Stage 19: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienn - La Toussuire-Les Sybelle

[Dutchsmurf]

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OMG wuyts says every day there's boni's LMAO

I thought there were except for the ITT and TTT?

no boni's were there until stage 8

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2015/us/sporting-stakes-rules.html

Time bonuses are awarded at all of road stage finishes that is to say with the exception of the individual and team time trial stages. They are 10, 6 and 4 seconds to the first three riders to finish.

 

[The Hitch]

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I think Nibs has got this! This is the best stage we've had all Tour.

Biased much

This has been the best stage of the tour whoever you support.

lol what???

This stage isn't even in the same stratopshere as PSM. With the exception of a meh attack by quintana last 4 minutes, everything is exactly as it was 2 hours ago.

 

[carton]

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Darn, I thought Wout Poels would take the stage.

Shows you what I know...

 

[DBotero]

Re: Stage 19: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienn - La Toussuire-Les Sybe

Decent stage.Impressive ride for Nibali and Quintana.Froome a bit in trouble,tomorrow should be good.Valverde should try harder or his podium place is gone

 

[SeriousSam]

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What is the time gap between Froome and Quintana now?

2.38.

Pantani could win the Tour tomorrow.

 

[sir fly]

Well done, Nibali.
A missed opportunity for Movi, I'd say. Quintana could have cut in half his deficit today, but didn't dare.

 

[Ruby United]

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For anyone who cares about KOTM, I think Bardet leads Froome by 3 points.

Bardet needs to cross Croix de Fer first tomorrow and hope Froome doesn't win on Alpe d'Huez

 

[Irondan]

Talansky... Nice ride by the pitbull.

 

[Escarabajo]

Froome was cracking on the last kilometer.

Maybe the attack should have come earlier!

If that is the case he needs to go on Glandon tomorrow to have a chance. And probably forget about Valverde!

 

[Ramira]

Just saw the reply of a *** spitting on Froome. I hope something is done about him, even if it's just some public shaming. Such a total lack of respect.

 

[Cervelo77]

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I don't get why Quintana didn't go sooner.

Yeah there's a chance of cracking and losing time, but even if that happened he wouldn't have lost time to Contador and Valverde, right now he's just to far ahead of them as a climber.

So basically he decided to play it safe so he was sure to lose no time on Froome and maybe even take 30 seconds. Which is pointless. I can understand being careful in week 1, maybe even in week 2, when there's still racing to be done, but on the penultimate mountain stage it's such a waste.

I don't understand why he didn't go for the stage win. He's not winning the tour, so a stage win would be nice.

 

[TomLPC]

Rare footage of Froome furious

 

[Big Doopie]

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Talansky... Nice ride by the pitbull.

where did he end up?

 

[DominicDecoco]

Shocking video of a guy spitting Froome in the face.

The sport has troubles.

 

[Jim2784]

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People give out about Sky, but Movistar has ruined this tour, Valverde should F off to another team if he wants to be a GC leader and won't do a bit of DOMing. In any case Quintana has been a joke...

What has ruined the GC spectacle is Froome being miles stronger than everyone else. Quintana has tried, but hasn't got close to dropping him. Valverde isn't strong enough on the hardest climbs to put in a meaningful attack, he is just trying to hang on. Even Contador now is trying to protect 4th/5th position, while 6th-10th have been doing the same throughout the last two weeks.

Froome's strength has made everyone re-assess their goals from the race.

Well said. Quintana has done his homework, turns out he simply isn't good enough. Contador turned up in aweful shape, overestimating either himself or underestimating the competition. Nibali has somehow **** up his preparation.

When everyone is completely inferior to the strongest rider with the strongest team and sound tactics, GC will be boring.

Imagine if Contador had taken that attitude to Murito in the 2012 Vuelta.

No one was criticising Movistar on PSM or PDB. There we could see Sky were indeed stronger.

The last few days however they haven't. Both Froome's best domestiques have dropped. Contador has been attacking giving them a platform to jump onto. They haven't had to create anything, the opportunities have been given to them. They haven't even tried.

Its the equivalent of a team losing 2-0 with 30 minutes to go, the other team gets a red card, but instead of trying to fight back, they just put on extra defenders to try and protect their goal difference.

Dfa and Serious Sam don't half talk ***, lets not try because we can't possible win the GC WTF, If everyone thought like that we'd all stay in bed!!!

In 2013 Froome got tired in the Alps and you know what the same thing I predicted happened today...shock horror, Quintana should of tried for stage win, gifted it to Nibali waiting all that time!!!

 

[Sky'sthelimit]

When did the guy spit in his face?

 

[hfer07]

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Valverde will explode tomorrow.

1.30 the difference between Bala and Nibbles.

I hope he does, cuz he's been a real cvnt !!

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Anyone got the top 10 GC?

 

[LaFlorecita]

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OMG wuyts says every day there's boni's LMAO

I thought there were except for the ITT and TTT?

no boni's were there until stage 8

No, there was conflicting information but there are definitely bonifications on every stage besides the ITT and TTT.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[glassmoon]

If Nibs would kick Piti out opodium tomorrow, that'd be sooo EPIC.

 

[Walkman]

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Rare footage of Froome furious

What happened?

 

[Ramira]

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Froome was cracking on the last kilometer.

Maybe the attack should have come earlier!

If that is the case he needs to go on Glandon tomorrow to have a chance. And probably forget about Valverde!

It's surely too late now. If he'd gone gotten the gap somewhere between 90 seconds and two minutes there might have been a chance, but unless Froome has a hunger knock there's no way Quintana takes the time he needs.

And remember Thomas dropped early today, which of course was bad for this stage, but it probably means he cruised to the finish so he could be fresh again tomorrow. Combine that with how good Poels is starting to look and it's just too much.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Hopefully Nairo will go full *** tomorrow on Croix de Fer. 2½ minutes is do-able, now that he's established that he's strongest.

 

[Põhja Konn]

Too little, too late GC-wise, but still good to see Froome beaten mano-a-mano. Hopefully Nibali can push Piti out of the podium tomorrow.