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

[Climbing]

Nibali with the highest VAM ever at the Tour...

 

[Parrulo]

Awful performance from Costa and Mollema they won't even top 10 at this rate which is really embarrassing considering the amount of people who crashed out of contention

 

[Frosty]

Hayman down as a DNF which i didnt know about but may have been announced

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/withdrawals.html

Always possible Machado isnt on his original bike so his transponder might not have been detected.

Just updated - Machado and Schillinger missed the time limit.

 

[maxmartin]

Nibali with the highest VAM ever at the Tour...

link? Data? too bad can't see him beating AC.

 

[seldon71]

Andreas Schillinger (NetApp) apparently gone, too...

 

[Pricey_sky]

Awful performance from Costa and Mollema they won't even top 10 at this rate which is really embarrassing considering the amount of people who crashed out of contention

I agree especially Mollema after his good Tour last year.

 

[seldon71]

So, that's five. Thanks Frosty!

 

[jaylew]

Yes, really. He now follow wheels 100% of the time. Don't even try to do anything different.

Not true. He's had a few wins this year from attacks.

 

[roundabout]

Not true. He's had a few wins this year from attacks.

Against 2nd rate opposition mostly.

 

[Kwibus]

Vandenbroeck says it's Contadors own fault he crashed.
He doesn't understand that Contador wanted to pass him at that point in the descent.

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1063/Tour-de-France/article/detail/3689284/2014/07/14/Van-den-Broeck-Val-van-Contador-is-zijn-eigen-schuld.dhtml

In dutch.

 

[xanadu]

Two weeks to go. That's a long time.

Look at it from a different angle, Nibali is expending great effort in the first week and perhaps some of the GC contenders are expending a bit less. The great efforts should, in theory, catch up to him later on and perhaps another GC contender will have something in reserve.

Agreed Astana`s work rate will become an issue, but when Nibali made his move, no one matched it. He does look the strongest and has the maillot jaune, if everyone is waiting for him to fade away it could be a long wait.
Nibali has only really made two major moves, one on the cobbles and one today IMHO he is measuring his effort with a great deal of sense.

 

[GroupDK]

Tibia, pretty fare out that, he managed the chase afterwards..

scheduled for operation..

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I agree especially Mollema after his good Tour last year.

People need to put things into perspective. Mollema is at, I think, 99,9% of the level of last year.
The difference is that Pinot, Van Garderen are back at their right levels. That Valverde isn't blown away by echelons, that Bardet is new and that Peraud finally doesn't have bad luck.

Try to look at it objectively. Mollema finishes at the same distance of the best riders as last year. He is a fairly limited rider.. He doesn't have the ability of Pinot or Valverde who stay within 15 seconds of JNibali. Even with all the fallen riders he still finishes around the level he had last year. Last year the weak field was masked by a fantastic Froome, Quintana and Rodriguez.

 

[Escarabajo]

Gutted for Contador, nice win Nibali. He really has to win this now he may never get a better chance with the top 2 now out and Quintana not there.

A final moan for Valverde! What on earth is this guy on? Just sit there at the back of the chasers and let Nibali ride away. Does he not even want to win this race? As usual he sprint past most of them in the final metres to make himself look great, I honestly hope he doesn't even make the podium!

+1.

Did not even try to help either!!

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Machado in with + 43 min - so Hors Délai.

 

[maxmartin]

Vandenbroeck says it's Contadors own fault he crashed.
He doesn't understand that Contador wanted to pass him at that point in the descent.

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1063/Tour-de-France/article/detail/3689284/2014/07/14/Van-den-Broeck-Val-van-Contador-is-zijn-eigen-schuld.dhtml

In dutch.

thanks for the info, a surprising attack?

 

[Escarabajo]

Awful performance from Costa and Mollema they won't even top 10 at this rate which is really embarrassing considering the amount of people who crashed out of contention

From what I was expecting from Costa, I think he did good.

 

[Broth3r]

Just updated - Machado and Schillinger missed the time limit.

43m down, damn. What was the time cut?

Probably no chance for a dispensation for just two riders of "lesser" nationalities from a ProConti team. Though coming back from the dead, with an on-screen blurb that I've never seen before, no less, would be a good reason on my book.

 

[Frosty]

Machado and Schillinger are now in the official results at +43.06, and not in the withdrawals, so maybe the judges decided to be lenient.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

From what I was expecting from Costa, I think he did good.

Yep. Think the same about Mollema. People are really overestimating Mollema, wow.

 

[Escarabajo]

link? Data? too bad can't see him beating AC.

I would not put too much stock on those numbers. It was very short climb. And the time that Nibali was climbing away was even shorter. So expect high numbers anyway.

 

[maxmartin]

I would not put too much stock on those numbers. It was very short climb. And the time that Nibali was climbing away was even shorter. So expect high numbers anyway.

make sense, but today stage was hard and weather was not good at all

 

[Tonton]

JCP getting better every year, looking good with the 54km TT at the end of the tour.

If not JCP, I hope that one of the two French kids gets a top-5. Both finished in the top-5 today, and there will be more mountain-top finishes. And with all the casualties that seem to plague this year's TdF, who knows...

 

[Eclipse]

Machado and Schillinger are now in the official results at +43.06, and not in the withdrawals, so maybe the judges decided to be lenient.

I hope they are. By all reports Machado took a real pounding but he got back on and dragged himself to the finish.

 

[Escarabajo]

Wow! broken tibia for Alberto. That must have been painful!
Hope that He gets well soon.