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MikeWaters · 07-31-2008, 07:41 PM

Brunyeel will have Leipheimer on the right doping schedule to do very, very well.

SteelBlue · 07-31-2008, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Maybe. I am not sure that without pharmocological assistance it wil be possible to do so well. You pick bettini and he wasn't in the TdF. Besides, I think Levi will be pissed due to astana's exclusion and will have trained well. CVV will be not as focused, feeling happy with himself and his almost podium finsih at the TdF.

Hamilton looked great winning the Olympic race after riding in the TdF but we all know why. Chimeric twin.

bigpiney · 07-31-2008, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Mine are off too. Is that a current photo? Weird dude, but fast.

I have had the picture up a few weeks. I found it on the nbcolympics site so I assume it is as recent as he has. Very creepy look he is giving.

MikeWaters · 07-31-2008, 10:24 PM

I read Z's blog today. He spends at least a paragraph talking about how after his vertebrae fracture, he tried to have a bowel movement.

creekster · 07-31-2008, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I read Z's blog today. He spends at least a paragraph talking about how after his vertebrae fracture, he tried to have a bowel movement.

One of the funnier bicycling related things I have ever read was from about 2005 or 2006 when Bicycling published an interview of Floyd Landis by David Z. It was hilarious. They were rooming togther in Europe while training for their teams and Zabriskie is a very funny guy. Weird, but funny. And fast.

MikeWaters · 07-31-2008, 10:38 PM

Z has worked to get better in the mountains. But doing so he is no longer fastest in the TT.

I liked it better when he was best TT.

creekster · 07-31-2008, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Z has worked to get better in the mountains. But doing so he is no longer fastest in the TT.

I liked it better when he was best TT.

Strange that he grew up on the east bench of SLC and is not so good in the mountains.

MikeWaters · 07-31-2008, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Strange that he grew up on the east bench of SLC and is not so good in the mountains.

Lance grew up in Plano, TX and is great in the mountains. It has more to do with your genetics than your location. Just like sprinting and long-distance. You don't become a sprinter because you live next to a track.

creekster · 07-31-2008, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Lance grew up in Plano, TX and is great in the mountains. It has more to do with your genetics than your location. Just like sprinting and long-distance. You don't become a sprinter because you live next to a track.

Thank you captain science. Lance wasn't so good in the mountains, btw, until after cancer.

I guess I should ahve said isn't it ironic. Dontcha think?

MikeWaters · 07-31-2008, 10:53 PM

you don't even need mountains to train for mountains.

View Poll Results: Who will be the top US road race finisher?
George Hincapie	0	0%
Levi Leipheimer	4	50.00%
Christian VandeVelde	1	12.50%
Jason McCartney	0	0%
Dave Zabriskie	3	37.50%
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07-31-2008, 07:41 PM	#11
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Brunyeel will have Leipheimer on the right doping schedule to do very, very well.

07-31-2008, 10:24 PM	#14
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I read Z's blog today. He spends at least a paragraph talking about how after his vertebrae fracture, he tried to have a bowel movement.

07-31-2008, 10:38 PM	#16
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Z has worked to get better in the mountains. But doing so he is no longer fastest in the TT. I liked it better when he was best TT.

07-31-2008, 10:53 PM	#20
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	you don't even need mountains to train for mountains.