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Do you plan on watching tomorrow's stage?Gigs_98 said:HOLY **** FROOME
What did I miss
woodburn said:Did Alberto have mechanical in last section? Lost a ton of time ... almost a minute ... to Froome.
Can you imagine if this was in the 80s or 90s with more than 100km of TT? Froome would have been 5-6 minutes ahead of everyone.Stan955 said:So basically he would've won both GT due to TT'sjsem94 said:If he hadn't been caught out of Contador's ambush, he could have won the Vuelta this year no doubt. So how is it not doable?
jsem94 said:Can you imagine if this was in the 80s or 90s with more than 100km of TT? Froome would have been 5-6 minutes ahead of everyone.Stan955 said:So basically he would've won both GT due to TT'sjsem94 said:If he hadn't been caught out of Contador's ambush, he could have won the Vuelta this year no doubt. So how is it not doable?
By fading I refer to a global decline in physical ability. This TT in my view was quite the opposite, despite the fact that froome is the best time trialer amongst the gc boys.DFA123 said:He clearly has faded - he's lost minutes in the mountains. He's just a much better TTist than everyone else in the race. It would be a lot more interesting if someone like Cancellara or Dumoulin were here to put Froome's time into some kind of context.Walkman said:meat puppet said:Froome puts those suggesting he would fade during the vuelta, as any sensible observer would suggest, in their place.
He might have faded, it's all in relative terms compared to the rest of the field.
Nice one Nairo - cool as everDazed and Confused said:Respectable performance by Quintana, but the boy needs to work on his technique. Cornering etc.
Actually he was just insanely fast in the first section, the difference between him and Quintana/Chaves stayed the same after that point.woodburn said:Did Alberto have mechanical in last section? Lost a ton of time ... almost a minute ... to Froome.
Yeah, fairly flat with crosswinds and to "only" lose 2:11 was a great ride by him.Billie said:Great TT by Quintana tbf. 11th in a completely flat TT
Poursuivant said:ASO won't have a true flat TT at the Tour for the foreseeable future if they think Froome will do this to everyone.