The Tour - stage 13 *spoiler*

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  • Rundfahrt
    Rundfahrt Posts: 551
    Who is in the break besides AC and his team? My three year old just doesn't get that we need to leave daddy alone during the Tour stage!
  • TimB34
    TimB34 Posts: 316
    Froome badly positioned in the chasing group - isolated and sitting on the windy side.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Who's that Cav's got with him? (team mate)

    tepstra & chava
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  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Cav could at least pretend to contribute ...

    Why? Nothing in it for him until the end so should be saving himself.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Someone want to post a catch up of what's happened?
    lol... I'll try:
    - Echelons!
    - Kittel stuck in 2nd group, OPQS start pushing on (front group contains Cav/Sagan/Greipel and most GC contenders)
    - Valverde puncture, tries to TTT back on with teammates, Belkin start helping OPQS, he ends up in 2nd group >1 min back
    - Gap keeps going out
    - Front group starts splitting as OPQS/Belkin keep working
    - Saxo jump off the front with 5-6 riders, Cav/Sagan/Ten Dam/Mollema manage to get in there, Froome left behind along with Greipel
    - Saxo group now 40-odd seconds out in front of Froome group
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,907
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Cav could at least pretend to contribute ...

    Saxo couldn't have done this without OPQS. That's his contribution.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Froome needs to do another TT here...

    Like him or loathe him that Bjarne Rijs can call a race!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    43secs on yellow jersey...

    Cav has Terpstra and Chava with him...
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    lostboysaint wrote:
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Cav could at least pretend to contribute ...

    Why? Nothing in it for him until the end so should be saving himself.

    Plus it was his team that have done the damage all day. Enjoy the armchair ride.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    BMC and Katusha have given up. Griepel has his Lotto lads on the front. Froome has 4 Sky with him. Looking ragged but gap slowly coming down.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TimB34
    TimB34 Posts: 316
    Rundfahrt wrote:
    Who is in the break besides AC and his team? My three year old just doesn't get that we need to leave daddy alone during the Tour stage!

    From letour.fr
    Sagan (CAN), Bodnar (CAN), Fuglsang (AST), Contador (TST), Bennati (TST), Kreuziger (TST), Roche (TST), Rogers (TST), Tosatto (TST), Cavendish (OPQ), Chavanel (OPQ), Tepstra (OPQ), Mollema (BEL) and Ten Dam (BEL) are the men in the lead of the stage.
  • Walter White
    Walter White Posts: 238
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Cav could at least pretend to contribute ...

    Haha, he must be loving this, not to underestimate Sagan but Cav should win this 19 out of 20 times.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Valverde relishing the moto camera close-up under his yellow lid.
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  • resaRider
    resaRider Posts: 109
    Imagine Froome had a team like Saxo working for him, he'd be about half hour ahead!
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    14km to go... gap to the yellow jersey group is growing... sky look weak...

    Maybe Valverde will now go for stage wins...
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Macaloon wrote:
    If Saxo can do this on the flat. Tomorrow's profile looks tasty.

    Absolutely. Hope the wind blows as much as today.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    ddraver wrote:
    Froome needs to do another TT here...

    Like him or loathe him that Bjarne Rijs can call a race!!

    ha ha that's what Frenchie said
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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I love Saxo`s specs. Look like they have fire coming out their eyes.

    Yup! Very 1990's..
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    frenchfighter wrote:
    One thing about Contador and Riis is that they necer give up. They know how to race. They know how to think outside the box. Big shame Contador blew on Saturday and got monstered on Wednesday.

    6.5 mins for Valverde!!!

    True that - I was absolutely loving stage 17 in la vuelta last year..

    you've got to them at least some credit, they know how to race!
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    ddraver wrote:
    Froome needs to do another TT here...

    Like him or loathe him that Bjarne Rijs can call a race!!

    He even managed to guide tactical dunce Ullrich to a Tour win
    "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
    Griepel keeps pushing people forward.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    That little uncat climb with 8k to go could throw some spanners in the works?

    Anyone think Bertie will go for the stage win?
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  • jonomc4
    jonomc4 Posts: 891
    I think Cav will get this - it is his last chance of a stage win until Paris - he needs it too much physiologically to let it slip.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Worrying thing for Froome is how poor Sky are as a team and how strong Saxo are looking. He's still got the edge in the mountains I reckon, but this has happened twice now and Saxo / Belkin will have got the message loud and clear.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    goonz wrote:
    That little uncat climb with 8k to go could throw some spanners in the works?

    Anyone think Bertie will go for the stage win?
    Nah, would be a waste of energy for him. Putting time into Froome is the important thing.
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Ugh...starey eyed Weetabix people :x
  • resaRider
    resaRider Posts: 109
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    resaRider wrote:
    Sky just look so ragtag compared to last year,
    brilliant stage though!!!!

    Who is the road captain for Sky this year?

    It was Rodgers last year.. but now he's doing it for Saxo - and doing a good job!

    Nobody has even stayed with Froome let alone been able to captain the team!
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    The riders in 3rd 4th 5th and 6th in the GC are in the break.

    Never seen anything like it!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited July 2013
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Distances, people, distances! What are they? What's the gap?
    10km to go. 45 seconds gap.

    Saxo working together. Chasing group hardly working – they're stuffed.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    jonomc4 wrote:
    I think Cav will get this - it is his last chance of a stage win until Paris - he needs it too much physiologically to let it slip.
    Will be interesting to see how Cav and Sagan match up after a stage with so much effort

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