Tour de France 2011 Stage 7: Le Mans - Châteauroux 218 km

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yeah, fair enough as well. Although I had Swift and EBH swapped solely because I think they will try and work for Swift today, its his best chance other than CE I think. Forgot Engoulvent too (* star), he might be greedy and get another top 10.





Geez, I expected that sort of crazy talk from the daily The Worst rag over here, not from two Melbournites.

Geelong will run them into the ground. Although I don't mind West Coast winning. After last year, they need to rebuild their list and this purple patch of a season is ****ing up their draft choices and future in the next 2-5 years. Awesome

Who knows with sky.

I'm an eagles fan
West coast are playing some sweet footy, they made carlton look like amatures, and they are the inform side of the AFL really (CFC I mean)

We has some pretty good youngsters already tho..
Darling, Shuey, Gaff, Naitanui, Swift (not a big fan off this guy, but he is whatever) McGinnity, Masten, Ebert, Sheppard, Scotty Selwood, Schofield. Some 20 and under, all 22 and under anyway.

Rosa, Hurn, LeCras, Kennedy, Butler and co all under 25 still.

Team is looking not bad
Ofcourse Cox, Kerr, Embley and Glass's time are running out..

PS: we need a footy thread !

 

[Tuarts]

Oh jeez, no just no.

A thread would be wise, if you want to start one.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Finish of stage is different to 2008 so hopefully it is a little technical which would make things interesting.

EDIT: The final 5 km's are the same.

 

[dlwssonic]

what a flat *** boring stage. im sure libertine will have a lot to say about today. looking forward for saturday already.

 

[just some guy]

what a flat *** boring stage. im sure libertine will have a lot to say about today. looking forward for saturday already.

Its the stage we ha to have - Good day to get some stuff done -

 

[Scirea]

Cav is going to win this for sure.

"Looking forward to tomorrow. The same finish in Chateauroux that I won my 1st ever #TdF stage on in 2008. #nostalgia"


Question of the day for me who would sprint for Sky, Swift or EBH. I would have said Swift even a couple minutes ago but now after reading a couple of articles i'd say EBH is their man.

 

[Kwibus]

I'm not going to complain about this pancake flat stage. This is the 7th stage and we've only had 1 pancake flat stage so far so we really can't complain about this. Normally we would've had about 5 so far.

Besides that we need all kind of stages in a GT and flat stages are part of that. This first week certainly didn't dissapoint me. Ofcourse most of the action happened at the end of the stage, but the same happens in a mountain stage. It were all interesting finishes with a lot of diversity.
The TdF certainly isn't dissapointing so far.

Today should be Cavs. Normally he starts to dominate after his first win. Only a disrupted HTC train can spoil his party, but that will be very hard today.

 

[Tornado Tom]

i think Romain Feillu will win in Châteauroux

 

[King Of The Wolds]

i think Romain Feillu will win in Châteauroux

I don't believe you. He may win, of course, but do you really think Feillu has more chance than both Cav and his HTC train and Farrar and his Garmin train? Of course you don't.

 

[Jan the Man]

***** Cavendish

**** Farrar

*** Ale Jet, Galimzyanov


** Hushovd, Goss, Greipel


* Rojas, Gilbert, EBH, Gallopin

 

[Tornado Tom]

I don't believe you. He may win, of course, but do you really think Feillu has more chance than both Cav and his HTC train and Farrar and his Garmin train? Of course you don't.

I really think Feillu will win.

 

[Kwibus]

I really think Feillu will win.

I don't think he will, but I really hope he will though!

He and Vacans really deserve it.

 

[Scirea]

I really think Feillu will win.

Put money on it, you can win a very nice holliday risking little.

 

[hrotha]

Ventoso is actually faster than Rojas, in my opinion, but of course he'll be working for him because of the green jersey thing, so I guess his (*) rating is fair.

 

[King Of The Wolds]

I really think Feillu will win.

In that case, I admire your optimism. Talk me through the mechanics of how you think he's going to get the job done in the last km, and how you think he's going to get the better of the might of HTC and Garmin. If you think he's going to win, you must have an idea as to how he's going to do that.

 

[boomcie]

Ventoso is actually faster than Rojas, in my opinion, but of course he'll be working for him because of the green jersey thing, so I guess his (*) rating is fair.

Seems to be in pretty terrible form though.

 

[Tornado Tom]

In that case, I admire your optimism. Talk me through the mechanics of how you think he's going to get the job done in the last km, and how you think he's going to get the better of the might of HTC and Garmin. If you think he's going to win, you must have an idea as to how he's going to do that.

In my opinion, Garmin is tired and HTC train isn't super this year (specially Renshaw). So i don't see Cavendish or Farrar as favorites

 

[TeoSheva]

How are the last kms? straight on?

 

[spalco]

Feillu has been a lot more visible than Cav and Farrar imo (apart from their stage wins). That could be interpreted as good form of course, but I don't see why he would be less tired than them.

 

[metya77]

How are the last kms? straight on?

you can see
http://www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/TDF/2011/700/PROFILVIGNETTE.gif

 

[King Of The Wolds]

In my opinion, Garmin is tired and HTC train isn't super this year (specially Renshaw). So i don't see Cavendish or Farrar as favorites

So because Cav doesn't have a good train, you think Feillu, without a GT stage win to his name, has a better chance of winning than Cav, who has 26 GT stage wins, many without a train? Gotcha.

 

[nomendil]

How are the last kms? straight on?

Dead straight last 1km+, two 90 degree corners within last 3km, but on very wide roads, so shouldn't be a problem.

 

[TeoSheva]

Dead straight last 1km+, two 90 degree corners within last 3km, but on very wide roads, so shouldn't be a problem.

thank you. So maybe we will see a "classic sprint"

 

[woodie]

In my opinion, Garmin is tired and HTC train isn't super this year (specially Renshaw). So i don't see Cavendish or Farrar as favorites

HTC haven't been 'super' because the finishes are getting harder to control and theres really only been two sprints and even then one of them didn't feature any pure sprinters other than Cav. Renshaw struggles when there are hills towards the end, he isn't a climber but in the stage Farrar won he was right up there but Cav left his wheel so he backed off. Also HTC have been helping pull back breaks pretty much everyday so they've been pretty solid from what I can see.

Never rule out Cav, or Renshaw for that matter. I think Feillu could top ten if he's lucky but isn't he more a sprinter for the tougher finishes?

 

[Mambo95]

thank you. So maybe we will see a "classic sprint"

The finish is exactly the same as the finish in 2008.

You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-UDRf9T98