2wheels said:
Anyone getting déja vu feelings about the possibility of Vino pulling a Hinault tomorrow? I'm no cycling historian; maybe someone could correct this or add to it, but I'm thinking that in one Tour Hinault basically attacked his own teammate (LeMond, and in yellow!) and forced LeMond to chase him down or else lose the Tour.
If Vino goes with the break tomorrow, could we see something similar?
Go back to review the history. When Hinault attacked LeMond in 1986, LeMond was not in the yellow jersey.
Hinault had promised to help LeMond in 1986 in return for his support the year before. Actually LeMond was cheated in 1985 when he was asked to wait for Hinault in a stage in the Pyrinees including the Tourmalet and the first finish in Luz Ardiden. Weather was terrible and the TV broadcast I recall was basically a still image of the finish for most of the time.
In 1986 Hinault had won the long ITT before the first mountain stage so it might be likely that he was ahead of LeMond in the GC before the mountains. I don't remember the details on who attacked but Hinault and Delgado arrived to Pau ahead of the GC contenders during in the first mountain stage. Delgado won the stage and Hinault took yellow jersey.
Hinault (in the yellow jersey) attacked the day after (Tourmalet, Aspin, Peyresourde, SuperBagneres) but cracked in the last climb and LeMond won the stage and got to less than 1 minute behind Hinault in GC.
LeMond took yellow jersey in the first stage in the Alps (Vars, Izoard and Granon) where Hinault lost about 4 minutes. The day after they played they were friends on their way to Alpe d'Huez.
Vino is too far away in GC to compare anything he can do to the Hinault-LeMond affair of 1986.