2014 Tour de France, Stage 10: Mulhouse > La Planche des Belles Filles 161.5 Km

[Fzotrlool]

Scarponi, what a man.

 

[ILovecycling]

breakaway should make this,Fuglsang and Scarponi has no power left.

 

[SafeBet]

Boots is alive and fighting

 

[Broth3r]

Looks pierced.

 

[Rollthedice]

Scarponi is back!

 

[dduff442]

Wow. Scarponi back in business super fast.

 

[maxmartin]

SCA is back, what a fighter!

 

[damian13ster]

I agree he is well overraced. What were they thinking sending him to Romandie?

Striking the iron while its still hot I guess? Saw he was on decent shape and wanted to squeeze everything out of him. The problem is, he still doesnt know his limits (as he himself admits) so this season is still for experimenting. Seeing how long he can hold the peak (seems like he can do it for a long time), how his recovery is (we will see by 3rd week but I am not sure if there was a single stage so far that he was saving himself....), and how his climbing progresses (same as last year or slightly worse but that could be due to too many racing days on high level). Next thing is to go for altitude training in the fall and I really hope he does that (in interview he said that now is not time for experiments (I think conversation took place in April), and tests like that should happen in the fall. Just not sure if he meant this year or in the future. I really think its time to do it though. If he could be just bit closer in LBL or AGR past the climbs (well, or if there wasnt a crash that slowed him in Liege) he would have won one already.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Ten Dam is back. Looks like

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Grande Scarponi!!!!

 

[Publicus]

Nice recovery by Scarponi.

 

[Guybrush]

Papi is there for sure

 

[maxmartin]

Looks pierced.

nasty injury, all the best to him!!!

 

[dduff442]

Looks pierced.

That's what I was thinking. Insane to criticise him for quitting when he'd a puncture wound right on his kneecap.

 

[whittashau]

All this crap about Astana being weak is again proven wrong.

 

[Jspear]

I completely underestimated Gallopin!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Nice recovery by Scarponi.

hope the spectator is okay too!

 

[burning]

All this crap about Astana being weak is again proven wrong.

Saxo could have changed alot today

 

[maxmartin]

All this crap about Astana being weak is again proven wrong.

SCA is a fighter to get back

 

[Ramira]

Searching that post about VDB having a better chance at the podium over Porte, Valverde and Co. LOL!

What I said was, it was ridiculous to mention people like Talansky and van Garderen and completely ignore VBD. Right now VDB is still in the lead group, Talansky isn't and they both crashed on the same day. So it is still ridiculous not to mention VDB while talking about Talansky at the same time.

I'm not sure if he'll podium, based on his ability he should, but his back was blocked 2 days ago, so it could still be bad today. Then again we don't exactly know the injuries of others in the peleton.

 

[Rollthedice]

Man, Bitdsonhg gone again.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Fugslang did 500 meters? Seriously?

 

[djpbaltimore]

Saxo could have changed alot today

Yeah, I think TS would've pulverized the field on the final climb today. And every other MTF most likely.

 

[Afrank]

Rodriguez attacks, Kwiatkowski drops.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Purito climbs away with 5.3 km to go