2013 Tour de France, stage 17: Embrun / Chorges 32 km (ITT)

[airstream]

Climbs:
Côte de Puy-Sanières 6,4 km @ 6%
Côte de Réallon 6,9 km @ 6,3%

 

[Afrank]

Easy Froome win, 1-2 more minutes on everyone else. Quintana to do well.

 

[Gloin22]

Martin said it's too hard of a TT for him to win, so Froome for the win.

 

[TheEnoculator]

Froome is gonna win this one. He had to hold back for Tony Martin. Not here.

 

[airstream]

Froome
Porte
Contador

 

[Taxus4a]

Tony Martin has no chances here. The favourites are Purito, Quintana, Froome, Contador and Mollema.

 

[the sceptic]

Tony Martin has no chances here. The favourites are Purito, Quintana, Froome, Contador and Mollema.

Will Evans only lose 30 seconds to Froome on this one too?

 

[Billie]

TT or normal road bikes?

 

[Alphabet]

I'm expecting Froome to put a good 2 minutes or so into everybody again. Contador and Quintana to be the best of the rest.

 

[TheEnoculator]

Tony Martin has no chances here. The favourites are Purito, Quintana, Froome, Contador and Mollema.

Purito might do decently, but no way he'll win this. The two climbs aren't short and steep. Same as Mollema, he should do well enough to stay ahead of Contador.

 

[Gloin22]

Porte just confirmed he won't be going full on in the TT.

 

[the sceptic]

Porte just confirmed he won't be going full on in the TT.

Dawg will win by around 2 minutes then. I cant see who is going to get close to him

 

[wwabbit]

Froome
Porte
Contador

Porte has shown that he cannot perform in the stage immediately after a stage where he overexerts himself. I think the right thing for him to do would be to save himself for the next stage which is Alpe d'Huez

 

[hfer07]

Froome goes full *** mode and gain another 4 minutes on 2nd spot & so on---- he ain't taking no chances at all

 

[airstream]

Froome goes full *** mode and gain another 4 minutes on 2nd spot & so on---- he ain't taking no chances at all

He will give a chance for other guy at Semnoz. For Richie

 

[Forunculo]

Contador and Quintana are going to do a great TT. But Froome still better than them.

 

[MatParker117]

Froome to win.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Pretty brutal ITT.

Any information about the descents?

 

[airstream]

Pretty brutal ITT.

Any information about the descents?

I looked the route on google map. The number of turns is significant, but not extremely big like in the Giro time trial. Sadly I don't have info on wideness of the road.

 

[Hautacam2000]

Froome
Quintana
Mollema
Contador
Rodriguez

the gaps between the first 3 will be less than a minute

 

[Kokoso]

I hope Kreuziger gets in top ten and doesn't lose more then 20 seconds on Mollema.

 

[King Boonen]

Quintana to win.

 

[Taxus4a]

Will Evans only lose 30 seconds to Froome on this one too?

it is possible
he is not ok, he is maybe in his fall.
He anyway could deliver a good perfomance tomorrow, couse he is a good descender, but is likely out of the top ten of the stage.
Froome, except he wont take risk in the descents, is gonna win.

 

[hoerpi]

Izagirre jr

Kwiatkovski to top 5, Quintana to finish outside top 10.

 

[Cyivel]

Think Froome will win, not expecting big gaps.