2016, 70th Tour de Romandie, April 26th - May 1st, WT

[Scarponi]

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Lulu abandoned, Meintjes and Kwiatkowski DNS.

How can you forget Beppu

 

[DNP-Old]

I could watch a Froome descend for hours.

 

[SafeBet]

What a terrible season this has been for Meintjes thus far.

 

[Jspear]

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What are the odds the attackers will hold Quintana, Zakarin & co. off?

Froome and Spilak stayed away in a similarish move in 2014...

If Froome has any form they could.

 

[markene2]

Where is Quintana?

Edit: Stupid question, he has a rain jacket on him ofc.

 

[TMP402]

Re: Re:

What are the odds the attackers will hold Quintana, Zakarin & co. off?

Froome and Spilak stayed away in a similarish move in 2014...

If Froome has any form they could.

Somehow this feels like a good Rio road race preview.

 

[Red Rick]

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Where is Quintana?

Hiding under rain movistar coloured rain jacket

 

[PremierAndrew]

At what km did Froome TvG and Spilak attack?

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Re: Re:

What are the odds the attackers will hold Quintana, Zakarin & co. off?

Froome and Spilak stayed away in a similarish move in 2014...

Not really comparable. This time Froome is up against a bunch of GC contenders that willingly let him go, while in 2014 he and Spilak dropped everybody else by pure strength

 

[Publicus]

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What are the odds the attackers will hold Quintana, Zakarin & co. off?

it depends on if thibault and/or zakarin are content with podium positions. if they decide to attack on this final climb, the attackers don't enough of a gap (or firepower) to hold them off.

 

[Samamba]

There is gap, Pinot in the second part...

 

[TomekA]

Pinot cracked?

 

[May0maniac]

Pinot was gapped on the descent, he came back with Major Tom.

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

What are the odds the attackers will hold Quintana, Zakarin & co. off?

Froome and Spilak stayed away in a similarish move in 2014...

If Froome has any form they could.

Somehow this feels like a good Rio road race preview.

Certainly a test for Froome. On the other hand, TJ might be thinking about something more.

 

[BigMac]

Tejay on his way out of the top ten after having spent so much energy with this move.

 

[markene2]

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Tejay on his way out of the top ten after having spent so much energy with this move.

Well, he attacked from far out, always a good thing for viewers in my opinion.

 

[classicomano]

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What a terrible season this has been for Meintjes thus far.

I really dont understand why he went to Lampre in the first place. That team looks like a mess right now.

 

[SafeBet]

Peloton looks slimmer. I'd say more riders were distanced during the descent.

 

[TomLPC]

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Tejay on his way out of the top ten after having spent so much energy with this move.

Well, he attacked from far out, always a good thing for viewers in my opinion.

Yeah good for him tbh, screw a meaningless top 10 go for glory

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

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Tejay on his way out of the top ten after having spent so much energy with this move.

Just turned in, haven't really been following this race, but it reflects well on TJ imo that after he lost some time in the first mountain stage he will rather put in a big attack with a risk rather than be content with his thousandth top 10 in a stage race.

I haven't said it often, and I probably won't say it much more, but go TJ and Froomy!

 

[BigMac]

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What a terrible season this has been for Meintjes thus far.

I really dont understand why he went to Lampre in the first place. That team looks like a mess right now.

They've been a mess for years. Makes the decision worse, of course.

 

[May0maniac]

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Tejay on his way out of the top ten after having spent so much energy with this move.

At least he went for broke, that's a good signal.
He crashed on the first MTF (he was hit by the Med car), his form seems to be great.

 

[Samamba]

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Peloton looks slimmer. I'd say more riders were distanced during the descent.

They're all back now.

 

[SeriousSam]

I'm watching a weird stream that seems like a podcast and for the first time I'm now realising that there is really no such thing as live sound in cycling. Still feels odds

 

[BigMac]

For the record, I wasn't criticizing TJ attacking.