TdF '17 - stage 5: Vittel>La Planche des Belles Filles 160km

[Pricey_sky]

Re:

Porte isn't stronger than Froome.

It's over

Aru looks strong, although granted his gap looks bigger because of the four riders messing about with 1k to go after Quintana and Contador were dropped

 

[Gloin22]

Re: Re:

Porte isn't stronger than Froome.

It's over

Aru looks strong, although granted his gap looks bigger because of the four riders messing about with 1k to go after Quintana and Contador were dropped

Aru will loose 1min to Froome in last ITT, so he needs to be gaining 20 secs most MTFs.. not gonna happen

 

[Põhja Konn]

Aru fantastic! Gives hope for this Tour at the very least. Froome not as strong as I feared and Porte weaker than expected. Now we have to hope that Froome won't improve too much during the race.

 

[sir fly]

Excellent racing to the top!

Whether it was a fan's vote or an expert opinion, Andy was right.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Re:

Porte isn't stronger than Froome.

It's over

I honestly don't know what people expected.
You can never base form off tour warm up races in cycling.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Re:

Superb win Aru!

Froome in yellow.

Contador and Quintana looked terrible

Contador looked alright. He clearly doesn't have the acceleration now, but his form looks okay. Overall I am happy with his performance today.

Great win by Aru, strong tactics from Sky; all in all an excellent stage finish.

It's arguably the best possible stage finish for a first MTF. Some dislike the ones that properly decide the race (PSM), while some dislike the ones that give us no indication of an answer (Etna). This climb is perfectly reliable for an outcome that lies somewhere in-between those extremes.

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

Porte isn't stronger than Froome.

It's over

Aru looks strong, although granted his gap looks bigger because of the four riders messing about with 1k to go after Quintana and Contador were dropped

From all that I've seen, Aru has been the best climber in the world for the last six weeks. He was incredible at the Dauphine and the Nationals. If he maintains this form, then he's easily the biggest threat to Froome. Porte really messed up in the TT.

 

[Simurgh]

It seems to become an interesting Tour! Well done to Fabio, Dan Martin in beast mode and no doubts or "what-if's" about Contador anymore but he's still the champion of his era and one of cycling's greats

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Aru just told the RAI
he attacked to see if some one might respond
no one did
so he just kept going!

 

[gatete]

And the rider with broken wings is in yellow, Fabio is my new cycling hero.

 

[IndianCyclist]

3000000 for Aru

 

[Ruby United]

1) Froome
2) Thomas +12
3) Aru +14
4) Martin +25
5) Porte +39
6) Yates +43
7) Bardet +47
8) Contador +52
9) Nairito +54
10) Majka +1.01

(I think this is right)

 

[gunara]

Re: TdF '17 - stage 5: Vittel>La Planche des Belles Filles 1

Dynamite Aru! This looks interesting, but I won't get too excited.
How I miss the Don for this one.

 

[The Principal Sheep]

Re:

Aru and maybe Porte are the only guys who can challenge Froome. But only challenge.

Today's stage shows what we're seeing the last years: a really really strong Sky team, a solid Froome and rivals who are struggling to hold his wheel.

Aru, Porte and maybe others will challenge Froome on separate stages but none will be able to sustain it for the duration.

 

[Gloin22]

Majka, Polish hype train over :lol: back to KOMing

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re:

Porte isn't stronger than Froome.

It's over

It's not over, but the most likely (prerace) route to the champion losing is indeed looking a bit shaky.

 

[jmdirt]

Aru looks good for the battle to come! Martin looks strong again too! Hopefully several guys can be part of the Froome/Port game that is brewing.

 

[DFA123]

A definite weakness in the Sky train on these kind of gradients. Kwiatkowski basically put them all in the red Nieve, Henao and Thomas were already too much on the limit to respond to Aru at all. I think they'll have to rethink the strategy before Mont Chat.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Re:

Henao, Landa, Thomas all disappeared in an instant, as soon as a head of state made his move.

As it should be.

Looking like an interesting Tour

 

[loge1884]

the usual suspects within a minute (however time being spread more than I had expected) .... surprises to me are Aru (for victory, not Top10), the sort of comeback by Uran and Bardet (was strong last year, would have thought that being a one-off) ....

 

[ontheroad]

Porte will not be winning any tour after today. He HAD to take time on Froome but looked weaker in the run in. Aru is interesting and unpredictable, he looks like the only threat to Froome from here on in. Quintana is a bust flush also, couldn't stay with the second group.

 

[woodburn]

Aru needs to get about two more minute somehow. Maybe he can chip away on a few of these stages but doesn't seem likely in Peyrennes.

 

[King Boonen]

Dan Martin = absolutely spent. Good man.

 

[bob.a.feet]

What an attack by Aru, beating Froome on PDBF is quite impressive.

 

[can3478]

Great win for Aru, Martin collects some bonus seconds.
Majka couldn't win Tour of California, so TDF is out of the question.