2015 Tour dFrance Stage 12 Lannemazan - Plat de Beille 195km

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Probably Froome ftw, but I think Quintana will be closer. Hopefully it will be a good fight between them ftw.

Hmm.... this climb has a pretty regular gradient which suits Gesink I think and furthermore Gesink takes the heat relatively well, so maybe he will be strong again.

 

[Poursuivant]

Pierre Rolland to win

 

[djpbaltimore]

With those long valleys, SKY will ride at a pace that keeps as many of their team in the peloton as possible and nothing more. It is up to the other teams to detonate the race before the final climb. But, I don't see any team likely to do that, so I would bet on the breakaway again and choose Hesjedal.

 

[Metabolol]

Breakaway for the win.

GC: Froome will crush everyone again. Maybe Quintana will manage to get a bit closer than he did last time. Thomas or Porte will be third, depending on who works when and where. Then Gesink and Valverde. TJ will lose lots of time and might drop out of the top three. Contador will probably lose 4-5min.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Thomas to attack, TJvG, Quintana and Contador pull Froome up the Mountain. Quintana and Froome become the only ones left. Froome leaves Quintana behind and joins Thomas up the road. Froome pulls him to the finish.

 

[sir fly]

I'm expecting similar opening kilometers like today.
Breakaway taking longer than usually to form and, who knows, maybe the peloton splits during the efforts and we get some proper long distance racing.
Fortunately, we'll see it all live.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

1998 Plateau de Beille

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM0OYRFPGss

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

Re:

Breakaway for the win.

GC: Froome will crush everyone again. Maybe Quintana will manage to get a bit closer than he did last time. Thomas or Porte will be third, depending on who works when and where. Then Gesink and Valverde. TJ will lose lots of time and might drop out of the top three. Contador will probably lose 4-5min.

This sums it up for me. Unfortunately.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Froome or Porte FTW.

Don't think the other GC contenders dare much unfortunately.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Froome to break Pantani's time

 

[LaFlorecita]

I think Alberto will suffer like a dog again, he'll probably be fully out of it after tomorrow's stage damn heat

 

[Miburo]

43:28 is the record btw

 

[Jagartrott]

I hope for a Quintana-Valverde duo on fire.
But that's only hope. At the moment, no-one is close to looking like they could hurt Froome. With the exception of Geraint of course.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

43:28 is the record btw

And Contador's time is 44:08, for reference.

 

[Miburo]

Re: Re:

43:28 is the record btw

And Contador's time is 44:08, for reference.

If they didn't stop 20 times on the mountain contador/rasmussen might have had the record

 

[TI-Raleigh]

No way a breakaway makes it all the way to the finish. Any escapees kept on a leash. Boring funeral procession. Sky train on PdB, riders shelled out the back. Froome with an attack in the last 5 km. Gains time over everyone but Quintana (who ends up taking the stage at the line).

 

[malakassis]

Re: Re:

Breakaway for the win.

GC: Froome will crush everyone again. Maybe Quintana will manage to get a bit closer than he did last time. Thomas or Porte will be third, depending on who works when and where. Then Gesink and Valverde. TJ will lose lots of time and might drop out of the top three. Contador will probably lose 4-5min.

This sums it up for me. Unfortunately.

+1

 

[hfer07]

Re: 2015 Tour dFrance Stage 12 Lannemazan - Plat de Beille 1

1-) The Alien
2-) Porte
3-) Quintana
4-) G






5-) Contador @ 10 minutes

 

[SafeBet]

Nibali to drop new Astana captain Kangert on Portet d'Aspet.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Re:

Nibali to drop new Astana captain Kangert on Portet d'Aspet.

Lol

 

[Poursuivant]

Weather will be 35 degrees :0

 

[djpbaltimore]

With the weather and how hard the last two days have been ridden, I just don't see how there will be any real racing before the last climb. An early attack from a GC contender would be a suicide mission IMO.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Re:

43:28 is the record btw

Sub-40 possible for Froome

 

[Psalmon]

Re:

With the weather and how hard the last two days have been ridden, I just don't see how there will be any real racing before the last climb. An early attack from a GC contender would be a suicide mission IMO.

Probably, but what do you call waiting for Sky and Froome to attack on the PdB? Maybe the heat is where one can EXPOSE a weakness.

I feel like I've already seen this stage. The interviews. The post race analysis...sigh.

 

[djpbaltimore]

I would call it being between a rock and a hard place. I guess if you put someone up the road, you can jump on the penultimate climb, break the SKY helpers and link up in the valley. Tough to pull off, but not impossible. I just don't personally expect it to happen, but I hope the stage exceeds my expectations.