2013 Tour de France, Stage 14: Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule / Lyon 191KM

[Ryo Hazuki]

full list of who is in the break yet? sky delighted carrot's will chase this for while now

uff am I really the only one with brains here? if euskaltel would do nothing sky wouldsimply ride very slow tempo to give them 10 minute.s won'hurt any of their riders, duh

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Cannondale must be loving this.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Yeah surely they want to control a 18 man group with talansky on their own.

yeah I'm sure froome is sh**ing his pants from talansky

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Cannondale must be loving this.

would be great to see htem take over once euskaltel fail, which should be soon and take that minute back like that

 

[Marco Pantani]

yeah I'm sure froome is sh**ing his pants from talansky

Allright, seems you got the point.

 

[Miburo]

Why the **** is Brutt riding? He has every reason to not ride. Save power.

 

[sultanofhyd]

full list of who is in the break yet? sky delighted carrot's will chase this for while now

Van Garderen, Talansky, Millar, Vichot, Voigt, Kadri, Bak, Bakelants, Gautier, Brutt, Rojas, Trentin, Albasini, Simon, Geschke, Burghardt, Garcia, Erviti

 

[RedheadDane]

Lampre, Euskaltel. Just... just... stop!

 

[Dutchsmurf]

Yeah surely they want to control an 18 man group with talansky on their own.

With a little help from Saxo and Belkin they can easily keep that group around 7 minutes or so, no need for Sky to really work hard with that group.

 

[murali]

why should SKY work?

they just need to be a good passenger. thats all.

 

[Marco Pantani]

With a little help from Saxo and Belkin they can easily keep that group around 7 minutes or so, no need for Sky to really work hard with that group.

No way Saxo and Movistar would help Sky, not at this moment. If Sky starts chasing early, there might be possibilities for these two teams later in the stage.

 

[Dutchsmurf]

No way Saxo and Movistar would help Sky, not at this moment. If Sky starts chasing early, there might be possibilities for these two teams later in the stage.

They will help if the gap gets too big.

 

[sultanofhyd]

why should SKY work?

they just need to be a good passenger. thats all.

Passenger of a very fast train. Average speed 47.6 km/h after 2 hours on rolling terrain.

 

[Marco Pantani]

I don't think so. It's way too early to think about cooperating with Sky.
It' all down to the third week.

 

[Dutchsmurf]

I don't think so. It's way too early to think about cooperating with Sky.
It' all down to the third week.

Sending 1-2 people to keep a break at a safe 8 minute advantage isn't the same as cooperating with Sky.

 

[Matt92]

Yeah surely they want to control an 18 man group with talansky on their own.

But they wouldn't need to keep the leading group within one minute. I'm pretty sure Sky would gladly slow down and let the 18 guys in front open a gap of 5-6 minutes.

 

[sultanofhyd]

I think we can talk about potential co-operation with Sky when the break is away for good. Gap is down to 34 seconds, I'm not sure everyone in the break is fully motivated or confident that this move will stick, they might want to save some gas and try again.

 

[Marco Pantani]

Sending 1-2 people to keep a break at a safe 8 minute advantage isn't the same as cooperating with Sky.

I bet, none of them will be seen today on the front to control or chase them.
We'll see in a few hours.

 

[Warhawk]

Thanks Sky!

 

[uconnryan]

Phil picked Cavendish and Paul picked Greipel. I think they have the wrong profile.

 

[thrawn]

And the break has established itself. Peloton has slowed.

 

[Red Rick]

Why are teams who lead the team classification wearing yellow helmets nowaday's?

 

[Poursuivant]

Sagan should have went in the break

 

[The Barb]

Finally it seems the heat has gone out of the chase.

 

[Warhawk]

Phil picked Cavendish and Paul picked Greipel. I think they have the wrong profile.

By their commentary they clearly thought everyone was going to take it really easy with Ventoux coming up.