Tour de Suisse 2017 (10/06 > 18/06/2017)

[42x16ss]

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Love that lead-out, Arndt?

Yes it was, Matthews was raving about how good a job he did afterwards.

 

[Leinster]

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I don't understand the point of having two ITTs in a week long stage race. What do you all think?

It´s 9 days long. Week has 7 days.

Very insightful. What's your point? I don't know if you're a troll or simply don't understand the general meaning of the phrase. So 22% of the stages are ITTs instead of 28%. If a grand tour had that percentage, there would be 4-5 ITTs.

It used to be common for a TdF to have 2 long ITTs, a prologue, and a TTT. I think in 87 they had all that, plus a mountain TT up the Ventoux.

One prologue, 3 ITTs and a TTT.

Almost 210 kms of TT. One of them was almost 90 km long. Dumoulin would have won 7 or 8 minutes on everyone else (GT-wise).
And here we have people claiming this year's Giro had too much TT kms and was tailor made for guys like Dumoulin.

Herrera and VanImpe must look at modern parcours and be like "I woulda made Hinault my *** on these stages..."

 

[Robert5091]

Finish at Villars sur Ollon

First 5km tough then gets easier - Tommy D will love this.TJ to lose 3 minutes. Pozzovivo for the win!

 

[WheelofGear]

4.5k from finish is the spot most riders will try to attack.

I'd like to see Pozzovivo win it, but it's very unlikely if they come together in a small group. Albullapass and Tiefenbachferner are longer and/or steeper and it suits him much better.

 

[del1962]

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Love that lead-out, Arndt?

Yes it was, Matthews was raving about how good a job he did afterwards.

Good to see Matthews giving credit to his lead out man.

The age of Phil G is over, we are now in the age of Matthews

 

[Yingge]

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They actually go up all the way to the Tiefenbachferner, the final will be a mess with an 1.7km long tunnel, that doesn't exactly scream great TV coverage.It would be smarter to finish at the upper parking lot of the Rettenbachferner, no Tunnel, enough space and 14.7km at 9.8%.

Lachlan Morton could surprise people, the guy loves climbs at high altitude and is now living at altitude in Boulder, he could finish top 10 on gc or grab a stage win.

From the race website:

"Due to construction works at the Rettenbach glacier, the seventh stage will end 2.8 km further and with an additional 110 metres of altitude at the foot of the Tiefenbach glacier. ‘There is a final treat in store for the best climbers of the Tour de Suisse,’ Loosli promises. ‘In the very last section, there is a 1.7 km-long tunnel."

Yes, so probably no TV coverage for that part, and if it's close it will be a case of waiting...waiting....to see who pops out first...with about 500m to go to the finish.

 

[WheelofGear]

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They actually go up all the way to the Tiefenbachferner, the final will be a mess with an 1.7km long tunnel, that doesn't exactly scream great TV coverage.It would be smarter to finish at the upper parking lot of the Rettenbachferner, no Tunnel, enough space and 14.7km at 9.8%.

Lachlan Morton could surprise people, the guy loves climbs at high altitude and is now living at altitude in Boulder, he could finish top 10 on gc or grab a stage win.

From the race website:

"Due to construction works at the Rettenbach glacier, the seventh stage will end 2.8 km further and with an additional 110 metres of altitude at the foot of the Tiefenbach glacier. ‘There is a final treat in store for the best climbers of the Tour de Suisse,’ Loosli promises. ‘In the very last section, there is a 1.7 km-long tunnel."

Yes, so probably no TV coverage for that part, and if it's close it will be a case of waiting...waiting....to see who pops out first...with about 500m to go to the finish.

I actually love that concept. I hope they will NOT film in the tunnel.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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They actually go up all the way to the Tiefenbachferner, the final will be a mess with an 1.7km long tunnel, that doesn't exactly scream great TV coverage.It would be smarter to finish at the upper parking lot of the Rettenbachferner, no Tunnel, enough space and 14.7km at 9.8%.

Lachlan Morton could surprise people, the guy loves climbs at high altitude and is now living at altitude in Boulder, he could finish top 10 on gc or grab a stage win.

From the race website:

"Due to construction works at the Rettenbach glacier, the seventh stage will end 2.8 km further and with an additional 110 metres of altitude at the foot of the Tiefenbach glacier. ‘There is a final treat in store for the best climbers of the Tour de Suisse,’ Loosli promises. ‘In the very last section, there is a 1.7 km-long tunnel."

