Tour Down Under 2019 - Impey takes stage 4!

[buckstopper]

That's unfair. Are you going to be working with DD this year? If so, great way to start. Go back and look at his health and injuries. 48 GT wins. He can still win if he's over the ebv

[Jase619]

That's unfair. Are you going to be working with DD this year? If so, great way to start. Go back and look at his health and injuries. 48 GT wins. He can still win if he's over the ebv

 

A tad touchy for a Tuesday. . . . He hasn't been great the last few years, 48 previous GT wins or not.

 

And with the new class of sprinter that is coming through, are you sure he can still win?

[buckstopper]

I believe he can. Please go back and read about his injuries in the last 2 years. Also, is he paid to ride his bike, or paid "to win"? (Like LM, EBH, Cummings, maybe the team's handlers need to do the Dale Carnegie course)

[Jase619]

I believe he can. Please go back and read about his injuries in the last 2 years. Also, is he paid to ride his bike, or paid "to win"? (Like LM, EBH, Cummings, maybe the team's handlers need to do the Dale Carnegie course)

 

Am familiar with his incidents and bad luck the last 2 years, so not necessary to go back and read.

 

Not sure what you mean by the part in bold, which do you think he is paid to do? Your point is not very clear

[buckstopper]

Perhaps the team's potential winners are put under a lot of pressure to get results, rather than a proper plan. I'm speculating

[Patchelicious]

Perhaps the team's potential winners are put under a lot of pressure to get results, rather than a proper plan. I'm speculating

It’s the same pressure that all the other sprinters, who are currently winning, are under. He is not some victim of other people’s doing.

 

Cavendish WAS a great sprinter. Can he win? Sure if he has a bit of luck and the big guns don’t rock up. If the teams disagreed, he wouldn’t be in the lowest ranking WT team.

[Jase619]

Perhaps the team's potential winners are put under a lot of pressure to get results, rather than a proper plan. I'm speculating

 

Which as Patch has said above is something that all professional sportspeople experience, not just in cycling and not just in Dimension Data.

 

I bet some teams put pressure on riders to get 150th place, the pressure is everywhere. Not just on the winners. 

 

What makes me naar is when you see someone isn't up to the task due to illness or lack of form or whatever and you still put all your eggs in that one basket. Makes no sense. Seems to be DiData's go to plan though.

[J Wakefield]

That's unfair. Are you going to be working with DD this year? If so, great way to start. Go back and look at his health and injuries. 48 GT wins. He can still win if he's over the ebv

 

I never once said he cant or wont win so not sure where you got that from? Don't read what you want to read, read what was said.

 

No not with them so not starting anything great.

 

48 wins are amazing, actually had a similar convo with a mate 3 days ago about his cv, but he isnt producing those wins anymore, he hasn't for a while and injuries, health etc or whatever reason which you dont actually know the facts, yes play a part hence saying he hasn't been great as he was for some time, you have also noted that.

 

Any and every athlete hits a peak in their career and then declines. Doesn't matter the sport and that period at this level is often 10yrs - go back and look at the time frame for him. If this wasn't the case then Petacchi would still be cleaning up sprints to this day. 

 

PS: Every team is under pressure to win or produce results at a top level, the riders, the staff and so forth, not just DD and yes, I do know this for fact. I haven't slept since November cause of it.

 

 

 

[Frosty]

Riders that have won on 5 continents:

https://twitter.com/procyclingstats/status/1089482562521743360?s=21