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

[Dermie]

Lots going down cos the road surface is new & its still leeching oil from the bitten coating

 

[Pantani_lives]

A lot of questions will be answered today:
*Is Contador's knee alright and can he regain time on his main rivals?
*Can Baby Schleck take yellow?
*Can Evans follow the better climbers?
*Is Gesink recovered?
*Is Basso, Samu or Fränk a podium contender?

 

[Anonymous]

Take it easy. If the mods kicked off everyone who misidentified a rider in a race thread, everyone who posts in a race thread would be gone.

And they would never allow Paul to become a member...

 

[Parrulo]

ok i am back

took me a little longer because i had to eat something first

poor kloden this sucks for him

 

[Tuarts]

Was the Suar rider down Coppel?

 

[bicing]

Unless my eyes deceive me, AC is riding alone (teammates in the bunch but behind him)

It's OK it's the Tourmalet. Contador should just sit on Andy Schleck's wheel and repeatedly say:
- Remember last year? I gifted you the win. You couldn't shake me. And now I've just come back from winning the Giro, I have a bung leg, and you still can't shake me.

Muahahahaaa!

 

[hfer07]

Tourmalet.........

 

[ak-zaaf]

I think I'm going to turn on another 2 TV's and make comments here about every single thing said on Sporza, NOS and Eurosport.

 

[zastomito]

Voeckler caused the fall.

 

[The Barb]

This is looking majorly like Kreuziger's stage.

 

[Parrulo]

how said it was samu going down? lol

 

[TeoSheva]

Was the Suar rider down Coppel?

by procyclinglive it was Engoulvent

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Thomas in yellow after today?

 

[jobiwan]

Ah Tourmalet, brings back good memories. Even though it was a gift.

 

[ak-zaaf]

This is looking majorly like Kreuziger's stage.

Depends if anyone is willing to do something on Tourmalet.
If they don't he's looking really good.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Thomas & Guitierrez back up front!

 

[Anonymous]

I got banned for joking that if the guy who took out Contador wants forgiveness he should take out Schleck and Basso.

Under these standards stating as fact " Sanchez is down" should definately be worth a strike.

Seriously? The moderation here has gone full ***.

 

[Maxiton]

people do it all the time, I guarantee I wouldn't go off at another member, who clearly made a mistake. that is imho pathetic.

My reaction would be...

...phewwww and/or is gesink ok?

fyi your ban was ridiculous also.

Yep, pretty ugly. We all make mistakes. Chill.

 

[thrawn]

Even Cavendish is back in the peloton...

 

[happychappy]

I'm with Hitch 100%.

People should stop listening to Phil and Paul. The blokes wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Osama Bin Laden and Cadel Evans on a bike.

Exactly.. and Osama is dead!

 

[hrotha]

I'm with Hitch 100%.

People should stop listening to Phil and Paul. The blokes wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Osama Bin Laden and Cadel Evans on a bike.

That one's easy. Evans is more short-tempered.

 

[PedalCastro]

Cav found his way back!

 

[Florian]

Mark is back in the bunch.

 

[trevim]

Cavendish and Noval back in the group

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Depends if anyone is willing to do something on Tourmalet.
If they don't he's looking really good.

indeed. if they tear it up they can easy take 5 minutes+ here.
3 minutes I doubt would be enough for the Luz Ardiden.