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Lanterne Rouge for Cavendish! :D

How much time does Quintana need on Froome before the stage 19 ITT?

I searched today's results for Tinkoff riders after Contador. The 2nd best finisher on the team: 78 Yury Trofimov 0:04:23 Damn. Is that the sort of "help" he can expect in the mountains this year? I know people have been saying he's team is weak, but that's just terrible. Meanwhile Movistar...

Re: Re: I know, I know... Is it practical to get barriers set up for a couple kilometers at the end of the stage? That's a lot of barriers. They could make the road rules for motos more strict too. Increase their lead/follow distance.

Can they just run barbed wire topped fence all the way up the big climbs, please? Thanks! :mad:

Are you freaking kidding me? A moto takes out the on the attack yellow jersey on a critical summit finish? Get the damn motos off the roads! Enough of this crap. What a farce!

Re: Re: Is the two time winner who's currently in the yellow jersey and riding brilliantly so far the favorite over the rider who's been runner-up to him twice? Yes, definitely. If he can stay healthy, Quintana's day will come, but probably not yet. Still hard to believe Quintana's only 26...

Re: Re: It's strange that Kreuziger wasn't there to help minimize his team leader's losses. I don't know if it happened too quickly, if Kreuziger ignored orders, or if perhaps given Contador's difficulties recovering from the stage 1 crash, the team wants to keep Kreuziger as well placed as...

I'm admittedly ignorant on the nitty-gritty details of the suffering that long days on the bike for weeks on end can take on the body, but I'm kind of shocked that with all the advances in modern gear and treatments, saddle sores are still something that can take a top contender out of a GT...

Re: This needs to happen. :D

Re: It always sucks to see a contender falter because of crash or illness whether I'm a fan of them or not. Granted we don't know what's going on with Froome, but it's looking like more than ordinary fatigue or lack of form. Too bad. This Vuelta had incredible potential but we started with...

Why would you count Froome out already? He lost a little time, but he may very well gain back much more than that against the other gc riders in the ITT. The big question is whether or not he can ride into better form as the race gets tougher. Obviously today's performance was worrisome for...

Re: Re: It's youtube. Don't read the comments goes without saying. :p Thanks for the link.

Re: Re: It's an odd quote. ""We haven't seen each other since the Tour. There are lots of incidents in races, and what happens in the race stays in the race," Nibali said, adding: "At the time, I preferred not to mention it, but in 2010 Froome was excluded from the Giro for being towed by a...

Re: They don't want to risk killing the GC excitement on the first day, but I agree something should be different. Waiting until the last two stages for much to happen with the GC is boring. They talk up how mountainous the Tour of Utah is, but then they don't really take advantage of it until...