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That's actually the main reason to be suss: the top tt faves - Martin, Van Emden - plus some of the quality sprinter/short tt specialists - Kittel, Matthews, Sagan.....they all had a good reason to take some risks. There's yellow at stake now and in the next few days. Worth an all or nothing approach.
The Sky top doms, and probably Kung, would have been under instructions to stay upright no matter what. Thomas himself said that.
So you have the specialists taking risks, beaten by the Sky machine not taking risks......during the only race they always dominate. It does in fact raise some eyebrows - shows right away they're on another level, yet again.
ontheroad said:zlev11 said:do you have a link to the Lance audio?
https://soundcloud.com/user-411867241/episode-01-stage-1-stages-a-tdf-podcast-with-lance-armstrong
Go to around 12:00 for the conversation about Froome time gaps which debunks the argument about Froomes cornering being responsible for the time gap.
And just in case you don't trust Lance just read Froomes own post race comments where he states that he travelled cautiously into corners.
It's amazing though what lengths some of Froomes fans will go to, to try and claim that his superiority is down to anything other than sheer physical supremacy.
That's actually the main reason to be suss: the top tt faves - Martin, Van Emden - plus some of the quality sprinter/short tt specialists - Kittel, Matthews, Sagan.....they all had a good reason to take some risks. There's yellow at stake now and in the next few days. Worth an all or nothing approach.
The Sky top doms, and probably Kung, would have been under instructions to stay upright no matter what. Thomas himself said that.
So you have the specialists taking risks, beaten by the Sky machine not taking risks......during the only race they always dominate. It does in fact raise some eyebrows - shows right away they're on another level, yet again.