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Cimber said:Valgren: "Sagan went to hard on the climbs, which cost us in the end. It would have been better if he had taken longer turns on the flat parts instead"
perico said:Sky and Tinkoff had roughly the same time up the climb. Movistar was fastest up followed by BMC. Quintana and Contador will have to go on the offensive. Nibali is pretty much done on GC unless he goes ballistic on descents. would probably need to team with Contador who is the only GC guy who goes downhill like a madman, but then would have to find a way to put time into him.
+1Kwibus said:Hello people. Every team had to carry their dead 5th man up that final hill.
Roche still rode that TTT among the 10 fastest.
Publicus said:Pricey_sky said:pedromiguelmartins said:Contador is getting those legs ready... He was in beast mode on that climb. All that no-racing in June, besides putting Quintana on his place, is paying off.
One rest day and he will glue himself to Froome's wheel until 2Km to go, until he does what he did at the Vuelta.
Difference now though is Froome doesn't need time, he has the jersey.
Froome will obviously attack, but I hope if he doesn't drop his rivals he just sits up and let's someone else have a go and he can follow wheels. They have to drop Froome after all.
I don't know that I've ever seen Froome ride smart with a GT lead. That's his only problem. He's the strongest and that's how he rides. There's a real risk he tries to respond to too many attacks and blows himself (I don't know that any one rider can blow him up).
Only 7 riders, not really that surprising.djpbaltimore said:Wow. Katusha 19th on the stage. I did not see that one coming.
djpbaltimore said:Wow. Katusha 19th on the stage. I did not see that one coming.
Miburo said:Ah there we go people are overrating tj again. Not 1 mountain done in the tour and he's already on the podium.
It's always the same with tj in this forum.
It will tell us more about where TJ stands climbing wise. Still I'm expecting a bad day, as is usually the case with TJPublicus said:Cance > TheRest said:We will know on Tuesday. So far he's looked solidPublicus said:Dekker_Tifosi said:Beware of Quintana. Looked also in mutant form.Publicus said:I'm calling it. Froome wins the Tour.
Also, Quintana beat Froome in the 3rd week of the Tour pretty solidly in 2013. Now he's much closer to Froome to begin with.
I think it's going to be close between Froome and Quintana. V Garderen will be 3rd
Van Garderen won't make podium.
Tuesday's one climb stage won't tell you much
What did Contador do to you?Walkman said:Miburo said:Ah there we go people are overrating tj again. Not 1 mountain done in the tour and he's already on the podium.
It's always the same with tj in this forum.
As if he is the one getting overrated too much. Contador won the "Who will win the Tour-poll"…
sir fly said:Fantastic position for TJ.
He doesn't need to work in the mountains at all. He can pick his target and follow.
Did you actually watch the Vuelta and Hazallanas?Publicus said:Pricey_sky said:pedromiguelmartins said:Contador is getting those legs ready... He was in beast mode on that climb. All that no-racing in June, besides putting Quintana on his place, is paying off.
One rest day and he will glue himself to Froome's wheel until 2Km to go, until he does what he did at the Vuelta.
Difference now though is Froome doesn't need time, he has the jersey.
Froome will obviously attack, but I hope if he doesn't drop his rivals he just sits up and let's someone else have a go and he can follow wheels. They have to drop Froome after all.
I don't know that I've ever seen Froome ride smart with a GT lead. That's his only problem. He's the strongest and that's how he rides. There's a real risk he tries to respond to too many attacks and blows himself (I don't know that any one rider can blow him up).
harryh said:Cimber said:Valgren: "Sagan went to hard on the climbs, which cost us in the end. It would have been better if he had taken longer turns on the flat parts instead"
Saxo is tactically so inept.
Walkman said:Miburo said:Ah there we go people are overrating tj again. Not 1 mountain done in the tour and he's already on the podium.
It's always the same with tj in this forum.
As if he is the one getting overrated too much. Contador won the "Who will win the Tour-poll"…
LaFlorecita said:What did Contador do to you?Walkman said:Miburo said:Ah there we go people are overrating tj again. Not 1 mountain done in the tour and he's already on the podium.
It's always the same with tj in this forum.
As if he is the one getting overrated too much. Contador won the "Who will win the Tour-poll"…
pedromiguelmartins said:One rest day and he will glue himself to Froome's wheel until 2Km to go, until he does what he did at the Vuelta.
Publicus said:Pricey_sky said:pedromiguelmartins said:Contador is getting those legs ready... He was in beast mode on that climb. All that no-racing in June, besides putting Quintana on his place, is paying off.
One rest day and he will glue himself to Froome's wheel until 2Km to go, until he does what he did at the Vuelta.
Difference now though is Froome doesn't need time, he has the jersey.
Froome will obviously attack, but I hope if he doesn't drop his rivals he just sits up and let's someone else have a go and he can follow wheels. They have to drop Froome after all.
I don't know that I've ever seen Froome ride smart with a GT lead. That's his only problem. He's the strongest and that's how he rides. There's a real risk he tries to respond to too many attacks and blows himself (I don't know that any one rider can blow him up).
Roche literally saved them not cost them in that case!TheGreenMonkey said:Poels failed if he was meant to be the fifth rider not Roche. Roche did very well to hang on for as long as he did if they gave him extra work earlier because they expected him to drop, I certainly did not expect him to be in the final five looking at the nine riders
Exactly.Warhawk said:sir fly said:Fantastic position for TJ.
He doesn't need to work in the mountains at all. He can pick his target and follow.
He ought to remain patient and mark Froome; the other 3 need to make a up a lot of time and will be trying to land knockout blows, Tejay could benefit from that if he's having a good day and the other 3 manage to crack Froome before they crack him.