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

[DBotero]

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

Valverde is getting ridiculous with this.He should use his energy on serious attacks

 

[gthx---]

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That's fool's gold, Gerry, fool's gold.

Ugh, Thomas.

he rode SO strongly that Pinot is still there.

What do you mean? Pinot is where he belongs. Geraint not quite where expected.

But Thomas will excel in rain and if it's being raced so easily Pinot is still there it's a little less bizarre than it looks.

And yet none of the best climbers managed to launch a successful attack.

 

[bigcog]

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Froome tried to ride away, couldn't do it. Is his shape dropping or is the rain?

Hmmm, if movistar and tinkoff still want to win this, it's maybe not over.

He realized that being too dominant would lead only to doping suspicions

Not realy, froome doesn't care about that. He's badshit crazy, besides he tried to attack so i think he just couldn't do it.

Needs to be steeper for his high cadence attacks to work, 15% or some such.

 

[Flamin]

Cmon Frank, beat Gallopin.

 

[DrSahl]

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This is what basically clean cycling looks like folks. If you dont like it go see some 1990s races on youtube

hahahahahahahaha

I am lost for words this should be in the clinic not here... for real..

This reminds me of another era where a poster wrote almost the same thing... but thats another age, with other teams and other riders.

 

[burning]

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This is what basically clean cycling looks like folks. If you dont like it go see some 1990s races on youtube

I guess this cycling was very clean 2 days ago.

Seriously, you need to get banned for trolling.

 

[Arredondo]

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At this rate Valverde will make the podium by stage 55.

Good one

 

[shalgo]

At this rate, Valverde will overtake Froome in stage 130.

Edit: I see that goggalor had the same thought before me.

 

[goggalor]

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LOL, Froome is nearly even able to go with Valverde in a sprint.

He barely had to open his mouth to breath the entire climb. Very very easy.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Quintana can't drop Thomas? What the...?

Why would he be able to? Isn't Thomas a climber?

I wonder how "surprised" Thomas will be about his own performance today, when asked in interviews??

 

[rzombie1988]

I just can't understand no one being willing to go out early and try to hit a home run to try and win. No one is getting 3 minutes otherwise on Froome.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

What a waste of terrain.

The break artists did their best to light up the show, but the GC contenders are collectively very poor in this race and they drag the rating way down.

Congrats to J-Rod.

 

[Irondan]

Talansky... The great white hype.

 

[Mr.White]

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So Purito surely has the form to fight for the polka dots this year!

Podium is still not out of the question if he improves into the 3rd week

It's out of the question!

 

[TMP402]

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LOL, Froome is nearly even able to go with Valverde in a sprint.

He maintained the small gap Valverde created. So did Quintana.

 

[Rollthedice]

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I just can't understand no one being willing to go out early and try to hit a home run to try and win. No one is getting 3 minutes otherwise on Froome.

They simply can't.

 

[Eclipse]

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So Purito surely has the form to fight for the polka dots this year!

Podium is still not out of the question if he improves into the 3rd week

The gap is still 13 minutes. I rather win a 3rd stage!

Oh balls I was looking at Virtual GC and thought he was only 13 down before today lol!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Oh god...Tomalaris now reviewing and fawning over Sky.

 

[No_Balls]

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haha Piti doesn't give a **** about Nairo

Denying Froome a spot is actually very team-oriented. As the sprint showed Froome easily showed his sprinting qualities, overcame Nairo and nearly snubbed proven specialist Bala on it.

A shame there are too many jerseys for Froome to take them all. Oh well, Paris beckons.

 

[Irondan]

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Quintana can't drop Thomas? What the...?

Why would he be able to? Isn't Thomas a climber?

I wonder how "surprised" Thomas will be about his own performance today, when asked in interviews??

He'll say it... lol

 

[TMP402]

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That's fool's gold, Gerry, fool's gold.

Ugh, Thomas.

he rode SO strongly that Pinot is still there.

What do you mean? Pinot is where he belongs. Geraint not quite where expected.

But Thomas will excel in rain and if it's being raced so easily Pinot is still there it's a little less bizarre than it looks.

And yet none of the best climbers managed to launch a successful attack.

Go back and read comments about how weak Quintana's attack was.

 

[willbick]

Every post mentioning a sky rider basically belongs in the clinic. It really is quite pathetic

 

[DrSahl]

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I just can't understand no one being willing to go out early and try to hit a home run to try and win. No one is getting 3 minutes otherwise on Froome.

They have all lost faith, thats why we don't see anything crazy.. they are fighting for leftovers.

Aslong as cycling computers and radio communication is in the race, this will be how the stages go, its nothing weird, but it sure is boring to look at.

 

[Cancelled]

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Oh god...Tomalaris now reviewing and fawning over Sky.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that is sick of him.

 

[Sasquatch]

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I just can't understand no one being willing to go out early and try to hit a home run to try and win. No one is getting 3 minutes otherwise on Froome.

How can they do that? They tried. Thomas and Porte were just too strong. This stage wasn't a good one for riders to long range attacks on. If they did they would have lost a lot of time to Froome and put it beyond doubt.