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

[batchuba]

Whether it's 1:05 or 1:15 is pretty much irrelevant. This stage will be important for morale more than anything.

Sure, for some reason it was incredibly important to me that it was more than a minute.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

1:09 pretty awesome on a stage like this, great work Quickstep, Cannondale and Saxo.

Albert's legs kept faith.

 

[the sceptic]

Lets hope this continues tomorrow. Sky are so weak right now

 

[Ferminal]

So, OPQS will not chase tomorrow after that but Argos and Lotto will probably be motivated.

 

[King Boonen]

The monkey gets the stage, but The Hulk is getting greener and greener

The Hulk was green before he even got to Corsica.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Happy for Cav, that's a Flat stage for the ages.

Great choice for the combativity award as well, though Saxo probably had a good shout at it as well.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Mollema looked really good today

Big winner. Huge gains without much energy spent

 

[Walkman]

Well ****. Skipped todays stage since it was a flat stage and it turned out to be epic...

 

[Publicus]

On Sunday you leave it to Belkin to ride on Ventoux.

 

[Koba80]

I don't know which was better, the racing action, or the forum action with people revealing whether they love/hate Spaniards in their extreme reactions...

 

[cineteq]

Mollema looked really good [on the flat] today

Fixed it for ya!

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Sky is teh best team.

Thanks again for that cutting analysis Brian

 

[Arnout]

Sure, for some reason it was incredibly important to me that it was more than a minute.

You're allowed to have those feelings, no worries

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Loved that. Echelon is my word of the day.

 

[Walkman]

Could anyone describe what happend?!

 

[Red Rick]

Mollema was closer to getting second than Sagan was to winning

 

[Cimber]

He can let that front group ride ahead about 2 minutes. Meanwhile, Saxo is killing themselves with Ventoux coming up.

SKy was killing themselves too, and 1 min is 25% of what they need

 

[classicomano]

Some of the sour grapes in this thread are delicious

 

[DirtyWorks]

Lets hope this continues tomorrow. Sky are so weak right now

I think we'll see some sensational riding up Ventoux from Sky.

 

[Cimber]

Could anyone describe what happend?!

Everything

 

[Roude Leiw]

Could anyone describe what happend?!

The best tdf stage for years, by a landslide!

 

[Jelantik]

SAXO WELLL done!!!... 1.10 to sky?? rogers said... split second decision!... amazing saxo tactic

 

[infeXio]

BMC and Katusha being retards, fun

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

Makes sitting through all the boring sprint stages worthwhile, you never know what you might miss. Incredible stage rounded off in the perfect way.

 

[Warhawk]

Good bit of strategy by Chavanel, pulled off early enough that Sagan couldn't start the sprint yet and ended up kinda screwed with Cav just sitting on his wheel.