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

[KZD]

Ineos is being destroyed again. Even Poels is about to be dropped.

 

[perico]

Peloton shattered. Movistar on the front chasing Nairo. Mas still there for Alaphilippe. Kwiatkowski, Castro, and Moscow dropped.

 

[Inquitus]

Aye Ineos shipped half their train there.

 

[Forever The Best]

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VAMOS SOLER

I'm becoming a Movistar fan, while just a few years ago I was calling them Vomistar.

 

[perico]

Dan Martin dropped. Gaudu dropped.

 

[Oliver]

Nice work by Soler. 15 men left...

 

[perico]

Mas looks like he's recovered well- he and Alaphilippe looks comfortably in main group. Poels dropping?

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Forum running like toffee.

 

[Martinstranger]

Finally - this year rides seem willing to invest for the glory of winning. I hope they all will stop racing for 2-3-4 or 5 place.

Fantastic racing by Movistar - at least they are trying to go for the win and I have the outmost respect for that!

I hope Pinot is on it and ready to try for the victory. He will be a big hero in France if he suceeds.

 

[broppo]

what a great forum this is, constantly inaccessible when it matters......

 

[spalco]

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what a great forum this is, constantly inaccessible when it matters......

Pointless complaint, I know, but yeah, ability to access is deteriorating constantly. I've had three seperate error messages today.

 

[HelloDolly]

Movistar playing = very good

Ineos not so much

FDJ also dropped

 

[Scarponi]

Surely Ala can’t hold on today

 

[spalco]

Alaphilippe is starting to look more Voecklerish than cool.

 

[Red Rick]

Aaaand they did it all for nothing

 

[chuuurles]

Is Landa gonna launch ?

 

[Red Rick]

Is Landa gonna launch ?

The time to launch was 12 minutes ago

 

[perico]

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Movistar playing = very good

Ineos not so much

FDJ also dropped

Reichenbach still here

 

[staubsauger]

Seriously, is Bardet meshuga? He knows he needs to win the mountain prizes, is among the best climbers in the group, even has a decent kick to jump away and waits for the final meters to lose out in the sprint!

 

[Alexandre B.]

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Seriously, is Bardet meshuga? He knows he needs to win the mountain prizes, is among the best climbers in the group, even has a decent kick to jump away and waits for the final meters to lose out in the sprint!

He has a stage win in mind.

 

[Gigs_98]

What on earth was movistar doing?

 

[Valv.Piti]

What on earth was movistar doing?

Trying the peloton out. Turns out no on who really mattered dropped. Maybe Landa got cold feet as well.

 

[huangho]

What on earth was movistar doing?

Chasing an Arkea-Samsic guy who is in the breakaway and may affect their interests in GC...

 

[Akuryo]

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Finally - this year rides seem willing to invest for the glory of winning. I hope they all will stop racing for 2-3-4 or 5 place.

Fantastic racing by Movistar - at least they are trying to go for the win and I have the outmost respect for that!

I hope Pinot is on it and ready to try for the victory. He will be a big hero in France if he suceeds.

So would Alaphilippe.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

I'm a little confused (which doesn't take much nowadays). So Rowe and Martin got chucked out the Tour but they can appeal (which they already have). The appeal system times out a 11am. All the riders are now riding through the neutral zone prior to the start. Would the 2 riders start the race until timed out of the appeal and then climb off if unsuccessfull or would they have already been told that before the race start. Be funny if the appeal was successful and they had an hour to make up during the race. :lol: Seems odd that the appeal time finishes after start time.

They're 1 hour ahead in France if you are in UK.

Of course they are, I'll blame my stupidity on the heat. Cheers.