Tomac hurt?

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kpiper wrote:
Did Tomac actually comment after the race? I have not seen it. Of course, Eli being an old school racer...why would he tell anyone if he...

Did Tomac actually comment after the race? I have not seen it. Of course, Eli being an old school racer...why would he tell anyone if he was hurt? Just works against you.

Eli won't ever admit if/when he's hurt until after the fact. It looks like he might be dealing with something though.

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What kind of damage could a hay bale cause to an ankle/knee. The 450 main start at Birmingham, Tomac smacks a hay bale with his left...

IMG 0009 1IMG 0010 0What kind of damage could a hay bale cause to an ankle/knee. The 450 main start at Birmingham, Tomac smacks a hay bale with his left foot pretty good.

Timeline makes sense if this was the incident. 

 

Dan541 wrote:

Now that's an interesting one.

He got to 3rd in that one if I remember right. Would make sense.

jcut11 wrote:

Right…fastest qualifier to 35 seconds off the pace in the main.

I’m sure we will find out in 2 months what the deal is though. 

I watched that start again at Birmingham and he definitely hit that tuff block hard with his foot. No way we can tell if it hurt him, though. I do know when I hit my 'bad knee' or 'bad foot', it does hurt and gets in your head some. It can slow you down for a while. Looks like a possibility for sure.

Kenny could not beat Eli before this moment, as far as I remember. And now, all of a sudden, Eli can't keep up with him. And I don't think Tomac had been this far off in qualifying all year, as he did in Detroit.

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"Yeah physically I’m fine," said Tomac to our Tom Journet today at press day. "I’m good, I’m good. Birmingham I was just a little bit under the weather if I want to make an excuse about anything. Last week? Just not great riding."
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[quote]"Yeah physically I’m fine," said Tomac to our Tom Journet today at press day. "I’m good, I’m good. Birmingham I was just a little bit under...

"Yeah physically I’m fine," said Tomac to our Tom Journet today at press day. "I’m good, I’m good. Birmingham I was just a little bit under the weather if I want to make an excuse about anything. Last week? Just not great riding."

“Under the weather?” See? Hemorrhoids, I tell you 

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So what's the scoop? Twitter and IG are all over the place today. Kellen and Lewis aren't making alot of sense. Is he confirmed hurt? Bike issue? Mid season funk?

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So what's the scoop? Twitter and IG are all over the place today. Kellen and Lewis aren't making alot of sense. Is he confirmed hurt? Bike...

So what's the scoop? Twitter and IG are all over the place today. Kellen and Lewis aren't making alot of sense. Is he confirmed hurt? Bike issue? Mid season funk?

Just watch this.

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I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".

 

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Spoiler alert, you only need to listen to the first ~3 minutes.

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Haha.  That was great!

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RACING wrote:
I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".  

I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".

 

Don’t be lazy. You used to have to wait for a magazine to show up a month later to get the scoop

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He's the only great in the sport's history that periodically falls apart mentally and rides like shit. 

most people don't want to acknowledge this and are fabricating injury excuses even though there is zero proof of that 

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RACING wrote:
I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".  

I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".

 

Sorry.

To be clear, everyone, the Haiden Deegan interview contains NO Eli information, so you don't need to watch that.

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 His mid season slump coincides with calving season, coincidence?

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RACING wrote:
I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".  

I hate it when a journalist answers a factual question by "Watch my 20 minute video".

 

Don’t be lazy. You used to have to wait for a magazine to show up a month later to get the scoop

yeah but you can easily flip to the interesting stuff

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Sorry.

To be clear, everyone, the Haiden Deegan interview contains NO Eli information, so you don't need to watch that.

I couldn't imagine Deegan talking about anything else than himself.

 

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PRM31 wrote:

Spoiler alert, you only need to listen to the first ~3 minutes.

Or read what Maverick posted before.

😉

 

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Remember what happened last time Big Lew said Tomac was fine !

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WTH is going on with Eli? You don't go from being the fastest guy the first 8-9 rounds, winning 4 races and then just drop off...

WTH is going on with Eli? You don't go from being the fastest guy the first 8-9 rounds, winning 4 races and then just drop off the pace this far without something being wrong. This is where our sport sucks. You will never hear the why. No way he just lost his speed and desire lol. This is going to suck if Hunter just runs away with this championship. Sure would be great to know what the F he is struggling with. 

Today… Tomac said he was sick in Arlington.  And Indy just wasn’t his night.

He said there’s no lingering health issues.  I hope he’s telling the truth!  

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He seemed annoyed by big Lews question on St Louis press day. “ I heard you found something in the bike”, “if I did I wouldn’t tell you guys”. 
The earlier part of the season where he’s doing well and happy seem to be replaced by stressed and upset about all the questions about what’s wrong.  

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He didn't look great in the Press Day ride video. I'm sure they are just out there messing around but zero aggression. 

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Terrible. 1,5 off. This isn’t good. He won’t even jump that triple, triple the 250 guys are hitting 

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Yeah I know he said he’s not hurt and so on but something’s objectively wrong. For sure. Just looks bad. 

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Yeah just be honest. Same with Hunter, what’s up after his crash last week?

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OwenJakes wrote:

Yeah I know he said he’s not hurt and so on but something’s objectively wrong. For sure. Just looks bad. 

Searching for perfection with the bike, made it worse? Who knows lol

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OwenJakes wrote:

Yeah I know he said he’s not hurt and so on but something’s objectively wrong. For sure. Just looks bad. 

Lineman25 wrote:

Searching for perfection with the bike, made it worse? Who knows lol

Yeah he should just keep the set up that he was comfy and winning on. Especially if Indiana was just under the weather. He was fastest there in practice.

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Tomac is a headcase so all of this talk will just feed into his issues and he'll continue to struggle 

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... Epstein Barr? 

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Maybe he got in a fight with his wife a couple of weeks ago? I have seen such things with athletes before...so who knows.

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Definitely didn’t look like “nothing wrong” in that heat race. Rarely tripling through the rhythms, sorry Eli if you don’t care for the speculation, but something is wrong…

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bout time to put a fork in it.

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