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

[happychappy]

Hey, has anyone seen Dennis Menchov?

He's been pretty quiet in this Tour, not even a little mouse-like squeak. The silence is deafening.

 

[SantiBotero]

To be frank, the Shack is riding this right. Get the best 3 guys across the line as soon as possible for the teams classification. 5th in GC has no prestige, and HZ has shown no ability to attack to drop anyone ahead of him.

They are 17 minutes ahead of Sky ...

 

[spalco]

I actually almost feel sorry for Evans. It's hard to watch honestly.

Yeah.

(10 char)

 

[webvan]

Basso gone, let's see some action now!

 

[will10]

To be frank, the Shack is riding this right. Get the best 3 guys across the line as soon as possible for the teams classification. 5th in GC has no prestige, and HZ has shown no ability to attack to drop anyone ahead of him.

They aren't going to lose the team classification, they lead that by 17 minutes.

 

[cycladianpirate]

They are 17 minutes ahead of Sky ...

There's the TT yet......

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Thibaut Pinot owns

 

[Arnout]

Pinot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gloin22]

They are 17 minutes ahead of Sky ...

Jez. It's not like Sky wants to win Team Class

They got 1-2 at the Tour ( most likely )

I think we know Sky was better team at Tour than RSNT

 

[T-Nielsen]

Such a great gc zzZZZzzzZZZzz

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Froome struggling

 

[webvan]

Nibali dropped, Froome too!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Thibaut Pinot cracks Nibali and Froome

How about this kid?

 

[SantiBotero]

There's the TT yet......

Indeed it's quite possible that Radioshack loses 15 minutes in the time-trial.

 

[will10]

Froome leads Nibali back to Wiggins....

 

[doperhopper]

valverde rolls over something like tacks painted on the road...

 

[franciep10]

nibali is going to crack

 

[Bumeington]

Wiggo is bossing this, Froome looking knackered (seen that before though)

 

[will10]

Wiggins looks sooooooo easy

 

[Arnout]

Yeah, Nibali doing classic shark impression, he's not good today.

 

[AtletiSK]

Valverde has this in the bag!

 

[Arnout]

Wiggo is bossing this, Froome looking knackered (seen that before though)

I wasn't talking about Wiggins was I? So why did you quote?

 

[Bumeington]

Wiggo looks over shoulder for Froome, team orders work both ways?

 

[Apollonius]

I actually almost feel sorry for Evans. It's hard to watch honestly.

It's very easy to watch really. It's always nice to see Cadel fail, he's such a whiner that it's hard not to experience an element of schadenfreude

 

[webvan]

Froome leads Nibali back to Wiggins....

Needs to work on his strategy...