Dumoulin.

[therealthing]

This guy is crazy. Forget Wiggins- Dumoulin is another another level.

 

[RattaKuningas]

This looks just too unreal.

 

[BigMac]

Gross.

Anyway, let's see if he can keep this.

 

[carolina]

I was thinking Dumoulin was crazy, but then he dropped Quintana...

He better drop like a stone on tuesday, this was ridiculous.

 

[Brullnux]

He'd beat Froome climbing like this.

 

[BigMac]

Re:

He'd beat Froome climbing like this.

He might not have, but it was unreal regardless.

Going to watch the rest of this race with popcorn.

 

[Brullnux]

Re: Re:

He'd beat Froome climbing like this.

He might not have, but it was unreal regardless.

Going to watch the rest of this race with popcorn.

Honestly think he would've. Dumoulin did all work for the whole climb, like Quintana, and beat him by almost 10 seconds. Not even Froome could do that.

 

[BYOP88]

Epic stuff.

 

[gmedina]

"time trialing" skills....who buys that..jebus

 

[BigMac]

Re: Re:

He'd beat Froome climbing like this.

He might not have, but it was unreal regardless.

Going to watch the rest of this race with popcorn.

Honestly think he would've. Dumoulin did all work for the whole climb, like Quintana, and beat him by almost 10 seconds. Not even Froome could do that.

Froome beat Quintana by more than 10 seconds multiple times. And Quintana isn't looking too strong, surely not at his best. That's why I think Froome would still have beaten everyone here today. But yeah, that's really beyond the point. Dumoulin was nuclear.

 

[GraftPunk]

Re:

Well, now we know.

Yup. Fresh as a daisy in interviews as well. Ugh.

 

[BigMac]

Re:

"time trialing" skills....who buys that..jebus

It's called pacing and measuring your effort. It does exist and it does help on steady climbs. There was more to it than that today, though.

 

[Guybrush]

sorry, cannot buy this,i try really hard because he seems to be a nice guy, but this is ridiculous

 

[Brullnux]

Re: Re:

He'd beat Froome climbing like this.

He might not have, but it was unreal regardless.

Going to watch the rest of this race with popcorn.

Honestly think he would've. Dumoulin did all work for the whole climb, like Quintana, and beat him by almost 10 seconds. Not even Froome could do that.

Froome beat Quintana by more than 10 seconds multiple times. And Quintana isn't looking too strong, surely not at his best. That's why I think Froome would still have beaten everyone here today. But yeah, that's really beyond the point. Dumoulin was nuclear.

Not on a 6km irregular climb with Quintana so close to his best.

I thoroughly disagree that Quintana isn't good. He out 6.2 w/kg on Blockhaus. He is better now than at any point in 2016.

 

[BigMac]

Well, I say Quintana isn't looking strong because usually he'd have ended most's chances with that attack, but to see so many riders still hanging in there... Safe to say Zakarin, Landa, all equally stupid-radioactive. Although they benefited from Dumoulin's effort to reel Nairo back, so...

I don't even know anymore. This was just too painful to watch.

 

[benzwire]

Re: Re:

Well, now we know.

Yup. Fresh as a daisy in interviews as well. Ugh.

That's funny you say that. I remember watching in the 80's (pre-EPO, etc.) and the riders (winner included) would be exhausted after a mountaintop finish like this. Even 15-20 minutes post-race, they could barely give a coherent interview or at least they showed they gave an all-out effort. Sure lots of those guys were juiced, but the guys today just seem like they were on a nice, easy jaunt around the neighborhood. Doesn't seem possible or normal.

 

[GraftPunk]

I wonder if we'll get some w/kg numbers on the climb today?

Edit: Re Benzwire...yeah, Tom looked like he was ready to do it again.

 

[therealthing]

Re: Re:

Well, now we know.

Yup. Fresh as a daisy in interviews as well. Ugh.

That's funny you say that. I remember watching in the 80's (pre-EPO, etc.) and the riders (winner included) would be exhausted after a mountaintop finish like this. Even 15-20 minutes post-race, they could barely give a coherent interview or at least they showed they gave an all-out effort. Sure lots of those guys were juiced, but the guys today just seem like they were on a nice, easy jaunt around the neighborhood. Doesn't seem possible or normal.

But it's the adrenaline...

 

[meat puppet]

^ They shoot that too?

 

[webvan]

Today was very, very worrying :-(

 

[zlev11]

that was devastating. definitely not normal.

 

[webvan]

Unless he pulls he a Berzin 1996 TDF and blows up next week...

 

[Põhja Konn]

Can't remember the exact stage and year, but I recall Indurain riding everyone off his wheel one-by-one on shallowish gradient climb during one of his victorious Tours. This today was eerily similar.

The numbers which have come out thus far seem to suggest Quintana is close to his best, which was supported by his obvious disbelief when seeing Dumoulin coming closer and closer.

As the real mountain stages are still to come, we cannot really say yet how far forward Dumoulin has actually come, but getting so close to Pantani's time is impossible to overlook. Specially as the latter was effectively sprinting all the way up the climb after his mechanical. Nature of the stage certainly helped Tom, but still this was beyond believable.

 

[Craigee]

I say this with tongue in cheek that Dumoulin must be clean and honest because he got upset about Wiggins and the TUE's. Our commentator has said a few times now that Dumoulin is the same weight as Froome but I can't believe that looking at him but to drop top class climbers like a champion climber would. What's going on?

Also I think Quintana got angry and sat up to make him look worse (doper) after the way Dumoulin rode that climb.

 

[classicomano]

Come on guys this was like an uphill sprint.