TDF Stage 17 - Thursday, July 22 2010, Pau - Col du Tourmalet, 174 km

[auscyclefan94]

Please Caisse win the team classement!

 

[Ten Percent Grade]

And somewhere Tom Danielson is pondering forever

 

[BroDeal]

At least the tour was better than last years!

Not by much......

 

[Roland Rat]

Not impressed. By the stage or the Tour. Too many "gentlemens' agreements" and not enough racing. Rubbish.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Andy S has 2 stage wins.

Oh man, AS and AC hug. Ugh.

Sarkozy is there too. Wonder if he rode his Trek up the Tourmalet.

 

[nia O'Malley]

uh, you take the stage, and i'll take the tour, okay? let's call it even

This has been done so often that it's not even up for a discussion. Unless, of course, you're new to the game.

 

[Publicus]

Sure Phil, but for Armstrong's crashes he could have challenged for the overall. Sure.

 

[Fourier]

too much love.

 

[indurain666]

Good riding by Armstrong.

who is this Armstrong character?

 

[maltiv]

Rapid accelerations would've profitted Contador more than Andy Schleck, so all AS could do was to ride as hard as he could all the way up. He did give it his all, although it certainly doesn't look as crazy as Rasmussen vs Contador, which is a good sign in my opinion.

 

[Anonymous]

How did he come in???

4th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hfer07]

I guess It's done

 

[auscyclefan94]

when was the last time we had a really exciting tdf...89??

2007 tdf, Schlecks celebrations are really ****. He looks like a complte ****!

 

[BroDeal]

Compared to the Giro, this race has been a total snooze-fest.

The race directer is obsessed with trying to engineer a "down to the wire" finish. Despite all the mountains in the route, there were surprising few opportunities to gain much time.

 

[ericthesportsman6]

Sanchez gets 8 seconds on Menchov. Good result by Cunego with 11th and Morabito with 16th.

 

[CatsNK]

Eurosport showing AS and AC making nice - but watch closely - after they do the kissy-kissy they BOTH turn away and seem to almost grimace!!

 

[The Hitch]

Samu has 21 seconds on Menchov.

Can he hold it?

 

[Mellow Velo]

The giro was recontested here..... just a couple dozen minutes behind the strongest men in professional cycling.

Who were not going near such an epic race.

This Tour is shyte, from beginning to end.
Doesn't matter about who rode where.

 

[Bala Verde]

A gift. Andy did all the work. Contador tried once but couldn't get away. Game over.

Amazing ride by Hesjedal! Respect.

When is the giro again?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hesjedal 4th, what the hell has happened

Where is Leipheimer? Looks like he has blown the big one

 

[AtletiSK]

Samu has 21 seconds on Menchov.

Can he hold it?

I hope so... Samu has been just outstanding today but it´s going to be difficult in ITT

 

[kurtinsc]

Actually the Hog has always criticized Contador for attacking and being impetuous. If he had listened to the Hog, he may not have won the Tour last year.

True... I'm not saying he's as cautious as the Hog wanted. I'm just saying the Hog has tempered his agression. Contador has said himself that before working with Bruyneel, he'd always attack and often kill himself and end up losing time because of it... and he learned to only attack when needed with Bruyneel.

Contador rode conservative today... because attacking gained him very little. He's a complete rider... capable of attacking when the situation calls for it, but not so wound up that he attacks himself into oblivion.

Think about last year... he attacked what... three times the entire race? Arcalis, Verbier, and the one attack that dropped Kloden on Grand Bornand. All his other accelerations were simply to keep pace with others attacking him.

 

[scribe]

Eurosport showing AS and AC making nice - but watch closely - after they do the kissy-kissy they BOTH turn away and seem to almost grimace!!

You would be grimacing to your soiled shorts of you tried to climb like that.

 

[Saddlesaw]

Ewww...........that wink from AC to AS is going to give me nightmares.

Guess AS got the gift he was yelling for..........

 

[ak-zaaf]

2007 tdf, Schlecks celebrations are really ****. He looks like a complte ****!

It's so funny you've been criticizing everyone's winning gestures since Cadel got shot down for it at Mendrisio.