2011 Tour De France Stage 17 (20/7/2011): Gap > Pinerolo, 179km

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Mar 31, 2010
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
Hoogerland really is a terrible descender. Omg.

netherlands is the colombia os 21st century in downhil

ten dam, gesink, thomas dekker, clement, hoogerland, my god
 
Carl0880 said:
HE is referring to the Basque country, which is where Euskatel is from. Basque is the northern mountainous region of Spain, they consider themselves seperate from SPain .
Euska -tel.. is the phone company for Euskadi .. (the word for Basque in Basque language). Although all of them are Spaniards , not all of the riders in the Team are Basque. PS: The Basque region extend to a region in France with several cities.
 
May 14, 2010
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I have to say, I keep noticing that Voeckler looks entirely comfortable in yellow, like he was born wearing it.
 
A stage win !! (what is this)

Yesterday was an interesting stage, only thanks to contador, otherwise it would likely just have been another stage where the rest of peloton had been rolling to finish.

But a shame how so many stages just are being neutrlizing and gived away to a an early break and that will also take some of the motivation from the favorites when the stage win is already gone.

a joke..

Cant blame europcar, this is offcourse perfect for them, and my hats off to have they have handle it so fare..
 
The Hitch said:
The most frustrating thing is when you look at the map and at km 138 it says "Fennestrelle 1163m". Fennestrele reminds me a lot of the mountain that lies 1km to its North.

I know they might not be bothered to go 300km into Italy to do the Zoncolan for example, but the Colle delle Finnestre is right there.

Its right there!!!!

I can't believe how terrible this Tour is.

The Pyrenees were a huge letdown. We're in the second day in the Alps and they select climbs like these, with a finish after a technical descent.

The most exciting moment of the Tour so far was yesterday's last hill and treacherous decent.

At least the next three days should be good, but this race says volumes about the lack of imagination the race organizers have. And given the lessons the Giro and Vuelta have provided, it makes me wonder if theirs is pure insolence?
 
Jul 28, 2010
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Maxiton said:
I have to say, I keep noticing that Voeckler looks entirely comfortable in yellow, like he was born wearing it.

That's because Europcar rides at a snail's pace, and BMC, Saxo, Leopard, Liquigas are content to do nothing.

Although with this stage, having anyone of the favorites attack before the Pramartino was a bit of a dream. A good dream, but a dream none the less.
 
Maxiton said:
I have to say, I keep noticing that Voeckler looks entirely comfortable in yellow, like he was born wearing it.
Come to think of it .. He has spent almost 17 days in Yellow if you add the last time. Has anybody in this year's tour worn the jersey more than that?
 
this is getting to be little redundant, but we are going down a HC climb with the peleton being led by one of the worse climbing sprinters, Farrar. Tells you how little racing their has been
 
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Carl0880 said:
this is getting to be little redundant, but we are going down a HC climb with the peleton being led by one of the worse climbing sprinters, Farrar. Tells you how little racing their has been

It could be worse, Andy could have been leading them down!
 
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jobiwan said:
That's because Europcar rides at a snail's pace, and BMC, Saxo, Leopard, Liquigas are content to do nothing.

Although with this stage, having anyone of the favorites attack before the Pramartino was a bit of a dream. A good dream, but a dream none the less.

Nope. He looks that way all the time, fast, slow, descending, climbing - like he owns the jersey and plans to keep it. Agree about the dream, though. But when the attacks do come, I think (hope) they'll be decisive.