2013 Tour de France, stage 11: Avranches - Mont-Saint-Michelle 33km (ITT)

[Dazed and Confused]

Martin 22 secs faster. That's not an awful lot.

The first part is not really to his advantage and lets not discount Tuft.

 

[TommyPlus]

22 seconds isn't massive when it seems Tuft has blitzed the rest of the course

 

[jens_attacks]

damn martin will put a minute in tuft

 

[Cramps]

1.MARTIN T. OPQ in 10' 21''
2.BOOM L. BEL in 10' 43''

About 55kph for Martin

 

[LaFlorecita]

About 55kph for Martin

I remember during the ttt argos rode the first part at 54.8 kph and the commentators said that was fast. I said no way Tony rides that fast all by himself

Tony the time trial tank _O_

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Roy only 17s back at 2nd split. Pretty good.

 

[theyoungest]

Boom just behind Westra at the finish. That's really good, for his standards.

 

[murali]

55 kmph is slow, i guess. I was expecting him to make 56+ at the end of chrono. Just hopw tht he speeds up in the later part of the course, or else its going to be froome's stage

 

[EnacheV]

About 55kph for Martin

wind ... remember what that guy said, who goes all out 1st 1/3 and catches wind last 1/3 ....

will see at second check point if the gap goes up or down

 

[forkboy84]

Interesting comment on Twitter from Jerome Pineau, "Ashamed when my friend @MarkCavendish said me that he was insulting and ****ed all the parcours !!! Shame on you!!"

He's not got perfect English obviously but sounds like someone chucked urine at Cavendish? Seems a bit excessive. I mean insults are one thing, sticks & stones & all that, but throwing pee at someone just seems childish.

 

[SafeBet]

Lutsenko with a monster last part, only lost 3 seconds to Tuft! Now sits in 4th. What a time trial for the kid.

 

[Gloin22]

Yea, someone threw **** at Cav during the TT indeed....

 

[roundabout]

could be a wind change

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Lutsenko with a monster last part, only lost 3 seconds to Tuft! Now sits in 4th. What a time trial for the kid.

yep, perhaps its also an indicator of how Fuglsang will go.

 

[SafeBet]

could be a wind change

You're probably right. Boom lost less than expected. Wynants only 21 seconds too.

 

[King Boonen]

Second time check for TM soon.

 

[Pulpstar]

De Gendt blitzing it !

 

[Bakhjulet]

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[jens_attacks]

damn panzerwagen!

and de gends with some magic. super action so far

 

[King Boonen]

De Gendt and TM smashing it.

 

[TommyPlus]

Wind switch?

 

[murali]

TM 24 42

and de gendt 25 21.

De gendt is unbelievable

 

[Bakhjulet]

Sub 36.30 for TM?

 

[manafana]

de gendt is bothered so after a poor first week

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

not really a wind switch

wind is predicted to get stronger during the day. That was already predicted yesterday
So later starters do have the advantage