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

[Hugo Koblet]

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Movistar?

Agression?

In the Tour?

I chuckled

That's the thing, it wouldn't even have to be aggressive. Valverde could sit in the larger group up front while sky burned riders chasing it down once it got too far ahead

Exactly. Any team with more than one GC possibility should have one in the break there. Not just teammates that aren't gonna be able to do anything cause your main GC rider won't attack early anyway and cayse Sky will outnumber you 4 to 1 in domestiques.

It wouldn't work as noone in the break would want to ride with Valverde in the break.

Alaphilippe would, he wants the polka dots. Same for the likes of Barguil. If Izaguirre is there for Nibs, he might as well work with Valverde. Etc etc etc.

Izagirre would work for Nibali's rival? No, basically the break would just stop riding and tell Valverde to fall back.

 

[ppanther92]

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Rowe off the front, train down to 7, hope springs eternal.

At least considerably faster than yesterday.

 

[Singer01]

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Rowe off the front, train down to 7, hope springs eternal.

i stand corrected, he is back at the front, maybe he dropped back and 'eyeballed' the Movistar boys a la Armstrong.

 

[King Boonen]

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Rowe off the front, train down to 7, hope springs eternal.

i stand corrected, he is back at the front, maybe he dropped back and 'eyeballed' the Movistar boys a la Armstrong.

Went to get bottles. Of wine, and a cheese board, and some bread.

 

[DBotero]

Monster of a climb,too bad is not at the end of the stage.

 

[Singer01]

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Rowe off the front, train down to 7, hope springs eternal.

i stand corrected, he is back at the front, maybe he dropped back and 'eyeballed' the Movistar boys a la Armstrong.

Went to get bottles. Of wine, and a cheese board, and some bread.

i think i just saw Moscon playing Angry Birds on his phone.

 

[Bolder]

Monster of a climb,too bad is not at the end of the stage.

Yeah, Bisanne is a monster. Have ridden it once, was enough. Doesn't get much publicity because it's kind of sheltered without much exposure, and it ends on the Les Saisies ski area plateau, which is around 1600 m (Bisanne summit, as it were, is around 1900 m). But it starts from a deep valley.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

it will be 10-15 seconds between the top 20 GC contenders.

The only interesting thing will be awkwardness of Sean Kelly on Eurosport while they talk about Mandela Day orange helmets.

 

[telencefalus]

i refuse to watch this shi* show it's funnier see your comments

 

[fuiers]

Nice to see two French riders really competing for the Polka dot.

 

[King Boonen]

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Rowe off the front, train down to 7, hope springs eternal.

i stand corrected, he is back at the front, maybe he dropped back and 'eyeballed' the Movistar boys a la Armstrong.

Went to get bottles. Of wine, and a cheese board, and some bread.

i think i just saw Moscon playing Angry Birds on his phone.

:lol:

 

[Laplaz]

Nieve and Caruso to become GC threats at this rate?

 

[sir fly]

It's difficult to dare to try something from far out (regarding the GC) with long final ascent.

 

[DBotero]

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Nieve and Caruso to become GC threats at this rate?

Nieve could take the yellow if they let Sky ride like this

 

[MatParker117]

Taking a rider away appears to have backfired.

 

[Bolder]

i refuse to watch this shi* show it's funnier see your comments

Watch it for the scenery if nothing else. Even when the racing sucks, I like to imagine myself toodling around the Alps even when I'm at my desk...

 

[Jagartrott]

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Nieve and Caruso to become GC threats at this rate?

Nieve could take the yellow if they let Sky ride like this

Pauwels is ahead of him.

 

[ice&fire]

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Nieve and Caruso to become GC threats at this rate?

Nieve could take the yellow if they let Sky ride like this

Froome prefers Nieve in yellow rather than Thomas

 

[DBotero]

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Nieve and Caruso to become GC threats at this rate?

Nieve could take the yellow if they let Sky ride like this

Pauwels is ahead of him.

I know at around 5 min. in the GC.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Taking a rider away appears to have backfired.

It may not have had the intended effect but that doesn't mean it has backfired.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Ag2r's great collective from 17 completely disappeared and Movistar doesn't really have the manpower to catch breaks etc., thats a bit unlucky.

 

[ppanther92]

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Taking a rider away appears to have backfired.

I don't think so. Business as usual at the Tour. So while not having the intended effect, i can also not really see how it backfired.

 

[glassmoon]

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I think Sagan will win the points classification.

Bold prediction but it is not impossible for him. We'll see.

IMHO no one else gives a damn at this point... I guess Gaviria gave up right after that DQ.

 

[DNP-Old]

Splits in the peloton.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Watching this SKY team, do the other teams get a bit demoralised watching this happen, or are they just happy to sit on in the hope they can attack towards the end and hope Froome or G are just as knackered following wheels for k's and k's? Is it a case of the SKY team being able to practice this high pace train scenario with such a strong team they have so the other teams can't match them in a real time race? When you see Movistar, you would think they would be able to give SKY a run for their money (strength of rider wise) but they have gone for the 3 leaders scenario instead of using 2 of them as super strong doms. Quintana, I think would give Froome a good game one on one (take away ITT) so I think Movistar may have made a boo boo this time round. As much as its boring to watch, it is a very effective way of winning GT's.