Tour de France 2017 Stage 20:Marseille > Marseille22.5KM

[Red Rick]

Bardet should be sent home on a TT bike.

 

[movingtarget]

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Are there intermediate sprints with bonus seconds tommorow?

Yes, there is one. But Landa is probably the least likely person in the peloton to win a sprint.

Time to call Matthews.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Sky screwed Landa by making Kwiatkowski pull on the way to Foix. Big shame. Froome's mvp's both get no reward today.

And the scary thing is that Henao was terrible, Nieve broke down in the 3rd week and that Thomas crashed out, and still it was never in doubt.

I never had the feeling this was outside of Froome's control.

Also have the feeling Dumoulin would have utterly crushed everyone today.

 

[markene2]

Re: Re:

Are there intermediate sprints with bonus seconds tommorow?

Yes, there is one. But Landa is probably the least likely person in the peloton to win a sprint.

Never say never. Garzelli won TA back in the day due to a intermediate sprint on the last stage. Leipheimer and Vino sprinted during intermediates at Champs in 05

 

[ontheroad]

This time 6 years ago at 26, Chris Froome had the Anatomic Jock race and a 4th overall in the Herald Sun Tour on his palmares. Sky were offering his services to other teams. Now he is a 4 time tour winner of the tour. Has there ever been a more meteoric rise in the sport.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Sky screwed Landa by making Kwiatkowski pull on the way to Foix. Big shame. Froome's mvp's both get no reward today.

And the scary thing is that Henao was terrible, Nieve broke down in the 3rd week and that Thomas crashed out, and still it was never in doubt.

Also have the feeling Dumoulin would have utterly crushed everyone today.

Annihalation nation

 

[burning]

Re: Re:

Are there intermediate sprints with bonus seconds tommorow?

Yes, there is one. But Landa is probably the least likely person in the peloton to win a sprint.

Never say never. Garzelli won TA back in the day due to a intermediate sprint on the last stage. Leipheimer and Vino sprinted during intermediates at Champs in 05

There is no time bonus in the intermediate sprint as far as I know

 

[DanielSong39]

Bardet absolutely deserved to be booed for his poor performance.

At the end of the day, he lost no positions and will finish third, so not too bad.

He lost second place.

Well, he was only 6 seconds up and was expected to lose that anyway. Even a decent time trial would've had the same result.

 

[deValtos]

Re: Re:

Are there intermediate sprints with bonus seconds tommorow?

Yes, there is one. But Landa is probably the least likely person in the peloton to win a sprint.

Never say never. Garzelli won TA back in the day due to a intermediate sprint on the last stage. Leipheimer and Vino sprinted during intermediates at Champs in 05

There is no time bonus in the intermediate sprint as far as I know

If there was one you can be sure it won't be there tomorrow anyways. :lol:

 

[markene2]

Re: Re:

Are there intermediate sprints with bonus seconds tommorow?

Yes, there is one. But Landa is probably the least likely person in the peloton to win a sprint.

Never say never. Garzelli won TA back in the day due to a intermediate sprint on the last stage. Leipheimer and Vino sprinted during intermediates at Champs in 05

There is no time bonus in the intermediate sprint as far as I know

Never mind then. He will never pull a Vino on Champs finish

 

[Lupi33x]

Edvald tomorrow

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Man Contador was fastest on the climb by 8 seconds! https://twitter.com/velofacts/status/888783102604185600

Great effort, but then blew up badly in the last few K's. He just doesn't seem to have the endurance any more.

Don't think he blew. He was 13s behind at the first split so 21s in last part which was more technical isn't a huge surprise.

 

[jsem94]

Flecha: "Bora Hangrose team".

................ -.-

 

[TommyGun]

Re: Re:

Sky screwed Landa by making Kwiatkowski pull on the way to Foix. Big shame. Froome's mvp's both get no reward today.

And the scary thing is that Henao was terrible, Nieve broke down in the 3rd week and that Thomas crashed out, and still it was never in doubt.

I never had the feeling this was outside of Froome's control.

Also have the feeling Dumoulin would have utterly crushed everyone today.

Tom is not in the Tour, just pipe it down please, you sound like a broken record!

 

[Escarabajo]

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I hope this teaches Bardet to actually **** attack every now and then, from further out than 3km

I hope it teaches him to work on his **** time trial

And that

LOL.
But you are right!

 

[Gigs_98]

Just noticed that today Sky lost both the stage win and the 3rd place of the gc by one second.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Re: Re:

Man Contador was fastest on the climb by 8 seconds! https://twitter.com/velofacts/status/888783102604185600

Great effort, but then blew up badly in the last few K's. He just doesn't seem to have the endurance any more.

Don't think he blew. He was 13s behind at the first split so 21s in last part which was more technical isn't a huge surprise.

Yes that's a fair point, either way a super TT by Alberto, will he ride the Vuelta?

 

[bigcog]

I love watching the tour de france. I just wish the world tour teams had a required budget range so that all teams were competing with same budget. The Tour de France especially looks like a stage race that greatly depends on a really strong team overall in order to go for gc. I applaud Chris Froome's accomplishments hugely, but his team as a whole is so much stronger than the others, and their budget is as well.

Sky's budget is similar to Movistar and other teams aren't far off it.

 

[Lupi33x]

Just noticed that today Sky lost both the stage win and the 3rd place of the gc by one second.

They must be utterly devastated

 

[Irondan]

Just noticed that today Sky lost both the stage win and the 3rd place of the gc by one second.

They must be utterly devastated

They're crying yellow tears...

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Man Contador was fastest on the climb by 8 seconds! https://twitter.com/velofacts/status/888783102604185600

Great effort, but then blew up badly in the last few K's. He just doesn't seem to have the endurance any more.

Don't think he blew. He was 13s behind at the first split so 21s in last part which was more technical isn't a huge surprise.

Yes that's a fair point, either way a super TT by Alberto, will he ride the Vuelta?

Not decided yet as far as I know but latest I've heard seems to indicate he isn't likely to start

 

[trucido]

Has anyone won the TdF without winning a stage in a single season before?

 

[DNP-Old]

Bardet podiums because the jury are a bunch of idiots who didn't give him the 20 second penalty he should have gotten.

 

[bigcog]

Re: Re:

Sky screwed Landa by making Kwiatkowski pull on the way to Foix. Big shame. Froome's mvp's both get no reward today.

And the scary thing is that Henao was terrible, Nieve broke down in the 3rd week and that Thomas crashed out, and still it was never in doubt.

Also have the feeling Dumoulin would have utterly crushed everyone today.

Annihalation nation

We may find out next year, if the ASO have the balls to put decent ITT's in the route, doubt it with Bardet being there.

 

[Brullnux]

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This time 6 years ago at 26, Chris Froome had the Anatomic Jock race and a 4th overall in the Herald Sun Tour on his palmares. Sky were offering his services to other teams. Now he is a 4 time tour winner of the tour. Has there ever been a more meteoric rise in the sport.

Don't forget a silver medal in the UCI B world championships ITT, behind the imitable Ma Haijun