: 2013 Tour de France, stage 19: Bourg-d'Oisans / Le Grand-Bornand, 203.5km

[Pulpstar]

Is this the most boring queen stage of any bicycling race ever?

Did you watch last year's Tour ?

 

[mrhender]

More importantly is the Dawg scared?

Only if saxo pushes hard!!

 

[Eshnar]

Giro 2012....

Stelvio? Looked not so boring to me

 

[Parrulo]

25 seconds for Rolland now

 

[Alphabet]

One of the GC guys better do something.

 

[ThirdWorld]

hope the rain wake up this death' bodies

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Saxo not trying anything yet

 

[Netserk]

Costa will win the stage.

 

[Hugo87]

Let's go Rui, for the double!

 

[thehog]

More importantly is the Dawg scared?

The Dawg doesn't like water.

 

[The Hitch]

Disagree. This has been a very good tour. The racing has been great. The only downside is that Contador hasn't got any form and the tactics used against Team Sky. The adage, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," is being used within the race and it makes no sense to me.

Sky is in its element when there is really hard, really fast tempo riding. So what do the other teams do when they want to put pressure on Sky? Even harder tempo riding. No jumps, no changes of pace to break the Sky rhythm.

Yesterday was a good example. Lopez did his part and trailed off. Movistar moves someone in to take his place and the tempo remains the same.

Today is also a good example. Sky doesn't want to ride and Saxo wants to maintain its lead in team GC? Fine. Saxo should do a team breakout -- only for a minute unless they are let go (they wouldn't be).

Sky would ride after that.

The Tour has been been decent on the mtfs and had 1 great flat stage but except for that an absolute snoozefest.

The vuelta will have 15 mtfs or whatever so no matter what happens it will almost certainly be a superior gt.

However the giro also sucked balls this year because all the mountains were cancelled.

But at least there they said - mountains cancelled - so you knew nothing would happen and could go do something else.

Here the promise was there. So the silence is more deafening.

 

[Bakhjulet]

Costa in machine mode now, only a crash on the descent will stop him.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Not the most deserved win for Costa, nevertheless a very smart move and Well done by Movi

 

[ILovecycling]

Costa has good legs

 

[willbick]

The Dawg doesn't like water.

What is yr evidence for that?

 

[Afrank]

Not the most deserved win for Costa, nevertheless a very smart move and Well done by Movi

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[Hugo87]

serpa is the strongest from that group

Dropping like a bomb in the group.

 

[dgodave]

The Dawg doesn't like water.

Nobody likes a wet dog
Wet dog got no friends

Nobody like a wet dog
Nobody even pretends.

 

[Netserk]

What is yr evidence for that?

 

[Parrulo]

He still has 5 km's of climb to do so lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Its looking good tho.

 

[thehog]

The Tour has been been decent on the mtfs and had 1 great flat stage but except for that an absolute snoozefest.

The vuelta will have 15 mtfs or whatever so no matter what happens it will almost certainly be a superior gt.

However the giro also sucked balls this year because all the mountains were cancelled.

But at least there they said - mountains cancelled - so you knew nothing would happen and could go do something else.

Here the promise was there. So the silence is more deafening.

Agree. It's been a terrible Tour.

What could have been good considering the course but its been straggled to death by Froome.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Rolland should have sat up after the last climb and saved his legs for getting points tomorrow.

 

[mrhender]

What is yr evidence for that?

Haven't you noticed, this forum is full of evidence

 

[willbick]

Is there a competition on this forum as to who can be most bored by a cycling event?

 

[Bakhjulet]

Incredible GC action so far...