Tour de France 2017 Stage 14 : Blagnac > Rodez 181.5 km

[Poursuivant]

Chris Froome (SKY) was 6.6km/h faster than Fabio Aru (AST) in the final 500m, where he gained 25" and the #MaillotJauneLCL.
#TDFdata

 

[Ikbengodniet]

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Serves BMC right

What the **** Aru?

What did BMC do?

Send Caruso in late breakaway only to let him not work. Caruso could've won there too.

Absolutely zero chance.

 

[France_En_Marche]

Barguil and Matthews to go in tomorrows break for points I wonder. Or are the green and mountain jerseys all but settled?

 

[Carols]

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Valgren replied to a question about losing the yellow jersey with "good".

Trouble in paradise?

Astana has some issues to deal with apparently...

If I were Vino I'd fire that boys butt! What a backstabber he was

 

[oldcrank]

Wild Bling
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild Bling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaCXsPzaC0

 

[Carols]

Wild Bling
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild Bling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaCXsPzaC0

+100

 

[Ikbengodniet]

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Barguil and Matthews to go in tomorrows break for points I wonder. Or are the green and mountain jerseys all but settled?

Maybe Sunweb can drop Kittel on stage 16 in the early climbs and take some points back in that stage.

 

[silvergrenade]

Re:

Chris Froome (SKY) was 6.6km/h faster than Fabio Aru (AST) in the final 500m, where he gained 25" and the #MaillotJauneLCL.
#TDFdata

Interesting piece of info this..
Was it just positioning error as Aru claim? Don't think so.

 

[yaco]

Aru was already isolated far from the finish. He had to do everything alone. So he had no chance here.

Dan Martin had no help from his Quickstep team in todays final and he didn't drop any time, I think Aru has to take a lot of blame for this, yes having no team to help isn't great, but he could have made a better first of things a la Dan Martin.

What.

Martin got a perfect drag from Gilbert.

 

[deValtos]

Re: Re:

Valgren replied to a question about losing the yellow jersey with "good".

Trouble in paradise?

Astana has some issues to deal with apparently...

If I were Vino I'd fire that boys butt! What a backstabber he was

Valgren was pissed because he kept trying to move Aru up but he refused to do so.

 

[Ataraxus]

Aru was already isolated far from the finish. He had to do everything alone. So he had no chance here.

Do you really believe an isloated Froome/Contador would lose 25 secs on such a finish?
Any GC rider with enough experience would've known that.
He didn't have the legs today

Contador no. Froome might lose that amount of time if isolated.

I don't agree with you on all accounts. Especially in this type of stage a team is crucial in placement

I think the Contador of recent years could definitely lose 25 seconds on a finish like this if isolated.

Contador has lost almost 25 seconds on a finish like that, in the Tour, even perfectly positioned. (Huy 2015)

 

[Irondan]

Re: Re:

Valgren replied to a question about losing the yellow jersey with "good".

Trouble in paradise?

Astana has some issues to deal with apparently...

If I were Vino I'd fire that boys butt! What a backstabber he was

Valgren was pissed because he kept trying to move Aru up but he refused to do so.

Interesting....

 

[Robert5091]

Re: Re:

Valgren replied to a question about losing the yellow jersey with "good".

Trouble in paradise?

Astana has some issues to deal with apparently...

If I were Vino I'd fire that boys butt! What a backstabber he was

Don't know - sounds sensible for Astana's lack of fire power. Aru can follow now - still dumb to lose so much time today though.

 

[yaco]

Much ado about nothing. Aru was badly positioned which is disappointing. Have no doubt his legs are fine. Expect he will drop Froome in the Alps.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Re:

Chris Froome (SKY) was 6.6km/h faster than Fabio Aru (AST) in the final 500m, where he gained 25" and the #MaillotJauneLCL.
#TDFdata

yep, more to do with legs than positioning.

 

[Forever The Best]

Aru was already isolated far from the finish. He had to do everything alone. So he had no chance here.

Do you really believe an isloated Froome/Contador would lose 25 secs on such a finish?
Any GC rider with enough experience would've known that.
He didn't have the legs today

Contador no. Froome might lose that amount of time if isolated.

I don't agree with you on all accounts. Especially in this type of stage a team is crucial in placement

I think the Contador of recent years could definitely lose 25 seconds on a finish like this if isolated.

Contador has lost almost 25 seconds on a finish like that, in the Tour, even perfectly positioned. (Huy 2015)

Yes, Huy and Rodez are perfectly comparable climbs.
One is 570m at %9,6; the other is 1,3 km at %9,6 with max gradient being %19

The same finish as today, in 2015, where he lost no time: http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=27951

 

[movingtarget]

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Barguil and Matthews to go in tomorrows break for points I wonder. Or are the green and mountain jerseys all but settled?

I think the mountains and green are settled. Only yellow and white look to have some doubts. Matthews is still about 100 points behind.

 

[Anderis]

I certainly didn't expect these big gaps today especially when we had a short stage yesterday.

 

[Lupi33x]

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Matthews oozes arrogance...

I don't know why I dislike this guy so much, but I do.

He seems arrogant and he's very Gerrans-like. Similar skillset, similar style of racing

yep, another shrimp eating wheel sucker

 

[arvc40]

Aru need to visit nose doctor to unblock even more. Just have one big hole

 

[rick james]

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Much ado about nothing. Aru was badly positioned which is disappointing. Have no doubt his legs are fine. Expect he will drop Froome in the Alps.

Chris Froome (SKY) was 6.6km/h faster than Fabio Aru (AST) in the final 500m, where he gained 25" and the #MaillotJauneLCL.
#TDFdata

yep, more to do with legs than positioning.

:surprised:

 

[pink_jersey]

Gilbert again trying to drop everyone off his wheel Cauberg-like but this time he didn't have the legs.
Kwiatkowski positioned Froome perfectly.

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

Valgren replied to a question about losing the yellow jersey with "good".

Trouble in paradise?

Astana has some issues to deal with apparently...

If I were Vino I'd fire that boys butt! What a backstabber he was

Valgren was pissed because he kept trying to move Aru up but he refused to do so.

I'm well aware of that, but he was a snotty Pri*k for the entire interview!
EDIT: Maybe he couldn't? But you don't trash your team leader and express Joy that the jersey is gone. Jerk doesn't have to work now, so he's happy about that...he made that obvious.

 

[SeriousSam]

Uran must be the new hope now

 

[Ataraxus]

"]Aru was already isolated far from the finish. He had to do everything alone. So he had no chance here.

Do you really believe an isloated Froome/Contador would lose 25 secs on such a finish?
Any GC rider with enough experience would've known that.
He didn't have the legs today

Contador no. Froome might lose that amount of time if isolated.

I don't agree with you on all accounts. Especially in this type of stage a team is crucial in placement

I think the Contador of recent years could definitely lose 25 seconds on a finish like this if isolated.

Contador has lost almost 25 seconds on a finish like that, in the Tour, even perfectly positioned. (Huy 2015)[/quote]Yes, Huy and Rodez are perfectly comparable climbs.
One is 570m at %9,6; the other is 1,3 km at %9,6 with max gradient being %19

The same finish as today, in 2015, where he lost no time: http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=27951[/quote]


Lol.
You are giving an example of 2015 in which he los no time, meanwhile today he lost 22.