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

[doperhopper]

Re:

Movi cracking skytrain? Kiri off the back

damn, still 5 skyborgs protecting vroom

 

[Bumeington]

Gap coming down rapidly, the catch on?

 

[ILovecycling]

Landani hits the front, good time to have a bit of sleep

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Re:

Movistar put a man at the front of the Peloton

It's nice of Movistar to lend Sky a hand at the front.

 

[DanielSong39]

Go, BMC! (Probably a lost cause, though.)

 

[aarononymous]

Goodbye Landa , Nieve, Poels and Henao! Sounds plausible no?

 

[portugal11]

Aru looks bad

 

[deValtos]

Kiry is the easier one to crack.

Nieve, Landa, Thomas, Heano and Poels are a tad harder.

Then after you've beaten all those you'd have to deal with the final boss, Froome.

 

[HelloDolly]

Izagirre is not fair swap for Kityenkia as one should be 3/4 man for Movistar in the mountains the other is 7th man for SKY

 

[rick james]

Re:

Aru looks bad

Its actually really hard to tell how Aru looks...I've never seen his resting face

 

[wirral]

Bore de France...

We need smaller teams, ASAP.

Agree completely. Either smaller teams or salary caps or both.

I agree too. I have thought this for several years.

 

[Arredondo]

Before this Tour, Ion was expected to be the strongest Movistar rider after Quintana and Bala.

It's poor.

 

[happytramp]

Pace setting doesn't really effect the Sky train... responding to repeated accelerations and attacks makes them malfunction sometimes.

 

[ILovecycling]

Re:

Before this Tour, Ion was expected to be the strongest Movistar rider after Quintana and Bala.

It's poor.

Tbh I have never seen Izaggire brothers to do serious domestique job (or I dont remember)

 

[SeriousSam]

Pace setting doesn't really effect the Sky train... responding to repeated accelerations and attacks makes them malfunction sometimes.

A healthy 400w train doesn't have to respond to stop and go attackers, it will climb faster on average and thus automatically catch escapees without changing anything.

 

[saganftw]

landani kicked anacona out of the front because the pace wasnt good enough

 

[TomLPC]

20k landa pull incoming

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

Before this Tour, Ion was expected to be the strongest Movistar rider after Quintana and Bala.

It's poor.

Tbh I have never seen Izaggire brothers to do serious domestique job (or I dont remember)

But if you look how strong Ion is this season. One of the better riders of 2016.

With that in your mind, it's quite disappointing to see him drop when there are still 25 riders left.

 

[doperhopper]

wow, penultimate climb, and still so boring that eurosport guys are laughing at various wordplays (Emosson Lake - Emerson Lake and Palmer)... no interest in "great GC battle"

 

[ILovecycling]

This is like Bulls 1997 against some small budget no-name teams
Sad...

 

[Rollthedice]

That poor Movi guy in front disappeared, time for Landa, the sixth before Froomey in the Sky mountain train to thin the peloton first.

 

[Ruby United]

Kiry is the easier one to crack.

Nieve, Landa, Thomas, Heano and Poels are a tad harder.

Then after you've beaten all those you'd have to deal with the final boss, Froome.

Reminds me of Mario back in the day. I could never beat all the little dominions and when I finally did I got crushed by the boss. No fun.

 

[ontheroad]

A few kilometers the top of the penultimate climb, Eurosport take a ridiculous ad break and it doesn't even feel as though anything will be missed anyway. Maybe one of the carriage's will fall off the sky train, can't see much else happening.

 

[Billie]

Astana boys have something planned. Don't see why else LLS would bother to try to stay in the favourites group.

 

[TomekA]

How many riders in the Froome group? (sorry I can't watch)