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

[stazzy]

basso snail pace is phuckin it up for nibalii

 

[AtletiSK]

nice to see Alejandro up front!!
also finally some Liqui team action even tough the pace by Nerz was way too slow to do any harm to the rivals...

 

[SantiBotero]

Not harsh. When you put your entire team up front and don't even attack in one of the hardest descents, when you clearly are the best descender, you deserve nothing. Let Valverde win and VDB 'kill' Nibali on the climb.

One of the less technical descents in this Tour.

 

[Eshnar]

Not harsh. When you put your entire team up front and don't even attack in one of the hardest descents, when you clearly are the best descender, you deserve nothing. Let Valverde win and VDB 'kill' Nibali on the climb.

Point is that Liquigas completely gave up for the overall. They want to win the stage. So they don't want to risk Nibali blows himself with a solo attack. I do believe Nibali should have attacked on the descent too, but that's not cowardy.

 

[Der Effe]

One of the hardest descents? its basically straight road

Well, in this Tour de France, this was one of his best opportunities for him to gain some time. There are way harder descents, but they're either not in the Tour or somewhere on the route where attacking makes no sense at all.

Can't wait to have Contador and Schleck back. At least some riders who always attack and don't think 'Wooohooo I am third, let's have a party'.

 

[Bala Verde]

Nibali made an agreement with Valverde.

"You take the stage but repay the favor during the ITT"

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Still Nerz??? Ok now Liquigas is making a mistake

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

FINALLY Basso...

 

[Der Effe]

One of the less technical descents in this Tour.

I admit, one of the hardest descents was quite a stupid thing to say, but it was a good opportunity to at least try something. Death or glory. Otherwise you'll never win a thing.

 

[Eshnar]

Well, in this Tour de France, this was one of his best opportunities for him to gain some time. There are way harder descents, but they're either not in the Tour or somewhere on the route where attacking makes no sense at all.

Can't wait to have Contador and Schleck back. At least some riders who always attack and don't think 'Wooohooo I am third, let's have a party'.

Schleck made one (1) early attack in all his life.
Contador made maybe 2 or 3.

 

[burning]

They wont catch Valverde at this rate, what are they doing?

 

[Bala Verde]

ATM looking good for the green bullet.

 

[webvan]

Still Nerz??? Ok now Liquigas is making a mistake

Basso moves up one slot at long last!

 

[Dutchsmurf]

I admit, one of the hardest descents was quite a stupid thing to say, but it was a good opportunity to at least try something. Death or glory. Otherwise you'll never win a thing.

Nobody was going to get dropped on that descent. It wasn't a good opportunity. Actually, it wasn't even an opportunity at all.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Go on Ivan. Crush, grind and pulverise. Like it was days of old.

 

[CatsNK]

Nobody was going to get dropped on that descent. It wasn't a good opportunity. Actually, it wasn't even an opportunity at all.

Maybe someone would get dropped if they went the wrong way...

 

[RownhamHill]

Contador made maybe 2 or 3.

That's maybe the silliest thing I've read on this board during the entire race, and there's some pretty silly things floating around.

 

[DominicDecoco]

The lack of entertainment doesn't bother me. Like yesterday - Froome's tourettes does. Looking down, up, down, up, down.

Oh, and his glasses bothers me as well.

 

[Bala Verde]

So the TDF has a number of post mountain descends, and none of them are hard/technical enough to favour a skilled descender...

 

[stazzy]

bah wont catch valverde

 

[staubsauger]

Schleck made one (1) early attack in all his life.
Contador made maybe 2 or 3.

Clearly Lance Armstrong should try a 2nd comeback

 

[Der Effe]

Nobody was going to get dropped on that descent. It wasn't a good opportunity. Actually, it wasn't even an opportunity at all.

Have you seen Wiggins on the descents? Nibali could easily gain some time and put the pressure on him and Froome. Valverde and Costa made mistakes in the descent as well, they're better than Wiggins in a descent.

 

[maltiv]

EBH and Nerz crashed. Nerz just randomly stopped up after he was done pulling.

 

[Warhawk]

The lack of entertainment doesn't bother me. Like yesterday - Froome's tourettes does. Looking down, up, down, up, down.

Oh, and his glasses bothers me as well.

Nobody goes from being completely gassed to riding GC contenders off his wheel, and back again, like Froomedog.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hey look, a black Johnson