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

[Sasquatch]

Good to see Taaramae putting in a decent time.

 

[Bakhjulet]

He climbed 30 seconds faster as Kittel

Kittel's ride actually surprised me considering the climbs. 74 riders have arrived so far and Kittel is still in 8th place!

 

[Liquigas]

Taaramae 6 seconds faster than de Gendt on the first descent.

 

[Pulpstar]

Are people using aero bars. Has anyone used a TT bike yet ?

 

[classicomano]

De Gendt losing time now.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Kittel's ride actually surprised me considering the climbs. 74 riders have arrived so far and Kittel is still in 8th place!

Kittel is 85 Kilos. If he'd drop 8 Kilos he'd give Froome a run for his money

 

[User Guide]

only 17 secs for de Gendt 3rd time check

 

[Cyivel]

TDG 17s up on De Marchi now and 30s on Westra, losing a bit of time.

 

[Bakhjulet]

De Gendt slowing down, lost 18s to De Marchi on 2nd climb. Started too hard?

 

[Liquigas]

De Gendt losing time now.

Yep, I hope Taaramae can keep on trimming down De Gendt's times.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

De Gendt slowing down, lost 18s to De Marchi on 2nd climb. Started too hard?

he blew himself up

 

[murali]

de gendt can still finish below 54'

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Yep, I hope Taaramae can keep on trimming down De Gendt's times.

taaramae has a habbit of blowing himself up everywhere

 

[hoerpi]

Ion second at first split, hopefully he can use his downhill skills to gain time now.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Ion second at first split, hopefully he can use his downhill skills to gain time now.

he should he's tremendous descender

 

[Bakhjulet]

he blew himself up

One of those suicide bombers.

 

[niidirull]

taaramae has a habbit of blowing himself up everywhere

Except in ITT's he has a habit of going slower at start and ending faster.

 

[Pulpstar]

Its a shame Nibali isn't here, could you imagine it. Second in GC the heavens open. The dawg sees Il Squallo zip past him in the wet on the first descent as he gets a touch of the wiggos.

Fantasy land but funny to think of.

 

[Liquigas]

Sagan can win this one. If he wants to.
I hope he gives it a go.

 

[Sylvester]

Despite the arrival of some lesser time trialists on average the riders are still 41% slower than during the first TT; this means it would be a real surprise to see all the GC men only going 35% slower.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Despite the arrival of some lesser time trialists on average the riders are still 41% slower than during the first TT; this means it would be a real surprise to see all the GC men only going 35% slower.

gc riders are betetr climbers obviously and should of cours elose less time compared to erarlier itt.

 

[Sylvester]

gc riders are betetr climbers obviously and should of cours elose less time compared to erarlier itt.

That's true for the likes of Quintana and hopefully also for Contador, but can you see Kreuziger post 52:30 here (which would be +35%)? Talansky doing 52 flattish? I really doubt that's going to happen. I see + 37/38% on average for the top 20 on GC.

 

[Bakhjulet]

Sagan can win this one. If he wants to.
I hope he gives it a go.

So it's just a matter of will is it?

 

[Liquigas]

Taaramae gained 14 seconds on De Gendt. I think he blowed himself up.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

That's true for the likes of Quintana and hopefully also for Contador, but can you see Kreuziger post 52:30 here (which would be +35%)? Talansky doing 52 flattish? I really doubt that's going to happen. I see + 37/38% on average for the top 20 on GC.

you don't seem to understand teh fact that 80% of the riders don't do an itt fdull. therefore your assumptions based on the first itt are already wrong. today lower placed riders all took ti easy as well, save a few