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

[Rollthedice]

Not nice Belkin. Belmonte is in deep trouble.

 

[SafeBet]

valverde might told cunego, i'll give you stage win, if you help me get back

I don't think Cunego/Voeckler group bridged to Valverde/Kittle one.

 

[l.Harm]

No full gas any more in the front group

 

[BigMac]

They don't want kittel at the front

And to be fair to bulking, they were helping OPQS befor valvarde punctured

They might, but no as hard as they are now. Does Belking think this is Tdf's last stage? Should be holding some energies for tomorrow, where there will clearly be GC attacks. I always was against trashing people when they have some sort of mechanical problem, there was 80k to go ffs.

 

[ThirdWorld]

Not nice Belkin. Belmonte is in deep trouble.

one day was porte... today valverde.. who will be the next top them victme of the race?!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

57 seconds. They will come back

 

[cineteq]

Belkin seemed to have understood they were doing a stupid thing....

 

[Gloin22]

People complain when nothing happens on flat stage.

People complain when something happens on flat stage.

 

[Ruby United]

OPQS stopped working. Gap under 1 min.

 

[The Principal Sheep]

Orica now leading the charge

 

[Cramps]

Really don't want to see Valverde lose time here.

Hopefully the first peloton will back off a bit now that the intermediate sprint point has gone.

No chance. Now that Valverde is with Kittel, OPQS + Cannondale will never stop. It was doubly unlucky for Valverde that he got a puncture while Kittel was a minute down from the main group. If all the sprinters had been together, there probably wouldn't be such pushing from the front

 

[Pulpstar]

Orica !!!!!

 

[Avoriaz]

Looks like they'll get back. Shame for Quintana; he'll have to go back to working for Valverde despite being the strongest

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Valverde will be back in the front soon.

Belkin still riding. Pajamas Pierre has a flat.

 

[caricas]

karma

 

[roundabout]

heh, the mechanic did the change faster than Rolland

 

[Pulpstar]

Now a puncture for Pierre

Crikey for a flat stage this certainly doesn't lack drama.

 

[Broth3r]

Politically correct call by Europcar: teammate gives him a wheel AND gets his replaced at the same time.

 

[l.Harm]

Well it's actually Movistar's trademark. They can't be angry.

 

[the sceptic]

So much for an alliance against Armstrong in the mountains then

 

[Miburo]

Flat tire for Rolland. Told ya, karma is a bitc h

 

[murali]

45" to the pelaton

 

[BigMac]

The amount of punctures today, is too damn high.

 

[cineteq]

Rolland is acting as if he's in contention...he should wait for Valverde and give him a hand.

 

[Pulpstar]

The key thing about the Piti grp coming back is that Kittel appears to be being distanced.