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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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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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!
 
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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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.
 
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.