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

[Eclipse]

Break of 15. Now everybody should be satisfied I guess.

Apparently not everybody, a counter attack is chasing them

 

[l.Harm]

Belkin was chasing for the team classification

 

[wahl84]

Twenty-one actually. Excited to see the names...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So about 75km of break action.
This will hurt some later no doubt.

 

[tomorrow]

sagan and rodriguez are probably quite ****ed they missed forming of the second break

 

[Netserk]

More or less everyone from the first break are away again.

 

[Sasquatch]

Only until Garmin get Tom-Jelte Slagter in the break.

He'll upset Rogers today

 

[l.Harm]

Slagter in the break, no Giant and Belkin. You must be kidding me.

 

[Frosty]

Slagter was the man that Garmin wanted to insert into the break.

 

[Netserk]

Kwiatkowski m.74opq+00:19:24
bakelants j.72opq+00:49:03
gautier c.154euc+00:50:17
rogers m.38tcs+00:53:23
gallopin t.134ltb+00:54:05
van avermaet g.148bmc+01:25:51
izaguirre insausti j.16mov+01:28:11
serpa j.118lam+01:40:44
voeckler t.159euc+01:41:56
keukeleire j.186oge+01:57:13
slagter t.98grs+01:59:05
albasini m.182oge+02:01:52
roy j.128fdj+02:08:42
montaguti m.88alm+02:16:40
reza k.158euc+02:16:58
dumoulin s.84alm+02:29:42
delaplace a.213bse+02:31:17
kiryienka v.3sky+02:35:04
vachon f.219bse+02:46:31
eisel b.2sky+03:06:19
kluge r.196iam+03:24:01

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Slagter in the break, no Giant and Belkin. You must be kidding me.

There is always another day..... until its all over.

 

[jens_attacks]

chouchou finding some legs? that would be the 3rd one in luchon

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

i dont get the excitement over vdb2, porte and nieve being dropped, the first 2 are ill (vdb has an infection) and nieve is just nieve.

Anyway, doesnt matter now anyway

 

[Avoriaz]

Would love to see Gautier win the stage today

 

[jens_attacks]

ok now the peloton stopped for good

 

[wirral]

No Katusha?

 

[MBotero]

If this gonna stay Vasil will save Sky Tour

 

[Jagartrott]

Better break. Only Kwiatowski is stopping this group from gaining a 20 minute lead.

 

[difdauf]

it isn't ASO, it is France television the French TV channel and image provider for the rest who picks the stages where they want to do live tv. The problem with a stage like today is that in all likelihood the first 30/50ks are fun, than you have 100ks of nothing and again some action + it starts very early compared to the others.

I am as frustrated as you are but can understand chosing the next 2 instead of this one.

True but they will do live while the 100 boring kms, showing us some churches, goats and tractors.

 

[fowlyetti]

Looks like another Rogers victory from the break

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Better break. Only Kwiatowski is stopping this group from gaining a 20 minute lead.

yea, how much will they give him before somebody reacts?

Current GC:

1 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 66:49:37
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Esp) Movistar Team 0:04:37
3 Romain Bardet (Fra) Ag2r La Mondiale 0:04:50
4 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:05:06
5 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:05:49
6 Jean-Christophe Péraud (Fra) Ag2r La Mondiale 0:06:08
7 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:08:33
8 Leopold König (Cze) Team NetApp - Endura 0:09:32
9 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:10:01
10 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 0:10:48
11 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 0:11:02
12 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Esp) Trek Factory Racing 0:11:10
13 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Lampre - Merida 0:12:57 DNS today
14 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 0:14:37
15 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Sky 0:16:19
16 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) OmegaPharma - Quick Step Cycling Team 0:19:24
17 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:19:30
18 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:20:18
19 Brice Feillu (Fra) Bretagne - Séché Environnement 0:21:00
20 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:22:30

I can see Ten Dam and Trek getting excited before we reach 20 minutes.

 

[SafeBet]

Looks like another Rogers victory from the break

Kiri will smash him for good, don't worry.

 

[Carols]

Wow we missed some exciting happenings Mick FTW!!!!!

 

[Cimber]

Looks like another Rogers victory from the break

The dude has never won a Tour stage But I guess you refer to his awesome Giro performances

 

[SeriousSam]

Big Mick can hopefully win his long overdue, deserved Tour stage.