Tour de France 2015 stage 20: Modane - Alpe d'Huez

[infeXio]

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Good grief, the vuelta is shaping up to be one heck of a battle.

But who is going?

Froome strongly linked as well as Quintana and Valverde.

Landa and Aru

 

[Kwibus]

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Movistar threw the TdF away in the echelons it seems. Well done to Sky they were really strong everywhere, but then again that's to be expected from the by far richest team in the peloton.

Tinkoff and BMC are richer.

No way, team budget of Sky is the highest by far.

 

[Irondan]

The trolling posts going on after the race ended have to stop.

If you wonder where your comment has gone, It's been deleted for trolling.

 

[Punkan]

No one will beat Quintana next year. He was extraordinary today - what a ride.

 

[Hayabusa]

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Cool stage in the end. Froome got saved today by the strength of his team. Froome was probably the best rider, but he definitely had the best team.
Quintana will be back, and if he gets a Tour without PSM level temperatures, I'd say he's more likely to win one than not.

The issue Quintana will have in future years is increased TT kms, but if he can minimise his losses in these then he will get at least 1 TDF for sure.

 

[Richeypen]

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Cool stage in the end. Froome got saved today by the strength of his team. Froome was probably the best rider, but he definitely had the best team.
Quintana will be back, and if he gets a Tour without PSM level temperatures, I'd say he's more likely to win one than not.

This tour was made for him though.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Movistar seem to have gambled on the final week; a backloaded course with no TT mileage said that that was not an insensible thing to do, but the domestiques and break riders have done more for their leaders at the end just as the leaders have been stronger at the end. Anacona's come into some excellent form towards the end of the race and they've had the strongest guy in the Alps. Perhaps they were expecting others to similarly peak at the end so that they'd be ok at PSM, maybe the form is just a few days behind where they'd ideally be so that Quintana could have been closer on PSM and this strong for all of the Alpine stages.

 

[GuyIncognito]

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The best rider in The world: froome

TdF winner != best rider in the world

Well thats typical july fans for you

July fans are why I don't show up here much at this time of year. My doctor said my body couldn't cope with such high facepalming levels, had to cut down on July foruming.

 

[willbick]

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No one will beat Quintana next year. He was extraordinary today - what a ride.

If only life was that simple lol

 

[Walkman]

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Movistar threw the TdF away in the echelons it seems. Well done to Sky they were really strong everywhere, but then again that's to be expected from the by far richest team in the peloton.

Tinkoff and BMC are richer.

No way, team budget of Sky is the highest by far.

Do we have any numbers?

 

[PremierAndrew]

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Cool stage in the end. Froome got saved today by the strength of his team. Froome was probably the best rider, but he definitely had the best team.
Quintana will be back, and if he gets a Tour without PSM level temperatures, I'd say he's more likely to win one than not.

This tour was made for him though.

Such limited TTing and so many mts. Only thing against him were the cobbles, and though he rode them well, they were pretty easy

 

[Brod710]

Curious about Quintanas time up Alpe d'Huez.

 

[Climbing]

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Good grief, the vuelta is shaping up to be one heck of a battle.

But who is going?

Froome strongly linked as well as Quintana and Valverde.

Landa and Aru

I wonder if Nibali goes as well, since he-s getting form late, probably not. Froome and Quintana will be dead tired I fear, though.

 

[Kwibus]

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Regarding Quintana's superiority over Froome on the last couple of days remember that Froome is the one in yellow with all the pressure and the stress. Quintana under much less pressure, makes life much easier. Put Quintana in yellow with everything to lose going into the last mountain and see if he goes as well!

That's an big if. Froome faded 2 years ago as well. Not every GC leader faded in the last week.

 

[Gigs_98]

I dont understand why many people write stuff like "froome was just the strongest this year"
As it was already written, without the 2nd stage NQ would have been in front of froome. Of course you can argue that Froome would have gotten more time in the pyrenees if he had to but I wouldn't say quintana was stronger too anywasys. I think its fair to say that they were even.

 

[TMP402]

Amazing it's taken 40 years for the guy who came first to also win the mountains jersey.

 

[Ramira]

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Cool stage in the end. Froome got saved today by the strength of his team. Froome was probably the best rider, but he definitely had the best team.
Quintana will be back, and if he gets a Tour without PSM level temperatures, I'd say he's more likely to win one than not.

This tour was made for him though.

Not sure, Neeltje Jans + Cobbles were hardly ideal for him, and he ended up losing over a minute in those combined. An isolated 30k ITT would probably have similar results.

 

[Irondan]

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Curious about Quintanas time up Alpe d'Huez.

It's posted somewhere up thread. I'm not sure if it's the official time though.

 

[rick james]

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No one will beat Quintana next year. He was extraordinary today - what a ride.

This was his best chance in a course that suited him the best

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Amazing it's taken 40 years for the guy who came first to also win the mountains jersey.

Also took completely overhauling the KOM points system to ensure it happened

 

[Punkan]

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Curious about Quintanas time up Alpe d'Huez.

I clocked it to 39.20.

 

[roundabout]

Wow..Jungels in front of Contador,Mollema,Nibali on Alpe

He could actually be a good gc rider in some years, if his climbing improves even more, combined with his TT abilities

Not sure, he's a damned good rider, but he also won the under 23 Paris-Roubaix, so he could very well end up focusing on that. I see him as more of a Cancellara type rider if anything, great on the cobbles, great TT, pretty good over the hills and decent in the mountains when he tries. But not good enough to focus on GT's.

If I remember correctly he and the team decided to focus on stage races for the time being last year.

Amazing last week by him though.

 

[infeXio]

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Curious about Quintanas time up Alpe d'Huez.

It's posted somewhere up thread. I'm not sure if it's the official time though.

39:20-39:22-ish

 

[rzombie1988]

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No one will beat Quintana next year. He was extraordinary today - what a ride.

He beat himself with bonehead tactics by his team in the last week. Think of how easy it would have been for him to maybe squeeze out 10 seconds the last few days. Even today, he poked too much and didn't go early enough when visually, it was clear Froome wasn't at his best.

 

[TMP402]

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Curious about Quintanas time up Alpe d'Huez.

Look through the last few pages. It's 39 mins twenty-something.