Le Tour 2018 stage 16:Carcassonne - Bagnères-de-Luchon 218km

[DNP-Old]

Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

 

[Alexandre B.]

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Laporte among them. The others may as well give up already.

Don't underestimate his generosity.

 

[staubsauger]

How is it possible that all media reports are blaming protesting farmers for sabotaging the Tour de France stage, when the true incident was the French police immediately using pepper spray against demonstrators, also hitting the riders?

That's fake News as Mister Trump would state!

 

[SafeBet]

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Sunweb with 3, and Movistar with 2 guys in the break.

I count 3 for Movi as well.

 

[Jagartrott]

There's a chase group with LaTour, apparently?
Could secure the white jersey here.

 

[Rollthedice]

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Pots of Evil in the break, always nice

Medical Pots of Evil.

 

[loge1884]

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Demare solo at the back at four minutes. Expect him to casually make the time cut.

as the race has been shortened and the pace looks a bit relaxed, perhaps he'll be within time today .... but I wonder what's going to save him tomorrow ....

 

[Finn84]

GvA again in the break. As of now, I would raise him as the super-combatif.

 

[Alexandre B.]

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There's a chase group with LaTour, apparently?
Could secure the white jersey here.

Except Guillaume Martin is with him.

 

[Red Rick]

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GvA again in the break. As of now, I would raise him as the super-combatif.

He has a distinct lack of a French passport

 

[loge1884]

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Laporte among them. The others may as well give up already.

Don't underestimate his generosity.

Laporte to attack at Col de Portet d'Aspet and never been seen again ....

 

[Jagartrott]

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There's a chase group with LaTour, apparently?
Could secure the white jersey here.

Except Guillaume Martin is with him.

I didn't see Martin as a threat (he'll out-TT him by 2 minutes), but Bernal.

Edit: they made it to the front now.

 

[120mmStem]

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Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

Odds of Demare finishing within the time cut?? I'm giving him 3/10

 

[glassmoon]

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GvA again in the break. As of now, I would raise him as the super-combatif.

He has a distinct lack of a French passport

:idea:

 

[loge1884]

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Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

some protesting farmer perhaps sabotaged the FDJ-bidons with glue today ....

 

[glassmoon]

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Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

Odds of Demare finishing within the time cut?? I'm giving him 3/10

No worries... he will. He even might get TdF super combatif prize for his heroic effort to hang on

 

[Keram]

How can be Demare so weak these days. Last stage he was almost solely dropped too on almost flat terrain like today. Is he ill?

 

[Bushman]

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How can be Demare so weak these days. Last stage he was almost solely dropped too on almost flat terrain like today. Is he ill?

He has never coped very well with the continuous racing of GT’s, has he? I feel like I’ve seen him like this before.

And it’s not like he can’t climb at all or is in bad shape...

 

[MrTea1976]

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Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

Odds of Demare finishing within the time cut?? I'm giving him 3/10

More like 9.5/10. Unless another team follows him with a camera......

 

[DNP-Old]

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Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

Odds of Demare finishing within the time cut?? I'm giving him 3/10

1/10 if there's a camera
10/10 if there isn't

 

[SKSemtex]

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Demare 10 minutes down. His forearm strength must be of legendary level.

Odds of Demare finishing within the time cut?? I'm giving him 3/10

More like 9.5/10. Unless another team follows him with a camera......

Last year he was quite unlucky that Juraj Sagan was finished in that stage as well so he could not use any help .
He was following Demare till the finish line.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Who is that commentating on Eurosport?

 

[burning]

Looks like Demare give up, he is no longer in the dropped riders list on the live ticker

Edit: Actually he's back now

 

[StephenC2020]

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Who is that commentating on Eurosport?

Nico Roche

 

[Rollthedice]

Each of Dumo, Bardet, Landa/Quinata has three good riders up front. It's hard to believe none of them will make a move on Portet or Mente.