2012 Tour de France: Stage 17, Bagnères-de-Luchon - Peyragudes 143.5KM

[Parrulo]

2012 Tour de France: Stage 17, Bagnères-de-Luchon - Peyragudes 143.5KM

seems like tour interest has reached an all time low, no stage thread with less then 6 hours to the start of the race

worrie do not tho, your faithful mod is here to do it for you

stage profile:

col de mente:

last part of the stage( crappy picture provided by our always fantastic letour site. . . .)

 

[Parrulo]

what i am hoping for:

nibali:

sky guys:

result:

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

I too am hoping Nibbles can co just that!

 

[The Barb]

Thanks for beginning the thread.

I was thinking the same thing about lack of interest. In the past a thread for the final mountain top finish of the Tour might've have hundreds of posts by now.

I think this is Cobo's stage to salvage something for Movistar. His form doesn't look bad so surely he will try to get into the break and, like yesterday, there probably won't be much pressure to chase it from the peloton.

Alternatively, I know Wiggins never wins mountain stages but boy he looked strong last night. He has been riding just to avoid having that one bad day where he loses the Tour, so with this being the last mountain stage I think he might let himself go up the final climb.

The Voeckler/Kessiakoff contest should make the first climb a bit more interesting.

 

[thehog]

Mods can this thread be closed down due to lack of interest?

 

[maxmartin]

what i am hoping for:

nibali:

sky guys:

result:

Yeah Nibali !!!!!

 

[maxmartin]

is it going to RAIN?

 

[Swede1]

I think wiggo will help chase back nibbles to give froome a rest to let him take the stage win. I think sky will chase back the breakaway. Froome will attack in the last 500 meters and win the stage by 4 seconds. Other possibility is that a break goes and my prediction would be cobo because he is looking strong and movistar needs a stage win.

 

[Forunculo]

I'm praying for Nibali

but Sky rules the waves and the roads

 

[roborovski007]

wishful thought of froome overtakes wiggo in GC, that will probably be the most interesting in the tour ever !

 

[Boeing]

Zubeldia, Pinot

 

[domination]

Brilliant. The Brits come along and the dominate the tour and the rest of the world sulk and take their ball home.

 

[RedZone]

Brilliant. The Brits come along and the dominate the tour and the rest of the world sulk and take their ball home.

Brilliant, British fans suddenly appear with their second post when one is in the yellow jersey.

 

[Climbing]

Nibali for the stage attacking in the penultimate climb, Froome get dropped and lose by some seconds the 2nd place (which retake in the last ITT).
Wiggins defends with just a bit of suffering, just to show off.

Or a breakaway

 

[rata de sentina]

Brilliant. The Brits come along and the dominate the tour and the rest of the world sulk and take their ball home.

I dunno why I´m replying to a troll and a junior one at that but people like to watch a race not a procession. It was the same with the days of LA, I never watched that either, it was boring.

 

[TatryTour2013]

Sagan into breakaway

Sagan into breakaway, taking 20 points for sprint, taking it easy on Port de Bales, then descending together with Nibali. Hopefully Szmyd is going to work hard today, together with Ivan Basso. Nibali needs 3 minutes - which looks impossible - but let's hope.

 

[auscyclefan94]

what i am hoping for:

nibali:

sky guys:

result:

We can only hope! Nice work!

Brilliant. The Brits come along and the dominate the tour and the rest of the world sulk and take their ball home.

Not to do with the nationality. I just think the Tour is boring. The 'big' mountain stages have been pathetic.

 

[bucko007]

I dunno why I´m replying to a troll and a junior one at that but people like to watch a race not a procession. It was the same with the days of LA, I never watched that either, it was boring.

Yes,a bad piece of trolling there.I have always been shown from my parents/mentors it is important to lose gracefully.It is just as important to win gracefully .I guess this is lost in translation to some people.
Congrats to wiggins and team sky on their domination of the tour thus far.(oh that hurts).I will be watching the remainder of the tour. As although all excitement is rapidly dissipating i still love watching the sport of cycling and of course the pinnacle- tdf (imo).Btw,you were a junior member once.Don't let this person tarnish all junior members(I believe no malice was intended).
Anyhow,for those remaining.Try to enjoy the remainder of the tour.Cheers guys.

 

[Pippo_San]

is it going to RAIN?

Not the slightest chance.
****.

 

[burning]

Rolland will win

By the way, these profiles might be better than the crap ones in the original site

 

[auscyclefan94]

Sky will set a rather tame pace all the way up to the summit of the Port de Bales, unless a GC contender attacks before then. I am not sure if I will watch this stage live.

 

[spalco]

I want to like Nibali, but he's really been annoying me lately with all that whining and *****ing about Sky. Less yapping, more doing please.

 

[Kwibus]

Thanks for beginning the thread.

I was thinking the same thing about lack of interest. In the past a thread for the final mountain top finish of the Tour might've have hundreds of posts by now.

I'm afraid it's a combination of an rather dull TdF regarding GC and the quality of posters on this board. A lot of quality posters have left this forum and they get replaced by the trolls that made them run away.

 

[slim charles]

is it going to RAIN?

It's going to Taaramae.

 

[JibberJim]

I want to like Nibali, but he's really been annoying me lately with all that whining and *****ing about Sky. Less yapping, more doing please.

He's tried - and he's been the only one to make Wiggins work! And his yapping was purely trying to put the Sky guys off, perfectly reasonable behaviour and not a genuine sleight I'm sure.

I do fear for the stage though I've begun to appreciate why North American sports have budget caps and drafts and things, domination is dull.