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Cunego - just thinking about all the reasons they sounded pretty silly and irrational and to list them here would come across as petty. At any rate i don't like him in the way sometimes you just don't like someone. But can i mention the "i'm doping free" fake tatoos please and Lampre's history? And ex teammates (Ballan, Bruseghin, Simoni) all saying he is a prick and him just generally being a twat in the press (I speak Italian). The fact that he is from Verona and they are all Liga Nord voting fascist pricks. Oh and the way he would deliberately lose time in early stages of grand tour to get a stage win later as he would be out of GC? He is a better rider than being a stage chaser and so I found it a bit slack him going up against weaker riders who perhaps genuinly lost that time getting in breaks. Anyway, i was surprised at how well he rode this and fair play to him. I honestly thought that his high level career was over.
Liepheimer - the same irrational stuff. Don't like the look of him, his Praying Mantas TT style, one of Armstrongs henchmen. His silly stature...i mean, his body just looks strange. The whole quiet assasin thing he has.....but yeah, you're right, there isn't actually much to dislike. I found it all though!
Anyway, as pro-cyling isn't like football where you have a team or even a rider to support at the exclusion of all others, really we are just after a good race....and for certain riders we dislike (Pozzato, Cunego, Valverde, most of team Sky in my case) to lose.
But to be honest I'm not really looking forward to the tour. I really the think the only thing that can save it is Contador bombing at some point due to giro induced tiredness.