2011 Tour de France, Stage 12: Cugnaux - Luz-Ardiden, 209 km

[Ramira]

I am playing my tiniest violin in our honor.

Please make a video of that, I'd love to finally see that tiny violin i bet it will be a youtube hit!

 

[dlwssonic]

don't dope if you can't cope.

sorry I just had an Eminem moment

Anyway he has a giro, he has that to fall back on.
Gesink really put a big season focus on this race, so he is on the course for massive failure if the injuries succumb him.

at least he won the tour of oman and got some podiums unlike the schlecks.

 

[yell4cadel]

Interesting to hear Richie say that AC will go nuts on the last climb today.

 

[brollebol]

Pfft I had to come up with someone. He's the only one who has shown anything in a GC who's significantly younger then AS. True the odds of it happening are about 1 in 1000 but he still has a better chance of any of the guys who are Andy's age.

What GT was that? I've more impressive rides by young guys...

 

[Ramira]

at least he won the tour of oman and got some podiums unlike the schlecks.

Hmmm so in what world is the tour of oman better then a podium in LBL? A fourth rate 1 week race vs a Monument?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Pfft I had to come up with someone. He's the only one who has shown anything in a GC who's significantly younger then AS. True the odds of it happening are about 1 in 1000 but he still has a better chance of any of the guys who are Andy's age.

Kruijswijk.

 

[The Hitch]

There is no sprint till Sunday. I cant help but get the feeling that Cav had an opportunity to win a lot of fans and surprise his rivals and make a statement by making an effort to get in a break. Even if it failed it would shock OPL movistar and make them work.

 

[El Pistolero]

at least he won the tour of oman and got some podiums unlike the schlecks.

I rather finish third in LBL than win in Oman though.

 

[dlwssonic]

Hmmm so in what world is the tour of oman better then a podium in LBL? A fourth rate 1 week race vs a Monument?

1st Overall, Tour of Oman
Young Rider Classification
1st, Stage 4
1st, Stage 5 (ITT)
2nd Overall, Tirreno–Adriatico
1st, Stage 1 (TTT)
1st Youth Classification, Tirreno–Adriatico
3rd Overall, Tour of the Basque Country

its a decent palmares for 2011, better than andy or franks i believe. im am not gesink fan btw, just making it clear

 

[El Pistolero]

There is no sprint till Sunday. I cant help but get the feeling that Cav had an opportunity to win a lot of fans and surprise his rivals and make a statement by making an effort to get in a break. Even if it failed it would shock OPL movistar and make them work.

OPL would start laughing and Phil would just get in the same break and pull him back à la Armstrong.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

at least he won the tour of oman and got some podiums unlike the schlecks.

pfft big deal.

he trained hard for oman also, while others not as much.
For personal reasons obviously.

That doesn't make his season a success, no way.

 

[Ramira]

What GT was that? I've more impressive rides by young guys...

First half of the Vuelta, before he crashed and burned. Remember he's only 22 unlike the majority of the other young guys who are all 24-26. But i'll admit it wasn't a very good example, just the only one that came to me in the 3 seconds I thought about it because I remembered being impressed with him at the start of last year's Vuelta.

 

[Woody22]

Interesting to hear Richie say that AC will go nuts on the last climb today.

Yeah, he will be going nuts as Evans rides off into the distance.

 

[BM1979]

And what about Contador fans? Grueling Giro, knee injury, 1 and a half minute down, desperate to make up time, weak team etc

And six previous GT wins to reflect upon Haha mate sorry but It does not come close

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

stage win to kadri? 9 minutes, assuming they won't start pacing until midway tourmalet I don't see them making good so much time

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

There is no sprint till Sunday. I cant help but get the feeling that Cav had an opportunity to win a lot of fans and surprise his rivals and make a statement by making an effort to get in a break. Even if it failed it would shock OPL movistar and make them work.

This is cav were talking about.

 

[b.broadhurst]

20km until the start of Hourquette d'Ancizan for the breakaway!!

 

[dlwssonic]

pfft big deal.

he trained hard for oman also, while others not as much.
For personal reasons obviously.

That doesn't make his season a success, no way.

still has the vuelta. I remembered watching him in the 2009 vuelta and I was pretty impressed by him. At that time i didnt know anything about cycling. what on earth happened to him on one of the stages he lost like 6min right.

 

[Ramira]

Kruijswijk.

He's 24, only 2 years younger then Andy and nowhere near as good as he was at 24 years of age (remember he was 2nd in the tour at 24) there is no way he will overtake him (that's not to say I don't love him, his home town is only a few km's away from where I grew up and he's an incredible talent, just never going to overtake AS).

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Thomas Tank (Geraint) in virtual yellow?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Gilbert: "I expect Schlecks, Contador, Evans... and Gesink looks better than 2 days ago. Add a couple of spaniards and Basso... and I just hope to hang on"

 

[Parrulo]

Pfft I had to come up with someone. He's the only one who has shown anything in a GC who's significantly younger then AS. True the odds of it happening are about 1 in 1000 but he still has a better chance of any of the guys who are Andy's age.

you should really make a profession out of this. you can make that kind of stand up comedy where the comedian says a bunch of silly stuff and people laugh.

there are like 20 guys younger then andy who have shown much more talent then TJVG in terms of GT. all TJVG has for himself is a couple of good performances on a few uphill sprints on the first week of last years vuelta before vanishing never to be seen again as soon as the peloton hit the mountains and getting dropped by a guy that is aiming to put up a fight to gilbert on hilly classics on a small mountain.

 

[Ramira]

still has the vuelta. I remembered watching him in the 2009 vuelta and I was pretty impressed by him. At that time i didnt know anything about cycling. what on earth happened to him on one of the stages he lost like 6min right.

If he tries to go for the Tour he's not going to do anything in the Vuelta, remember it's 2 weeks closer to the tour this year then last year. He might top 10 but he won't podium.

 

[sultanofhyd]

Gilbert: "I expect Schlecks, Contador, Evans... and Gesink looks better than 2 days ago. Add a couple of spaniards and Basso... and I just hope to hang on"

Hang on and do what?

 

[Maxiton]

My goodness, you brave souls. 2 Hours Ahead of Ya'll and I'm pretty much a walking zombie at the moment.

Go Andy! (Emits another huge yawn)

Courage, my man, courage. And coffee. In fact skip the courage, just go for the coffee.

Please make a video of that, I'd love to finally see that tiny violin i bet it will be a youtube hit!

Nah, they don't let porn on YouTube.

Interesting to hear Richie say that AC will go nuts on the last climb today.

Interesting indeed. If he does that, it's practically over already.

There is no sprint till Sunday. I cant help but get the feeling that Cav had an opportunity to win a lot of fans and surprise his rivals and make a statement by making an effort to get in a break. Even if it failed it would shock OPL movistar and make them work.

That would be cool, but I'm not sure he speaks that language.

OPL would start laughing and Phil would just get in the same break and pull him back à la Armstrong.

Would Phil make a "zip the lip" motion, too?