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

[Netserk]

Kwia, Montaguti and Eisel have bridged.

 

[Netserk]

IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI J.16MOV+01:28:11
SERPA J.118LAM+01:40:44
KIRYIENKA V.3SKY+02:35:04
KLUGE R.196IAM+03:24:01

Trying to bridge.

 

[Miburo]

This man should strike today and finally break Nibali:

Valverde used to attack?

 

[barmaher]

IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI J

Hmmmm. Valverde to try something today? Or is he off the leash?

 

[Netserk]

We have our break of the day. The 12 riders mentioned will stay away as the peloton has slowed down.

 

[The Barb]

Woohoo, break is gone. 12 riders. Go Mick go.

 

[jens_attacks]

this is too easy for mick

 

[barmaher]

It is difficult to imagine who will win today from the break, apart from Rogers or Kiriyenka.

 

[KubaWinter]

Kwiatkowski!

 

[jens_attacks]

who should chase now?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

40km break battle with a solid group going.
Finally some seriousness after the flag drops.

Albasini to go berserk and grab the win.

edit: nobody will chase this.

 

[Netserk]

this is too easy for mick

Like clubbing baby seals

 

[Cimber]

So this time the victim was a "stop" sign

 

[barmaher]

Kwiatpolski has really raced his balls off this month. Chapeau to the Pomeranian.

 

[Kazistuta]

If this break goes to the end, it will be Rogers' stage to lose. By far the guy with best form atm, even though both Kwiatkowski, Kiriyenka (wow, is he participating this year!?) and Izaguirre under normal circumstances would stand a chance.

But no Katusha rider in the break? Bad strategy, unless if they're all into destroying Majkas chances of the Polkadot the next two stages....

 

[icefire]

Rogers' first Giro win was on a stage with a descent finish, but I think tomorrow is the only high mountain descent finish indeed. The Tour also had the Mulhouse stage and the Vuelta has the Córdoba one.

Actually the Vuelta has 2 stages with a descent finish: stages 4 and 19. None of them are high mountains (~500m drop from summit to finish)

 

[Jagartrott]

This break is meh. Almost none of the expected names that could actually pull this off. Where's Riblon, Voeckler, Bakelants, De Marchi, etc? What's a guy like Réza doing in the break? Pulling for Rogers and Kwiatkowski?

 

[icefire]

Kwiatkowski!

Kwia must have joined the break to learn climbing from the masters

 

[MBotero]

Eisel in the break wtfmaybe he's got the wrong stage profile.

 

[jens_attacks]

and the gap is coming down yes!!!!!

 

[Cimber]

Mikel Nieve (Sky) is dropped off.

 

[Netserk]

Eisel in the break wtfmaybe he's got the wrong stage profile.

He is there to pull for Kiri.

 

[jens_attacks]

haha gotta luv garmin !! unleashed, nieve dropped wow

 

[l.Harm]

Garmin chasing apparently. Again a tough day for the peloton.

 

[SafeBet]

Kiri will smash everyone if the break stays away.
Now Garmin chasing wow! Why we have to miss such a great start of racing?