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Moscon to catch Contador and Lopez, you know it will happen. :D

Is the live gap thingy playing games again? Contador and Lopez have shipped 25'' to Yates in the last 2km? :confused:

It just annoys me to see 5 Sky riders in a group of ~25 riders.

Re: Re: Astana's riding for some reason though, if Lopez was just stage hunting he would latch onto the Sky train and then attack near the end somewhere. Something will happen on Purche, but Sky looks more than ready.

What can even happen here? Sky is almost at full strength and other teams don't have doms in the break (and they catch up the break quickly if they up the tempo early on Purche). Aru to superdom for 10km on Nevada? :confused:

Re: Maybe Astana were deliberately going slow? Clutching at straws here. :D Purche was always the better bet for a long ranger attack, but this ascent didn't hurt Sky one bit.

I count 6 Sky riders in the main group, 'tis a failure.

Astana probably going slower than the Sky train would go. :o

30km in about 30 minutes. Bahrain and Trek trying to get people in the break, so they are at least up to something. What's Astana doing (apart from Lulu waiting for a wheel change)?

Re: Re: Yeah, lots of things would have to happen for Sky to be dropped. If Nibali, Contador and Lopez try standalone moves they won't succeed. Moreover, even in a select group of 10 Froome will still have at least one dom at hand. Moreover moreover, even if say 4-5 guys get away and Froome is...

You have to get rid of the Sky doms before the last 18km otherwise the train will squeeze all life out of the race. Hopefully Nibs has some dirty pics of Vino to make Astana work with BM. :D

Re: Re: Possible, at least for tomorrow. Lopez needs minutes on Zakarin and Kelderman and going balls out early could work for Astana. They have to be willing to use Aru as a superdom if they're serious about it though.

Could've perhaps won the stage today, they gifted Majka about 45'' when Lulu was pacing the group (unless the live gap thingy was being iffy again). Froome was in full control the whole time though. Bahrain is not strong enough to disrupt the Sky train and letting them control the race until...

Alright, this was a treat for us Nibbleholics. Great effort by Nibbles. :) IF Froome starts feeling TDF in his legs then a victory here is achievable.

I don't think Nibbles gets time on Froome here, but I want to see something today that tells me that it can happen later in the race. C'mon Nibbles throw us a bone!