Tour de France Stage 11 *Spoiler*

Pross

Am I the only one who keeps getting confused between Kessiakoff and Kiserlovski?

derbygrimpeur

calvjones wrote:

Pross wrote:

calvjones wrote:

Whatever happend to John Lee Augustin?

Is that a genuine question (never know on here)? If so, he's on an indefinite break from racing for health reasons following a hip resurfacing operation last year that apparently couldn't cope with the strains of pro cycling.

Yes was a genuine question - I wasn't suggesting he was still in the scree.

Shame. Good rider.

Pross

oldwelshman wrote:

Rodgers still going, not hard, looks like they trying to save porte for last climb, someone should at least try to attack sky to use up their riders.

Nibs will go on the descent, if he's got the legs it's a far better tactic today than it was yesterday.

RichN95.

calvjones wrote:

Yes was a genuine question - I wasn't suggesting he was still in the scree.

Like something from Greek mythology, the gods had condemned him to forever scramble up the scree only to slide back down again.

TheStone

Pross wrote:

Am I the only one who keeps getting confused between Kessiakoff and Kiserlovski?

Was just posting the same thing. Until today, I didn't realise they were two different riders!

calvjones

RichN95 wrote:

calvjones wrote:

Yes was a genuine question - I wasn't suggesting he was still in the scree.

Like something from Greek mythology, the gods had condemned him to forever scramble up the scree only to slide back down again.

Pross

calvjones wrote:

Pross wrote:

calvjones wrote:

Whatever happend to John Lee Augustin?

Is that a genuine question (never know on here)? If so, he's on an indefinite break from racing for health reasons following a hip resurfacing operation last year that apparently couldn't cope with the strains of pro cycling.

Yes was a genuine question - I wasn't suggesting he was still in the scree.

Shame. Good rider.

I wondered if it was some veiled insinuation about his variation in climbing form over a few seasons, this place is making me paranoid that every comment is about doping

oldwelshman

not is he ends up in a bush lol
not sure he wouldnot blow with porte and froome riding him down but hope he tries, still not hard looking at how easy porte went back for drinks

Dorset_Boy

The descent looks really, really twisty - it that good for an escape?

iainf72

Sky eventually need to pay the bill for all this work. Look at what happened to Liquigas in the Giro. If you do this kind of thing day after day, eventually you weaken a bit

Pross

So much for UKPS. Vino, Roche and others all getting back - pretty sure if Evans had attacked USPS like that they would have kept an impossible pace to the finish.

rick_chasey

iainf72 wrote:

Sky eventually need to pay the bill for all this work. Look at what happened to Liquigas in the Giro. If you do this kind of thing day after day, eventually you weaken a bit

It'll be too late then.

Can't see Wiggins dropping 4 minutes in the circle of death. S'not even an uphill finish.

bigmat

Pross wrote:

Am I the only one who keeps getting confused between Kessiakoff and Kiserlovski?

Not to mention Kreuziger and Kashechkin - they should sign Kirienka and Kern!

MrTapir

TheStone wrote:

Pross wrote:

Am I the only one who keeps getting confused between Kessiakoff and Kiserlovski?

Was just posting the same thing. Until today, I didn't realise they were two different riders!

Its like Phil and Paul doing 'the many personas of Michael Morkov'

disgruntledgoat

Dorset Boy wrote:

The descent looks really, really twisty - it that good for an escape?

I'm nervous for the riders on this. It's horrible.

Teddy Westside

So, Phil and Paul can't see why Kessiakoff was disallowed the summit win? I can - he clearly used his elbow to prevent Rolland getting over the line first. In his defence, he probably did so to prevent running into the officials standing on the line but rules are rules.

Edit: And now the judges reverse their decision!

TheStone

Current stage odds:

Rolland 2/1
VdB 7/1
Nibs 8/1
Froome 9/1
Ks 10-15/1

RichN95.

iainf72 wrote:

Sky eventually need to pay the bill for all this work. Look at what happened to Liquigas in the Giro. If you do this kind of thing day after day, eventually you weaken a bit

I still think that, bar Evans's little escapade, they're just doing the bare minimum. There's a lot of riders who were blown from the break sitting there quite comfortably.

bigmat

TheStone wrote:

Current stage odds:

Rolland 2/1
VdB 7/1
Nibs 8/1
Froome 9/1
Ks 10-15/1

When you say "K's", can you get odds on any one of Kessiakoff, Kiriyenka or Kiserlovski?!

RichN95.

Unlucky Pierre

emadden

Beginning to feel like the Tour is as good as finished now (i.e. top two places)

afx237vi

Rolland Rolledoff.

Pross

RichN95 wrote:

Unlucky Pierre

Most predictable crash in Tour history! Harmon was predicting it all the way down.

TheStone

BigMat wrote:

When you say "K's", can you get odds on any one of Kessiakoff, Kiriyenka or Kiserlovski?!

Someone, somewhere maybe. I couldn't be bothered to type all those random letters out.

dsoutar

Still 2/1 now ?

afx237vi

emadden wrote:

Beginning to feel like the Tour is as good as finished now (i.e. top two places)

Are you only just catching up with the prologue or something?

calvjones

afx237vi wrote:

Rolland Rolledoff.

Corners like a ferry.

Pross

emadden wrote:

Beginning to feel like the Tour is as good as finished now (i.e. top two places)

Second place still very up for grabs - I think it could change today.

dsoutar

Sorry - shouldn't mock. I'll never be able to descend like that in a million years

emadden

Pross wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Unlucky Pierre

Most predictable crash in Tour history! Harmon was predicting it all the way down.

Yeah but he's been on and on and on and on about the surface... but Rolland fell because he is in the Schleck Camp of Bike Handling