TdF Stage 17 *Spoilers*

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  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    edited July 2010
    Not if you're Sastre.
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • Lightning
    Lightning Posts: 360
    Now he waits.
  • Orleandrew
    Orleandrew Posts: 61
    Shit bike handler obviously.

    I bet he's got minging socks on too.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    "He's on his feet now, Contador on the front telling everyone to calm down and wait.

    Sanchez is on his bike, getting a little push.

    Sastre has attacked."
  • AidanR
    AidanR Posts: 1,142
    Hmm, Contador stopping the peleton for Sanchez, but Sastre isn't interested. I guess he wants to catch the break? Hmm, unwritten rules once more - should he wait when he's not going to threaten GC? I reckon it's OK.
    Bike lover and part-time cyclist.
  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    can't see his socks for his overshoes, it's cold over there. He's getting paced back to the peloton now.
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    contador plays ref: but Sastre carries on whilst all the peloton waits - heres an additional minute lead handed to the front group!
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    camerone wrote:
    deejay wrote:
    camerone wrote:
    if he can get in the break Lance likes it wet and cold.
    Yes OK that is the best one yet and no one is going to better it.

    You win the prize of the biggest Wind Up Merchant anywhere. Well done.
    someone has to try and de-throne you :wink:
    Yes I must admit to being awarded the wooden spoon a couple of times in the past . :wink:

    I almost put that "if" Lancy had won Paris-Nice you could be right but he has never finished that one because it gets too cold for him.
    So you win.

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  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    I hope he is ok. Had a bet on him for today!!!
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  • Orleandrew
    Orleandrew Posts: 61
    AidanR wrote:
    Hmm, Contador stopping the peloton for Sanchez, but Sastre isn't interested. I guess he wants to catch the break? Hmm, unwritten rules once more - should he wait when he's not going to threaten GC? I reckon it's OK.

    Contador's probably just trying to generate a bit of positive PR after Monday.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    ts the apocalypse

    we may be stuck with carlton all day
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I blame cancellara for all this nonsense
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Orleandrew wrote:
    AidanR wrote:
    Hmm, Contador stopping the peloton for Sanchez, but Sastre isn't interested. I guess he wants to catch the break? Hmm, unwritten rules once more - should he wait when he's not going to threaten GC? I reckon it's OK.

    Contador's probably just trying to generate a bit of positive PR after Monday.

    That is a situation where you would wait. No one was really racing, so you wait.

    I read it in the unwritten rule book.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • AidanR
    AidanR Posts: 1,142
    Harmon was pretty scathing of Sastre, but if his plan for the day is to get in the break I don't see why he shouldn't take advantage of Sanchez's fall. After all, Sanchez won't be at a disadvantage because of it.
    Bike lover and part-time cyclist.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Screw it. I hope Carlos wins today. I got him at 40-1 to do so! :oops:
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    mididoctors wrote:
    ts the apocalypse

    we may be stuck with carlton all day

    I agree...been looking forward to this stage all week...no pics and that divvy Kirby to listen to :( Might have to switch on ITV4 in abit!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    iainf72 wrote:
    Orleandrew wrote:
    AidanR wrote:
    Hmm, Contador stopping the peloton for Sanchez, but Sastre isn't interested. I guess he wants to catch the break? Hmm, unwritten rules once more - should he wait when he's not going to threaten GC? I reckon it's OK.

    Contador's probably just trying to generate a bit of positive PR after Monday.

    That is a situation where you would wait. No one was really racing, so you wait.

    I read it in the unwritten rule book.

    yes but there is an addendum in the 2010 handbook
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    mididoctors wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Orleandrew wrote:
    AidanR wrote:
    Hmm, Contador stopping the peloton for Sanchez, but Sastre isn't interested. I guess he wants to catch the break? Hmm, unwritten rules once more - should he wait when he's not going to threaten GC? I reckon it's OK.

    Contador's probably just trying to generate a bit of positive PR after Monday.

    That is a situation where you would wait. No one was really racing, so you wait.

    I read it in the unwritten rule book.

    yes but there is an addendum in the 2010 handbook

    You sure? I can't find it...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Bleeding carrot anyone?
    _
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    Break at seven minutes already. Sheesh.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Garry H wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Orleandrew wrote:
    AidanR wrote:
    Hmm, Contador stopping the peloton for Sanchez, but Sastre isn't interested. I guess he wants to catch the break? Hmm, unwritten rules once more - should he wait when he's not going to threaten GC? I reckon it's OK.

    Contador's probably just trying to generate a bit of positive PR after Monday.

    That is a situation where you would wait. No one was really racing, so you wait.

    I read it in the unwritten rule book.

    yes but there is an addendum in the 2010 handbook

    You sure? I can't find it...

    It's in the addendum "New and Wimpier rules for racing"
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    It's in the addendum "New and Wimpier rules for racing"

    Is that before the "Top 15 is worth something" appendix?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    iainf72 wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    It's in the addendum "New and Wimpier rules for racing"

    Is that before the "Top 15 is worth something" appendix?

    There's been an amendment to that appendix, it's now top 18.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    iainf72 wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    It's in the addendum "New and Wimpier rules for racing"

    Is that before the "Top 15 is worth something" appendix?

    its under the "only if it actually benefits you" sub clause
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    .........and still Dennis hasn't come down in this race..........

    Some talk about them grounding the helis.

    Will be a bummer, if this stage goes the same way as the Gavia Giro stage.............

    ........Surely, the amendment to that appendix, should read top 25? :wink:
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    with the breakaway over 8 minutes clear, one thing seems certain now - Charteau wins this year's polka dot jersey
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    FJS wrote:
    with the breakaway over 8 minutes clear, one thing seems certain now - Charteau wins this year's polka dot jersey

    what chance has moreau of getting down the road unless he takes a shack chaparone with him?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Snorebens
    Snorebens Posts: 759
    Sastre on his own now, around 4 minutes behind the break... a lot of energy expended if he doesn't make it but then he'll be on the climb soon
  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,823
    Re rule re waiting was, I thought, specifically targetted at the yellow jersey, not wait for anyone because they've hit a problem, that is takign it to extremes.
    Earned yellow jersey = earned extra respect ?
    Sastre isn't a threat to the overall at all anyway which is what Sanchez is aiming at, I guess Sastre is hoping to get up to the break for the stage win, not hoping to take tons of time from Sanchez.
    Re Contador : good PR plus he's fellow Spaniard (I know, so is Sastre but he has 'other fish to fry' as Duffers would say).
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    Sastre not making much progress towards the break

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