Stage 4 - Team Time Trial SPOILER

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    If Bertie has any sense, he will start soft pedalling round about now.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    How many second places have Garmin had this season? :wink:
  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    Astana versus Cancellara.

    Surely Lance in yellow. Will AC congratulate him?!
    Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Wonder if Columbia now regret all the work they did on Stage 3?
  • PeteinSQ
    PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
    I doubt it. Winning sprints stages is what they're all about.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'll secretly be quite pleased for Armstrong if they do it. Contador appears to have been well protected...
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    GARMIN still in there!!
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    afx237vi wrote:
    If Bertie has any sense, he will start soft pedalling round about now.

    Do you really believe that? To win the TDF, Bertie's gonna have a better chance if he can shrink the number of guys he has to beat. Even if he helps Lance, he's also helping himself. And there's only 19 seconds between him and Lance.

    And as Sastre showed last year, even having your teammate in yellow doesn't mean you can't ride for it.
  • AO1504
    AO1504 Posts: 57
    afx237vi wrote:
    If Bertie has any sense, he will start soft pedalling round about now.

    And how is that going to help him if he is going for the overall GC, he should be looking to put as much time between him and his other rivals and forgetting about Armstrong just now.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Was that Andy Schleck getting dropped? Gee, thanks Fabian :roll:
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,941
    Saxo 2nd quickest so far.
  • Odelay!
    Odelay! Posts: 58
    Couldn't see Millar in the 5 for Garmin. Was be dropped early on with the others?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Well, I suppose not so secret now I've posted it on here!
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Yep, Cancellara just rode his team into the top two (soon to be top 3) there.
  • PeteinSQ
    PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
    Astana need to finish in 46:28 to get Armstrong in yellow.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    I think that was O'Grady getting shelled out.

    Armstrong is virtually doing a solo TT, he's dragging round his whole team with some very long pulls.
  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    Go all out and win yesterday or save yourself then go all out and still lose today. No way they could match Astana or Garmin in the TTT.

    I know what I would have done if I were Columbia.
    Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    PeteinSQ wrote:
    I doubt it. Winning sprints stages is what they're all about.

    Green jersey as well. Yesterday has given Cav a huge cushion against most of the sprinters.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    AO1504 wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    If Bertie has any sense, he will start soft pedalling round about now.

    And how is that going to help him if he is going for the overall GC, he should be looking to put as much time between him and his other rivals and forgetting about Armstrong just now.

    If Armstrong is in yellow, AC's overall chances will be more even more damaged because he'll be put on the Ego's leash.

    I'd rather lose 10 or 15 seconds to Evans, the Schlecks etc, than see Armstrong gloating in yellow.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Kléber wrote:
    I think that was O'Grady getting shelled out.

    Armstrong is virtually doing a solo TT, he's dragging round his whole team with some very long pulls.

    Yeah, I'm impressed. He was ok in the mountains at the end of the Giro but his TT's have been oddly weak this year. But today, he's riding out of his mind for the team here.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Kléber wrote:
    I think that was O'Grady getting shelled out.

    Armstrong is virtually doing a solo TT, he's dragging round his whole team with some very long pulls.

    O'Grady went earlier than that. I'm sure Schleck got shelled with maybe 200 metres to go. Could be wrong, though.
  • PeteinSQ
    PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
    It's going to be really close I think.
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  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    It's going to be mighty close!
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Armstrong could be yellow jersey by a second or two, it's that close.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    The biggest surprise today (for me) is how sloppy Contador is in the line. Weird for a guy that's gotten so good in the TTT. But it makes me believe yesterday's claim that he caused the gap.
  • Fastlad
    Fastlad Posts: 908
    Allez Lance!!! no crisis of confidence now eh??? Nothing short of phenomenal!!!!! 8)
  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    edited July 2009
    Oh, I can't bear it.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,941
    Columbia down in 4th.
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Oh dear, the Lanceophobes are going to be crying tonight!
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Will be 5th, good effort from them after yesterday's efforts!

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