Cancellara warns rivals to fasten seatbelts ahead of Paris-Roubaix
Swiss rider likens himself to gladiator



168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabian Cancellara (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Leopard Trek) has thrown down the gauntlet ahead of Sunday’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix and stated that his rivals know that they “must faste🎐n their seatbelts” whenever he goeওs to the front.
Still smarting from his third place finish at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Flanders, Cancellara ex🦂plained that he attacked from distance on the Leberg in order to mark the history of the race. While the Swiss rider appeared to over-estimate his strength and was reeled back in at the foot of the Muur, impressively he still had the wherewithal to spark the winning move in the closing kilometres.
. “It didn’t work out like that, I showed that I am human and maybe it’s better that way.”Cancellara claimed th𒈔at the remainder of the Tour of Flanders fiel🌟d rode against him on Sunday, and damned winner Nick Nuyens (Saxo Bank-SunGard) with the faintest of praise for the manner of his triumph.
“I’m very happy: there were fifty of them behind a gladiator,” Cancellara continued. “It was a spectacle and a double satisfaction: I loꦜst by trying to win, the others rode only to make me lose. And in the end the one who was always in the wheels won. Congratulations to Nuyens, but for me [winning] like that has no value.”
Although his hope🌃s of winning the Flanders-Roubaix double for the second successive year have been dashed, Cancellara believes that he is the favourite to collect꧟ his third Hell of the North on Sunday.
“In Flanders I was the only one of the big riders in front, and so Iꦿ would say I am still the number one favourite,” he said. “I am the only man in the world who can make an 𝄹attack like the one in Flanders, or in Roubaix in 2010. Everybody knows that if I’m at 100 percent they have to fasten their seatbelts, like on an aeroplane.”
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Bufalino’s book
Cancellara’s stunning classics campaign twelve months ago sparked allegations that he had been aided by motor hidden in his bike. The rumours came to a head when a Davide Cassani demonstrated the capabilities of such a bike on Italian state broadcaster Rai, and that commentary later formed part of an accusatory YouTube clip created by journalist Mওichele Bufali🌺no.
Bufalino has recently published a book on the issue of motorized doping, entitled La Bici Dopata (“The Doped Bike”), and Cancellara voi☂🗹ced his frustration that the matter was still being discussed.
“Caꦍssani, who made the video, has never come up to me,” Cancellara said. “This Bufalino who has written the book on the doped bike, I’d liked to pin him to the wall. If he introduced himself to me, I’d have to ask him two things – why is🍸 he doing all of this and whether he can see well.”
Cancellara was also critical of the current anti-doping system, and suggested that too many different agencies were testing rid𒁏ers and that cyclists were tested more often than other athletes.
“It would be important to have better balance,” he said. “If I continue like this, I’ll break my record of 58 controls in 2009.🍃 It doesn’t seem right to me and it makes me suspicious. Sometimes the different anti-doping bodies seem to work one ag💙ainst the other, and a lot of money is thrown away.”
Wh🌠ile Cancellara was the man who led protests against the safety of the roaꩲds on stage two of the 2010 Tour de France, he said that there was little he could do about some of the current political disagreements plaguing cycling.
“I always look to help my sport,” Cancellara said. “But even I can’t solve the problems that are there now, and I am among the top riders. They are related to politics, money and the show of power. Alone against ൲all of this, I can only lose. Unfortunately the ‘mafia’ exists everywhere, and I’ve understood that speaking too much is not profitable.”

Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cyclinওg since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of , published by Gill Books.