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Chapeau, Tommy!
Confirmed. TV keeps yellow
What a Trojan
Hero of the republic
can Angry do it again tomorrow?? 😯
Tommy is the nutz
So pleased for him, great ride.
Now [i]that [/i]was exciting !
So, little Bertie then. Is that the proof he was doping or is he just tired after the Giro?
I'd have liked to have seen Voeckler help Cadel out a bit whilst trying to keep hold of his jersey....
Brilliant stage.
Tommy V .. awesome ride for a non climber!!!
well done Angry going away like that..
Honestly I'm happy with Andy and Thomas dicing for it tomorrow. Should be exciting again
Classic stage, I'd say Thomas Voeckler's drugs worked the best...
Great day, SO glad to see a) Tommy V keep yellow and b) Bertie go bang.
Tommy Voeckler is my hero!
Well it certainly doesn't get any less exciting. On normal form, AS doesn't have quite enough over CE for the final TT, and who knows what TV will do in that. He surely has to attack again tomorrow, but does he have anything left? I suppose we're down from about 8 to only 4 real contenders now - and Frank has to go out on one tomorrow to give himself any chance.
Evans has tour sewn up now I think.
I'd have liked to have seen Voeckler help Cadel out a bit whilst trying to keep hold of his jersey...
I was hoping Tommy would go a bit too. He tried at the end, don't think he could do much more. Cadel did a brilliant job.
Go Tommy Go
How to Voeckler and A.Schleck compare against the clock? How much time can Voeckler afford to lose tomorrow?
I'd have liked to have seen Voeckler help Cadel out a bit whilst trying to keep hold of his jersey....
When he tried at the end he didn't last out the front for long - trying to go on the front sooner would have been suicide. I don't think you can really criticise him for doing all he could.
I've been one of the harshest critics of schleck these last few days, but that is one incredible ride, brilliant! And chapeau to tommy and cadel too!
Evans has tour sewn up now I think.
Eh? Have you been watching today's stage (or indeed the rest of the TdF)? Where exactly do you get that idea from?
I've been one of the harshest critics of schleck these last few days, but that is one incredible ride, brilliant! And chapeau to tommy and cadel too!
Agreed - don't think I was giving Evans enough credit in my comments - superb rides from all 3 in their different ways.
because cadel is by far and away the best tt'er excluding contador...
id love to see conta ride to the win tomorow on the alpe...
Evans has tour sewn up now I think.Eh? Have you been watching today's stage (or indeed the rest of the TdF)? Where exactly do you get that idea from?well evans can timetrial.. and the gap is only a minute? or so at the moment..
sewn up != stands a reasonable chance
Tomorrow finishes with a big climb AS or FS can take time on, and nothing to rule out AS/TV doing a cracking TT to hold on. Still CE's to lose, but nothing I saw today suggests he's any nearer having it wrapped up just yet.
I'm knackered after watching that 🙂
I think it's Evans to beat now. If Andy Stiffneck has it in the tank to go again tomorrow then fairplay, that was a brilliant ride today, but how much has it taken out. Tommy V at the end - what a warrior - even Jens will be hiding from him tonight, and Jens hides from no-one.
How far back is Cav and what's the time limit? AS giving it big beans and coming in 2 mins ahead won't have helped there.......
id love to see conta ride to the win tomorow on the alpe...
steak tonight then...?
Eh? Have you been watching today's stage (or indeed the rest of the TdF)? Where exactly do you get that idea from?
Where do I get that - intelligence! 😀 Are you a bit daft?
Just watch - AS is now blown and will be following wheels tomorrow. FS might go for it tomorrow but either of them will need to be 2min 15 plus ahead at the beginning of the ITT to have a chance of yellow in Paris. Neither of them will have that by the end of tomorrow.
The best bit is that both AS and FS know this and will have to try something & with Contador out of it Evans is going to have a hard time limiting on his own. Slight irony for the wheel sucker!
Will Cav make it in in time, that's now the pressing q - the cut off time is 33min 17sec and he's only half way up the Galibier.
Best stage i have watched in years.
A nice way to chill and use 2hrs of my hols
because cadel is by far and away the best tt'er excluding contador...
id love to see conta ride to the win tomorow on the alpe...
Yes, but there is another mountain to go, on which Evans could lose more time to Schleck. Assume they come in together (probably best case for Evans on the Alpe), that still means he has to beat Schleck by a massive 58 seconds in the TT.
I'd say that is far from cut and dried. Evans has given himself a chance today, but it is a long way from sewn up.
Chapeau to Schleck. Turns out he really does know how to attack... what a ride!
Also chapeau to Evans and Voeckler, they were the only ones of the chasing group who really wanted it.
(I'd love to see Evans win it)
is Cav on his own? they will bend the rules and won't eliminate half the field but if he is solo then the rules will stand.
Chapeau Thomas !!!
Wow.
Is Rojas ahead of Cav? They were in the grupetto together, and with Gilbert, earlier.
Could we have all the green jersey contenders eliminated? that would be mental.
Great stage. I'm ****ed.
Great afternoon of viewing
Superb ride from Schleck...unfortunately reminded me of Landis, which is a real shame.
Chapeau to Voeckler and Evans too, no-one should be allowed to call Evans a wheelsucker again after today!
couldn't watch as my digibox reception was going to pot 😡 digital is a joke 😡
if they bend the rules he forfeits his points IIRCis Cav on his own? they will bend the rules and won't eliminate half the field but if he is solo then the rules will stand.
Just watch - AS is now blown and will be following wheels tomorrow. FS might go for it tomorrow but either of them will need to be 2min 15 plus ahead at the beginning of the ITT to have a chance of yellow in Paris. Neither of them will have that by the end of tomorrow
AS is just about as blown as CE - or did you not notice Cadel trying quite hard to the top of the final climb and not having much left? Meanwhile if Frank does go for it tomorrow, he only needs to take the same as Andy did today and he'll be in the box seat. Not really sure where you get 2:15 from either - you do realise that in 2009 (last year Evans appears not to have tried in final TT) Cadel only took 30s out of Andy in the final TT?
Meanwhile Tommy is still far from out of it. If he's in yellow on Saturday afternoon, who knows what he can pull out.
As I said, very, very far from "sewn up" (well about as sewn up as it was for Fignon in 1989, though I suspect you might not have been following the TdF back then).
Apparently Rojas is in now
59. ROJAS Jose Joaquin 88 MOVISTAR TEAM 6h 39' 13" + 31' 17"
Also note that only 1 HTC rider has come in.
Cav outside the time limit 🙁
Only 78 riders inside it
Care to have a small side bet then "racer"?
And why would I have not been follow in the '89 tour - I was a 2nd cat roadie then so it would have been a bit weird no to no?
edit that - that was my last year as a junior but racing E,1,2