2014 Tour de France July 18, Stage 13: Saint-Étienne - Chamrousse 197.5km

[Escarabajo]

Does anyone have the last 10km of today on youtube or something?

http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/

Several short ones in different languages.

 

[Fzotrlool]

To change the subject, 3 of the top 6 are French. It may be many years, even decades, since it last happened.

 

[Fzotrlool]

Does anyone have the last 10km of today on youtube or something?

That **** to Cyclinghub will most likely have a frozen one ready for you.

 

[go crazy]

Fvck Majka, what a tool

Konig showed his annoyance too. What a d-bag, he did even less work than Valverde, and steals 2nd. Stupid, hope Majka gets dropped. What was the point of that? Oh well, thankfully it was not for the win, or else I would have been really ****ed. Majka is an idiot, and I'll never root for that jerk.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Also, about Valverde doing work; Ten Dam says Pinot pulled much harder than Valverde. In a post race interview he said thart when he was following wheels in their group, he really struggled to follow when Pinot set the pace, but following when Valverde was making tempo was easy.

http://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/27899/ten-dam-het-tempo-van-valverde-kon-ik-gemakkelijk-volgen.html

 

[Jagartrott]

What the fark was Katusha doing today? Screwing over the breakaway for what exactly? Moronic.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

What the fark was Katusha doing today? Screwing over the breakaway for what exactly? Moronic.

They probably thought J-Rod could compete for the stage win.

 

[TANK91]

Just 2 riders in top 10 that were top 10 last year, also a completely new podium.

 

[Liquigas]

Konig showed his annoyance too. What a d-bag, he did even less work than Valverde, and steals 2nd. Stupid, hope Majka gets dropped. What was the point of that? Oh well, thankfully it was not for the win, or else I would have been really ****ed. Majka is an idiot, and I'll never root for that jerk.

Agreed. I hope somebody does the same to him.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Just 2 riders in top 10 that were top 10 last year, also a completely new podium.

Mollema and Valverde right?

Well. Pinot is back and improved from 2012. Same goes for Van Garderen. They both just had an off year last year.
Bardet is up and coming. Not so surprised.
Peraud has been stronger than expecter, or maybe Mollema and Van den Broeck weaker then expected. Costa was an unknown as leader and has been ill. Rodrigez no GC. Froome and Contador out.. Kreuziger no start..Fuglsang fallen but already worse than last year. Who remains? Talansky...also out..Quintana didn't start either.

Basically, the field has been completely different, and from those remain they either fell out, or didn't have great form

 

[Jagartrott]

A full bottle at that.

JVDB should be relegated if that's really what happened.

"I hope @jakob_fuglsang is ok. Didn't throw away my water bottle, it fell out of the bidon cage. Apologies for crash and injuries #TDF"

 

[yespatterns]

God help us if majka and piti get into a two man break.... they may come to a standstill without any wheels to follow.

 

[kingjr]

"I hope @jakob_fuglsang is ok. Didn't throw away my water bottle, it fell out of the bidon cage. Apologies for crash and injuries #TDF"

Would have been a weird spot to throw away a bottle anyway.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

"I hope @jakob_fuglsang is ok. Didn't throw away my water bottle, it fell out of the bidon cage. Apologies for crash and injuries #TDF"

A full bottle doesn't just fall out of a bottle cage.

 

[maxmartin]

A full bottle doesn't just fall out of a bottle cage.

maybe after drinking it, he did not put it back properly, or it jut slip out his hands like AC slipped his handlebar. It is just an accident.

 

[jens_attacks]

ok gotta say i like konig,i want him to podium

 

[Netserk]

ok gotta say i like konig,i want him to podium

Better hope for a heat wave in the Pyrenees too then.

 

[VeloHuman]

Better hope for a heat wave in the Pyrenees too then.

He is in a weird place on GC where it's hard to say if he'll be allowed to go on the attack. If the other guys towards the back end of the GC let him go for a long one though, you never know how far he could climb up the leaderboard. It's getting to be that time in the race; at this point last year, Daniel Navarro and Andrew Talansky were well out of it and were therefore allowed to pick up big chunks of time in the breakaway, ultimately landing in the Top 10.

Unlikely that Konig advances too far up the GC ladder, but who knows.

 

[the asian]

Vincenzo again showing who's boss

Also glad that the overrated hack from Australia cracked hard today.

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

ok gotta say i like konig,i want him to podium

Konig = King

 

[ILovecycling]

Konig showed his annoyance too. What a d-bag, he did even less work than Valverde, and steals 2nd. Stupid, hope Majka gets dropped. What was the point of that? Oh well, thankfully it was not for the win, or else I would have been really ****ed. Majka is an idiot, and I'll never root for that jerk.

why should he worked with Konig?
Konig was going for places in GC,Majka obvious stage win with no GC threat,Konig would have pulled alone anyway.

 

[Energy Starr]

Tell us where AT is please. As is Dauphines really means anything.

Where AT IS has nothing to do with form.

 

[seldon71]

Seldom been as disgusted in a rider than Majka today.

1st he didn't help König in their breakaway for a second, ONLY wheelsucked.

Then he eliminated the chance of König being able to negotiate the stage win for help to Nibali by continuing of being a useless a*****e.

And then he sprinted for 2nd!!!

Boy, that young Pole sure made an enemy (or maybe two).


Valverde was pretty irritating too, but at least he ALSO showed effort & aggression. It wasn't pretty, but he probably saw today that fighting Nibbles is a futile task and saw Pinot as serious podium competitor. Not nice behaviour, but somewhat excusable. At least in comparison to Pinot.


Then Porte???!!!

Two things came to mind :

A) He always bonks once... Done again.

B) Are Skybots just SO powermeter-trained that they can't handle big variations in tempo.
FdJ absolutely killed it for the last kilometres before the ascent.... Lot of guys went out early before real attacks. Was it just that hard of an approach that it messed up Porte (and few lesser names too)?


Still on Porte :

At some rather late point of final ascent they showed Yury Trofimov catching&passing Nieve/Froome (Geraint Thomas hadn't yet returned). Trofimov is not a real mountain goat, but would put 3!!! minutes to Porte.

And John Gadret who came to almost full stop after finishing his pull would also beat Porte by two minutes....

Pretty crazy!


About AG2R-teamwork (or lack of it) : it seems they are serious about winning team competition and almost did it today... Belkin stilll got a chance, but having riders riding for themselves in mountains work very well for team honors. This was not only Peraud, but also Gastauer today.

When team honors have been secured you may see Peraud sacrifice for Bardet - not before I guess.

 

[roundabout]

why should he worked with Konig?
Konig was going for places in GC,Majka obvious stage win with no GC threat,Konig would have pulled alone anyway.

Didn't seem to want that stage win when Nibali attacked, did he?

 

[ILovecycling]

Didn't seem to want that stage win when Nibali attacked, did he?

Konig pulled 100%,he (majka) probably wanted to save energy and attack in last km,but obviously wasnt that strong,nothing to do with tactics imo.