Tour de France 2019 stage 18: Embrun > Valloire 208 km

[Cinemaniak]

Anyone noticed Dylan Groenewegen and Ewan are still in the peloton?

 

[Yingge]

I wonder if any GC hopeful will try to emulate Andy Schleck on the Izoard.

 

[RattaKuningas]

Gap is now 7 minutes and 38 seconds. I am sure that the breakaway will stay away now and I think that Quintana is climb in the rankings as well.

 

[Salvarani]

Re:

I wonder if any GC hopeful will try to emulate Andy Schleck on the Izoard.

Best bet would be Landa.

 

[IndianCyclist]

looks like attritional stage with few attacks but break to win.

 

[sir fly]

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Anyone noticed Dylan Groenewegen and Ewan are still in the peloton?

Yes. Struggled to keep up at the very top of Vars.
Looking at the bunch reminded me at some old footages. Seemed like more human pace, but still tiring.
We'll see when/if somebody takes over at Izoard.

 

[Simurgh]

George Bennett crashed heavily

 

[Salvarani]

No, not Bennett smh

 

[Finn84]

Bennett and Roche crash.

 

[spalco]

Pretty bad crash. I'm always worried when riders jump back on the bike right away with shaky legs after something like this.

 

[Amazinmets87]

Do you really want Quintana to start the final climb with a 3 minute head start?

 

[Flamin]

Re: Re:

Too bad someone from the break will win the stage.

Not clear imo, 6:30 isn't much at this point. 50/50.

That's a huge gap on such a big break including good climbers.

 

[F_Cance]

Too bad that other teams don't use their chances again. Instead of setting a higher pace to distance QSs mediocre helpers, they just let Lampaert and Morkov lead them over the climbs. He could have been isolated by now without that much effort.

 

[spalco]

Re: Re:

That's a huge gap on such a big break including good climbers.

Eh, with two huge mountains and 120km left it's nothing if a couple GC teams were committed today, but obviously doesn't look like that's happening, so your prediction looks smarter now.

 

[Red Rick]

According to Ten Dam there is a tailwind all the way on the Lauteret and Galibiet

 

[Flamin]

Re: Re:

That's a huge gap on such a big break including good climbers.

Eh, with two huge mountains and 120km left it's nothing if a couple GC teams were committed today, but obviously doesn't look like that's happening, so your prediction looks smarter now.

If a couple of GC teams were interested, they wouldn't have let the gap grow to that extent in the first place, hence the prediction that they're not interested

 

[Cinemaniak]

Greg attacking in stages like this... I feel his desperation

 

[Valv.Piti]

What will happen on Izoard? Landa wont attack in this situation, tempo from Ineos, FDJ, Lotto?

 

[Cinemaniak]

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What will happen on Izoard? Landa wont attack in this situation, tempo from Ineos, FDJ, Lotto?

Who's going to ride for Lotto and why? Wellens, De Gendt? Benoot?

 

[Red Rick]

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What will happen on Izoard? Landa wont attack in this situation, tempo from Ineos, FDJ, Lotto?

He really should

Quintana isnt getting any amount of time to put him in podium contention

 

[carton]

I mean, he's looked pretty bad so far this Tour, but at some point, someone has to think about chasing Quintana, no? Or on put some pressure on Alaphilippe?

 

[Forever The Best]

Quintana is no threat for yellow. If Landa thinks about attacking he should go for it.

 

[sir fly]

I like the crowd on the roadside.

 

[Valv.Piti]

VAMOS SOLER

 

[Scarponi]

Movistar shelling the peloton, was the forum down for anyone else ?