before (Aitor Gonzales, Isidro Nozal, Santi Perez)? Of course, all the riders in the latter parentheses have since been torpedoed with drug charges, so maybe if the Vuelta gets as paranoid about dope as the Tour we won’t see some dubious dark-horse win.

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