Tour de France Stage 7: Tournus - Station des Rousses 165.5km

[Delicato]

Don't know why Astana pulled today. Maybe it would be wiser to save energy for Morzine stage.

 

[superconfex]

Hesjedal still up there in GC....good ride

 

[Publicus]

Don't know why Astana pulled today. Maybe it would be wiser to save energy for Morzine stage.

Keep gap manageable. Test the other leaders. You know, just see who's got what. They finished with 3 riders in the main group (Navarro pulled off and stayed with the group).

 

[Anonymous]

Hesjedal still up there in GC....good ride

Yea, I am wondering why he didn't try to ride off. He was always near the front and looked pretty comfortable.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Kloden just dropped 2'-13" to the contender group.
WTF are Harmon and Kelly on about?
Basso finished in the gang. Lost nothing.

 

[Delicato]

Keep gap manageable. Test the other leaders. You know, just see who's got what. They finished with 3 riders in the main group (Navarro pulled off and stayed with the group).

Haven't seen the whole stage. Did their other climbers, i.e. De la Fuente, Hernandez and Tiralongo also pull?

 

[Big GMaC]

Kloden just dropped 2'-13" to the contender group.

And I lol'ed

 

[Publicus]

Haven't seen the whole stage. Did their other climbers, i.e. De la Fuente, Hernandez and Tiralongo also pull?

Tiralongo and Navarro did the work on the final climb. Tiralongo pulled off about halfway up. Navarro took them the flatish spot and then turned it over to Saxo Bank. Who immediately dropped the pace.

 

[hrotha]

Valls 2nd and Capecchi 10th. Ha!

Not sure what Garmin was doing towards the end?

Also, what the hell, Liquigas? Did their domestiques take a day off, like Klödi?

These shenanigans are way too complicated for me. Just ride at 100%, damnit! I don't want to have to second-guess everything.

 

[Publicus]

Well Andy just admitted he had a tough day today. He's getting shelled tomorrow.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Bottle said the day was about what he expected. Right. He looked much more worked over than Andy.

 

[bobs nob]

Well Andy just admitted he had a tough day today. He's getting shelled tomorrow.

I'm going to bed early tonight

 

[bobs nob]

Bottle said the day was about what he expected. Right. He looked much more worked over than Andy.

LL is like boob's on a bull.

radioshack is fraudioshack

 

[Publicus]

Bottle said the day was about what he expected. Right. He looked much more worked over than Andy.

He said it was a hard day with the heat. He only came to the front of the group as the gradient eased off a bit.

 

[hfer07]

Congrats to Chavanel - great ride indeed- and Congrats to all those valiant riders that made today's stage very entertaining.
Tomorrow is the showdown

 

[sublimit]

Footen raced well today so congratulations to them. Get a better designed jersey next time though.

The shack were rubbish.

 

[Delicato]

The shack were rubbish.

Wishful thinking. Too early to make any conclusions. After all, there were 4 of them in the leading group.

 

[hrotha]

Wishful thinking. Too early to make any conclusions. After all, there were 4 of them in the leading group.

Agreed. Klöden wasn't good (deliberately or not), the others were where you would expect them to be (yes even Popo). I'd be more concerned about Liquigas and Saxo, frankly.

On the bright side, I didn't expect Sky to do so decently today!

 

[Publicus]

Wishful thinking. Too early to make any conclusions. After all, there were 4 of them in the leading group.

I think this is right. Shack did nothing more than hold on to the group. Levi, Jani and Horner struggled a bit, but they kept it together.

Saxo was pretty unimpressive. Same with Liquigas.

 

[Delicato]

Agreed. Klöden wasn't good (deliberately or not), the others were where you would expect them to be (yes even Popo). I'd be more concerned about Liquigas and Saxo, frankly.

On the bright side, I didn't expect Sky to do so decently today!

Wiggins seemed to have absolutely no problem today. Hope to see him attacking tomorrow. And at least he has Lovkvist as his mountain domestique.

 

[ErmOkk]

What a boring stage, up to tommorow! I hope AC accelerates hardly to see someone can hold his wheel. RS was pretty average today indeed, if it is like this tommorow, LA will be isolated almost the entire last climb :s.

 

[perico]

Not looking good today:

Kloden at 4'
Karpets at 4'
Monfort at 4'
Popo at 10'
Fuglsang at 12'59
De La Fuente 14'12
T. Martin at 19'14

 

[Cobblestones]

Astana leading the all important team classification.

 

[sublimit]

i was expecting more from Radioshack but maybe they will show better tomorrow.( i doubt it)

Sky were probably worse,Wiggans hung on but Thomas went out of the back after a puncture but he's still doing well.
He was Leading out Hagen in the sprints for the last 3 days on the flat so he's probably a bit stuffed.

 

[rhubroma]

Another lame Tour stage. So boring! The Alps this year are really awful. When will the organizers give us something to get excited about in the French mountains. How can you have an alpine stage like that? Col di Who Cares, followed by Col di Somewhat Steep!