2016 TdF, Stage 17: Bern → Finhaut-Emosson (185km)

[ontheroad]

Froome barely breathing crossing the line.

 

[BigMac]

The Volta, Utah, The Vuelta....

All just around the corner anyway.

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Quintana is finished as a GC rider. Angel Lopez is gonna take over the Colombian charge.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Froome and Porte together!

All that is missing is Adam Yates up there as well!

Well even that's not missing any more...

 

[rick james]

Re:

Quintana doing his best Contador 2013 impression.

lol

 

[bassano]

Yeah, one of hardest stage in this year and again only few seconds between favourites, how I miss real races like Giro or Vuelta when riders really want to race, not this corrupted and boring parody for GT
Nibali did great job for Aru for nothing

 

[Ruby United]

1. Porte
2. Froome s.t.
3. Mollema @27"
4. Yates @ 56"
5. Bardet s.t.
5. Valverde @ 1'08"
6. Quintana s.t.
7. Martin @ 1'36"
8. Rodriguez @ 2'12"

TJVG @ 4'09".

Eerily close. Besides Mollema your top 5 were right. Quintana was right. Martin was right.

 

[TomLPC]

The battle is for 2nd now, not sure what mollema and Yates are like on a mtt

 

[Big Doopie]

1. Porte
2. Froome s.t.
3. Mollema @27"
4. Yates @ 56"
5. Bardet s.t.
5. Valverde @ 1'08"
6. Quintana s.t.
7. Martin @ 1'36"
8. Rodriguez @ 2'12"

TJVG @ 4'09"

might be a good time to repost this.

 

[thrawn]

Re: Re:

Oh how I miss Contador right now ;(

I guess when people say that contador is only one who can match froome.. I guess it's true. Ow well. We will never see that.

Quintana.. DONE!

It's more that Contador would make the race interesting by going on long range attacks etc. even if he's way behind. I'm not even a Contador fan but the dude at least races, unlike most of the current top 10 this year/

 

[Rollthedice]

The Madone brothers strike again.

 

[SeriousSam]

Looked like the Dawg got bored sitting behind LRP there. Had the stage been a bit longer he probably would have stretched his legs a little bit.

 

[Escarabajo]

Re:

Froome barely breathing crossing the line.

He wasn't as good this Tour. The rest were just worse. Don't play it like he is supreme because he is not.

 

[vedrafjord]

Dan Martin should probably have waited til the last km to attack - he definitely paid for his earlier one. Deserves credit for trying at least.

 

[KGB]

Lol Quintana too overrated.Yates and Bardet great.Mollema finally getting where he should be.

 

[Arredondo]

Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

This race is a farce

 

[Jelantik]

tejay now ride for Porte? Finally!! At least Porte is the only who looks really strong. Too bad he lost lots of time. Yellow is in the bag for Froomey. No one can even come close to him. the so called Quintana, he would be lucky if he can get to the podium. Mollema seemed to be struggling. Yates rode brilliantly.

 

[ILovecycling]

Would have been interesting to see where Alberto would have been...this version of Froome is not the strongest at all

 

[doperhopper]

oh boy, Tour getting worse and worse... at least we have Classics, Giro and Vuelta

 

[SeriousSam]

1. Porte
2. Froome s.t.
3. Mollema @27"
4. Yates @ 56"
5. Bardet s.t.
5. Valverde @ 1'08"
6. Quintana s.t.
7. Martin @ 1'36"
8. Rodriguez @ 2'12"

TJVG @ 4'09"

might be a good time to repost this.

Why did you delete your outrage over how strong Astana was earlier?

 

[BigMac]

1. Porte
2. Froome s.t.
3. Mollema @27"
4. Yates @ 56"
5. Bardet s.t.
5. Valverde @ 1'08"
6. Quintana s.t.
7. Martin @ 1'36"
8. Rodriguez @ 2'12"

TJVG @ 4'09"

might be a good time to repost this.

*slow clap*

 

[Escarabajo]

Re:

Quintana is finished as a GC rider. Angel Lopez is gonna take over the Colombian charge.

LOL.

............

 

[thrawn]

Re:

tejay now ride for Porte? Finally!! At least Porte is the only who looks really strong. Too bad he lost lots of time. Yellow is in the bag for Froomey. No one can even come close to him. the so called Quintana, he would be lucky if he can get to the podium. Mollema seemed to be struggling. Yates rode brilliantly.

TJ would struggle to lead the pack up the 3rd km of the 1st climb.

 

[El Pistolero]

What a low quality field in this Tour. Contador gone, Nibali rode the Giro and isn't interested in GC here, Quintana not in form, Porte lost two minutes because of a flat tire and crashed at Ventoux, Valverde has the Giro in his legs, etc.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Re: Re:

Froome barely breathing crossing the line.

He wasn't as good this Tour. The rest were just worse. Don't play it like he is supreme because he is not.

Let's wait for him to crush everyone tomorrow first.

Froome has demolished every top rider in the world bar Contador, who he crushed in the Dauphine anyway. You can't just dismiss that