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[Joni]

I'm thinking that Froome was racing for seconds not the stage.

Indeed, and he had to. He would have taken a measly 6 seconds without the bonus seconds. He doubled that to 12 by taking second place. Basically, if Quintana is actually faster than Froome uphill, he would lose that in a second.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Really sucks that the Ventoux has been cut short.

Still a lot of exciting racing should be on the cards.

 

[bjaelke]

 

[Loris146]

Really sucks that the Ventoux has been cut short.

Still a lot of exciting racing should be on the cards.

Yup. I still remember Carpentras Mont Ventoux , Stage 12 Tour de France 2000. Pantani vs Lance, what a great race that was.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Fuck me, my heart dropped.

Come on Aru

Yup. I still remember Carpentras Mont Ventoux , Stage 12 Tour de France 2000. Pantani vs Lance, what a great race that was.

Yep, Ventoux rarely disappoints.

 

[bjaelke]

Astana with some desperate moves.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Fuck me.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Is that TvG on the front of the BMC group? He looks to be hurting

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

mini neutralisation from the peloton

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

What the hell just happened on that descent!? This montage isn't helping.

UGH Gerrans, rough

 

[Psychotext]

Ouch.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Froome killed the race, such bullshit.

 

[captscience]

Hopefully the shortened course means the riders will attack more aggressively.

Still a shame the weather makes climbing to the summit impossible. I have such great memories from the last time they went up Ventoux.

I'm the guy in pink at 2:35:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvT212MCNeE

 

[Psychotext]

Can anyone tell me why Greipel is in the front group?

 

[bobnowhere]

Can anyone tell me why Greipel is in the front group?

To attack solo!

Probably setting up de Gent

 

[bjaelke]

Only way he can make it to Paris first.

 

[His Majesty]

Come on Thomas. Would be quite an addition to his record: after the Stelvio a win on the Ventoux.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Dammit, the Sky Train is at front. Can SOMEONE please bust this up.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Sky not reacting?

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

They are, but not in full force. This attack will be for nothing though if Quintanna doesn't go for it.

I feel like they should have hit this hard from the get go knowing how hard Froome worked yesterday.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

They are, but not in full force. This attack will be for nothing though if Quintanna doesn't go for it.

I feel like they should have hit this hard from the get go knowing how hard Froome worked yesterday.

Guess Valverde didn't have the legs.

Here we go

Come on Aru.

Attack next

 

[bjaelke]

This might explain why Froome tried to gain seconds on the descent and on yesterday's stage. Looks a bit slow today.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Froome looks poor.

Quintana should go on a real attack next.

 

[bobnowhere]

Doesn't look all the comfortable on the bike atm. Relied on his team to bring back Quintana twice now, not that Qunitana's attacks were all out.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Fully expected Martin and Roman K to get dropped.

Only real surprise for me is Adam Yates, kid is legit, thought maybe he would get dropped.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Team Sky looks to not have it today. I don't know why Movistar is holding back right now. Quintanna has shown he can go for a long time and with only 3km I'd imagine they'd be hammering right now.

 

[bjaelke]

Nevermind

 

[bobnowhere]

Lols, don't know why I doubted Froome.

 

[Psychotext]

Oh Quintana.

 

[i_am_ben]

All over for another year.

Congrats, Froome

 

[teepo]

that poker face

 

[eFKac]

Quintana lucky that MV got cut, cause he would lose a couple of minutes.

Doubt there will be anyone even close to Froome this year.

Glad Molema is doing good.

 

[His Majesty]

Yes De Gendt!

GC battle is another snoozefest as usual...Sky controlling the bunch and Froome attacking at the end.

 

[i_am_ben]

shhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiitttttttttt

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

fuck, that is the race

 

[bobnowhere]

Fuck me, if Ritchie Porte didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all.


WTF, Froome running?

 

[Lach]

What a buch of asshole "fans"!

Wow @Froome running!

 

[Psychotext]

Holy shit!

 

[bjaelke]

fuck those guys

 

[i_am_ben]

WTFFFFFFFFFFFF

THIS IS CRAZY

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[eFKac]

Poor guys. Wtf is going on.

 

[His Majesty]

lmao?

Who stole Froome's bike?

 

[teepo]

Wtf

 

[Oxirane]

Just get on a motorcycle, then steal someones bike at the finish.

 

[Lach]

They should have seen this coming.

All the fans from the end have gone to the moved finish after the race was shortened!

 

[Psychotext]

Have never seen anything like this.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

How the fuck do they time this?

 

[bobnowhere]

They have to neutralise times, that's crazy.

 

[SkylineRKR]

wtf?