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

[lemoogle]

rotten luck was due good year ater losing focus last year with the olympics

Let's just wait I guess, all rumors for now( aside from the fact he crashed and is at the hospital ), nothing confirmed . But yeah it does suck for him and AG2R.

 

[el chava]

rotten luck was due good year ater losing focus last year with the olympics

Their last GC hope for the french. The 100th tour will probably end as the worst ever for the host nation. Doh.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

finally a decent time by the frisian beast
froome will go 40 sec faster than that

Gave it all away on the descent.

 

[GazelleFormula]

Gave it all away on the descent.

That's some awful descending

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

westra losing 38 seconds in the descend and showing how pathetic he is

 

[lemoogle]

westra losing 38 seconds in the descend and showing how pathetic he is

Pinot would NOT have had fun on this TT

 

[Bavarianrider]

Kittel is such a beast. 85 Kilos of pure power

 

[Ruudz0r]

Yesterday he was bad, according to himself. If you're racing for a stage win in the Tour and you're dropped that early I don't think it's a mental problem.


Until Paris there's not really any interesting in it for him, so he might as well.

I think it is, an example (and there are 1000s of it with this guy) in the stage D Martin won De Gendt was in the break got dropped a few times came back, and then outsprinted the hole group including rolland for the KOM points (he was quite a bit behind 500 meter before the top). Its clear he had energy left in his legs if you saw that sprint.

Besides his interviews do kinda confirm that he has mental issues, and that he aint living as a real pro + has no idea what he is capable off.

 

[Sylvester]

Kittel 3350 2549 1,314240879
Cousin 3455 2457 1,406186406
Boeckmans 3469 2526 1,373317498
Tuft 3574 2284 1,564798599
Veelers 3720 2553 1,457109283
Bazayev 3559 2630 1,353231939
Muravyev 3636 2512 1,447452229
Hivert 3356 2562 1,30991413

So Kittel's time is 1,31 x first TT, Tuft's 1,56, Veelers somewhere in between.

Applying this formula ("first TT time x 1,30"), Froome could be doing 47:30, but I guess first TT time x 1,35 (49:30) is more realistic as both Hivert and Kittel clearly performed better now than during the first TT.

 

[jens_attacks]

curvers savoldelli

 

[Pulpstar]

Touch of the 'wiggos' for Westra !

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Curvers

 

[jens_attacks]

lol how much did he put on that descent on westra 3 minutes??is that time correct?

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

lol 1'23 behind at the first time check, leading with 1'19 the next time check only 7km further down the road

 

[jens_attacks]

ok someone should have a prize also for the fastest descent...curvers maniac

 

[Bavarianrider]

Tonys said he uses this time trial as a test for his future GC ambitions

 

[classicomano]

Curvers descended with a parachute.

Seriously though this cant be correct.

 

[wwabbit]

WTF? Did he ride off the cliff and land perfectly near the timecheck?

 

[Bavarianrider]

Mabye the firrst time check wasn't correct

 

[User Guide]

lol how much did he put on that descent on westra 3 minutes??is that time correct?

2 min 42 secs

must be a mistake,at only 7k of descent @ a pedestrian 60 kph 2,42 not doable

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

2 min 42 secs

in a 7km descent

 

[jens_attacks]

yep something is not right there,not normal

 

[Ruby United]

Impossible.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Curvers descending like a boss

 

[Ferminal]

Better start a Clinic thread.