Cadel Evans

JC

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Jul 11, 2010, 10:59:59 PM7/11/10

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When Cadel Evans grabbed the yellow jersey, one of our commentators(Phil
Anderson) was asked "can Cadel hold on to it"?,.. he said he doubted it as
when he reaches the alps he won't have any team support, where as the other
contenders will.
Now i was under the understanding that the main reason he switched to BMC
from the Silence team was for better team support as he wasn't getting any
from Silence during the mountain stages.??

Bounty Bob

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Jul 12, 2010, 3:14:51 AM7/12/10

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Despite all the talk cuddles would have realised that BMC were weaker
but clearly he was unahppy at lotto and no doubt van den broeks
emergence harden his desire to leave and the WC win gave him the chance
when there weren't too many options left. (if his prickly personality
had left him many).

Keith

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Jul 12, 2010, 7:09:28 AM7/12/10

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Yes, probably money related too, Sastre pulled off the same thing two
years ago.

Cadel has always complained about "lack of support" anyway, in 2007 he
had Horner, who is hard to beat in terms of support, then they hired
Popovytch for him, unfortunately Popo wasn't the same as with JB for
some reason..., then last year Cadel wasn't up to it anyway. This year
he has Morabito who seems so-so...

Same old story anyway, Schleck is alone too in the mountains, and if
Navarro pulls like he did yesterday, they can tack just follow until
they try to make their move;

No one has a killer team like LA used to with 4 (or more) guys
trashing the field on the last climb.

Anton Berlin

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Jul 12, 2010, 9:39:19 AM7/12/10

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Schleck is a free agent - there will be a lot of friends willing to
help him should they want to be on the LU team next year.

He's not alone by any measure.

S Perryman

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Jul 13, 2010, 5:07:13 AM7/13/10

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Keith wrote:

> No one has a killer team like LA used to with 4 (or more) guys
> trashing the field on the last climb.

Armstrong currently has a team that is capable of doing exactly that.

But this 1D tactic is based on said team getting to said point :

1. together as one unit
2. with a team member having the form to deliver on final climb

In 2009 and 2010, #1 has failed for the Bruyneel/Armstrong team.
In 2009, the failure of #1 was nullified by #2 (Contador) .
In 2010, there is no Contador.

Most significantly, any notion of Johan Bruyneel being some kind
of DS master is gone for good. Easy to be the DS of a team when you have
the rider who is head and shoulders above everyone else

If anything, Bruyneel has shown himself to be a tactical fool.

Because after having one such rider (Armstrong) in his team, he has
was extremely fortunate to acquire a rider (Contador) who looks to be
the next one.

But rather than being able to continue the tried and tested 1D tactic
for several more years, he ditched Contador for a has-been.

But who knows ??
Perhaps Bruyneel is using 2010 as an opportunity to show us that he is
much more than that, and that he can assemble a team that win the TdF
when the 1D tactic cannot be used ...

Regards,
Steven Perryman