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

[RattaKuningas]

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What a farce...

At least it will be fun how Froome can win now

He is gonna attack tomorrow big time. I can already see that.

Nope he cant... which is a good thing. Rather G win, than Froome. They both the same thing... but rather G if this how its gonna be.

Froome can only go if G cracks big time or for other reason (crash, mechanical etc) falls behind and they have trouble bringing him back and Froome stays up front

I can see Froome attacking him to get yellow, but not tomorrow. I think that he will go all out in 3rd week. Froome has that grand tour winner ego (not a bad thing) and he is never going to accept 2nd place without trying even if that means riding against G in my opinion.

 

[MuskyOurSaviour]

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'We were low on numbers' Yeah right Geraint

He's right. Sky usually has doms left with 5km of climb to go

 

[Salvarani]

Go Dumo hope he can recover for tomorrow

 

[yaco]

Ha ha Ha - Nieve sat up once he was passed by Thomas - Gave bonus seconds unnecessarily to Froome.

 

[Screecher]

Dumoulin looks done.

 

[The Hitch]

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Thomas and Sky with boos ringing out. Tour over!

Really? Where were the boos?

 

[ppanther92]

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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...

 

[Salvarani]

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What a farce...

At least it will be fun how Froome can win now

He is gonna attack tomorrow big time. I can already see that.

Nope he cant... which is a good thing. Rather G win, than Froome. They both the same thing... but rather G if this how its gonna be.

Froome can only go if G cracks big time or for other reason (crash, mechanical etc) falls behind and they have trouble bringing him back and Froome stays up front

I can see Froome attacking him to get yellow, but not tomorrow. I think that he will go all out in 3rd week. Froome has that grand tour winner ego (not a bad thing) and he is never going to accept 2nd place without trying even if that means riding against G in my opinion.

I guess so...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Dumoulin looks done.

Well yeah he did in the Giro as well. We'll see. Tomorrow will be tough for sure

 

[The Hitch]

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Yellow Jersey in Alps on a mountain stage for the track rider.

Wait until thomas does one bad stage and all the fans start trolling as if none of this ever happened.

 

[TMP402]

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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.

 

[TMP402]

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Thomas and Sky with boos ringing out. Tour over!

Really? Where were the boos?

If you chose not to hear them, that's up to you.

 

[shakey88]

Que standard social media meltdown lol

 

[spalco]

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We can't complain it wasn't entertaining.

Must be disappointing for Nieve, stage victories in both GTs would be nice, but the former teammate didn't think so.
Maybe this edition is another teammates story. Maybe that's where drama lies.

That was totally heartbreaking. I was 100% sure he had this with 1k to go.

 

[Forever The Best]

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That was a vulgar display of (Welsh) power.

Didn't know Thomas was a Pantera fan.

 

[masking_agent]

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What a farce...

At least it will be fun how Froome can win now

Movistar beheaded in 1 stage. That was funny

Yep totally. Can only imagine what their team meeting back in the bus after today must feel like. What an annihilation by Team Sky once again. I hope its a three horse race with Dumoulin but I think it will turn out to be more a two horse race within the same team. I hope to see some 1986 Hinault-Lemond drama unfold.

 

[franic]

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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.

Ahahah, can’t stop laughing. The guy was doing team pursuit. You know who was doing team pursuit? Bobridge, Dennis, Renshaw etc... It’s like watching Mayweather beating the s**t out of Joshua. Mayweather is a great boxer, but cannot compete against heavyweights

 

[movingtarget]

Disaster for Movistar and Michelton. Martin and Dumoulin tried hard, Fuglsang and Zakarin looked bad. Kudos to Nieve and Caruso. More of the same tomorrow ?

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Rarely has a future stage featuring Croix de Fer, Madeleine and Alpe d'Huez seemed less exciting than right now.

 

[LargusMeans]

Quite simply a way to improve this farce would be for the UCI to ban radios and power meters. The money spent by Sky allows them to monitor the race down to the last watt, getting rid of them and radios would certainly make it much more difficult to orchestrate the race in the same way.

 

[sir fly]

They all look pretty fresh in the interviews.
The power management gives them faster recovery, I'd say.

 

[Frosty]

Boardman reckons the time limit will be 27 minutes something. Looks like we could see a lot of riders miss it.

 

[TMP402]

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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.

Ahahah, can’t stop laughing. The guy was doing team pursuit. You know who was doing team pursuit? Bobridge, Dennis, Renshaw etc... It’s like watching Mayweather beating the s**t out of Joshua. Mayweather is a great boxer, but cannot compete against heavyweights

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

 

[LargusMeans]

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Disaster for Movistar and Michelton. Martin and Dumoulin tried hard, Fuglsang and Zakarin looked bad. Kudos to Nieve and Caruso. More of the same tomorrow ?

Martin was a total idiot today, what did he think would happen when he went and Froome went with him. It was almost like he has a Sky shirt on.

 

[shakey88]

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Thomas and Sky with boos ringing out. Tour over!

Really? Where were the boos?

If you chose not to hear them, that's up to you.

No really,where were the boos? i did listen out for them!