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What happened was Froome just cracked even more. Contador only managed to gain a handful of seconds on Valverde, who was setting up Quintana on the lower part of the climb.Miburo said:Seriously i followed Contador for 10 years, not even prime Contador did this.
When he drops he's ****, it's the golden rule with him.
What the hell was that?
DFA123 said:What happened was Froome just cracked even more. Contador only managed to gain a handful of seconds on Valverde, who was setting up Quintana on the lower part of the climb.Miburo said:Seriously i followed Contador for 10 years, not even prime Contador did this.
When he drops he's ****, it's the golden rule with him.
What the hell was that?
Movistar the only GC winners from today.
Jelantik said:Did Froome just exploded on the climb? Contador was performing excellent considering he crashed yesterday. Quintana looked really good. Chavez.. i'm a bit disappointed. Too steep for him? Yates wasn't that bad.. helped Contador to bridge to Froome.
Surprising after his poor performance in Ézaro.luckyboy said:Great ride from Pardilla too
Put that drink away.Andro said:The last 3 km today provided more entertaining GC battles than the entire Tour did this year.
PremierAndrew said:Froome wouldn't ride like that in the Tour, which is understandable if he wants to limit his losses, but he felt good enough to attack? Worked at Cumbre del Sol last year I guess
Quintana mighty impressive, will be interesting to see whether his form drops off in the final week
If the GPS time gaps were accurate (big if), Froome lost about 20 seconds to Quintana in the last 150m. Quintana was hardly sprinting, Froome just absolutely cracked.Pantani Attacks said:Jelantik said:Did Froome just exploded on the climb? Contador was performing excellent considering he crashed yesterday. Quintana looked really good. Chavez.. i'm a bit disappointed. Too steep for him? Yates wasn't that bad.. helped Contador to bridge to Froome.
Froome looked terrible towards the end, pedalling like a father on a Sunday bike ride with his children. Just cracked.
lol french tour fanboyAlexandre B. said:Put that drink away.Andro said:The last 3 km today provided more entertaining GC battles than the entire Tour did this year.
scurrrr said:lol french tour fanboyAlexandre B. said:Put that drink away.Andro said:The last 3 km today provided more entertaining GC battles than the entire Tour did this year.
sir fly said:We have a race.
Quintana looks like a favourite to me now.
Froome wanted more than he's been able to. Contador very strong.
Seems like we'll see the truel, after all.