2012 Tour de France: Stage 11: Albertville → La Toussuire - Les Sybelles (148km)

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Sky are a class act for this years tour. Wiggo will win to give the English their first Tour de France winner.
 
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wirral said:
The 20% of remaining riders rule will come in to play and people will be allowed to stay in.

ASO has said before the Tour that they won't make any exceptions this year. Of course they won't keep their word.
 
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Porte at 15.50. Thats what you call taking it easy after doing your work!

Probably still faster than me though :eek:
 
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Nastyy said:
Pinot is from '90 and Van Garderen from '88. Pinot is in his first GT and already has a stage and is TOP 5 climber in the race. Also Pinot lost 2 minutes on stage 6 because of the crashes. Without that he would be in the lead.

Pinot is 22 and Van Garderen is 23 right?? So no big age difference. This is cycling...Pinot is riding for himself...Van Garderen is riding for Cadel...Pinot can not time trial like Van Garderen...Pinot is 2 minutes down on Van Garderen who lost probably a minute helping Evans. So no...Pinot would not most likely be in the lead. Lastly, its not like Van Garderen has tons of GT experience...
 
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The grupetto actually beat the time cut. They came in at 33:20. Even the last man home, Kenny Van Hummel, came in at 36:35, 19 seconds ahead of the boot.
 
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Kwibus said:
All of this is quite interesting considering they were slower then the slowest predicted schedule.

Yeah, I don't understand why so many riders lost huge time given the apparently slow pace of the stage.
 
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Bavarianrider said:
ASO has said before the Tour that they won't make any exceptions this year. Of course they won't keep their word.

They extended the time gap but to the lead rider. But that get's superseeded when 20pc rule can be applied

Not 'but'! sorry! english!
 
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TRDean said:
Pinot is 22 and Van Garderen is 23 right?? So no big age difference. This is cycling...Pinot is riding for himself...Van Garderen is riding for Cadel...Pinot can not time trial like Van Garderen...Pinot is 2 minutes down on Van Garderen who lost probably a minute helping Evans. So no...Pinot would not most likely be in the lead. Lastly, its not like Van Garderen has tons of GT experience...

The age difference is almost 2 years. 21.5 months.
 
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patrick767 said:
Yeah, I don't understand why so many riders lost huge time given the apparently slow pace of the stage.

I think the Evans attack and Sky going full on closing it down killed a lot of GC guys legs. That and it was apparently very hot today.
 
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This is somehwat a clsicc Tour de France.
I likeit very much. Those gaps in the Gc are already ****ing huge. A real Tour this year!
 
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The Sheep said:
petacchi didn't make it

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175 started today, 167 finishers on the letour website. Can think of about 5 withdrawals so might be the odd other person out there?
 
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roundabout said:
The age difference is almost 2 years. 21.5 months.

Please...you are splitting hairs here...they are both young. And when Pinot loses another 2 minutes in the final time trial then what? I didn't say Pinot was not good..but that Van Garderen is better and doing more domestique work in this tour.
 
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Great efforts by Evans & Nibali today. If only they’d attacked together over the past two days rather than effectively attacking each other.

Rolland, Pinaut & TJVG looking exciting and showing that younger riders have more of a chance these days to make an impact.

Sky showed enough frailty and potential in-fighting to give Nibali & VdB hope next Wednesday.

Montanus said:
Just can't comprehend it yet. Froome looked toasted, comes back and does a pull then goes back again. And then: Vroooooom, brings back Nibali et al. and boom vroom - an attack. Final kilometers, pure timetrialing and in the end a superstrong sprint.

I mean: WTF!

He did that a couple of times in the Vuelta. Does a big pull at the front, then drops back for about a minutre, then shakes it off and zooms uphill. The only surprising thing today for me was that Pinot bet him to 2nd.
 
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Frosty said:
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175 started today, 167 finishers on the letour website. Can think of about 5 withdrawals so might be the odd other person out there?

5 of them are known already. Westra, Ruygh, Larsson, Mollema and Renshaw