Recent content by Cervelo77

55 km/h ITT coming up.

Re: A Frenchman in yellow probably got a lot of moto love out on the course. TTing is a lot easier with a draft.

Re: Well, it is the Tour de France, not the Tour de Stage 6. I didn't expect much today. I think the GC teams are focused on not losing at this point. Still a long way to Paris.

Re: Re: Surely they know this, right? I'd say they just don't have it in them to ride faster and drop Froome. Froome has a stranglehold on this race at this point.

Encouraging to see Aru has good legs. Aru has actually won a 3 week stage race, unlike Mr. Porte. We might get something of an interesting GC race yet. The time gaps are not massive and this is far from a done deal for Sky. One mechanical at a bad time and Froome is out of yellow.

The ASO should just ban sprinting if they don't want to see crashes. I maintain Sagan was trying to balance himself. In the overhead shot it sure looks a lot like Cav runs into Sagan and then Sagan puts out his elbow to avoid going down. Result not equal to intent. I could see relegating Sagan...

It's silly to complain about sprint stages. They're sprint stages.

I dunno, it's not like the Sky riders at the top of the table haven't had good results in TTs before, and Tony Martin isn't exactly stellar at TT's anymore despite the narrative the TV hosts want. I'm not really shocked by anything anymore (though maybe that moto parked at the side of the road...

Not ideal from an entertainment perspective to see Froome with a solid lead over his GC rivals, but it's early, and the big gaps this year should come in the mountains. Porte might be kicking himself in a few weeks when he looks at the final time gaps, but I also get his reluctance to take any...

Or they take oral steroids instead of injectable ones—because the orals clear your system faster. Well, they also cause organ damage. From a health perspective, that is a disaster. LOL. Like we're supposed to care about health outcomes for those trying to cheat. Life choices people, life...

Hosszu seems like a screaming case of getting on the right meds to boost her to world class status. The whole Hungary connection and her 'coach' add up to deep skepticism.

TTs are about suffering. She is a mother. Unfair advantage.

Re: THE reason for altitude training camp.

I'm still waiting for the Froome attack that adds another 2 minutes to his lead. We at least demand entertainment. Without the shock and awe attack this will just be an empty victory.

Re: Sky Hmm. Froome still has a lot of work to do. Hinault, Fignon and Merckx all won tours by over 10 minutes. Sky are not trying hard enough.