Critérium du Dauphiné 2017 (04/06 > 11/06/2017)

[Frankschleck]

Fuglsang had an agreement with his wife, that the next time he won something big, he could buy a porsche. ( after the olympics he bought a rolex), no wonder he won then hahaha

 

[Taxus4a]

Well, the fovourite with this route for le Tour is Quintana, but Froome has showed today what he can do at just 75 % shape with some of his rival of the Tour at 90. He is a great rider who never surrender, althpugh he wanst very clever today for the sprint.

In the Tour we wll see for Contafor how to ride the Giro for him is not a big problem..as looking Quintana doing as always, and as looking at him doing similar as always after his santion (without crashes)

 

[RedheadDane]

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Fuglsang had an agreement with his wife, that the next time he won something big, he could buy a porsche. ( after the olympics he bought a rolex), no wonder he won then hahaha

Well, it might end up being a toy-porsche for their daughter.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Any news about why Alberto
failed to show

No excuse other that he has repeated a million times that he is here to put miles, with no urgency, no pressure.

However, nobody believes him!

 

[Escarabajo]

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Mont du Chat is GREAT!! I'm trying to imagine stage 9 with 6 climbs before(2 hc)...

And 10 kms of flat to the finish!

 

[Frankschleck]

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Fuglsang had an agreement with his wife, that the next time he won something big, he could buy a porsche. ( after the olympics he bought a rolex), no wonder he won then hahaha

Well, it might end up being a toy-porsche for their daughter.

hahaha, yeah bit of a downgrade tho

 

[portugal11]

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Well, the fovourite with this route for le Tour is Quintana, but Froome has showed today what he can do at just 75 % shape with some of his rival of the Tour at 90. He is a great rider who never surrender, althpugh he wanst very clever today for the sprint.

In the Tour we wll see for Contafor how to ride the Giro for him is not a big problem..as looking Quintana doing as always, and as looking at him doing similar as always after his santion (without crashes)

He is back to his usual crappy posts
I can't deal with this

 

[sir fly]

Excellent stage.
The picture is more complete now.
Some unexpected names in top 20 of the stage... The rouleurs, I mean.

 

[SeriousSam]

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A climb followed by a descent, looks an ideal stage for complete GC riders who can climb. Froome is my pick

I don't want to be direct, but that wasn't exactly a 'wild' or 'out-of-the-box' prediction

I think some people still underestimate Froome's mythical descending skills

 

[Blanco]

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Well, the fovourite with this route for le Tour is Quintana, but Froome has showed today what he can do at just 75 % shape with some of his rival of the Tour at 90. He is a great rider who never surrender, althpugh he wanst very clever today for the sprint.

In the Tour we wll see for Contafor how to ride the Giro for him is not a big problem..as looking Quintana doing as always, and as looking at him doing similar as always after his santion (without crashes)

 

[ontheroad]

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Decent stage today and Aru looked good. Froome was just marking his competitors and for me he is now big favourite for the tour. He dominates/almost bullies Porte and Richie knows his place when it comes to their friendship. Sucked Portes wheel up the latter part of the climb and almost put him into the barriers today and I seem to remember him doing the same at last years Dauphine.

Credit to Froome it was a very good descent but you would wonder at the logic of risking so much for gaining a potential few seconds in what is effectively a warm up race for the tour for him. But then logic never comes into it with Froome.

Aw well, we got our hopes up for 2 days that it might have been a wide open tour this year but I think we will be seeing the sky train grind everyone else into submission going up mountains, riding tempo for 4,000km for 2-3 weeks again.

The only thing that Froome is better than Richie at (right now) is descending. Porte blew him away in the TT and was pulling him up at the top today. There is time of course for the form to flip/flop, but Richie looks great to me.
I don't see Froome winning the tour easily as it stands. Next couple of stages will probably tell us more too.

I agree that Porte now looks his main threat but still fancy Froome to be better and is proven over 3 weeks in grand tours since his transformation. However a lighter, leaner Froome in July with an army of sky bots riding tempo will grind them all down again and for me Porte will be happy with a podium place.

