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No, I don't think any of the mainstream media has picked up on it snoopcester Send a noteboard - 30/07/2012 11:59:27 PM
I didn't actually see the race myself (sounds like my watching the women's instead got me the better deal by far - the three escapees there were impressive, but Vos deserved the win, I'm thinking), but the Belgian and Dutch cycling journalists are treating it as pretty much an established fact that Vino bought the victory, yet again.

Supposedly Uran's reaction to Vino's final attack was ridiculous and just not believable at all, so they figure he did what he did to win Liege-Bastogne-Liege a few years back, when it was Kolobnev whom he paid to lose.


I watched both - the women's race was a better one and agree, all three of them put in good rides. Vos is a class apart in ability from what I've seen of her.

Uran did make what looked like the sort of mistake a school kid would make and did it in an exaggerated looking manner as well - a prolonged look back to the left for anyone catching up when he was on the left hand side of the road and should just have been worrying about how to beat Vino. Against that, Uran is a pretty out and out climber from what I've seen of him - I'd expect Vino to win 9 times out of 10 in that situation anyway and Uran did look pretty much dead on his bike, so he might have already figured he couldn't beat Vino and was only caring about getting the silver medal. Dunno, unless Uran moves to Astana in the next couple of seasons or it turns out that post race he bought a brand new Ferrari, I imagine we will never know.
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No, I don't think any of the mainstream media has picked up on it - 30/07/2012 11:59:27 PM 470 Views
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