2013 Tour de France, Stage 15: Givors - Mont Ventoux 242.5 Km

[all_in]

so do quintana, purito and contador

Contador doesn't love heat.

 

[Steve H.]

It will be Bastille day. French riders like Rolland will be very motivated.

 

[veganrob]

More cracks

I voted other but I think some new cracks appear in Froome and Sky.

 

[The Hitch]

so do quintana, purito and contador

Ryo again making stuff up and passing it off as fact.

Contador has in fact said the opposite. He felt he suffered in last years vuelta more becuase it was too hot. He said he loves the rain and wants rain for this Tour.

Purito is not a contender for the overall anymore so who cares.

Don't know about Quintana specifically, maybe he is different, but historically Amarindians from the Eastern mountains like the autumnlike Andean climates of 15-20 degrees. They struggle to cope with the 25+ temperatures of the lowlands so will Quintana love the 40 degree heat predicted tomorrow?

He is quite a bit down on the overall anyway and im talking about the gc battle. froome mollema kreuziger contador tendam,

 

[Cimber]

Froome is the one who loves the heat.

Yep Ax3 was brutally hot and he did very well there. Contador prefers cold weather.

 

[Gloin22]

He's Kenyan. He should love heat, he's used to it.

 

[Sasquatch]

Let's just fast track to Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This stage will be boring.

 

[The Hitch]

Bailsford just said Froome and Sky are really really good and he can't wait for tomorrow.

And Froome said "there will be huge time gaps tomorrow" then said "I think a lot of people have left a lot of energy on the road" then smiled.

Fantasies of Saxo and Belkin working Sky over, will be put to bed tomorrow me thinks.

 

[silverrocket]

I think it will end up as a somewhat large group of GC guys near the end. Nobody is able to get away, Quintana keeps trying, but they don't let him go. At the very top Valverde takes off for the win and they let him go because he is no longer a GC threat. No big GC shakeup.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Bailsford just said Froome and Sky are really really good and he can't wait for tomorrow.

And Froome said "there will be huge time gaps tomorrow" then said "I think a lot of people have left a lot of energy on the road" then smiled.

Fantasies of Saxo and Belkin working Sky over, will be put to bed tomorrow me thinks.

Lol. Nice. Hopefully he won't hold back. I want to see 6.8W/kg at least.

 

[DenisMenchov]

Froome to do 500W tomorrow?

 

[WindLessBreeze]

montani3semper

The Kenyan will show everyone what he's made off! He'll 'diss the rest of the field. Period

 

[Kwibus]

Ryo again making stuff up and passing it off as fact.

Contador has in fact said the opposite. He felt he suffered in last years vuelta more becuase it was too hot. He said he loves the rain and wants rain for this Tour.

Purito is not a contender for the overall anymore so who cares.

Don't know about Quintana specifically, maybe he is different, but historically Amarindians from the Eastern mountains like the autumnlike Andean climates of 15-20 degrees. They struggle to cope with the 25+ temperatures of the lowlands so will Quintana love the 40 degree heat predicted tomorrow?

He is quite a bit down on the overall anyway and im talking about the gc battle. froome mollema kreuziger contador tendam,

Last year during the Vuelta Quintana suffered in the first week. He said it was because of the heat. Allthough he did come from a lot cooler Colombia the week before.
Maybe if he's allready used to the heat it's not a problem.

 

[Kwibus]

Lol. Nice. Hopefully he won't hold back. I want to see 6.8W/kg at least.

That will cause some heated discussion for sure

And a Clinic meltdown.

 

[Kwibus]

Bailsford just said Froome and Sky are really really good and he can't wait for tomorrow.

And Froome said "there will be huge time gaps tomorrow" then said "I think a lot of people have left a lot of energy on the road" then smiled.

Fantasies of Saxo and Belkin working Sky over, will be put to bed tomorrow me thinks.

Yeh I expect Froome to ride off all alone again.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yep, Froome to solo once again. I think Contador will do better than last time though. Same for J-Rod

 

[airstream]

Expect for an interesting stage. Contador is not entitled to miss one more chance and should try. So does Rodriguez. Froome will counterattack. Sadly last 2-3 kms are suited for moves badly. So hopefully big attack will start in the forest yet.

 

[Afrank]

Lol. Nice. Hopefully he won't hold back. I want to see 6.8W/kg at least.

Think he'll wait until Alpe du Huez for that.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Too bad Quintana will do 7.3 w/kg and humiliate Froome

 

[Escarabajo]

Lol. Nice. Hopefully he won't hold back. I want to see 6.8W/kg at least.

LOL. 6.8 watts/kg in Ventoux constitutes a positive. You don't need a urine or blood test to ban the rider.

 

[the sceptic]

6.8w/kg on Ventoux is Mayo territory isnt it? Not even Dawg at full gas can do that. He will have to settle for something more modest like 6.3w/kg i would guess.

 

[jens_attacks]

rode two weeks at 42 kmph. probably no one barring froome will do the ventoux under one hour
but i think things changed since the pyrenees, sky will have some suprises tomorrow

 

[Linkinito]

As expected, high temperatures (in the shades), north winds.
Froome doing the Ventoux in under an hour, after 220 km, would be quite full *** mode.

 

[roundabout]

not good for the last part of Ventoux

 

[LaFlorecita]

As expected, high temperatures (in the shades), north winds.
Froome doing the Ventoux in under an hour, after 220 km, would be quite full *** mode.

High temperatures = good for dawg and full ***, not good for Alberto