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

[MBotero]

I'm sorry for Purito,but Nibali was really flying,simply too strong and he didn't have to attack,he was already in front of the other guys.Lol at those Contador fans,let's start bash Nibali,well haters gonna hate.Little Richie not good enough but the Tour is long he'll get his chances ,i don't think this is already over.

 

[brilleaben]

How can the fact that Contador has managed to drop Nibali on a MFT in this Tour, drive people to the conclusion that Nibali could've dropped Conta today? Foolish.

 

[Fzotrlool]

On a MTF where both Contador and Froome weren't present

And Purito was empty after today's effort. He may be the strongest climber in this year's Tour. We'll have to see.

Other than that, Nibs definitely showed who's the boss.

 

[Ramira]

They're now saying Contador may have been riding on Roche's bike, and taking risks to get back on. So there might be more to this still.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Good to see horner cracking. Would be embarrasing to have him disgrace the Tour like he did the Vuelta.

For a guy that was top-20 at a second-level event racing for his first race in months he's riding great. We could see some Horner comedy in the third week.

 

[Frosty]

+10.12 for Talansky

 

[kingjr]

with no more competitors left,
Nibali gets yellow
Sagan gets green
JRod gets polka

this is a fight for just white jersey now.

this tour has reduced to
le tour de crash.



is too much to ask for an exciting tour?

i think it is better to watch Giro and Veulta from now on, and skip Tour entirely.

Yeah that can only happen at the Tour of course that the big favourites crash out. Nice thinking there.

 

[gerundium]

Lotto ds said his mechanic spotted contador on another color bike. Probably had mechanical swapped bikes with roche and then crashed taking risks to come back...

 

[Aditya]

Both are dealing with the aftermath of crashes. VBD at least says he's starting to feel better. Let's see what they do after the rest day and a few flat stages, they may be better after some time for recovery. Though it seems Talanksy has lost to much time already.

Hopefully one of them can light up the other MTF stages. Maybe even do a Pereiro and salvage this tour?

 

[Lupi33]

up and down day, but not a big long drag up a H cat mountain yet

2 minutes is nothing with 2 weeks left

Valverde still in this and some others

Porte was probably smart not to chase for the sake of 25 seconds

 

[Jspear]

GC:


ITA 1 NIBALI, Vincenzo (ASTANA) 42:33:38
AUS 2 PORTE, Richie (SKY) + 2:23
ESP 3 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR) + 2:47
FRA 4 BARDET, Romain (AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 3:01
FRA 5 GALLOPIN, Tony (LOTTO BELISOL) + 3:12
FRA 6 PINOT, Thibaut (FDJ.fr) + 3:47
USA 7 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 3:56
FRA 8 PERAUD, Jean-Christophe (AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 3:57
POR 9 FARIA DA COSTA, Rui Alberto (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 3:58
NED 10 MOLLEMA, Bauke (BELKIN) + 4:08

 

[jaylew]

Valverde is one of the biggest frauds of cycling. Honestly.

Wow, seriously?

So I think today shows that the forum members are so one eyed that their opinions are often clueless

Remember, most people before the Tour started questioned if Nibali could beat Valverde for third. Even today it seemed like half the forum thought that Porte would outclimb him

What a bad post. It's sport. You never know what will happen. People make their predictions and sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong. If someone predicts a certain rider will beat another and it doesn't happen it why does it mean they are clueless? They were just wrong. Big deal.

 

[veji11]

one of the young frenchies (Bardet or Pinot) could end up on the podium ! that would be amazing. Wasnt impressed by Nibali, sure he won and will control from now on, but he isn't that much better than the others in terms of pushing the pedals. Not saying he doesn't deserve it though. He was in the top 4 initially in terms of "power" and is winning it because of his riding ability and tactical ability (going ahead on the cobbles). He deserves it. My fear is that we might now see that defensive coalition where Movistars and Skys do Nibali's work because they want to ensure their leader's podium. Would be a shame.

 

[meat puppet]

How can the fact that Contador has managed to drop Nibali on a MFT in this Tour, drive people to the conclusion that Nibali could've dropped Conta today? Foolish.

as the great thinker called lenin was keen to emphasise, "then" differs significantly from "now".

I guess they'd have been tied pretty much, btw. both bordering FR

 

[Pippo_San]

It's called putting them into perspective.

It's called being blind.
I said it in another thread many days ago: Contador will NEVER EVER win a TdF again.
The man is over, he's the last remnant of the old generation. No place for him in the future years.

 

[murali]

This is so unfair in every possible way...

Unfair for Nibali, because the absence of Contador and Froome will question his win.
Unfair for Contador and Froome for obvious reasons (that's racing, I know, but it still sucks).
Unfair for the fans because we won't get to see the massively entertaining battle it would have undoubtedly have been between these guys.

PS: They would have had a hard time dropping Lo Squalo nevertheless, I believe. He is really strong!

the contention that nibbles is strong is now going to be just that.

without a proper challenge, we will never know whether the strongest rider won.

 

[movingtarget]

Bardet also moving up the GC while Talansky seems gone. Garmin seem cursed lately although he won the Dauphine I suppose.

 

[kingjr]

It's called being blind.
I said it in another thread many days ago: Contador will NEVER EVER win a TdF again.
The man is over, he's the last remnant of the old generation. No place for him in the future years.

What does this have to do with his crash today, enlighten me.

 

[dlwssonic]

It really is podium or nothing for tejay.

 

[Ramira]

Hopefully one of them can light up the other MTF stages. Maybe even do a Pereiro and salvage this tour?

Somehow my brain saw Pereiro and thought it said Landis, almost gave me a heart attack .

 

[MBotero]

the contention that nibbles is strong is now going to be just that.

without a proper challenge, we will never know whether the strongest rider won.

The strongest rider is the one who win the damn thing

 

[dlwssonic]

It's called being blind.
I said it in another thread many days ago: Contador will NEVER EVER win a TdF again.
The man is over, he's the last remnant of the old generation. No place for him in the future years.

sure considering his performance this year....

 

[movingtarget]

the contention that nibbles is strong is now going to be just that.

without a proper challenge, we will never know whether the strongest rider won.

Similar to Kittel versus Cavendish in the sprints.

 

[jaylew]

maybe an surprised attack to NIbali, but unfortunately he did not have the bike skill

Oh, good lord. Where's one of those facepalm pics when you need one?

 

[kingjr]

The strongest rider is the one who win the damn thing

Walkowiak agrees.