2013 Tour de France, stage 18: Gap - Alpe-d'Huez, 172.5km

[Cimber]

Afther the cat. 3 I think saxo will put Tosatto and Bennati to work till the bottom of the cat.2 and then firework will start again

 

[Finn84]

Lutsenko DNF

 

[The Hitch]

Joop Zoetemelk another one talking sense.

"its no different from a normal mountain stage, maybe just that there are more people".

 

[murali]

how many sky ridres are in the front?

 

[Pharazon]

Joop Zoetemelk another one talking sense.

"its no different from a normal mountain stage, maybe just that there are more people".

he's not wrong

 

[Faraday1]

how many sky ridres are in the front?

7 including froome now...ebh, kiriyenka. 7 saxo-tinkoff riders

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

how many sky ridres are in the front?

All of them, Stannard back now.

 

[Poursuivant]

Thomas looked in super form before his crash. Arguably better than Kennaugh, who has been excellent.

 

[Big Doopie]

I wonder if Saxo will be releasing contador's power data now. The change between ventoux and post rest day must be absolutely mind-blowing. Lol.

 

[GroupDK]

only 3 riders left in tour2013 for captain "fuglsang" on Astana..

not much of a team he got in this tour..

// actually 4..

 

[manafana]

now for the calm before the storm

 

[Frosty]

he's not wrong

Yea, ridden it myself and didnt think it was that bad. One thing is that the steep first couple of kilometres (average 10.3%) encourages people to attack right from the start.

 

[infeXio]

Roche and Paulinho, goooooooooo

 

[LaFlorecita]

I wonder if Saxo will be releasing contador's power data now. The change between ventoux and post rest day must be absolutely mind-blowing. Lol.

Huh? I've not seen Contador do anything yet.

 

[murali]

i heard that in 89, the winner had just 3 companions tooo.

 

[Pharazon]

weird move..

arn't those Saxo guy's just going to be stranded?

 

[Cimber]

Might be a suicide mission for Roche and Paulinho

 

[murali]

why is sky not following roche?

 

[Miburo]

Edit: my bad it's joachim i think

 

[xrayvision]

weird move..

arn't those Saxo guy's just going to be stranded?

they only need a couple of minutes, they have no attention of catching the break, its a middle station for a later attack.

 

[T-Nielsen]

weird move..

arn't those Saxo guy's just going to be stranded?

Its not about reaching the break but getting over Alpe d'Huez.

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

Much better for Sky to just ignore them and chase them back gradually before the next climb, if they go mad in the chase they will just drop their own riders.

 

[Cimber]

But that might prove hard enough when they are only the 2 of them

 

[Bakhjulet]

why is sky not following roche?

Why should they? Let him dangle out there, burning his energy so he will be more or less useless on d'Huez.

 

[classicomano]

Brailsford probably in full panic mode right now, screaming to Knaven to get the train to accelerate.