 

[del1962]

Don't think Richie will be happy with just a podium at tour, he is currently the favorite

 

[Frankschleck]

If ag2r hadn't chased the break oliver naesen might have won

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

A climb followed by a descent, looks an ideal stage for complete GC riders who can climb. Froome is my pick

I don't want to be direct, but that wasn't exactly a 'wild' or 'out-of-the-box' prediction

I think some people still underestimate Froome's mythical descending skills

Mythical is the right word. He twice opened up a biggish gap to Aru or Porte, but both times when Fuglsang moved up he closed the gap really easily. And I think Bardet and Valverde descended 15 seconds or so quicker.

So, ultimately, Froome descended at about the same pace as Contador.

 

[shalgo]

Benoot 13th on the stage. He really can do everything, though, unfortunately, he can't win anything.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Well, the fovourite with this route for le Tour is Quintana, but Froome has showed today what he can do at just 75 % shape with some of his rival of the Tour at 90. He is a great rider who never surrender, althpugh he wanst very clever today for the sprint.

In the Tour we wll see for Contafor how to ride the Giro for him is not a big problem..as looking Quintana doing as always, and as looking at him doing similar as always after his santion (without crashes)

Dafuq did I just read?

 

[latino]

Froome finally showed us his form, albeit not yet at 100%.
He'll be unbeatable in the Tour, again.
Porte will have to settle for a podium finish.

 

[Ruby United]

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Don't think Richie will be happy with just a podium at tour, he is currently the favorite

There is no doubt that Froome is still certainly the favourite for the Tour

 

[DFA123]

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Don't think Richie will be happy with just a podium at tour, he is currently the favorite

There is no doubt that Froome is still certainly the favourite for the Tour

I'd still make Froome as big a favourite for the Tour as Valverde was for Fleche Wallonne. Like Valverde at Fleche, if he turns up with his usual top form, stays on his bike and doesn't make any stupid tactical errors - he wins.

 

[Cookster15]

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Don't think Richie will be happy with just a podium at tour, he is currently the favorite

There is no doubt that Froome is still certainly the favourite for the Tour

I tend to agree. Froome looks a little heavy that won't be the case in 4 weeks time.

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

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Don't think Richie will be happy with just a podium at tour, he is currently the favorite

There is no doubt that Froome is still certainly the favourite for the Tour

I'd still make Froome as big a favourite for the Tour as Valverde was for Fleche Wallonne. Like Valverde at Fleche, if he turns up with his usual top form, stays on his bike and doesn't make any stupid tactical errors - he wins.

Froome is rightly the favorite. Who can take the Tour from him? Best chance looks to be Porte. 2nd best NQ. Distant third would be Valverde (he cannot make any mistakes like today). I don't think anyone else possibly can unless someone rides themselves into incredible form.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Any news about why Alberto
failed to show

No excuse other that he has repeated a million times that he is here to put miles, with no urgency, no pressure.

However, nobody believes him!

Funny to see everyone freak out. Guys, he warned us!

 

[cantpedal]

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A climb followed by a descent, looks an ideal stage for complete GC riders who can climb. Froome is my pick

I don't want to be direct, but that wasn't exactly a 'wild' or 'out-of-the-box' prediction

I think some people still underestimate Froome's mythical descending skills

Mythical is the right word. He twice opened up a biggish gap to Aru or Porte, but both times when Fuglsang moved up he closed the gap really easily. And I think Bardet and Valverde descended 15 seconds or so quicker.

So, ultimately, Froome descended at about the same pace as Contador.

I thought Fulsang had about a 15 sec gap over the top so Porte and Froome had about the same decent as Valverde group

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

There wasn't much in the descent between the two groups. Froome is a very good descender now. No doubt about it.

 

[el_angliru]

Great stage! Mont du chat is such a beautiful and hard climb Well done, Jakob