Stage 13 : Vittel - Colmar *spoiler*

2456

Comments

  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Moray Gub wrote:
    Do you need to have potentially exciting stages to get you watching or is that through circumstances ? Me i will watch any pro cycling race on TV potential excitement or otherwise.

    I usually would watch anything but for the Tour I follow it on cyclingnews text report, if it sounds reasonable I watch it.

    Enjoying the HD pictures MG?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    iainf72 wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    Do you need to have potentially exciting stages to get you watching or is that through circumstances ? Me i will watch any pro cycling race on TV potential excitement or otherwise.

    I usually would watch anything but for the Tour I follow it on cyclingnews text report, if it sounds reasonable I watch it.

    Enjoying the HD pictures MG?

    Yea superb though sometimes you forget you have (or the missus does when she records it ) it and watching normal definition and you sense something is not quite right :-)
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Pokerface wrote:
    The break looks doomed to failure.
    The bunch was bearing down when Chavanel, Moreno and Haussler put in a dig and now the trio has three minutes in the space of no time. Miserable conditions on the road, the rain should suit Chavanel.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    The break of 3 now has 5 minutes. Knew it was only a matter of time until Chavanel got into a big break!

    But, as Haussler is also in this break - look for the bunch to pull them back and Cavendish to beat him by half a tire width on the line.


    Oh wait - that already happened in another race. ;)
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Go Chav!

    Bout time I got a man in a break.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    6 and half minutes and climbing!
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Any TV coverage yet?
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    No Eurosport messing about with previews & studio chat at the moment.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    9 minutes now. Almost halfway through the stage but all the big climbs still to come.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Live pictures now and it looks grim!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    No Eurosport messing about with previews & studio chat at the moment.

    FFS, 60 seconds and then an ad break.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    All I will say is good luck to Harmon to pick the riders out! Also will be nice to hear from Mike Smith
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    frenchfighter wrote:
    610x.jpg

    Isn't that Jon Pertwee?! :shock:
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Pertwee: "I am the Doctor"
    Evans: "Sh1t, I need one of those"
  • kinesin
    kinesin Posts: 100
    Anybody else have issues with the live eurosport audio?

    I've been able to listen in work, but today nothing :(
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    Chavennel you arse! Where was you yesterday for my PTP! :x
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    my sky player on pc is terrible today, always breaking picture and sound and 'buffering'. what the hell is buffering :evil:
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited July 2009
    afx237vi wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    610x.jpg

    Isn't that Jon Pertwee?! :shock:

    There's Patrick Stewart in the background too.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It's getting lively on the climb now. Funny to see them in the rain jackets, swelling up the wind. Why do manufacturers make them with such big and unaerodynamic sleeves?
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    I thought Boonen had a trendy puffa jacket.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Big group off the front and riders out the back, on the Schlucht.
    Action!....
    More asscam shots of Armstrong asking Bruyneel to ask Pat to get this wet stage neutralised. :roll:

    Oooh Astanarama, now on the front. Not happy with this big break.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FEILLU jumped out of the chasing group
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    Great weather - going to take extra energy with those jackets.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Blimey that boy can climb. I'm really enjoying his performances.


    So far confrimed in lead group:
    Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel)
    Amets Txurruka (Euskaltel)
    Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas)
    Fabian Cancellara (Saxo)
    Sergio Paulhino (Astana)
    Maxime Monfort (Columbia)
    Christophe Kern (Cofidis)

    We're still compiling the list, but the group is now 25 seconds up the road.

    Monfort could be viewed as a threat. He's only 2:21 out of the lead.

    -Velonews
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Looks good. Astana are towing the bunch, not sure why since Brice Feillu is hardly a big worry. This should open up the race for later. Or at least I hope.

    Lots of orange jackets on the front. With the other news from today, some eyebrows might be raised.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Monfort is only 2.21 back on GC. Maybe that is why Astana rode and caught the group.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Gerdemann has 1min on the peloton.

    Group is nearly 7 mins in front.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Gerdemann has 1min on the peloton.
    The French call it "potato hunting" :?
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    did klodi just say it was gonna be a SH|T day on telly.. made my day!!
    cartoon.jpg
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    7.31 with 68km to go...
    Contador is the Greatest

Categories