2013 Tour de France, stage 16: Vaison-la-Romaine - Gap 168Km

[wwabbit]

Sky should be fairly happy with this break, they should be able to take it all the way. Good work neutralizing that earlier dangerous break.

 

[wirral]

The evasiveness of the answers of Saxo team members to the interviewer's questions on today's tactics would suggest they want to try something in today's stage.

 

[tomorrow]

well, nobody from cannondale in the break, what the hell are they waiting for?

 

[Netserk]

Voeckler's break stages are usually fun to watch though ( aside from the faces )

Yeah apart from him they are mostly good to watch

 

[Wilba60]

Cam Meyer for the stage win.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Sky should be fairly happy with this break, they should be able to take it all the way. Good work neutralizing that earlier dangerous break.

Wishful thinking is that it took some significant work to bring the Martin group back, and they hopefully pay later.

 

[Carols]

Great timing, tv producers, now two hours of boredom until there's some new action.

Yeah they miss all the action, and now we wait

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Eurosport said Pinot pulled out pointing to his fear of descents, particularly the final descent of today's stage

 

[maltiv]

well, nobody from cannondale in the break, what the hell are they waiting for?

Unfortunately they don't give a **** about stage wins anymore, they are happy with Sagan simply getting the green jersey. Imo he should be disappointed to only win 1 stage, he's far better than that...

 

[TommyPlus]

Ramunas FTW

 

[xrayvision]

Roche takes no leads in the break, he obviously have orders to save the energy.

 

[Kazistuta]

Best of these guys should be Rui Costa. Navarro, De Gendt, Voeckler and Roche should be contenders, if the final mountain is crucial.

Quite some fast finishers if some of them arrive in Gap together: Gilbert, Navardauskas, Albasini, Gallopin (and Voeckler is explosive as well).

I pick in the bowl and predict Navardauskas FTW.

 

[tomorrow]

Unfortunately they don't give a **** about stage wins anymore, they are happy with Sagan simply getting the green jersey. Imo he should be disappointed to only win 1 stage, he's far better than that...

I aggree, stage 14 and this stage were for him, and cannodale did not even try to do something in 14, and it seems it will be the same today, shame for sagan, I wonder what happened when he is not in the break anymore, if some tactics, if he wasn't feeling for it or just nature called him and he missed it

 

[The Principal Sheep]

I aggree, stage 14 and this stage were for him, and cannodale did not even try to do something in 14, and it seems it will be the same today, shame for sagan, I wonder what happened when he is not in the break anymore, if some tactics, if he wasn't feeling for it or just nature called him and he missed it

Sagan drifting back to the team car now

 

[stampedingviking]

Froome appearently booed at the start.

Joao Correia ‏@joaoisme 5m
Seeing people booing for @chrisfroome today @ start was sad. Man what does a guy have to do. Support the riders #InnocentUntilProvenGuilty

Probably some of the morons from the Clinic

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Best of these guys should be Rui Costa. Navarro, De Gendt, Voeckler and Roche should be contenders, if the final mountain is crucial.

Quite some fast finishers if some of them arrive in Gap together: Gilbert, Navardauskas, Albasini, Gallopin (and Voeckler is explosive as well).

I pick in the bowl and predict Navardauskas FTW.

They all pretty equal on climb. It could be who's the best descender.

 

[Ruby United]

Roche to win with late attack.

 

[wwabbit]

Wishful thinking is that it took some significant work to bring the Martin group back, and they hopefully pay later.

Could happen, yeah. But overall they are in a better position than before.

 

[murali]

I don't understand the animousity against CAN. I don't think that this stage actually suits Sagan. Plus this is the third week. I would rather have Sagan and Cav fight it out in Paris.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Roche to win with late attack.

Gulp,that's wishful thinking on my part. To be fair he is a good descender.

 

[murali]

who worked to bring back Valverde?

 

[Ferminal]

Why aren't Sky giving them 15 minutes?

 

[murali]

Roche will be motivated to win. He doesn't have much cq points to show this season.

He needs to climb up in GC, and a stage win will be a huge plus for him.


But my money is on my fav TdF rider: Voeckler (huge fan)

 

[tomorrow]

I don't understand the animousity against CAN. I don't think that this stage actually suits Sagan. Plus this is the third week. I would rather have Sagan and Cav fight it out in Paris.

no big hills and descent on the finish, being in the front at the top of last hill, he could go all alone probably in the descent and nobody or only few would be able to follow him, what would he want more? Probably that's also why he tried to be in the break from the start. Obviously, it would be very difficult for cannondale to catch a break of 25 people all alone. So they probably play it safe for sagan are are happy enough with one win and green jersey. But it a shame, sagan surely deserves more than one win for his performance so far. And in Paris, the odds sagan being equal to cav, greipel and kittel is very small.

 

[Pulpstar]

Sky still have Stannard on the front.