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Tour de France 2014 |OT| Riding Around 101
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Yep. Pity to see a favourite struggling way behind, but he fights to make it the finish. What a demonstration of courage.
i_am_ben
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well, his team is atrociously bad so he gets no help from them.
Anyway, this stage was extremely boring outside Talansky's dramas
He is a one man team that everyone wants to beat and noone wants to work with, so his strength works against him.
Thought the stage was exciting from the start of the climbs, plenty of attacks, tight fast downhills and Gallopin holding off the peloton by seconds. Rarely do transistion stahes have this much action. There has hardly been a boring stage so far
Sagan in no man's land again. As others have said, can't wait till he's on a real team. Apparently he's headed to Tinkoff next year so that'll be a definite upgrade over the soon to be folded Cannondale group.
And great effort by Talansky. Thought for sure he was getting off when he stopped and was leaning on the guardrail, so was pretty surprised he got back on and beat the time check.
And great effort by Talansky. Thought for sure he was getting off when he stopped and was leaning on the guardrail, so was pretty surprised he got back on and beat the time check.
Psychotext
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Finishing on a HC. Nice.
Rodriguez will probably attack. I got high hopes for Pinot on this one.
bobnowhere
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Wow, Porte gone.
bobnowhere
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Nibali just did!
bobnowhere
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At this point Porte should climb off and walk, he might he faster.
bobnowhere
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He is a world class wheel sucker!
as usual, there was porte's one bad day which completely eliminates him from the position. it's like clockwork for him. happened at last year's tour on first mountain stage, happened on first mountain stage at dauphine, and now this. even worse, i'm sure he'll be fine the rest of the race as he usually bounces back fine.
strong ride from nibali, although he should be thanking katusha for burning everyone out. sheesh. french riders coming on strong! and tejay was impressive. looks like the real battle will be for the 2nd and 3rd spots.
strong ride from nibali, although he should be thanking katusha for burning everyone out. sheesh. french riders coming on strong! and tejay was impressive. looks like the real battle will be for the 2nd and 3rd spots.
Richie not ready to lead a time/should have brought Wiggo - check.
Don't sleep on Valverde, the Bond villain of cycling - check.
I won't take credit for switching to #TeamNibali after Stage 5 (was a bit obvious), but if you want to give me credit for it, I won't decline either.
Surprising thing for me this year is that attrition is really letting French riders shine. Without the crashes/support riders cracking, these guys wouldn't be top 5, but now there is a strong chance of a Frenchman on the podium. Which is kinda cool.
Don't sleep on Valverde, the Bond villain of cycling - check.
I won't take credit for switching to #TeamNibali after Stage 5 (was a bit obvious), but if you want to give me credit for it, I won't decline either.
Surprising thing for me this year is that attrition is really letting French riders shine. Without the crashes/support riders cracking, these guys wouldn't be top 5, but now there is a strong chance of a Frenchman on the podium. Which is kinda cool.
I also wonder how Nibali would have fared against a healthy Froome and Contador, especially if stage 5 ended with Nibali having 2 minutes on them both. He's looking fantastic but he's not the explosive climber that they are. This really could have been a great battle.Richie not ready to lead a time/should have brought Wiggo - check.
Don't sleep on Valverde, the Bond villain of cycling - check.
I won't take credit for switching to #TeamNibali after Stage 5 (was a bit obvious), but if you want to give me credit for it, I won't decline either.
Surprising thing for me this year is that attrition is really letting French riders shine. Without the crashes/support riders cracking, these guys wouldn't be top 5, but now there is a strong chance of a Frenchman on the podium. Which is kinda cool.
Skellig Gra
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These mountain stages always blow me away at the ability for these guys to make these ridiculous extended climbs.Time for the great Alpine stage:
With the mythical col d'Izoard, highest point in the Tour this year at 2,360 meters:
And Risoul hosts a stage finish in the Tour for the first time ever after the Tour de l'Avenir and the Critérium du Dauphiné:
There were question marks on both of them, so I think he would have won anyway.
bobnowhere
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Hope the Colombian from Lampre win, best facial hair ever.
Mt Heart Attack
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He wheelsucked the whole way up and attacked right in his face before the finish line, I'd say Nibali did good keeping the second place for himself.
edit: he just said so himself on tv
IMO wheelsuck+attack on the line is allowed when you clearly are a much weaker rider, but you then you shouldn't expect any gifts. Second place in a stage is not really thatig of a deal anyway, and nibali is close to the kom-jersey because of those points
bobnowhere
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Great ride by Rogers yesterday. You just knew he would smash them on the descent, just like his first win at this years Giro.
Durbridge was funny, a Movistar helper knocks him down, he wants to punch the guy then accepts his help for a push! Stupid from the helper, but classy to help him out.
Durbridge was funny, a Movistar helper knocks him down, he wants to punch the guy then accepts his help for a push! Stupid from the helper, but classy to help him out.
Tony Martin is probably focusing on saturday's TT so don't expect to see him in front.
Almost forgot about that TT! Haha
Psychotext
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Some of these guys are scary skinny. Like coathangers.
Confrontation
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If we speculate that Contador wouldn't have beaten out Nibali, then him abandoning the Tour is almost the best thing that could've happened to Mr. Tinkoff. As cruel as that may sound. They got themselves a nugget with Majka.
Lol what?
Psychotext
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You didn't see any of the climbers with their shirts open? Could pretty much see every rib on one of them.
I know it's all about power to weight ratio, but some of them looked pretty much on the limit of doing damage levels of bodyfat.
Yes, we're slender dudes. What of it? Our health? I'm fine, those dudes are fine. This sport isn't about being built like a belgian bull.
UCI pull him out?
Apparently now being said by some that it's for excessive sheltering behind cars (which would mean ASO would have pulled him out), but that's so strange to me, because tons of riders have been doing that to a ridiculous degree this tour.
Edit: Yup, that seems to have been the reason. Surprising.
Even the winner yesterday did it, this is something else, my bet is doping
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