Tour de France 2017 Stage 16: Le Puy to Romans-sur-Isère

[Ruby United]

EBH is such a strong rider.
Whenever I get a new version of PCM, one of the first things I do is find EBH and bump him up around 2 on all his stats.

 

[Lupi33x]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

Exactly

 

[movingtarget]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

I am sure that keeps Matthews and Sunweb up at night.

 

[rainman]

The top sprinters will always block each other as much as they can get away with, always have done. If Deg had been leading he would have done the same, they're not boy scouts get over it.

 

[Alexandre B.]

It's been two weeks since Sagan has been DQ. Move on.

 

[StryderHells]

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Gerro mark II

Maybe he was at Orica but unless you haven't been paying attention since he's moved to Sunweb he's been changing as a rider, his teammates work for him and he's worked for teammates.

 

[Netserk]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

I thought you'd have a different angle on this. Not many Bling fans around here.

 

[MikeTichondrius]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

They don't just hand out asterisks like that, you have to earn them.

 

[hfer07]

Apart from the sprint - are there any time gaps on the GC riders? I just had a glance & noticed Danny Martin crossing, then Contador & the rest of the field looked spread out..... what happened?

 

[movingtarget]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

I thought you'd have a different angle on this. Not many Bling fans around here.

The guy has made the green jersey battle more interesting and the Sagan/Demare issues had nothing to do with him. He is riding well and his team is riding well for him.

 

[Robert5091]

Congrats to Sunweb for the win - played it right.

Highlight of the stage? Kwiatkowski throwing a whole musette full of goodies in a ditch when Trek attacked

 

[movingtarget]

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Congrats to Sunweb for the win - played it right.

Highlight of the stage? Kwiatkowski throwing a whole musette full of goodies in a ditch when Trek attacked

Overreaction by Kwia, it was only Contador. It was like someone through boiling water on him !

 

[MikeTichondrius]

Apart from the sprint - are there any time gaps on the GC riders? I just had a glance & noticed Danny Martin crossing, then Contador & the rest of the field looked spread out..... what happened?

Echelons. I think Pantano fell and things just broke up from there leaving Contador, Meintjes and Martin behind. Then you had Bennett abandoning early on if that counts as GC.

 

[yaco]

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Big fail by Quick Step today - They only needed one or a maximum two riders to bring back Kittel. You can say they've done an FDJ.

Clearly they needed mroe as kittel didn't get back. But Martin paid for it - even tough he himself shares some of the blame, he still had two team mates (although Brambilla isn't useful in these situations) but missed the split. Aru and Uran managed with one or none.

It is a matter of priorities - Today GC was more important than the green jersey - Green jersey is for stage 19 and 21.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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Big fail by Quick Step today - They only needed one or a maximum two riders to bring back Kittel. You can say they've done an FDJ.

They didn't keep anyone back for Kittel. That was as fast as they could go. Vermote and Stybar are also struggling with sickness

 

[bob.a.feet]

EBH is such a strong rider.
Whenever I get a new version of PCM, one of the first things I do is find EBH and bump him up around 2 on all his stats.

Haha so true. PCM stats are fairly sh*t though, always underrating Froome's TT and this year Chaves and Bardet are too strong.

 

[yaco]

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Gerro mark II

And so it continues - Please tell me Matthews has ridden negatively in this TDF.

 

[StryderHells]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

Exactly

Yep and all of Sagans wins have a heavy asterisked against them because a better rider hasn't ascended from the heavens, that riders wins would also be heavily asterisked because a better rider hasn't come across from another dimension.

 

[William H]

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Terrible positioning from Edvald the last 500 meters today.

Happens a lot with him. I don't think he quite has the ideal mindset for sprinting.

 

[red_flanders]

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All these Bling wins are heavily asterisked due to Sagan having been unjustly removed from the Tour

I thought you'd have a different angle on this. Not many Bling fans around here.

The guy has made the green jersey battle more interesting and the Sagan/Demare issues had nothing to do with him. He is riding well and his team is riding well for him.

Today was made interesting because of the Green, and Sunweb rode a great race. What's the problem with Matthews? I don't follow sprints enough to know much about him. Seems OK to me.

His line was aggressive and he was definitely blocking out Degenkolb, but what I saw today has always been allowed. Sprinting is aggressive.

That his nickname appears to be "bling" is a strike against him, I'll grant that.

 

[StryderHells]

EBH is such a strong rider.
Whenever I get a new version of PCM, one of the first things I do is find EBH and bump him up around 2 on all his stats.

Haha so true. PCM stats are fairly sh*t though, always underrating Froome's TT and this year Chaves and Bardet are too strong.

PCMdaily usually get it right

 

[Netserk]

 

[bob.a.feet]

EBH is such a strong rider.
Whenever I get a new version of PCM, one of the first things I do is find EBH and bump him up around 2 on all his stats.

Haha so true. PCM stats are fairly sh*t though, always underrating Froome's TT and this year Chaves and Bardet are too strong.

PCMdaily usually get it right

With so many databases available now they don't even put any effort into the fake names

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

EBH is such a strong rider.
Whenever I get a new version of PCM, one of the first things I do is find EBH and bump him up around 2 on all his stats.

The funny thing is, if you had PCM 2006 or PCM 2007. Boasson Hagen was an absolute god on those games. In 2/3 seasons he would become an undefeatable monster. :lol:

 

[Pirazziattacks]

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i hate matthews as much as anyone, but he should not get punished for this.

Why do you hate Matthews? Did he steal your lunch money at school or something?

Seems to have that Glenn Maxwell kinda vibe that rubs people the wrong way. Outwardly confident in his ability/arrogant, and then there's the nickname.