Le Tour 2018 stage 14: Saint-Paul-3-Ch. > Mende 188 km

[Hugo Koblet]

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Dumoulin should attack here. This climb suits him well.

Dumoulin's getting dropped...

He always rides like this. Look now.

 

[spalco]

Couple of seconds for Roglic. Better than nothing.

 

[Finn84]

No gaps between GT/CF/TD. Bardet loses time.

 

[woodburn]

No good from Landa.

 

[Flamin]

Wow, I got 9'06" for Roglic, 3" slower than in 1995.

 

[Gigs_98]

This wall delivers every time. Great racing

 

[markene2]

Froome looks so damn ugly on the bike.
Rogla looked super strong

 

[franic]

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Wow, I got 9'06" for Roglic, 3" slower than in 1995.

Impressive.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Thomas, Dumoulin and Froome still look better than the others, with not a lot separating them. The last week could be very close.

 

[jaylew]

Minor gaps everywhere

 

[DNP-Old]

Egan doing a nice job for white again.

 

[franic]

Nice stage. Much better than anything in the Alps

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Dumoulin should attack here. This climb suits him well.

Dumoulin's getting dropped...

Love it how people keep getting fooled everytime :lol:

 

[Rollthedice]

Guess Movistar needs a couple more leaders.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Dumoulin should attack here. This climb suits him well.

Dumoulin's getting dropped...

Love it how people keep getting fooled everytime :lol:

Indeed. One should know that this is how he always rides.

 

[Arnout]

Dumoulin is very good tactically - attacking just where Froome and Thomas could've used the flattening terrain to sandwich him between them. They tried that later but by then the terrain wasn't suitable anymore and momentum was lost.

I don't see Dumoulin breaking the Skypesos but its great to see him matching eight riders on his own and even greater that he will challenge them in the TT, too.

 

[franic]

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Guess Movistar needs a couple more leaders.

:lol:

 

[glassmoon]

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Guess Movistar needs a couple more leaders.

:lol:

 

[hazaran]

And it's already cost him a Vuelta and the Giro, will be even worse next week.

 

[Salvarani]

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Guess Movistar needs a couple more leaders.

Or simply better form and shape. Always doom and gloom on here.

 

[Rollthedice]

So it's between a track rider, a sick man, a former ski jumper and a Dutch guy named Dumoulin.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

GC riders:

Roglic
Froome, Dumoulin, Thomas +8
Quintana +18
Kruijswijk, Bardet +22
Zakarin +32
Valverde, Fuglsang, Landa +37
Jungels +52
Martin +1'51

 

[Koronin]

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Guess Movistar needs a couple more leaders.

Or simply better form and shape. Always doom and gloom on here.

Or a healthy Landa? They knew coming into the Tour Valverde had no intention on having any kind of form for this race. He's made it very clear that it's not one of his goals and that his plan all along was to save his 2nd peak for the Vuelta/Worlds combo at the end of the season instead of doing his normal 3 peaks for a season.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Some sort of liquid was thrown at Froome up the final climb, but it ended up hitting Bardet in the face who was behind him.

 

[Rollthedice]

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Some sort of liquid was thrown at Froome up the final climb, but it ended up hitting Bardet in the face who was behind him.

Copeland said "'Don’t stay behind Froome, it’s dangerous". Guess he was right.