Le Tour 2018 stage 11: Albertville > La Rosière 108,5 km

[Eclipse]

Bernal moving into the white jersey as well. I don't think he really popped badly on the climb - Sky just pulled him off to tempo the rest because he's young and there's no point burning him out when you can destroy the rest with your other riders anyway

 

[RattaKuningas]

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Bernal moving into the white jersey as well. I don't think he really popped badly on the climb - Sky just pulled him off to tempo the rest because he's young and there's no point burning him out when you can destroy the rest with your other riders anyway

According to TdF website he is still 7 min behind Latour.

 

[Finn84]

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Bernal moving into the white jersey as well. I don't think he really popped badly on the climb - Sky just pulled him off to tempo the rest because he's young and there's no point burning him out when you can destroy the rest with your other riders anyway

He was the best young rider on this stage but overall he's still 7½ minutes behind Latour.

 

[Mayo from Mayo]

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'We were low on numbers' Yeah right Geraint

Wait, you mean the camera was lying and Bernal, Poels and Kwiatkowski were still there?

Till 4/5 kms to go? Yes. And after that no team had any domestique left. Not even close...

So Sky were, unusually for them, without domestiques with 5km to go. How could we describe this? Low on numbers.

They still had Dan Martin!

 

[Sestriere]

Time trialists outclimbing the climbers really doesn't create amzing suspension. How is this even possible?

 

[Eclipse]

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Bernal moving into the white jersey as well. I don't think he really popped badly on the climb - Sky just pulled him off to tempo the rest because he's young and there's no point burning him out when you can destroy the rest with your other riders anyway

He was the best young rider on this stage but overall he's still 7½ minutes behind Latour.

oH balls I'm a mug and got the page wrong =D

 

[rlntlssly]

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Bernal moving into the white jersey as well. I don't think he really popped badly on the climb - Sky just pulled him off to tempo the rest because he's young and there's no point burning him out when you can destroy the rest with your other riders anyway

Bernal won't be in the white jersey. He was 8'47" back on Latour this morning, and finished 1'12" ahead of him. But I agree he looks like a more likely white jersey in Paris right now.

 

[tobydawq]

Jesus Christ, these stage threads are annoying. In the beginning of the stages, there is nothing but moaning about how ridiculously boring everything is.

Then when the action starts earlier than expected, often people criticise the actors for moving stupidly early.

And when the favourites battle and everybody makes mistakes which lead to Sky winning after a much more entertaining stage than expected, everybody screams about how blatantly they are breaking rules and the clinic/PRR border is eradicated.

 

[Finn84]

As a funny note, Thomas de Gendt and Thomas Degand are on successive places in GC right now, 58th and 59th.

 

[glassmoon]

Official time limit?

 

[franic]

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Ahaha, can't stop laughing. The guy was winning the Flèche du Sud. You know who was winning the Flèche du Sud? Andy Schleck.

AT A certain point you should feel ashamed of yourself. I can’t believe you can seriously say that winning the fleche du sud is in any way a predictor of pro performances in the mountains. As a mater of fact coming up with a race held in LUX to justify a performance in the alps is more than ludicrous. Seriously, you made my day kiddo.

 

[spalco]

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Bernal moving into the white jersey as well. I don't think he really popped badly on the climb - Sky just pulled him off to tempo the rest because he's young and there's no point burning him out when you can destroy the rest with your other riders anyway

According to TdF website he is still 7 min behind Latour.

Guillaume Martin should still be comfortably ahead as well.

 

[glassmoon]

Piti combative price? WTF? ***.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

111 riders withint 26 minutes. So still the sprinters bus has to finish

 

[spalco]

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Uran in the same grupetto with Gaviria is kind of funny.

 

[saneguy]

I just hope G does what Froome did to Wiggo. Payback time! But I guess Sky wont let that happen

 

[MrTea1976]

I just hope G does what Froome did to Wiggo. Payback time! But I guess Sky wont let that happen

Thomas winning would be more popular in Britain.

 

[myrideissteelerthanyours]

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Ahaha, can't stop laughing. The guy was winning the Flèche du Sud. You know who was winning the Flèche du Sud? Andy Schleck.

AT A certain point you should feel ashamed of yourself. I can’t believe you can seriously say that winning the fleche du sud is in any way a predictor of pro performances in the mountains. As a mater of fact coming up with a race held in LUX to justify a performance in the alps is more than ludicrous. Seriously, you made my day kiddo.

Wigans was pretty good at team pursuit

 

[MatParker117]

The salt tastes so good, get in G!

 

[rlntlssly]

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111 riders withint 26 minutes. So still the sprinters bus has to finish

Including Sagan, if PCS is right. I believe that riders who finish OTL can be allowed to continue but are docked all their points. Given that Gaviria finished within the limit, he could be in green tomorrow.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Sky, the worst thing to happen to cycling since, well... you know.

They might be literal worst thing after this tbh

The guy with one ball was a genuine talent as a youngster and would have been competitive anyway (not dominant though). These two could have been two decent soigneurs

Your lack of knowledge of Thomas' junior results fatally undermines your incorrect comment.

Oh come off it. He’s a 32 year old trackie come failed cobbled classic specialist who has never finished better than fifteenth in twelve GTs. If he is seriously a Tour contender, this is the biggest transformation in the history of the sport. Bigger than Armstrong, bigger than Wiggins, bigger than Mauri, bigger than Indurain, bigger than Riis, bigger even than Froome who was the previous biggest outlier in the modern history of Grand Tour racing. Coming second in the Junior Tour of Wales is the new winning the Anatomic Jock Race.

 

[franic]

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Ahaha, can't stop laughing. The guy was winning the Flèche du Sud. You know who was winning the Flèche du Sud? Andy Schleck.

AT A certain point you should feel ashamed of yourself. I can’t believe you can seriously say that winning the fleche du sud is in any way a predictor of pro performances in the mountains. As a mater of fact coming up with a race held in LUX to justify a performance in the alps is more than ludicrous. Seriously, you made my day kiddo.

Wigans was pretty good at team pursuit

I kept him out for a reason. He’s another product of the great British sport renaissance

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Also. LottoNL - Jumbo leaders 5th and 6th

Movistar leaders 7th, 9th and 11th

:lol: wtf just happened

 

[glassmoon]

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111 riders withint 26 minutes. So still the sprinters bus has to finish

Including Sagan, if PCS is right. I believe that riders who finish OTL can be allowed to continue but are docked all their points. Given that Gaviria finished within the limit, he could be in green tomorrow.

Heh. Not gonna happen. UCI/Aso consistency is all over the place (or joke).
Would be hilarios though.
Did Gav really finished in the limit and PS not? :Question:

 

[Screecher]

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111 riders withint 26 minutes. So still the sprinters bus has to finish

Including Sagan, if PCS is right. I believe that riders who finish OTL can be allowed to continue but are docked all their points. Given that Gaviria finished within the limit, he could be in green tomorrow.

Heh. Not gonna happen. UCI/Aso consistency is all over the place (or joke).
Would be hilarios though.
Did Gav really finished in the limit and PS not? :Question:

Sagan finished same time as Gaviria....