TDF Stage 19 - Saturday, July 24 2010, Bordeaux - Pauillac, 51 km ITT

[SirLes]

No top ten on GC in top 10 of final timetrial?

A first?

 

[Big GMaC]

39' exactly on the GC

 

[clydesdale]

Are Paul and Phil even watching the race? Sanchez didn't have that bad of a ride; faster than VdB and much faster than Gesink and in the same neighborhood as Contador and Schleck. They acted like he finished dead last?

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

Meet the new Poulidor: Andy Schleck

 

[roundabout]

Great ride by Schleck whatever the pundits predicted.

 

[nia O'Malley]

As is 25. New Poulidor?

This forum.

 

[Big GMaC]

Menchov @ 1 min 20 Schleck

 

[Ramira]

The gap is exactly 39 seconds the exact time of the chain. (he went from 8 ahead to 31 behind so 39 not 31 like some stated). But if you count in the cobbles AC was 1'13'' (42+31) faster then AS in all the direct duels, that's a gap that will make for a very close race next year.

My guess is that AS will win more tours the next 5 years then AC, especially if AC will actually ride a Giro to win like he said he was planning.

 

[Bobby G]

Are Paul and Phil even watching the race? Sanchez didn't have that bad of a ride; faster than VdB and much faster than Gesink and in the same neighborhood as Contador and Schleck. They acted like he finished dead last?

THANK YOU! Slagging him off for a fine ride. Same with Wiggo. Slagged him off saying he didn't have it today. Only rider in the top 50 before the stage to enter the top 10!

 

[Anonymous]

Your full of ****. Gesink did a good TT considering the wind. And if you deny it your jsut blind
And Tommy D never finished 6th in the Tour de France...

I am full of sh!t says the guy who supported a fancy little doper who got busted, and now supports a fancy little disappointment who finished 6th...that is spelled sixth.

Gesink finished 6th, welcome to the closest he will ever get to the podium...great show I guess....

 

[scribe]

1st Place: Alberto "no class" Contador
2nd Place: Andy "always the bridesmaid" Schleck

Here's the podium:
1st AC
2nd shreks yellow bike
3rd shrek

 

[nia O'Malley]

I think AS only held on to 2nd place by about 20 seconds to Menchov if I read the times right

corretion, about a minute

You didn't. There's 1m 20"

 

[Steel4Ever]

Ryder:
52km @ 1:07:36 = 46km/hr

Seems right on par to me.

2008 Olympics (47.6km)
Ryder 1:05:42 = 43km/hr

2009 Vuelta (30km)
Ryder 40:34 = 44km/hr

2010 California (33.6km - flat)
Ryder 43:14 -- 46km/hr

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

Are Paul and Phil even watching the race?...

Sherwen has continually contradicted himself, plus he obviously has a raging boner for Contador, presumably because Paul is an LA fan-boy and AC wouldn't give His Lanceness back his crown. And Andy is the enemy of his enemy so he can never find enough nice things to say about him.

 

[bobs nob]

I am full of sh!t says the guy who supported a fancy little doper who got busted, and now supports a fancy little disappointment who finished 6th...that is spelled sixth.

Gesink finished 6th, welcome to the closest he will ever get to the podium...great show I guess....

Mom !!! DAD !!! STOP FIGHTING !!!!

 

[eztarget]

Congrats AC.

If AS rides like this next year I think the Tour will be his.

 

[Fourier]

here's the podium:
1st ac
2nd shreks yellow bike
3rd shrek

1: Ac
2: Sram
3: As

 

[nicholaaaas]

Here's the podium:
1st AC
2nd shreks yellow bike
3rd shrek

his yellow bike is the lanterne rouge

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I am full of sh!t says the guy who supported a fancy little doper who got busted, and now supports a fancy little disappointment who finished 6th...that is spelled sixth.

Gesink finished 6th, welcome to the closest he will ever get to the podium...great show I guess....

Dude he is 24 and rides his first Tour where he actually saw mountains in possible the strongest field in years.

You can downplay it all you want, I think it's great and he obviously has a great future ahead of him.
Be jealous of it. I will only laugh.

 

[Francois the Postman]

Looks like Rabo got what they went in for, first Rabo podium ever. Just as well, as there wasn't much else.

Sod chaingate, if there hadn't be a neutralisation in the Ardennes, what would that gap between Menchov and Scleck really have looked like

 

[Parrot23]

Contador sure ain't the rider he was last year.

Great, great ride/Tour by Andy.

 

[AtletiSK]

I think this is deserved podium, congratulations to Alberto, Andy and Denis!

 

[sartoris]

Bravo Contador !!

Andy, what a TT!!

What a pity for Samuel Sánchez!!

AC has just been intervewed by the Spanish TV. I've NEVER seen him so exhausted. Looked as if he was going to faint!!

What a race... Congratulations, Alberto!

 

[Carl0880]

Hasn't AC announced earlier this year he intends to ride in next years Giro?? IF this is the case, what kind of form will he have next year.

 

[bobs nob]

Who was AC hugging after the finish (the guy in the ball cap)?