2014 Tour de France July 26, Stage 20: Bergerac - Périgueux (ITT) 54km

[thequestionmark]

14:39 in French Time.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So Tuft and Durbridge for early markers perhaps.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Nick Roche?

Seriously?

Even his grandmother would not be nominating Nico for the win here.



(What P&P suggest in commentary, however, I cannot be held accountable for)

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Ji C covers 39km in just under 22 mins according to the tour tracker.

Is he allowed to carry out to set the hour record?

 

[wirral]

As per always, they have managed to screw up the live timing already. How do they manage it every time. I suppose there are a couple of plus points. These guys (Festina?) are not sending people to the moon, thank God and they're not Italian 'cos then it would be truly chaotic.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nick Roche?

Seriously?

Even his grandmother would not be nominating Nico for the win here.



(What P&P suggest in commentary, however, I cannot be held accountable for)

Love it, many July fans will eat it raw.

Roche FTW.

 

[manafana]

tvg needs put in strong showing in this at his best showings he is very strong at this.

 

[The Barb]

Tony will win by 1.30+ minutes. Dumoulin second.

Tom Dumoulin is a very handsome man.

 

[Tournesol]

I expect Durbridge to top 6 on the stage,from what i viewed last night there was some strange betting on him,getting backed with all firms,should go well.

Nobody remotely close to Der Panzer on this ITT course.

 

[LaFleur]

The ticker predicts the time limit to be 17 minutes. Is that realistic? I mean, this could very well happen... must be the worst feeling ever.

 

[Bushman]

Tom Dumoulin is a very handsome man.

I suppose so, but shouldn't I have put an S in the end?

 

[ToreBear]

Nothing can stop him

Pst.. That would be more appropriate for Koenig. It was made by Skoda, so definitely good for the tour though.

 

[roundabout]

The ticker predicts the time limit to be 17 minutes. Is that realistic? I mean, this could very well happen... must be the worst feeling ever.

I doubt that even Martin can do these 54 km in 68 minutes

 

[thequestionmark]

The ticker predicts the time limit to be 17 minutes. Is that realistic? I mean, this could very well happen... must be the worst feeling ever.

The winning time will be about 70 minutes, 25% of 70 is 17,5 minutes. So yes, it makes Sense. However, I don't expect anyone to miss out.

 

[Frosty]

Portal says Team Sky are looking to Thomas, Kiriyenka and Porte to do well today.

Navardauskas taking it easy after his stage win yesterday.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so Pate in roughly 50 minutes after 39km.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ji could be in trouble today.
10 minutes behind Petit at 48km.
1h11 odd

 

[el_angliru]

The ticker predicts the time limit to be 17 minutes. Is that realistic? I mean, this could very well happen... must be the worst feeling ever.

The official time schedule predicts a total time for the course of 1h 07mins. The time limit is 25% = 16:45 mins.

I don't know if the time is realistic. It suggests an avg. speed of 48.36 km/h. A bit fast for such a bumpy road. Maybe 46 km/h is more realistic? But it's hard to judge just by looking at the profile. 70 mins mentioned by thequestionmark = 46.29 km/h.

Martin did 54.271 km/h at the 1st TT at the 2013 Tour (33 km flat).
Froome did 37.245 km/h at the 2nd TT at the 2013 Tour (32 km really hilly).

This year's stage is much closer to the 1st TT of last year, of course.

 

[thequestionmark]

Cheng Ji is in trouble. Already 10 minutes behind Adrien Petit at the third intermediate.

 

[roundabout]

I would say that Petits time is wrong at the 3rd inter

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I would say that Petits time is wrong at the 3rd inter

yep, looks like it.

Ji ended 6:46 after at the end.

 

[roundabout]

Although if Petit's time at the finish is correct, Tony should be easily under 68 minutes

 

[ToreBear]

The live timing system on the official site seems to be quite good and with plenty of splits:

http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/live/aso/

Though it would have been nice to have more times to be able to compare ascent and decent times, this is a good start.

 

[Frosty]

I would say that Petits time is wrong at the 3rd inter

Yeah, i make that 9km in 8:44. A downhill followed by a climb - sounds a bit unlikely. Looks like Pate has slowed down a lot although that could be real.

Tuft equal with Pate at the first check.

 

[Frosty]

Looks like the problems with the 3rd checkpoint are being put right.

Pate the new leader at the finish with 1.09