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

[patterson_hood]

thats what I dont get though

if everyone has given up the chase for green - why is the pace so high coming to the intermediate sprint?

maximum points for Rojas then Cav not making the finish probably. They know they can't beat him in a sprint, but they'll hope the 3 climbs today will beat him for them.

 

[Woody22]

What about Saxo then? Do they have the firepower to break things up before the final climb?

 

[hatcher]

thats what I dont get though

if everyone has given up the chase for green - why is the pace so high coming to the intermediate sprint?

Cos they haven't given up at all.

 

[sultanofhyd]

What about Saxo then? Do they have the firepower to break things up before the final climb?

Yes if they are willing to.

 

[spalco]

Evans can begin to panick when things arn't going the way he had planned so I wouldn't be suprised if Leopard Trek go full gas up on the second climb to leave Evans isolated.

The Schlecks better make sure they aren't dropping themselves with that tactic...

 

[Woody22]

And do you think they will?

 

[Ferminal]

Should be at the sprint now...

Edit: 1km to go, and 7 now away lol. Fail if the bunch was trying to win it.

Avg. Speed: 49km/h

 

[sultanofhyd]

And do you think they will?

I hope they will, there is no time for pace setting tomorrow.

 

[MartinGT]

Do people think the Schlecks will try what they did in 2009? Double team on the main GC riders or are there too many riders to do that to? I.e last time it was just Evans IIRC, this time they have Evans, Bertie, Basso, Sammy & TV?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

coverage only starts in 60 minutes . . . .

is that right?

not according to nos

 

[search]

a group of 7 at the front, by about half a minute

one of the is Irizar

 

[sultanofhyd]

Do people think the Schlecks will try what they did in 2009? Double team on the main GC riders or are there too many riders to do that to? I.e last time it was just Evans IIRC, this time they have Evans, Bertie, Basso, Sammy & TV?

They've been trying to do that right from the Pyrenees but all they managed to gain was a grand total of 15 seconds for the brothers combined.

 

[wirral]

Come on, TDF ticker!!

 

[Ferminal]

Come on, TDF ticker!!

Certainly having a bad one today.

If we can believe it the 7 have been caught.

Sprint results aren't up yet so we can't check who it was.

 

[Buttelski]

Just discovered this site which give live tracking data - excellent

http://data.srmlive.de/TDF/

 

[MartinGT]

They've been trying to do that right from the Pyrenees but all they managed to gain was a grand total of 15 seconds for the brothers combined.

They havent really attacked........attacked........attacked..........attacked though have they? Is it because AS isnt on his game? or because Bertie etc are too strong for them?

 

[Ferminal]

1. DUQUE Leonardo 154 COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE 20 pts
2. POSTHUMA Joost 17 TEAM LEOPARD-TREK 17 pts
3. DELAPLACE Anthony 213 SAUR-SOJASUN 15 pts
4. DEVENYNS Dries 125 QUICK STEP CYCLING TEAM 13 pts
5. TJALLINGII Maarten 49 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 11 pts
6. BOOKWALTER Brent 142 BMC RACING TEAM 10 pts
7. IRIZAR Markel 73 TEAM RADIOSHACK 9 pts
---------------------------------------------------------------
8. ERVITI Imanol 84 MOVISTAR TEAM 8 pts
9. HONDO Danilo 165 LAMPRE - ISD 7 pts
10. NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas 57 TEAM GARMIN - CERVELO 6 pts
11. PEREZ MORENO Ruben 25 EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 5 pts
12. URTASUN PEREZ Pablo 27 EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 4 pts
13. IGLINSKIY Maxim 65 PRO TEAM ASTANA 3 pts
14. MONFORT Maxime 15 TEAM LEOPARD-TREK 2 pts
15. ROCHE Nicolas 101 AG2R LA MONDIALE 1 pts

I spy with my little eye... a BMC trying to get in the break.

 

[search]

DUQUE Leonardo
POSTHUMA Joost
DELAPLACE Anthony
DEVENYNS Dries
TJALLINGII Maarten
BOOKWALTER Brent
IRIZAR Markel

Edit: too late

 

[cineteq]

Just discovered this site which give live tracking data - excellent

http://data.srmlive.de/TDF/

Excellent, thanks!
Roy, Jeremy [138] FDJ
Oss, Daniel [95] Liquigas
Borghini, Paolo [94] Liquigas
Vandborg, Brian [9] Saxo Bank
Knees, Christian [115] Sky
El Fares, Julien [155] Cofidis
Zingle, Romain [159] Cofidis
Buffaz, Mickael [152] Cofidis
Zeits, Andrey [69] Astana
Vaitkus, Thomas [68] Astana
Irizar, Markel [73] RadioShack

 

[taiwan]

Dissappointing break for a mountain stage. Not least because I didn't call any of them.

 

[Connor Pass]

So that's 15 - who is the 16th breakaway rider?!?

 

[Zoncolan]

I spy with my little eye... a BMC trying to get in the break.

Well, Bookwalter isn't going to be much help on a parcours like we have today.
BTW any live streams up yet?

 

[sultanofhyd]

Saxo, you fail!

 

[cineteq]

Average speed for 1st hour: 50.3 Km/h

 

[Barrus]

not according to nos

And sporza. No coverage untill around 2