2012 Tour de France: Stage 9: Arc-et-Senans → Besançon (ITT) (41.5 km)

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Take it like a man you Aussie Wimp!

Haha, man I could care less about Evans, can't stand that gremlin either.

Aka Moot point chump.

I was being serious, this is hard to watch and not think about the glory days ey.

 

[vcampbell]

I don't hate Froome, Wiggins, or whoever. I was actually saying Froome seems like a good kid. I'm just calling a spade, a spade. What Team Sky just did is eyebrow raising, full stop.

But why? Those two are excellent TTers. Oh and don't forget, that all of them has known the time of Cancellara. And how do you know, that Fabian is at 100%? You are saying things, without any base. Just stop it, full stop!

 

[Carl0880]

I'm sorry but this is pretty much what he's been doing all year. He took almost exactly the same on Evans as he did in the Dauphine. The only difference is that neither Cancellara nor Martin are at their regular level so it seems more impressive than it truly is.

He took the same time, but the Dauphine's TT was 12 km. so yes it is more impressive

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Sad to see some usual suspects being such poor losers, deliberately taking warped benchmarks to pretend the performance was stronger than it was.

90 seconds on Chavanel? Meh

Fully fit Tony would have won today, 2010 Fabian too.

 

[maxmartin]

either SKY put us into the future
or SKY put us back ten years
I am afraid the later

 

[RdBiker]

Froome's time trial today reminds me of a certain Michael Rasmussen in the 2007(?) Tour

 

[gustienordic]

Very funny sky.......
Now I can understand why people hate armstrong and US postal so much.

US postal was rarely THIS dominant

 

[dlwssonic]

Take it like a man you Aussie Wimp!

He actually kinda dislikes cadel, at least he can see through it unlike you

 

[BillytheKid]

Best evans can get now??? Third on podium?

Three weeks racing mate. Unknown.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Tour over.
With 53km ITT to follow. Wiggins has this sawn up. Froome will probably be 2nd

Even with Nibali doing a decent ITT he's nowhere close. Neither is Evans.. Bleh
Add another 53km and we know how this will end

 

[dlwssonic]

evans did a decent TT.
It just looked horrendous compared to sky.

 

[maltiv]

Decent ride by Nibali. He's our only hope now. Hopefully he'll descend like a mad man on wednesday...

 

[cineteq]

US postal was rarely THIS dominant

They didn't have a swimming coach.

 

[Clemson Cycling]

Tejay back in White

 

[Trunnions]

Estimated 82 secs out of Cadel, but he took 1 minute 43 seconds out of the TdF Champion of 2011, in 41.5 km.

Eat that you Aussies!

 

[SaxonUK]

As ridiculous as that was, better hope Wiggins stays in the tour, else Froome will be the winner.

 

[dlwssonic]

This is just sad....
I really don't understand why even the Brit fans can't see the truth.
Its Blatant.
Should have known it last year at the vuelta.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Do you have a drinking problem by any chance?

How on earth can you say that Menchov being 9th is a 'fail'? He did as expected. He did just fine. Now look at Leipheimer and you can use your 'failing' but if you had expected Menchov to do much much better that tells a bit... And the best reply you can give is something about drinking problems..
Good on you..

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

evans did a decent TT.
It just looked horrendous compared to sky.

35 seconds behind TJ, 24 seconds ahead of Nibali. Decent.

Your ability to rationalise is touching.

Last year Evans nearly beat Tony. Tony on last year's form would have won today.

 

[MrRoboto]

Froome's time trial today reminds me of a certain Michael Rasmussen in the 2007(?) Tour

Why would that be?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Sad to see some usual suspects being such poor losers, deliberately taking warped benchmarks to pretend the performance was stronger than it was.

90 seconds on Chavanel? Meh

Fully fit Tony would have won today, 2010 Fabian too.

Why can't we be skeptical of such performances, and isn't just this but a whole lot of factors when combined just seem so suss. But ya it is all poor loser, because our opinions are simply anti-agendas against the Brit parade.

 

[Panda Claws]

Some interesting stats I calculated

First 16,5 km of the ITT

Wiggins: 46.95 km/h
Froome: 46.77 km/h
Evans: 44.76 km/h

Middle part of the ITT

Wiggins: 50.14 km/h
Froome: 49.63 km/h
Evans: 49.36 km/h

Final 10 km of the ITT

Wiggins: 48.52 km/h
Froome: 47.31 km/h
Evans: 47.00 km/h

 

[maxmartin]

Froome's time trial today reminds me of a certain Michael Rasmussen in the 2007(?) Tour

exactly Same build, without muscle mass, but huge power, where did that even come from?

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Hat's off to Sky today.

They probably make a lot of people including me eat their word's about Wiggo and Sky

EDIT: though Paris is still far off course

 

[Ferminal]

People you have had your "fun", clinic stuff in the clinic, from here on.