Stage 20 TT Spoilers

alan_a

They are off and racing:





At the first time check LR Fabio Sabitini is doing himself proud being 1'49" slower than Danny Pate. Keep up the good work Fabio.

Andy Shrek to start at 3:18pm uk finish approx 4.15pm uk

Here's to a nail biting afternoon.

alan_a

Start times for leading contenders for stage win

Cancellara starts at 10.48.

David Millar starts 12.28

Tony Martin 1.28

Geraint Thomas 1.58

cogidubnus

Westra leading with Fabien on course now

alan_a

Spartacus 57:15 almost a minute faster than Westra

DeadCalm

Alan A wrote:

Start times for leading contenders for stage win

Cancellara starts at 10.48.

David Millar starts 12.28

Tony Martin 1.28

Geraint Thomas 1.58

Millar apparently struggled to come in with the grupetto yesterday. I don'th think he's a contender despite him being my PTP pick,

Bronzie

DeadCalm wrote:

Millar apparently struggled to come in with the grupetto yesterday. I don'th think he's a contender despite him being my PTP pick,

He was dead last. Hasn''t been feeling well apparently.

Happiness1982

Presume Hoogerland will set off before the buzzer

Bronzie

Alan A wrote:

Spartacus 57:15 almost a minute faster than Westra

But nearly 2 mins slower than Tony Martin in the Dauphine.......hmmm.

Is he bluffing

cogidubnus

Weather is foul though, if it dries speed will increase later.

A Schleck to win.....?

RichN95.

Bronzie wrote:

Alan A wrote:

Spartacus 57:15 almost a minute faster than Westra

But nearly 2 mins slower than Tony Martin in the Dauphine.......hmmm.

Is he bluffing

A time trial on stage 3 of the Dauphine is not the same as a time trial on stage 20 of the Tour. There's not much to be learnt from comparing the times.

blazing_saddles

Thomas de Gendt fastest at the first CP.
Cancellara's time is certainly modest.

RichN95 wrote:

A time trial on stage 3 of the Dauphine is not the same as a time trial on stage 20 of the Tour. There's not much to be learnt from comparing the times.

Quite right. 3 days is not 3 weeks.
Also, maybe a good sign on the doping front.

RichN95.

Porte beats Cancellara - 57.03

blazing_saddles

Porte takes the lead.

frenchfighter

YESSSSSSSSSSS SO please for Porte.

frenchfighter

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frenchfighter

“It’s a shame not to have gotten the stage win. Maybe I attacked too soon,” said the leader of Saxo Bank-SunGard.

Alberto said that yesterday “when I reached the finish line, it was a very tough blow, but I’d barely crossed the finish line before I started analyzing it all, and I thought that today I had to give it everything,” he said about how he built his strategy. “Yesterday I didn’t like what happened. I’ve been on the back foot for the whole Tour, so today I went out to do whatever I could, God willing. I didn’t care whether I finished 5th or 24th in the general.”

Contador said that he had come to the Tour thinking only about the general classification. “Honestly, everything that’s not winning the general is all the same to me. I came to the Tour thinking about victory in the general, but knowing that it was very difficult because of the famous Giro-Tour double. Once the chance of victory disappeared, today I had to risk it.”

Champion. I wonder if he rides le Vuelta. And next year skip the Giro for the Tour-Vuelta double.



“I function based on motivations. When I was in bed yesterday, I thought about spending a Tour as a nonentity and it made me feel like going home. So I decided to try something. I knew that I’d either break the race or they’d let me go. And it was broken.” he said. “It would’ve been simpler to attack on the last climb, but it wouldn’t have been equally satisfying,” he insisted.

“I came to win the Tour, but I knew that getting a double with the Giro was going to be very difficult. It’s difficult to tackle the Tour with a schedule that’s too loaded. The Giro d’Italia has taken a toll,” he said. “And as if that weren’t enough, I’ve been on the back foot the whole Tour, with the crashes, the knee problems, the efforts of the whole year…,” he said.

frenchfighter

takethehighroad

frenchfighter wrote:

Champion. I wonder if he rides le Vuelta. And next year skip the Giro for the Tour-Vuelta double.

Do you know something that us and the UCI/WADA don't?

He might not have the chance to ride any of those races, this year or next

RichN95.

De Gendt beats Porte by a second. He was sixth yesterday. Where was he for the first 18 stages?

frenchfighter

Martin is battered
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LLS is so far down GC its odd..............................

smithy21

Martin flying at the first checkpoint.

frenchfighter

1.Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DC) 57:02
2.Richie Porte (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 57:03
3.Fabian Cancellara (Leopard Trek) 57:15
4.Kristjan Koren (Liquigas-Cannondale) 58:09
5.Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD) 58:11
6.Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) 58:12
7.Jurgen Roelandts (Omega Pharma-Lotto )58:30
8.Jeremy Roy (FDJ) 58:56
9.Danny Pate (HTC-Highroad) 59:03
10.David Millar (Garmin-Cervélo) 59:14

inkyfingers

I had no idea Thomas de Gendt could ride a decent TT?!

frenchfighter

Martin clocks his 4minute man

Chavanel 9th

blazing_saddles

Did Tony Martin spot a Sky contract in the Jag's rear window?

EBH had to have a bike change, so he was screwed.

patchy

EBH still did 57.43 though.... fast fupper.

fleshtuxedo

Martin 38 seconds up at point 2

Bronzie

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Did Tony Martin spot a Sky contract in the Jag's rear window?.

Obviously didn't like the terms and conditions once he'd got close enough to read them

frenchfighter

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donrhummy

Richie Porte is going to be quite a force over the next 5-10 years.

donrhummy

WOW. Tony Martin just DESTROYED Cancellara!! He would have almost PASSED him on the road if Cancellara had started right before him!!