Tour de France 2015 Stage 15: Mende-Valence 183km

[TourOfSardinia]

Who's in Green
Sagan still?

 

[Dog]

That Katusha leadout...

 

[TMP402]

EBH is to 5th-10th as Sagan is to 2nd-4th.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Sky were the anti-tacticans in the past years. But what AST & Saxo did in the Giro and to some extend in this TdF tops that easily... Actually Sky now looks like masters in comparison.

What did Tinkoff do wrong in the Giro, tactically?

Chasing own riders, chasing breaks in flat stages, and finally have nobody for AC in the 3rd week. They were all kaputt from the first week mishmash...

Lol, no. They were just in poor shape. On the flat they were strong, uphill not, because Basso and Kreuziger were poor.

 

[sultanofhyd]

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Who's in Green
Sagan still?

Yes. Greipel has no chance of taking it.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Bad positioning again... Boxed in. Well, the excitement is back in the Maillot Vert competition

 

[SeriousSam]

Where was CAV btw? Only tuned in at the end.

 

[DFA123]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Lack of team mates to help him. He was perfectly placed with about 600m to go on Kristoff's wheel, but Degenkolb pushed him off it and was then able to get onto Greipel after the last corner.

It's pretty hard to defend positions all the time for 4km without any team to support you. He was the fastest finisher as usual, would probably have won if he had got on Greipel's wheel.

 

[TMP402]

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Well however he was often isolated, that.

Yeah, because his teammates were in poor shape. Nothing to do with tactics.

Well "strategy" instead of tactics then.

 

[Hayabusa]

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Where was CAV btw? Only tuned in at the end.

About 10km down the road.

 

[Stelvio]

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Where was CAV btw? Only tuned in at the end.

10k behind..

 

[Jerkovin]

Greipel is just a class above the rest of the sprinters right now. Sagan has no luck.

Dangerous sprint by Sagan there (looked like him), nearly took out Coquard.

Apparently Coquard's chain fell off.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Where was CAV btw? Only tuned in at the end.

rolling in withthe Grupetto
in say 15 mins

 

[Punkan]

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EBH is to 5th-10th as Sagan is to 2nd-4th.

Three 5th places so far for EBH...

 

[DBotero]

Greipel just too good.Kristoff doesn't have it this Tour and the team is bad.

 

[DFA123]

Greipel is just a class above the rest of the sprinters right now. Sagan has no luck.

I don't think it is bad luck for Sagan or that Greipel is so much better.

The most important factor is that Greipel has by far the best lead out train, which has put him in the perfect position almost every time. Giant are missing Veelers who is key for them. Kristoff is now missing Paolini and half the team were brought to support Rodriguez rather than him anyway, and Sagan has absolutely no-one.

 

[PremierAndrew]

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That Degenkolb nodding thing...

So annoying

 

[sultanofhyd]

If Sagan scores more than Greipel in tomorrow's intermediate sprint the green jersey competition will be practically over, as the sprints in the Alpine stages all come after multiple cat 1 and cat 2 climbs.

 

[Z3lvet]

Looks like Kristoff can´t win a sprint unless he is at the front with around 300 m to go.

 

[Linkinitouille]

Cutoff at 21 minutes and 18 seconds. They'll make it.

 

[SeriousSam]

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Was Cav saving energy or just dropped like a bad habit? I hope the Alps are going to finish him off with no chance the day after Alpe d'huez.

 

[Flamin]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Lack of team mates to help him. He was perfectly placed with about 600m to go on Kristoff's wheel, but Degenkolb pushed him off it and was then able to get onto Greipel after the last corner.

It's pretty hard to defend positions all the time for 4km without any team to support you. He was the fastest finisher as usual, would probably have won if he had got on Greipel's wheel

Not at all

 

[Scarponi]

Robbie Mcewen on Aussie TV saying Sagan might get docked points lolool

 

[PremierAndrew]

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If Sagan scores more than Greipel in tomorrow's intermediate sprint the green jersey competition will be practically over, as the sprints in the Alpine stages all come after multiple cat 1 and cat 2 climbs.

Sagan will probably go in the break to sweep up those points if needed before proceeding to ride backwards on one wheel and then hopping onto Prudomme's car for the cameras

 

[Couq-DK]

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If Sagan scores more than Greipel in tomorrow's intermediate sprint the green jersey competition will be practically over, as the sprints in the Alpine stages all come after multiple cat 1 and cat 2 climbs.

Won't happen, they will sanction him today to keep the excitement