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He crashed yesterday. No big injuries but he surely is hurt.Jspear said:carton said:Yep, a hurt Chaves, an out-of-juice Contador, the tired Movistar odd coupling, and Froome, who would win it on the back of his time trialing if he could merely hold on in the mountains. Thankfully he's never been one to just hold on in the mountains if he has the strength to attack. Which he might not have.Valv.Piti said:Also just noticed Lopez abandon. So him, Kruijswijk and Landa, strong outsiders, out of it. GC-field looks slim, 5 top guns and the rest pretty meh.
So our best chance for meaningful attacks might also mean that the race could be settled by Saturday. Maybe Meintjes or Latour will make this interesting?
Chaves is hurt!?
Txurruka isn't a 'great' rider by any means. He is (or, rather, he used to be) decent, pretty good, but certainly not great.Isaak-Gabriel said:Freakin' attackers like Fraile are rarely rewarded, so the number of professionnal victories doesn't matter for judge him... For example, a guy like Txurruka is a great rider with big spirit who's got more collarbone fractures than great wins.
Gigs_98 said:He crashed yesterday. No big injuries but he surely is hurt.Jspear said:carton said:Yep, a hurt Chaves, an out-of-juice Contador, the tired Movistar odd coupling, and Froome, who would win it on the back of his time trialing if he could merely hold on in the mountains. Thankfully he's never been one to just hold on in the mountains if he has the strength to attack. Which he might not have.Valv.Piti said:Also just noticed Lopez abandon. So him, Kruijswijk and Landa, strong outsiders, out of it. GC-field looks slim, 5 top guns and the rest pretty meh.
So our best chance for meaningful attacks might also mean that the race could be settled by Saturday. Maybe Meintjes or Latour will make this interesting?
Chaves is hurt!?
TMP402 said:Gigs_98 said:He crashed yesterday. No big injuries but he surely is hurt.Jspear said:carton said:Yep, a hurt Chaves, an out-of-juice Contador, the tired Movistar odd coupling, and Froome, who would win it on the back of his time trialing if he could merely hold on in the mountains. Thankfully he's never been one to just hold on in the mountains if he has the strength to attack. Which he might not have.Valv.Piti said:Also just noticed Lopez abandon. So him, Kruijswijk and Landa, strong outsiders, out of it. GC-field looks slim, 5 top guns and the rest pretty meh.
So our best chance for meaningful attacks might also mean that the race could be settled by Saturday. Maybe Meintjes or Latour will make this interesting?
Chaves is hurt!?
Luckily for him he has some days to recover. Unless he's really bad.
Spot on, I used the wrong word.Hugo Koblet said:Txurruka isn't a 'great' rider by any means. He is (or, rather, he used to be) decent, pretty good, but certainly not great.Isaak-Gabriel said:Freakin' attackers like Fraile are rarely rewarded, so the number of professionnal victories doesn't matter for judge him... For example, a guy like Txurruka is a great rider with big spirit who's got more collarbone fractures than great wins.
del1962 said:Andro said:lmao the water guy crashing
AG2R soigneur fail
Vroome.exe said:Kirby absolutely sure Clarke is going to win this.
Gigs_98 said:I just looked at Frank's Wikipedia page and saw that the guy has only finished 3 gt's in his career. Why?
Scarponi said:Vroome.exe said:Kirby absolutely sure Clarke is going to win this.
If you say it every single stage and he wins one finally we will never hear it down
Well, banged up. Contador rode over him, after all. But as stated above by Gigs, nothing major.Jspear said:Chaves is hurt!?