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

[SeriousSam]

Quintana is clearly saving energy for a nuclear attack tomorrow.

 

[Vino's Mum]

Re:

My stance on attacking has always been to quote Sastre 'It's a race not a tea party'. But Nibs is one of my favs and this just isn't sitting well. I should be happy he is winning this stage. But I'm not, I had higher expectations of him. Granted Astana has always attacked on others problems. Vino must have warped Nibs sense of honor.......

Sure, he knew Froome had a problem, but from the way Astana were riding, he was about to go anyway.. and he's still 6 minutes down on virtual GC, so he was hardly attacking the yellow jersey.

 

[DFA123]

Contador using Majka to defend his position again.

 

[Irondan]

Majka moving AC up?

 

[sir fly]

The group should have been half of it's current size.

 

[Walkman]

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

Perfect ending would be Quintana and Froome catching Nibali with 50m to go

Quintana looks cooked. He isn't going to do anything on this climb, I think.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Carlton Kirby is making the gradients up.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

An attack from somebody please ! ! !!

 

[Ryongsyong]

There's no point Quintana even attacking anyway. It's too late now. Who would he be attacking? Might as well just sit tight for his dull second, since he's made his bed already.

 

[Scarponi]

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

SBS Australia lost coverage *** ***

 

[Irondan]

Lost the feed!!!!!!

Seriously?

Others getting the same problem?

 

[Enrico Gimondi]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[SafeBet]

The group is now bigger than on the first climb. Come on.

 

[Sky'sthelimit]

Tempo in GC group increasing.

 

[sir fly]

Quintana charging.

 

[Jim2784]

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...

 

[IndianCyclist]

At one point Poels, Froome, Quintana & Contador were looking at stems. it looked like the Tour de Stems.

 

[mr. tibbs]

My ****** NBC app stupid **** *** thing has failed. "Coverage will resume shortly."

Bah.

 

[SoNiK4]

http://www.sportingvideo.com/20150703/vv5596b3654acfa8.66838047-1099375.html

Working feed.

 

[Escarabajo]

Lost my feed!!!!!

 

[Põhja Konn]

Don't think Quintana has the legs to do anything serious anymore.

 

[Punkan]

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Quintana is clearly saving energy for a nuclear attack tomorrow.

Nah, he is tired. He can't 3 minutes on Froome considering what is left. If he takes 30s on Froome on Alpe d'Huez I would be impressed.

 

[Afrank]

Re:

My stance on attacking has always been to quote Sastre 'It's a race not a tea party'. But Nibs is one of my favs and this just isn't sitting well. I should be happy he is winning this stage. But I'm not, I had higher expectations of him. Granted Astana has always attacked on others problems. Vino must have warped Nibs sense of honor.......

Some things I would keep in mind-
-Nibali is pretty far back and isn't too big a concern for Froome.
-The attack is probably more for the stage win then to unseat Froome in GC.
-If you watch the video, it looks like his teammate is blocking his view of Froome. So all he saw could very well have just been Froome drifting back and having no room in his current position to respond (being surrounded by riders).

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

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Lost my feed!!!!!

It fell asleep.

 

[Jelantik]

majka will done really soon.... quintana.... ? nada... 2nd and 3rd.. indeed..