Tour 2018 stage 20: St P-S-Nivelle - Espelette 31km ITT

[Eclipse]

An expectedly dull end to a dull tour then

 

[MatParker117]

What I expected today.

 

[woodburn]

Nice finish for Tom. Well deserved.

Thomas clearly coasted home. Lost 30 seconds in last third.

 

[l.Harm]

Froome time wasn't correct, it stopped before he finished.

 

[rick james]

Great attempt at the double Froome dawg, well done Thomas

 

[jsem94]

Rabofail is back on btw. We thought they broke the curse slightly yesterday, but no.

Dumoulin will win a TDF one day.

Froome podiums 4 straight GTs, that's crazy too.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

It's still not clear. Dumo wins, but who knows if they correct it?

 

[ontheroad]

Fair play to Thomas for gifting it to Dumoulin, he leaked a lot of time in the last section there.

 

[Brullnux]

Re:

Nice finish for Tom. Well deserved.

Thomas clearly coasted home. Lost 30 seconds in last third.

Thomas got properly tired, he wasn't coasting. His body position was so much worse.

 

[woodburn]

Thomas gifting stages now like Lance to Pantani on the Ventoux.

 

[Rollthedice]

The total demolition of the climber oriented tour challengers in a Tour de France designed for climbers has been completed. Fun times.

 

[hrotha]

Loooooooool.

 

[yetiyeti]

Bizarre timing issues. Great for Dumo.

 

[Big Doopie]

Re:

You could see that G basically sat up with a couple of K’s to go.

actually he was laboring hard in the last big hill and GPS had him already behind dumo at that time.

virtual GC had dumo only 2'01" - 2'02" behind. so dumo was already ahead in the hill and thomas was certainly not going slow there...

 

[Alexandre B.]

Kruijswijk should have buried Froome yesterday instead of doing his own race.

(of course, Roglic's failure was rather unexpected, but still)

 

[IndianCyclist]

Re:

The total demolition of the climber oriented tour challengers in a Tour de France designed for climbers has been completed. Three Indurains on the podium.

LOL All top 4 are Indurains

 

[bigcog]

Re:

It's still not clear. Dumo wins, but who knows if they correct it?

Yep Dumo confirmed, great ride by Froome though to be within 1 sec.

 

[MatParker117]

Thomas gifting stages now like Lance to Pantani on the Ventoux.

Had two stages already, so rolled it back to avoid binning it at the last moment.

 

[Springveldt]

Re: Re:

Nice finish for Tom. Well deserved.

Thomas clearly coasted home. Lost 30 seconds in last third.

Thomas got properly tired, he wasn't coasting. His body position was so much worse.

Eh? He clearly sat up, he was freewheeling through corners at the end.

 

[samhocking]

Re:

The total demolition of the climber oriented tour challengers in a Tour de France designed for climbers has been completed. Fun times.

Climbers rarely win Tour. All rounders do.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Lol! Thomas gifted the stage to Froome only to find out the time keeping has been trolling.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Dumoulin says he had a super day but didnt take risks

 

[Brullnux]

Re: Re:

Nice finish for Tom. Well deserved.

Thomas clearly coasted home. Lost 30 seconds in last third.

Thomas got properly tired, he wasn't coasting. His body position was so much worse.

Eh? He clearly sat up, he was freewheeling through corners at the end.

He was rocking all over the place. Did you see his shoulders? Not very sky like at all. He was tired, it happens. He was behind Dumoulin at the top of the climb anyway, only lost two or three seconds in the last 1k

 

[Gigs_98]

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Kruijswijk should have buried Froome yesterday instead of doing his own race.

(of course, Roglic's failure was rather unexpected, but still)

This. Roglic probably could have gained well over a minute yesterday. It still could have gotten close but considering they were already half a minute in front of Froome on the soulor this fourth place for me is a result of tactical incompetence

 

[oldcrank]

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Fair play to Thomas for gifting it to Dumoulin, he leaked a lot of time in the last section there.

A lovely tradition by the Team SKY lads started
last year when Froomey gifted Angliru to Bertie.