2016 TdF, Stage 12: Montpellier → Mont Ventoux (178km)

[TMP402]

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On a sidenote, why was Kirby going on about Aru needing to be investigated by the comissaires?

Aru had some sticky bottles over the course of his 3 (at least?) bike changes.

 

[Cookster15]

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Porte is jinxed. Even when he is making time he loses.

Can't believe Porte's bad luck. He is obviously in great form I just hope he can hold his head up now the organisers have, lucky for him, adjusted the finishing times. Big question is how hurt he is physically and mentally - the TT is tomorrow.

 

[Climbing]

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Oh my! What did I miss!

ohhh....Nothing .

LOL

Too late! Now I know... and on the Bastille Day.
Can you imagine a greater mega fail! muahaahha :lol:

 

[Ataraxus]

Fairest and less time consuming decision would have been to appoint GC times with 1 to go.

 

[bigcog]

Can anyone who knows it tell me if it's forbidden to run without a bike?

I can't find it in the UCI rulebook just to be absolutely clear on this issue. I wonder if someone else can.

This is what I found:
1.2.108 Unless otherwise stated, each rider shall, in order to be classified, complete the race entirely through his own effort, without the assistance of any other person.
1.2.109 The rider may cross the finish line on foot, provided that has his bicycle with him.

He ran on his own. He's okay !

Check his legs for motors! The scum!

You won't get me a second time ! :lol:

 

[VanBsr]

Quintana was dropped by the chasing group. Why he get the same time? Shame

 

[bigcog]

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This is it!!

WOW !!

Thanks for posting.

FOUR FKN MOTOS !!!!!

Fans didn't help ...

... but that's 99% the motorbikes fault. Again. Wowza.

Keep in mind that they crashed next to a man with a French flag, who should be on the left hand side of this picture. I can't see him here, although it may actually be the guy at the very top middle of the photo.

There is argument that the motos make this worse, if you crash into a fan your more likely to lose less time than if you crash into a moto or get hit by one or both in the case of Froome's bike.

 

[TMP402]

Froome keeps the yellow! Well that's it, I'm not watching this **** anymore. They are in Sky's pocket. They want to make Froome the winner no matter what. I'm not going to waste any more of my time with this ****.

lololololol! Get a grip......

"lololololol!" What are you, ten?

Not the place to ask intimate questions.

 

[WillemS]

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Edit. wrong.

 

[saganboss]

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Quintana was dropped by the chasing group. Why he get the same time? Shame

to be honest i think quintana was in the same group but was held more by the incident

 

[Cookster15]

I've been thinking for years there were too many motos on the road. Now we see the outcome. The crowds and will always happen. But allowing so many motos into these tight spaces intermingled with spectators and riders is something ASO can do something about. So a few less TV cameras - tough, safety must always come before TV contracts.

 

[TMP402]

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What a shamefull decision from jury, that is a part of cycling and it happen every time, ruining race like that is really sad

I hope lot of teams will protest againist it

Teams would have threatened to protest either way.

 

[Pantani Attacks]

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Quintana was dropped by the chasing group. Why he get the same time? Shame

to be honest i think quintana was in the same group but was held more by the incident

This. TV footage showed it too. He was held up.

 

[TomekA]

Quintana and Van Garderen lost time because of that crash and that's why they have the same time as chasing group now. It's 7 seconds so not much anyway.

 

[djpbaltimore]

If he was held up, Quintana is within his rights to ask for the 7 secs back. But I still think it was his legs that did him in. It really looked like he needed the wheel of Valverde on the finishing stretch.

 

[WillemS]

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I've been thinking for years there were too many motos on the road. Now we see the outcome. The crowds and will always happen. But allowing so many motos into these tight spaces intermingled with spectators and riders is something ASO can do something about. So a few less TV cameras - tough, safety must always come before TV contracts.

There's another side to this story as well: Did you see the gap the spectators left today? Without a motor, there barely would've been space for a single line of riders, let alone space to place an attack. (By the way, three of the four motorbikes in front of the lead GC group were photographers.)

 

[saganboss]

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Quintana was dropped by the chasing group. Why he get the same time? Shame

to be honest i think quintana was in the same group but was held more by the incident

This. TV footage showed it too. He was held up.

the thing i don't get is why they put valverde in the same time with the others

 

[Fight.The.Power]

TDF Website sums up todays action . . . .

" Chris Froome was victim of a mechanical in the finale after he and Richie Porte had dropped Nairo Quintana "

 

[ggusta]

Froome keeps the yellow! Well that's it, I'm not watching this **** anymore. They are in Sky's pocket. They want to make Froome the winner no matter what. I'm not going to waste any more of my time with this ****.

lololololol! Get a grip......

"lololololol!" What are you, ten?

Not the place to ask intimate questions.

being ten and on this message board would be cause to seriously re-evaluate my life, being 50 and on this message board is a mere confirmation of what a waste it's all been.

 

[WillemS]

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Quintana was dropped by the chasing group. Why he get the same time? Shame

to be honest i think quintana was in the same group but was held more by the incident

This. TV footage showed it too. He was held up.

TV footage shows he was held up, yes, but not that he arrived at the pile up at the same time as the rest of the group. He was already lagging behind the group prior to that moment and I didn't see him get back with the group before the held-up.

 

[Gloin22]

Just add 3km rule to MTFs ffs...fixes all this ***..if Tour can't afford security and barriers what other choice is there.

 

[Warhawk]

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TDF Website sums up todays action . . . .

" Chris Froome was victim of a mechanical in the finale after he and Richie Porte had dropped Nairo Quintana "

Well, I think the guys who run the website aren't allowed to use the word "cluster****."

 

[Cycling1984]

Can someone please answer me this, why they didn't change the stage result if both porte and froome finished on the same time as Bauke Mollema?????????

 

[LeSensei]

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TDF Website sums up todays action . . . .

" Chris Froome was victim of a mechanical in the finale after he and Richie Porte had dropped Nairo Quintana "

Since when "a mechanical" is one of your motorbikes crashes into the contenders. Bloody hell, they sure are a proud lot!

 

[Fight.The.Power]

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TDF Website sums up todays action . . . .

" Chris Froome was victim of a mechanical in the finale after he and Richie Porte had dropped Nairo Quintana "

Well, I think the guys who run the website aren't allowed to use the word "cluster****."

LOL yeh never thought of that :redface: