2013 Tour de France, Stage 13: Tours - Saint-Amand-Montrond (173 km)

[JimPanzen]

Bertie riding at the front while Froomestar is hiding in the pack letting other teams work

 

[The Hitch]

I don't get why Froome is sitting so far back, he should be the strongest and therefore doing pulls

Wants to save energy for Ventoux. Losing 30 seconds with the gap he has is worth it if he takes it easy

 

[Winnen]

Is this stage approaching "legendary" soon?

Epic. Love it.

 

[cycladianpirate]

Sky are WEAK and everyone knows it.

 

[thrawn]

**** Katusha.

 

[webvan]

44 seconds!!!

45...42 and now 40...

WTF is Froome doing ?! Wiggins must be having a good laugh...

 

[DirtyWorks]

Alien will ride across shortly. I just hope the motorbike can stay with him when he does.

That second group doesn't look like it's working to close that gap.

Need to do the GC math to figure out when Froome goes alien.

 

[Ramira]

Froome is not looking good. He better make damned sure he's in the top 10-15 when they go up the little hill. If he gets dropped there he is screwed!

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Sky must be wishing they still had EBH now.

Or Bernie Eisel. This would never happen with him in the team.

 

[BigMac]

Valverde will loose around 8 minutes today. What a memorable day, sad and happy, but Memorable

 

[Dutchsmurf]

You can blame BMC and Katusha chasing on the UCI and their stupid system of World Tour points. You have teams fighting over 11th and 12th ruining the real race trying to get World Tour points.

Nobody is challenging their position tho, they are all in front already.

 

[King Boonen]

Which is why Lotto chasing is perfectly fine. And even Katusha for Kristoff I can understand. But BMC had no reason to work.

They've called it off, but they will be thinking they can get Evans back up the GC by distancing those behind.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Katusha die in a fire

 

[goggalor]

Biggest development of the day is Valverde losing 6 minutes. Froome losing a minute doesn't mean anything.

 

[xrayvision]

Alien will ride across shortly. I just hope the motorbike can stay with him when he does.

I had the same thought

 

[Pricey_sky]

40 seconds, this is a great stage, hope Cav can stay with Saxo. Froome will have to start working at the front in a minute!

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Froome is dropping out of this group soon as well I think!

Very, very unlikely.

 

[SafeBet]

Belkin guys should help now.

 

[Publicus]

He probably called 3 hookers and ordered 5 bottles of champagne, time to celebrate, and just maybe the dog get fed today...

LMAO!!!!

Froome is having to move up because he's worried about the gap. I'm going to lose it when he launches a counterattack and closes the gap himself.

 

[Red Rick]

Meanwhile Oleg Tinkov is probably making threats to every non sky rider chasing in the second group

 

[rghysens]

Team Sky can ride, but they can't race. And this is great racing!!
Froome is very lucky he has other teams to do his dirty work.

 

[TatryTour2013]

What a stage

Best flat stage ever. Sagan FTW. Cav dropped on that small hill. On the other hand Cav at least found a way how to defeat Kittel. To drop him on the flat.

 

[spalco]

Very, very unlikely.

Yeah, back to the front now.

 

[Hugo87]

Belkin guys should help now.

Wheelsuckers.

 

[Parrulo]

AG2R working as well . . .