2014 Tour de France, Stage 16: Carcassonne–Bagnères-de-Luchon (237.5 Km)

[wirral]

The bells, the bells.

 

[ILovecycling]

The bells, the bells.

I like them

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Sean Kelly gets Thibaut Pinot's name correct roughly 1 time in 10

 

[SeriousSam]

teebo peeno

 

[Carols]

Tommy V has provided many great moments in the last 10 years, but he is starting to annoy me LOL!

 

[Bumeington]

teebo peeno

Peeno Teebo

 

[DenisMenchov]

Do you reckon we'll see ANY GC battles today?

I think ag2r might attack on the descent to get rid of Thibaut, but apart of that nothing.

 

[Frosty]

10:16 at the top. Looks good for the break. Some team(s) are likely to ride hard on the front of the peloton before the Bales climb starts properly but the break still has some helpers in it (eg Eisel) who will be aiming to get the break to the foot of the climb with as much lead as possible.

 

[sultanofhyd]

Rogers is going to win this at a canter

 

[Jagartrott]

problem is all these climbs are too long for Slagter yeah... but the rest is even worse.

Kwiatkowski, Rogers, Gallopin?
Kwiatkowski and Gallopin also are very good descenders on top of more-than-decent climbers.

 

[manafana]

rogers is the rightful favourite but things are never that simple with a break this big there is always a surprise in the making

 

[cineteq]

Kwiatkowski, Rogers, Gallopin?
Kwiatkowski and Gallopin also are very good descenders on top of more-than-decent climbers.

Ticker says Gallopin has been dropped, not a good sign with an HC climb still to come.

 

[Jagartrott]

Ticker says Gallopin has been dropped, not a good sign with an HC climb still to come.

I see him in fourth position. If true, must've been a mechanical.

 

[Fzotrlool]

Kwaitkowski to do a "De Gendt"?

 

[SKSemtex]

rogers is the rightful favourite but things are never that simple with a break this big there is always a surprise in the making

With this comfortable lead I am starting to think that Kwiatko will just keep the Rogers wheel uphill and easily win the final sprint.

 

[JimPanzen]

break getting some reasonable space, if kwiat doesn't mess this up, he could seriously move in the gc

Teams of affected riders (especially weak TTers) will start to drive the pace in the peloton to bring down the advantage I think. Comfortable situation for Nibali.

 

[glassmoon]

Do you reckon we'll see ANY GC battles today?

I think ag2r might attack on the descent to get rid of Thibaut, but apart of that nothing.

I guess no hard fight between 2nd and 6th in gc with two mountain-top finishes being ahead of them. Maybe some stupid wtf attack from Valverde with zero effect.

 

[Frosty]

Kwiatkowski, Rogers, Gallopin?
Kwiatkowski and Gallopin also are very good descenders on top of more-than-decent climbers.

Think that the convo at the time was about Garmin - ie 'the rest' applied to the rest of the Garmin riders rather than the rest of the breakaway.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kwiatkowski, Rogers, Gallopin?
Kwiatkowski and Gallopin also are very good descenders on top of more-than-decent climbers.

I think you completely failed to understand my post. I was talking about the other Garmin riders. They are worse, so Slagter is their only chance.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Voeckler is annoying.

 

[whittashau]

Anyone noticed Nibbles blowing his nose a lot?

 

[Warhawk]

Anyone noticed Nibbles blowing his nose a lot?

Maybe Costa sneezed on him yesterday.

 

[murali]

cav is in team car!!

kwiato might just beat rogers

 

[sultanofhyd]

I don't get the Kwiatkowski hype. He has dropped like a stone on every decent climb until now. If he could get over a HC without being dropped he wouldn't need to go in a break to get into the top 10.

 

[sultanofhyd]

I'm quite surprised Belkin and NetApp aren't riding to protect their top 10 placings, especially given that they don't have anyone in the break.