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

[King Boonen]

its a different thing looking like you cant work when there are 3 teams ready to help you out. Another thing if they start losing time in the gc. Then they very much will be able to work.

And if they can't. What have Katusha lost? Nothing.

Katusha need to keep distancing those behind. Looks like Sky are happy with 30-40 seconds gap.

 

[webvan]

Which AG2R tard is chasing?

Riblon ! Dude must have caught the sun...

 

[DirtyWorks]

GC from yesterday.
1. Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 47:19:13
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:25
3 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:03:37
4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:03:54
5 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:03:57
6 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:04:10
7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:04:44
8 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 0:05:18
9 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 0:05:37
10 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:05:39
11 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha 0:05:48
12 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team

That front group needs minutes to threaten the Maillot Jaune. It looks like Contador will be in podium position.

 

[The Principal Sheep]

It's mind boggling that anyone else but Sky is pulling...

I can understand Lotto for the stage if they think they can pull it back but thats looking unlikely so they should stop too.

 

[jaylew]

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

I can understand why Katusha is riding. Purito thinks he can get on the podium once they get to the Alps, especially with Valverde out of it. A shame Mollema and Ten Dam are in that front group...in more ways than one.

 

[Red Rick]

Froome to go Super Sayan in a couple of minutes

 

[MartinGT]

engage 7.0w/kg mode. Ready to bridge gap

pmsl :d



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[cineteq]

Now it's time to drop Cav

 

[Carl0880]

Is that AG2R helping with the chase? WTH his wrong with these guys???

They are probably looking after Peraud's GC position

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Rogers i think is the mind behind this move by Saxo...Mick is the best.

 

[brian1225]

Great job by saxo, what wrong with sky

 

[goggalor]

So much noise over a 40 second gap. I guess you didn't watch the TT? This is fun but it's hardly race changing. Except Valverde losing a boatload of course.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Chava start helping here, dude.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Mollema looks amazingly strong

 

[Red Rick]

Mollema takes 3 seconds in one pull

 

[More Strides than Rides]

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.

This attitude is a huge disrespect to 190 of the 198 starters. They're professional athletes. Sure, some of the teammates have different goals than their captain, but they all want to be in a better position at the end of the day

 

[Fourier]

Lucky Dawg, only 45 secs

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Did I mention that I hate Katusha?

 

[Cimber]

Reminds me of CSC in Paris-Nice some 10 years ago

 

[The Sheep]

Mollema looks amazingly strong

He has experience with the wind

 

[King Boonen]

Chava start helping here, dude.

Chava will be told to follow Sagan or lead out Cav.

 

[GroupDK]

Saxo (92 % of the lead) they certainly put a line under the nr 1 in team comptetition now..

 

[Afrank]

Gap out to 45 seconds again, come on Saxo, only 9 to go. Full gas!

 

[Publicus]

Mollema looks amazingly strong

He should be, he's doing f*ck all to help increase the gap. Just dumb riding IMO.

 

[webvan]

ok, only Sky left at fking last!

Voeckler Group 10' down...