Tour de France 2017 Stage 18: Briançon - Izoard, 179.5kms

[laurensde+]

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AG2R goto the front

Oh my god, they killed Rowey

 

[Samamba]

Atapuma looks good. He or Mollema to win the stage.

 

[Blanco]

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AG2R goto the front

Don't know what the hell they waited 'till now?

 

[Pirazziattacks]

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Do Ag2r realise that having riders who can't win the stage in the break and are too far ahead of the peloton to be helpful is a complete waste of time?

:lol:

 

[wouterkaas]

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AG2R goto the front

Oh my god, they killed Rowey

He was working overtime anyway haha, pulling up the peloton a cat. 1 climb

 

[DenisMenchov]

Romain Bardet, thank you for your existence. The only guy that wants to race, always!

 

[DNP-Old]

This AG2R move is way too late.

 

[TomLPC]

Well it's far too late but at least they are doing something

 

[DNP-Old]

Can Buchmann drop please?

 

[del1962]

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AG2R goto the front

Oh my god, they killed Rowey

Knees too

 

[Escarabajo]

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AG2R can up the pace a little if they actually want to win. They have the resources!

They heard me!

 

[Blanco]

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Romain Bardet, thank you for your existence. The only guy that wants to race, always!

And who else has a team for that!?

 

[wouterkaas]

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AG2R goto the front

Oh my god, they killed Rowey

Knees too

And Kiryienka so it seems. Kwiatkowski is probably relieved that AG2R is doing the work for him

 

[TomLPC]

Froome is taking the piss getting the gels in for the lads

 

[ontheroad]

I think all the riders on GC are happy with where they are at the minute. Bardet has at least sent his team to the front in a bid to try something but realistically there is no chance he will get 30 seconds on Froome lat alone the 90 secs that he needs to stand a chance of winning the tour. Aru has ridden the entire tour without a support team and today is no different.

 

[MartinGT]

Sky have been handing out Mussettes a lot on the climbs

 

[wouterkaas]

Barguil can't lose the polka dot jersey anymore now, mathematically

 

[Benotti69]

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Barguil can't lose the polka dot jersey anymore now, mathematically

not much of a competition this year.....

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I think the main problem is they know Froome and Sky are too strong to surprise from far. And they know Froome has the better ITT anyway. And they also know between themselves (Bardet/Aru/Uran) none of them is an excellent TT-ist (or in Uran's case 'anymore'). So they are indeed happy where they are

 

[markene2]

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I think the main problem is they know Froome and Sky are too strong to surprise from far. And they know Froome has the better ITT anyway. And they also know between themselves (Bardet/Aru/Uran) none of them is an excellent TT-ist (or in Uran's case 'anymore'). So they are indeed happy where they are

Heard an interview with Uran today, he says he wants to try and win the tour today, so we will see

 

[del1962]

Naeseen has been amazing

 

[deValtos]

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Sky have been handing out Mussettes a lot on the climbs

Tis the new marginal gain.

To be fair though I guess sending a guy back to load up on bottles and then race back to the front does wear them out more than needed ... so yea why not just hand as many as they can out in bags?

One guy just handing out bottles can't give away as much as a musette of bottles.

 

[Benotti69]

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I think the main problem is they know Froome and Sky are too strong to surprise from far. And they know Froome has the better ITT anyway. And they also know between themselves (Bardet/Aru/Uran) none of them is an excellent TT-ist (or in Uran's case 'anymore'). So they are indeed happy where they are

Heard an interview with Uran today, he says he wants to try and win the tour today, so we will see

Riders have to say this. Whether they mean it or not we can judge them by their actions.

 

[Blanco]

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AG2R goto the front

Oh my god, they killed Rowey

Knees too

And Kiryienka so it seems. Kwiatkowski is probably relieved that AG2R is doing the work for him

Kiri is in the group, he's hiding at the back

 

[markene2]

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I think the main problem is they know Froome and Sky are too strong to surprise from far. And they know Froome has the better ITT anyway. And they also know between themselves (Bardet/Aru/Uran) none of them is an excellent TT-ist (or in Uran's case 'anymore'). So they are indeed happy where they are

Heard an interview with Uran today, he says he wants to try and win the tour today, so we will see

Riders have to say this. Whether they mean it or not we can judge them by their actions.

Hence the we will see part