2011 Tour de France Stage 18 - Pinerolo - Galibier Serre-Chevalier 200.5km

[jsem94]

Finally. They need to up the pace greatly

 

[sultanofhyd]

Bjarne are you ****ing sleeping? Can't you see the ****ing gaps?

 

[RdBiker]

conti setting the pace, helpers done.

This is excatly what he must've been fearing.

 

[sportzchick]

Four Minutes for the first time today.

It's starting to come back...

 

[The Hitch]

Oh crap. Contador has decided hes better off pacing the bunch than pacing himself.

Has Schleck hit the 4 minute mark at any point. I think hes got to 3.59 but not up to 4.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Okay, Contador has awakened, let's see how well organized he and the others can get.

 

[trevim]

Contador should suck Evans wheel. His season is great already and he has won this before. Make them work if they want to win.

 

[goggalor]

Contador on the front. Will we see a Conta/Evans/Samu/Basso/Voeckler TTT?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Contador takes responsibilty. Now Cadel.
No cooperation amongst the contenders = huge gap at the finish.

 

[shalgo]

Did I just see Hushovd in the MJ group?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I agree this could be a good situation for evans.
However if andy pulls it off it isn't. But I can't see him keeping that big of a gap. 2 minutes at best imo. we shall see.

evans and ac have to do their own work. good news for schleck really.

 

[Jamsque]

Contador and Evans working together now.

 

[khodder]

Will Frank attack at all if Andy is still up front? We know he is not going to pull at all, it could be good for him if he can create a gap with about 5 KM to go, as long as he does not drag anyone with him.

 

[sulgpallur]

contador working for sanchez?

 

[Cobblestoned]

Andy won't be fresh tomorrow. That's for sure.

Great effort anyway, but nothing more, if they should catch him later.
Little windy, so I think it will be hard for Andy to pull this through.

Now the big names start chasing.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Contador and Evans have no helpers left and have to work themselves

 

[Ramira]

The strange thing is that Iglinsky can still follow, so Andy isn't even going that hard.

I don't think Andy is attacking, he's simply riding a comfortable pace for himself, it's just faster then the helpers in the back can manage.

Edit: Favourites starting to panick. It keeps looking better for Andy.

 

[goggalor]

Evans working now. He needs to make friends. They all do. Except Fränk.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Oh crap. Contador has decided hes better off pacing the bunch than pacing himself.

Has Schleck hit the 4 minute mark at any point. I think hes got to 3.59 but not up to 4.

yes he did.

 

[bicing]

Contador is the patron of the peloton, he decides he has to take responsibility and Cadel realises "OH yeah, I'll help too".

 

[Ferminal]

Contador doesn't have it? :S Or Bjarne told him to let Cadel cook?

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

I think part of Contador's problem is that no only does he have to cut into Andy's gap, he needs to himself gap Cadel.

At least the main guys are chasing.

 

[Jeanne]

Evans tried to attack?

 

[RdBiker]

And guess who of the favourites isn't going to pull a meter in the peloton. This really is a good plan from Leopard-Trek.

 

[Parrulo]

cadel and contador working together, if basso, samu, damiano join. . . .

no1 takes the front