The Tour - stage 13 *spoiler*

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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    kleinstroker wrote:
    So Contador demolishes Valverdes chance of a podium finish! Can't imagine they'll be friends much longer

    No Belkin had already done that to get Mollema and Ten Dam in a good position.

    Saxo took it up to shed Froome.
  • resaRider
    resaRider Posts: 109
    get in Cav!!!
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Love Cav slapping his beer guy as a celebration hahaha!
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Chapeau Cav, Chapeau Bertie! great stage!


    Give the Dutch some credit too!
    "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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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Wow, 1:08-ish gap at the end!
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    I'm pleased for him. I really really am.
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    MOllema can do it all, climb, TT, sprint :-)
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    FFS just come out of a meeting. Sounds like Bertie wants to make a race of this yet.
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  • jonomc4
    jonomc4 Posts: 891
    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.

    And I thank you :) - without that win I would not have given him a chance in Paris.

    BTW - I believe it is not as dire for Sky as that time suggests - I think they are looking to put more effort into the mountain stages.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    That was the most cerebral stage of the Tour on so many levels.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    edited July 2013
    Looked like a replay of the British RR finish for Cav
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    kleinstroker wrote:
    So Contador demolishes Valverdes chance of a podium finish! Can't imagine they'll be friends much longer

    Valverde was well cooked before Saxo took it up

    I doubt it will be seen that way in the Movistar camp tonight
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Love Cav slapping his beer guy as a celebration hahaha!

    yeah, that made me smile too :D
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    This could be carnage over the next couple of days. Today was brutal!
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    jonomc4 wrote:
    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.

    And I thank you :) - without that win I would not have given him a chance in Paris.

    BTW - I believe it is not as dire for Sky as that time suggests - I think they are looking to put more effort into the mountain stages.


    You don't lose time if you can help it.
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    GRRRR Eurosport... let's cut away from the atmosphere of that epic stage and go and sit in a boring studio with James Richardson.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Valverde fated to never win the Tour.

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    Contador is the Greatest
  • Rundfahrt
    Rundfahrt Posts: 551
    Excellent sprint by Cav, but Sagan did not think that one out very well.

    I guess we will see about Sky the next few days.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Alan A wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Can someone quickly explain what Road Captain does (compared with Team Leader). Thanks.

    Oldest wisest head in the team that makes calls as to which break to follow, where / when sprint train should take it up etc etc.


    Not to be derogatory, but if that's Geraint Thomas do you not have a problem?
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  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Fabulous stage. Compelling tactical battle.
    Dare I say it... an excellent spoiler thread too :)
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  • jonomc4
    jonomc4 Posts: 891
    edited July 2013
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    jonomc4 wrote:
    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.

    And I thank you :) - without that win I would not have given him a chance in Paris.

    BTW - I believe it is not as dire for Sky as that time suggests - I think they are looking to put more effort into the mountain stages.


    You don't lose time if you can help it.

    Whilst I agree with you - I think they are aiming to make time in the mountains - I only say this because I think they are saving Porte for those stages - just a hunch- guess we will find out over the next 4 days
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    afx237vi wrote:
    GRRRR Eurosport... let's cut away from the atmosphere of that epic stage and go and sit in a boring studio with James Richardson.

    Do They? I get that Mikey bloke and a load of Euro interviews....

    So....#SaxoPostal anyone? *hides*
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,556
    Great stage.
    Chapeau to OPQS for destroying the peleton, and then Saxo for splitting away from Froome.

    Easy in the end for Cav.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    In that sprint I think we saw a Sagan looking a bit confused as to what to do - probably for the first time in his career. Looking all around and slowing up isn't the thing to do with Cavendish on your wheel!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    afx237vi wrote:
    GRRRR Eurosport... let's cut away from the atmosphere of that epic stage and go and sit in a boring studio with James Richardson.
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  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Valverde fated to never win the Tour.

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    ... but fated to steal a Vuelta ... so even ...

    Only shame is that Movistar only have one card to play now which cuts down on the variables on Sunday ...
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Love it when Cav gets to properly race, instead of being just a protected sprinter. He's a better racer than people give him credit for. Great stage that.

    Sky are stretched to breaking point - nothing tactical about their inability to hold on today.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    GC

    1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 51:00:30
    2 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:02:28
    3 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:02:45
    4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:02:48
    5 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:03:01
    6 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:04:39
    7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:04:44
    8 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 0:05:18
    9 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:05:39
    10 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Sharp 0:05:52
    Contador is the Greatest

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