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

[funnytanlines]

jens will blow in a while. what happens next? frank attacks?

 

[hfer07]

Here it comes.......

 

[VeloCity]

What the hell is Leopard doing?

 

[Parrulo]

samu being on the front group can only mean one thing.

contador sending a team mate to the front

 

[kurtinsc]

samu has 20ish seconds on the peloton.

Bout time he showed those descending skills again

This makes things more interesting. Sanchez is still a GC threat even though he lost some time earlier. If he can get a significant lead at the foot of the final climb, it will eliminate any possibility of playing games at the beginning and waiting until the end to make a move. They'll have to go immediately to avoid giving Sammy a couple of minutes on this stage.

While some of the tactics being used by different teams can be questioned, it seems for the most part everything they've done has made the stage more interesting, not less. Gotta love that.

 

[mr. tibbs]

G-go Gadget Carrot army!

 

[spalco]

If Gilbert finishes in the top10 today I'll be very impressed, and start thinking he might have a GC career too.

 

[Carl0880]

Perez dropped back to pace Sanchez up the climb, Sanchez trying to make up for the time lost in the first 2 days

 

[max_powers]

Levi FTW.

yes Bottle or not, dude is there at 39 years old

apparently wheel sucking can extend one's successfull career!

A legit tactic

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

GO SAMU GO /joining hitchens group

 

[Anonymous]

Samu looks good.

 

[The Hitch]

How did Sammy get in front????

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

klodi gone

i dont see szymd

and perez did a monstor pull for samu

 

[funnytanlines]

no! klodi off the back

 

[Parrulo]

samu is going to ride those poor guys off his wheel

 

[Ferminal]

Samu looks to be going for it, great to see, no conservative rubbish.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

How did Sammy get in front????

trying to follow gilbert on the descent.

 

[Ramira]

How did Sammy get in front????

Seems he attacked in the descent, quite impressive (and bad directing we should have seen that)

 

[spalco]

I think Voigt will be done soon.

 

[El Pistolero]

How did Sammy get in front????

Descend, he was after Jelle and Gilbert.

 

[kjetilraknerud]

How did Sammy get in front????

That thing called descending.

 

[ericthesportsman6]

How did Sammy get in front????

On the descent. Went with Gilbert.

 

[Anonymous]

What the hell is Leopard doing?

Leading out Contador.

 

[jobiwan]

Best of luck to everyone on this climb.

See ya'll after an Andy victory!!

 

[Publicus]

How did Sammy get in front????

Bridged on the descent. He's in the first chase group