Official thread - Stage 13 • Vittel - Colmar• 200 km

[msjett]

Clearly didn't pack his suit case of courage.......

 

[Cobber]

Ah yes, the "he looks like a broken man" Paulism

He doesn't seem to be saying "quite remarkable" as much this year.... maybe a reflection of an unremarkable parcours thus far!

 

[subzro]

"He's gone slowly, very quickly" haha

 

[Parrot23]

Maybe he's going to turn himself inside out.

 

[jaylew]

Great or, ahem, fantastic *irony*

I read on one of the tickers that popofthebackovitch got popped of the back on the Plattwalzer... Any truth in that?

The GC contenders will probably say it was too wet, where as it was too windy before on Arcalis. What's next, too hot? Pavement too gravelly? Too many potholes? Leaves on the road (which is legitimate reason for dutch trains to have delays)? Too nippy? Too few spectators?

Thanks for the update!

Actually Saxo went to the front for a bit and pushed it and the group got down to maybe 20-30 but no one really major was dropped. Even Nocentini had no problem hanging in there.

 

[jaylew]

So much for QS turning it's tour around...

 

[msjett]

ooh a patch of cobblestones....could make things interesting....

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Great or, ahem, fantastic *irony*

I read on one of the tickers that popofthebackovitch got popped of the back on the Plattwalzer... Any truth in that?

The GC contenders will probably say it was too wet, where as it was too windy before on Arcalis. What's next, too hot? Pavement too gravelly? Too many potholes? Leaves on the road (which is legitimate reason for dutch trains to have delays)? Too nippy? Too few spectators?

Thanks for the update!

Your welcome!

Actually a couldburts got me the most exiting 10km because it blew away my television signal and my internet!

That'll be such a lovely win for Heini btw.

 

[Parrot23]

We need a di Luca at the Tour. (Just switch the maps around and rename some of the climbs with Italian names) He'd even slug a couple of spectators if they get too close.

NB: I see Freire was outclimbing Menchov earlier, LOL

PS: some "wonderful" comments on Versus' race tracker: "An interesting stage so far, made more complicated by the weather."

 

[Azdak6]

Maybe he's going to turn himself inside out.

Or suffer like he's never suffered before.

 

[msjett]

I have to wonder if those doing the commentary are trying to convince us its exciting or if they are trying to convince themselves...

 

[sportzchick]

Or both msjett

Ive got one thing to say about the tour so far....

BORRRRING!

 

[Parrot23]

Sorry, folks, I don't believe it.

Haussler sprints with the best in the Spring Classics and looks like he will win a Tour mountain stage. 1+1=4.

Had a top up a day or two ago with blood bags, surely.

 

[Anonymous]

Lotto keeps pushing, but it wont matter.

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry, folks, I don't believe it.

Haussler sprints with the best in the Spring Classics and looks like he will win a Tour mountain stage. 1+1=4.

Had a top up a day or two ago with blood bags, surely.

Yea, and drops Chavanel...

 

[Bala Verde]

NB: I see Freire was outclimbing Menchov earlier, LOL

I think Menchov prefers the weather to be hot, I thought he hated rain, and his performance usually reflects that... But Freire!! haha

Good for House, but this is just an awful stage again.


Lotto attacks! Wegelius sets up a 1-2 for Evans!!!! PLEASE GOD LET IT BE!!!!!

He can't get away... ughh

 

[Parrot23]

S. Kelly says it's Wegelius.

 

[sportzchick]

no one is reacting to Lotto Attacks - god this tour is getting more fustrating by the second

 

[Delicato]

Sorry, folks, I don't believe it.

Haussler sprints with the best in the Spring Classics and looks like he will win a Tour mountain stage. 1+1=4.

Had a top up a day or two ago with blood bags, surely.

Don't forget that he attacked with 197km to go and was in the original breakaway in which Uran and Voigt, among others, were dropped afterwards. Suspicious, to say the least.

 

[Parrot23]

Don't forget that he attacked with 197km to go and was in the original breakaway in which Uran and Voigt, among others, were dropped. Suspicious, at least.

This whole thing has a Schumi flavour to it.

 

[The Barb]

Hard to argue with that.

Something is rotten in the state of Inverell.

 

[Cobber]

Don't forget that he attacked with 197km to go and was in the original breakaway in which Uran and Voigt, among others, were dropped afterwards. Suspicious, to say the least.

Haussler is a power rider.. not a pure sprinter. These climbs are not super tough and he lost a fair bit of time over the 1st cat climb. God... a rider has a good day and everyone shouts doping......

 

[Bala Verde]

This whole thing has a Schumi flavour to it.

With the pace the peloton is going at, even anyone's grandmother would stay away. I don't think it's suspicious, he hasn't shown himself the whole tour...

 

[Danilot]

After all this, I'll be stoned if Prudhomme dares call this Tour a success.

 

[greenbike]

Is there a stat kept for "total amount of tire flats/punctures in a tour"


Trying to remember but I think that the Schleck fella has had ALOT

and another....