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sput·nik · 03-19-2009, 08:17 AM

if it were anyone else.. or even if the DS was anyone else, then we could go right down that road of thinking without a thought.

but bro you've got to know that LA is not interested in riding for someone else in Paris... if he takes that opening TT victory (though the course truly favors Contador) he is going to demand to be treated & protected like a leader, and Johan would be right there behind him. If everything goes as planned, Astana will have 1-2-3 after the Team-TT wraps up the first week. Assuming he can drag a wheel up the few pesky climbs that they've scattered across the route this year, he could surely win just based on gains picked up in the ITTs.

A scenario of "two team leaders" isn't unheard of, but to look at the psychological warfare that Lance has taken up in the past week (Twittering, his nice L'Equipe interview) and even Johan getting in on the "critiquing" of Bertie's floundering of the Paris-Nice lead...

sketchy. Alberto just needs to win that TT and send the Texan back to the retirement home for good..

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sput·nik denizen Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: the blackest lodge Posts: 3,728 Thanks: 142 Thanked 152 Times in 108 Posts	if it were anyone else.. or even if the DS was anyone else, then we could go right down that road of thinking without a thought. but bro you've got to know that LA is not interested in riding for someone else in Paris... if he takes that opening TT victory (though the course truly favors Contador) he is going to demand to be treated & protected like a leader, and Johan would be right there behind him. If everything goes as planned, Astana will have 1-2-3 after the Team-TT wraps up the first week. Assuming he can drag a wheel up the few pesky climbs that they've scattered across the route this year, he could surely win just based on gains picked up in the ITTs. A scenario of "two team leaders" isn't unheard of, but to look at the psychological warfare that Lance has taken up in the past week (Twittering, his nice L'Equipe interview) and even Johan getting in on the "critiquing" of Bertie's floundering of the Paris-Nice lead... sketchy. Alberto just needs to win that TT and send the Texan back to the retirement home for good.. __________________ and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music . . . Last edited by sput·nik; 03-19-2009 at 08:21 AM.