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

[ILovecycling]

Pierrrrrrrrrre

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Bastille day op
Roll on Rolland

 

[ILovecycling]

Kiry starts his 5km section

 

[Warhawk]

Rolland doing Rolland things.

 

[meat puppet]

The question is: seated or unseated

 

[happytramp]

God this stage could have been so different...... now look at it. Jesus.

 

[Rollthedice]

Roland, what was that?

 

[markene2]

Zaka showing signs of life

 

[Lyon]

Re:

The question is: seated or unseated

Seated... on the stem.

 

[doperhopper]

de gendt, pauwels and navarro upfront as expected... chava just hanging on the elastic

 

[MacBAir]

Re:

Kiry starts his 5km section

His Stone Cold face reminds me of lance so much.

 

[CheckMyPecs]

The probability of Chavanel winning this tends to zero.

 

[rick james]

Poels isn't strong this year

 

[ILovecycling]

Navarro looks goooood

 

[The Hitch]

What makes me angry is that at the end froome is the one who profited most of the crash of his teammate. Stannard may be hurt but as soon as the flat stops he instead gets his two best mountain domestiques back. Movistar seriously just should have attacked as soon as froome went back.

Movistar have for a long time been the worst most pathetic team in cycling.

Several occasions they refused to try anything in recent tours. I hope they lose this by 20 seconds or something

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Are they going to race today?

 

[CheckMyPecs]

Is Landa still there?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

Kiry starts his 5km section

done already

 

[SeriousSam]

Is it time to turn on the stream yet?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

just saw the Ninja

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Wow Pauwels really is going to tow Navarro the whole way up

 

[Rollthedice]

Landa will drop them all.

 

[bigcog]

Re:

Is Landa still there?

Yep at front of peloton.

 

[TomLPC]

Re: Re:

Yep... all good will towards Sky and Froome out the window... disgraceful to force the Peloton to slow to allow your team mates back on... I didn't notice him slowing everything down when Aru had a mechanical.

Cancellara neutralised it, so he took the opportunity to go for a wee

It's not the end of the world lads

It damaged what was shaping up to be a great stage. It undid about 50 km of peloton-smashing work by Etixx. It allowed Sky train domestiques to come back. It allowed fringe GC riders who had been dropped in the wind to get back.

If fans aren't going to resent that, what are they going to resent?

Because we don't actually know what happened, who wanted to neutralise or why. If it was unjust surely the perogative is on everyone to ignore what is being said. We have no information about the dynamics, only preconceived narratives that people are using to guess at what was said. It's sad that the stage wont be as combative, but to project outrage at riders due to guesswork and assumption, which some are doing isn't helping anyone.

 

[CheckMyPecs]

Navarro channelling his inner Leipheimer.