2016 TdF, Stage 19: Albertville → Mont Blanc (146km)

[movingtarget]

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Porte blames too high tyre pressure...

Did he puncture or crash ? I heard both versions. He seemed pretty close to the first crash in the yellow group.

 

[HelloDolly]

Quintana does not deserve the podium

Porte does imo ...lots of bad luck but he has attacked thru the race

needs 50 secs to Quintana ...team is not strong enough

 

[arvc40]

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Sky and Froome really need to take care tomorrow if it is raining. Nothing is over

What you worrying for ?, I've had it rammed down my throat all week how brilliant a decender he is.

 

[huangho]

Froome gotta be conservative tomorrow in the descent, if he crashes and gets injured this tour will be remembered as a ***...

 

[movingtarget]

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Quintana does not deserve the podium

Porte does imo ...lots of bad luck but he has attacked thru the race

needs 50 secs to Quintana ...team is not strong enough

Caruso did some great work for him on the final climb.

 

[dfromdub]

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Wow. they just showed the defensive dive Nibs took to avoid running over Froome

Was Nibbles injured in the crash? Cause he completely disappeared from the peloton after that.

Anyone got a link of this, would love to know if Nibali is injured or not as otherwise he will win tomorrows stage from the break...

i just saw Nibali interview for RAI.
He said he's OK he just took some bumps.

He said bardet went away in the descent, and Froome went chasing for Bardet, he went chasing Froome. Froome carshed suddenly and he had to break but could not avoid the crash.

 

[difdauf]

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Quintana does not deserve the podium

Porte does imo ...lots of bad luck but he has attacked thru the race

needs 50 secs to Quintana ...team is not strong enough

Caruso did some great work for him on the final climb.

As porte lost time, it wasn't so great to work for him like this.

 

[doperhopper]

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Sky and Froome really need to take care tomorrow if it is raining. Nothing is over

What you worrying for ?, I've had it rammed down my throat all week how brilliant a decender he is.

well, rainy day tomorrow, most probably, long technical descents... and just one crash away from the first french Tour victory in approx. 2367 years

 

[Billie]

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Wow. they just showed the defensive dive Nibs took to avoid running over Froome

Sagan would have managed to avoid him entirely. Pretty weak.

Updated GC Descender Power Ranking

Tier 1: Bardet
Tier 2: Nibali, Valverde, Froome
Tier 3: Aru, Quintana, Porte
Tier 4: Zakarin, Contador

what kind of list is this?

 

[carton]

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Tier 1: Bardet, Nibali
Tier 2: Valverde, Froome
Tier 3: Aru, Quintana, Porte, Contador, Chaves
Tier 4: Zakarin, Pinot, Kruijswijk

That's my go. Contador really has Tier 2.5 skills. The problem is that he thinks that they're 1.5.

 

[jalep]

Nibali hit the deck hard ...on his stomach and slid... a real dive it was. Waiting for a report of some sort.

 

[CheckMyPecs]

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Wow. they just showed the defensive dive Nibs took to avoid running over Froome

Sagan would have managed to avoid him entirely. Pretty weak.

But then again Sagan has bigger forearms.

 

[movingtarget]

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Quintana does not deserve the podium

Porte does imo ...lots of bad luck but he has attacked thru the race

needs 50 secs to Quintana ...team is not strong enough

Caruso did some great work for him on the final climb.

As porte lost time, it wasn't so great to work for him like this.

if Porte had not attacked he probably would not have lost time but he had to try and Bardet was up the road anyway so he had to chase.

 

[carton]

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Nibali hit the deck hard ...on his stomach and slid... a real dive it was. Waiting for a report of some sort.

He also walked away from it quickly and didn't seem to be favoring anything.

 

[doperhopper]

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Wow. they just showed the defensive dive Nibs took to avoid running over Froome

Sagan would have managed to avoid him entirely. Pretty weak.

But then again Sagan has bigger forearms.

Sagan usually jumps over fallen stars.

 

[movingtarget]

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Nibali hit the deck hard ...on his stomach and slid... a real dive it was. Waiting for a report of some sort.

Froome looked pretty banged up but he seemed to be pedaling okay.

 

[jalep]

Yeah, Sagan might have jumped his bike over Froome. Nibs slid after he jumped. not good!

 

[Alexandre B.]

If I was Movistar, team of a two-time second overall, I would rip the sh*t out of the peloton tomorrow.

 

[PremierAndrew]

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If I was Movistar, team of a two-time second overall, I would rip the sh*t out of the peloton tomorrow.

But that would put winning the team classification under threat

 

[CheckMyPecs]

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If I was Movistar, team of a two-time second overall, I would rip the sh*t out of the peloton tomorrow.

Quintana simply doesn't have the legs.

 

[TMP402]

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Porte blames too high tyre pressure...

Yeah, he said he knew from the start it was too high... and that's the price he pays for not asking his team to do something about it.

 

[cadence]

It's a bit of a shame that Froome is copping so much hate for making this Tour predictable when he's pretty much one of the few GC riders trying to make the race exciting whatever his motives are. When Bardet took off on the descent, he could have and probably should have easily let him go and just caught up to him with his ridiculous team on the climb instead of going after him himself. He might probably be getting some words tonight from his manager about that...

 

[King Boonen]

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Porte blames too high tyre pressure...

Yeah, he said he knew from the start it was too high... and that's the price he pays for not asking his team to do something about it.

Yep. Very easy to solve.

 

[Ikbengodniet]

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Wow. they just showed the defensive dive Nibs took to avoid running over Froome

Sagan would have managed to avoid him entirely. Pretty weak.

Updated GC Descender Power Ranking

Tier 1: Bardet, Pantano
Tier 2: Nibali, Valverde, Froome
Tier 3: Aru, Quintana, Porte
Tier 4: Zakarin, Contador

 

[CheckMyPecs]

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Porte blames too high tyre pressure...

Yeah, he said he knew from the start it was too high... and that's the price he pays for not asking his team to do something about it.

He was trained to acquiesce.