Criterium du Dauphine 2014: Stage 2, Tarare - Col du Beal

[Hugo87]

What makes you think that?

Those guys he brought with him climbs fairly well,
Porte drops before Paulinho does, just wait...
Its not a bad team for this race, not bad at all.

Don't mock a silver Olympian medalist

 

[Pentacycle]

I hope something will happen before the MTF.

If Sky still have six or seven men at the foot of the climb, it's game over. Still don't understand why Alberto is sending the B-team. He will be alone and isolated very early on the mountain.

With Sky's strength, Contador only needs one teammate in the finals of the mountain stages.

Only if he's stronger uphill than Froome he stands a chance, no matter how strong Tinkoff is.

 

[the sceptic]

Froome will attack, the only question is can Contador and Nibali follow?

 

[MBotero]

Froome going full alien mode and forum crashdown till july

 

[LaFlorecita]

Froome will attack, the only question is can Contador and Nibali follow?

I'll be praying to the cycling gods that they can.

 

[jens_attacks]

froome to go full alien but he will passed by alberto and nibali. vincenzo to take the win.

 

[Mellow Velo]

The first road stage, modest gradients means that the train will run up until the final km.
A few digs after that and a few seconds splitting the top half dozen.

 

[hfer07]

Froome to "out sprint" Contador , then Nibbs 3rd 15 secs behind

 

[Flamin]

Nibali to attack early on the final climb.

 

[JaffaGT]

Fuglsang to win from quality break with Bakelants, Voigt, Voeckler and Bardet.

 

[Rollthedice]

The only way Contador and Nibali will fight for this stage is if Froome stops to autograph his book with a couple of Kms to go.

 

[ILovecycling]

Dawg to attack 3k to go.Alberto will hold his wheel,then slow tempo and A)Froome wins sprint B)attack by second tier and win

 

[xanadu]

I am no good at this crystal ball malaki, if i predicted a snow storm in the antarctic there would be a heatwave. But here goes.

Froome is angry, he knows the pressure is on, he is out to eclipse the spectre of Wiggo. He will attack on the final climb and claim the win. There will be crashes on the road not on the forum.

 

[Butterhead]

A lot of people will have a lot of words to eat tomorrow.

 

[Red Rick]

There's actually no ****ing way Froome attacks before the last k tomorrow. He's got nothing to gain by that. If he drops everyone that can happen in the last k too, it wouldn't matter.

 

[Jspear]

Froome and Contador to be alone in the last K. AC will win the sprint. Nibali will come in a couple seconds later.

 

[Pentacycle]

Sicard after attacking early on the MTF.

 

[Ruby United]

Poll only needs the first two categories the others are superfluous

Seriously though, froome has this, contador and nibs finishing 2nd and 3rd about one minute behind him.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Poll only needs the first two categories the others are superfluous

Seriously though, froome has this, contador and nibs finishing 2nd and 3rd about one minute behind him.

I hope you're joking.

 

[The Hitch]

dont think froome will necessarily kill contador.

Contador might even win this.

The tt performance fell for.me into this grey are where it almost looks like froome is a class above the rest. If it was a couple of seconds more I'd be sure. But not quite enough. It's close enough that it's possible contador will be the better climber/still has more to build up to for July.

 

[The Hitch]

The only way Contador and Nibali will fight for this stage is if Froome stops to autograph his book with a couple of Kms to go.

Why, is that where David Walsh is going to be standing?

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Why, is that where David Walsh is going to be standing?

LOL very witty

 

[The Hitch]

I hope you're joking.

He's at that early stage of a cycling fans path where he thinks he knows for certain what a result will be, on the mistaken self confidence that he has all the variables figured out, when he does not.

I was there too once.

Not that that order would be any sort of surprise.

 

[Rollthedice]

dont think froome will necessarily kill contador.

Contador might even win this.

The tt performance fell for.me into this grey are where it almost looks like froome is a class above the rest. If it was a couple of seconds more I'd be sure. But not quite enough. It's close enough that it's possible contador will be the better climber/still has more to build up to for July.

I think he will, at least that's gonna be his intention. He can't live with only 8 seconds lead for a week.

 

[Pricey_sky]

He's at that early stage of a cycling fans path where he thinks he knows for certain what a result will be, on the mistaken self confidence that he has all the variables figured out, when he does not.

I was there too once.

Not that that order would be any sort of surprise.

The one thing most of us know is that anything can happen from time to time, sometimes more often than not too which is why we love the sport. Despite that order being the most logical from what we've seen so far.