Yes, so probably no TV coverage for that part, and if it's close it will be a case of waiting...waiting....to see who pops out first...with about 500m to go to the finish.

I actually love that concept. I hope they will NOT film in the tunnel.

Top Tip

Create your own tunnel at the key point of any MTF by switching your television off for 5 minutes as they go through the 3 km banner and then switching back on again

 

[Inquitus]

Looks like it should shake things up a bit, at least we might see a few whos form is bad pass by the way side.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Reichenbach DNS

Soft break of Boom, Warbasse, Duchesne and Van Der Lijke has 8 mins advantage with 40 km covered

 

[Escarabajo]

Last climb is 11.1 kms @ 7.6%

 

[carton]

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Reichenbach DNS

Soft break of Boom, Warbasse, Duchesne and Van Der Lijke has 8 mins advantage with 40 km covered

Eh. Boom and Warbasse are strong if inconsistent riders. Duchesne can climb a bit. The peloton should really start reeling this back in soonish or they might regret it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Van Der Lijke in the break, probably for the mountain jersey.
Warbasse, possibly for the mountain jersey as well, but indirectly; defending Norman's rather than try to take it himself.

 

[Laplaz]

Lars Boom virtual leader

 

[sir fly]

Are there better alpine roads than in Switzerland?

 

[Beech Mtn]

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Reichenbach DNS

Soft break of Boom, Warbasse, Duchesne and Van Der Lijke has 8 mins advantage with 40 km covered

1. Is Carlton Kirby working this race?
2. Has he recovered from this grave tragedy, or is the audio feed nothing more than the sounds of a man wailing?

 

[May0maniac]

Miguel Lopez at the back of the peloton, looks like he's suffering.

 

[DNP-Old]

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Miguel Lopez at the back of the peloton.

Martinelli said earlier this week he will select him for Tour if he did good here, so I for one would be glad if he drops.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Miguel Lopez at the back of the peloton.

Martinelli said earlier this week he will select him for Tour if he did good here, so I for one would be glad if he drops.

I would like to see a full *** Astana team like in 2015 with Lopez, Aru and Fugelsang, but thats probably optimistic considering everything...

 

[MikeTichondrius]

Offtopic - Was wondering why I wasn't watching the TdS on Eurosport in Portugal. Turns out it's bloody CMTV covering it. Speechless.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

horrible lines in the break going down...

 

[BigMac]

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Offtopic - Was wondering why I wasn't watching the TdS on Eurosport in Portugal. Turns out it's bloody CMTV covering it. Speechless.

If you, like me, refuse to tune on that channel, watch it here: http://tiz-cycling.racing/stream/

 

[MikeTichondrius]

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Offtopic - Was wondering why I wasn't watching the TdS on Eurosport in Portugal. Turns out it's bloody CMTV covering it. Speechless.

If you, like me, refuse to tune on that channel, watch it here: http://tiz-cycling.racing/stream/

If the coverage is decent I won't mind. But I'll be switching it to something else ASAP once it's finished. I refuse to give these people more than the minimum amount of my attention. They're rating Costa as a possible winner. I don't think they had a proper look at the Tiefenbachferner...

I think the last time I watched anything on this channel was Mayweather-Pacquiao. Why they were showing that in the midst of covering headlines such as "Angry Man Murders Daughter's Husband Then Assaults his Sister" I do not know.

 

[BigMac]

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Offtopic - Was wondering why I wasn't watching the TdS on Eurosport in Portugal. Turns out it's bloody CMTV covering it. Speechless.

If you, like me, refuse to tune on that channel, watch it here: http://tiz-cycling.racing/stream/

If the coverage is decent I won't mind. But I'll be switching it to something else ASAP once it's finished. I refuse to give these people more than the minimum amount of my attention. They're rating Costa as a possible winner. I don't think they had a proper look at the Tiefenbachferner...

I think the last time I watched anything on this channel was Mayweather-Pacquiao. Why they were showing that in the midst of covering headlines such as "Angry Man Murders Daughter's Husband Then Assaults his Sister" I do not know.

Priceless.

Got to keep the share high, y'know. It's all about the hype.

 

[Pantani_lives]

I don't know this final climb, but it looks like they might have enough to stay away.