2011 Tour de France Stage 13: Pau - Lourdes 156km

[vcampbell]

What was Andrew's problem? Why is he crying again?

 

[Franckiie]

Hushovd has the cards in the hand

 

[spalco]

****, Hushovd can see Roy already.

 

[luckyboy]

Stop working Moncoutie

 

[Franckiie]

Gilbert in top 10 again?

 

[Bala Verde]

Gilbert in top 10 again?

He could gain +1m now?

 

[patrick767]

Its happened in European football as well sans Barcelona.

Teams prefer to play defensive then win 1-0 rather than play with flair and some risk to win 3-2.

Chelsea and Real Madrid under Mourinho are/were classic examples of this. Often in the away leg of the Champions League game the intent was to get a 0-0 draw! Try watching that for 90 minutes.

hah... good point. also I'm sure there are other factors too, but the 0-0 and 1-0 games are often cited by Americans as why they have a hard time getting into European football. There are no doubt purists that love to watch a strongly contested 1-0 Champions game or a low scoring, defensively dominated NBA game as much as a higher scoring game, but for many fans, it just gets boring.

Maxiton, you may have a point, but on the other hand Armstrong won 22 TdF stages, made a number of big attacks, and his duels with Ullrich were epic at times.

 

[AussieGoddess]

1min from Gilbert to peleton

 

[spalco]

Who gives a **** about Voeckler right now? Get back to Hushovd dammit.

 

[GroupDK]

18 sec

the viking thor is gonna have french dinner

 

[Tuarts]

Did someone crash? Why are Leotard on the front?

 

[thrawn]

17 seconds with 10km to go.

 

[mr. tibbs]

No idea why Moncoutie is hitting the wind AT ALL.

 

[TeoSheva]

Did someone crash? Why are Leotard on the front?

that's nice

 

[AussieGoddess]

Go Thor !!!!!!

 

[Escarabajo]

What is Moncoutie doing?

 

[thirteen]

What is remotely entertaining about someone riding off uncontested to take 8th or 9th place?

it's more entertaining than the lemmings in the peloton, keeping an eye on each other while doing absolutely f*** all.

seriously, though, some points up for grabs at the end, non?

 

[Sasquatch]

They wont catch him. If they do the French need to attack Thor. One has to sacrifice himself.

 

[Bala Verde]

18 sec

the viking thor is gonna have french dinner

coq au vin...

 

[Ferminal]

So, the peloton hit the Aubisque and decided to switch off? Typical TdF. Would only have been an interesting stage if there were 3-4 HC/Cat 1's before hand. Even then, the top of Aubisque is a bit too far from Lourdes.

They only have 6 days in the mountains, why waste one of them by turning it into a typical transition stage. It doesn't have to be an MTF, it just has to be worthy of being recognised as a mountain stage. A few stages in the first week were harder than this.

 

[luckyboy]

No idea why Moncoutie is hitting the wind AT ALL.

He's been practising his sprint. Probably

 

[Maxiton]

hah... good point. also I'm sure there are other factors too, but the 0-0 and 1-0 games are often cited by Americans as why they have a hard time getting into European football. There are no doubt purists that love to watch a strongly contested 1-0 Champions game or a low scoring, defensively dominated NBA game as much as a higher scoring game, but for many fans, it just gets boring.

Maxiton, you may have a point, but on the other hand Armstrong won 22 TdF stages, made a number of big attacks, and his duels with Ullrich were epic at times.

Yeah, there were some exciting moments, but I was never much impressed with the so called duals with Ulrich, the eternal second.

 

[superconfex]

Gilbert in top 10 again?

Is there such a thing as a Gilbert hater??

 

[spalco]

Come on Roy, fight for your life.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

If Roy holds this than he is a goddamn hero