TDF Stage 16 *SPOILER*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    When did you become concerned about doping?

    When a rider comes from no where. As opposed to a rider lighting them up since they were 15 in every race they enter.

    GT Champions are not created in a year.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    kanto wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    I thought he was going to go straight past Nibali. Same old story :roll: Froome the strongest rider in the race, and doesn't have the bottle to attack plodder Wiggins.

    Yes, because Wiggins was really struggling to hold his wheel :roll:
  • kanto
    kanto Posts: 112
    Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:
    kanto wrote:
    Nibali on the attack. A true rider!

    Yeah and 2 other true riders ride back up to his ars*

    You mean the two lemmings?
  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    kanto wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    I thought he was going to go straight past Nibali. Same old story :roll: Froome the strongest rider in the race, and doesn't have the bottle to attack plodder Wiggins.


    Why isn't there a yawn smiley when you need one?
    Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    kanto wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    I thought he was going to go straight past Nibali. Same old story :roll: Froome the strongest rider in the race, and doesn't have the bottle to attack plodder Wiggins.

    So strong he lost 30 seconds in the time trial to Wiggins.
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    Does Wiggins realise that occasionally, just every now and then, a team leader needs to ride on the front? Even Cav used ride on the front for HTC albeit for 200m.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Fair enough to Nibs.

    He's doing the best he can.

    I guess he needs time on the people behind for the TT.
    _
  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    kanto wrote:
    Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:
    kanto wrote:
    Nibali on the attack. A true rider!

    Yeah and 2 other true riders ride back up to his ars*

    You mean the two lemmings?

    You won't see these 2 lemmings commiting suicide by jumping off the edge of the mountain. They'll ride off it :wink:
    Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
    I RIDE A KONA CADABRA -would you like to come and have a play with my magic link?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Does Wiggins realise that occasionally, just every now and then, a team leader needs to ride on the front? Even Cav used ride on the front for HTC albeit for 200m.

    Why?

    It's a sky victory, and he's bossed in the first TT already.
    _
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Cummings still in the big GC group? Great ride.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    COBO is with the VDB group. Not bad.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Does Wiggins realise that occasionally, just every now and then, a team leader needs to ride on the front? Even Cav used ride on the front for HTC albeit for 200m.
    He did, about this time last Thursday. :lol:
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Does Wiggins realise that occasionally, just every now and then, a team leader needs to ride on the front? Even Cav used ride on the front for HTC albeit for 200m.

    He has done the other day prior to Froome getting dropped before he came back and attacked them all then get reigned back in
    Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Fair enough to Nibs.

    He's doing the best he can.

    I guess he needs time on the people behind for the TT.

    I did say on the Tourmalet this was going to be a borefest...
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  • kanto
    kanto Posts: 112
    Jez mon wrote:
    kanto wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    I thought he was going to go straight past Nibali. Same old story :roll: Froome the strongest rider in the race, and doesn't have the bottle to attack plodder Wiggins.

    So strong he lost 30 seconds in the time trial to Wiggins.

    That's why the TDF is more than TTing. Froome if allowed would have taken far more than the 30-60s on the mountains he would lose in a TT. Froome is a more rounded rider than Wiggins. But he doesn't have the bottle to show his true strength and would rather gift it to Wiggo.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Cummings still in the big GC group? Great ride.

    Yeah, pretty cool. These Brits eh...
    Contador is the Greatest
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    edited July 2012
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Does Wiggins realise that occasionally, just every now and then, a team leader needs to ride on the front? Even Cav used ride on the front for HTC albeit for 200m.

    Why?

    It's a sky victory, and he's bossed in the first TT already.
    Also, he has. BigBean must have been looking the other way

    Edit: stupid forum 'someone else has posted stuff' message. I don't care, just submit the post
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    frenchfighter wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    When did you become concerned about doping?

    When a rider comes from no where. As opposed to a rider lighting them up since they were 15 in every race they enter.

    GT Champions are not created in a year.

    The yellow jersey group have put less than 2 minutes back into the break since the Tourmalet. TV is a good all round rider but no mountain goat and has been riding on his own or with one other for that whole distance. The biggest surprise is not Froome being able to ride at the front but why so many others are getting dropped.
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    I love every single stage.


    Voeckler to win today! YEAH!
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Evans could drop out of the top 10 at this rate.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Bloody hell, Voeckler scares me descending.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    there you go wiggo is fighting back
    Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
    I RIDE A KONA CADABRA -would you like to come and have a play with my magic link?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Ahem? FF? Big Bean??
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nibs goes again through an absolutely huge amount of fans
    Contador is the Greatest
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    kanto wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    IS FROOME BREATHING YET?!

    I thought he was going to go straight past Nibali. Same old story :roll: Froome the strongest rider in the race, and doesn't have the bottle to attack plodder Wiggins.

    What marvellous insight. When you understand pro bike racing, please feel free to come back to the forum.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    I reckon Brad should go on the front right now before the start of the descent.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Wiggins pulling Nibali back 8)
  • richa
    richa Posts: 1,632
    Evans 3:30 down. We have the podium bar incidents.
    Rich
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Question - Were England exciting when they won the 2003 RWC?
  • nweststeyn
    nweststeyn Posts: 1,574
    ddraver wrote:
    Ahem? FF? Big Bean??

    Don't worry, they have selective vision/hearing...

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