TDF 2013 Stage 18 L'Alpe d'Huez *Spoilers*

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    So, those were some expensive matches Saxo burnt, no?

    Might have squeezed a little extra effort from Sky, but didn't look like it did that much damage.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    So Saxo just send out two domestiques to ride in no mans land for a good chunk of time and then be brought back by the Sky led peloton. Pretty dumb move.
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Stannard and Thomas just taken the rear exit
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Really thinning down now.

    I don't mean Valverde's hair.
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
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    If Cadel Evans was a horse he would have been shot by now.

    He would be in the second row of horses in a group on a horse drawn carriage.
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  • doug5_10
    doug5_10 Posts: 465
    Evans and Martin distanced
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  • gsvbagpuss
    gsvbagpuss Posts: 272
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    Siutsou doing a solid turn and looking useful

    I thought he missed a time limt a while back, same with Lopex. Sky been biding their time for this stage?
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Feel sorry for TvG seems a bit of a 'right man wrong team' hope he gets something today.
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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Hat off to anyone who has ridden up that, it looks brutal!
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    hammerite wrote:
    They just showed Cav on the climb, I know he'll be in the bus, but surprised they're as close as they are to the peloton.

    I was thinking the same.. but as was said on TV, they had a relatively easy run in this year to the Alpe... Two ascents are not particularly onerous when you consider that in previous years they would have covered the Telegraph/Galibier or Glandon/Croix de Fer before arriving in Bourg...
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    frenchfighter wrote:
    So Saxo just send out two domestiques to ride in no mans land for a good chunk of time and then be brought back by the Sky led peloton. Pretty dumb move.

    Very daft. Was Bertie supposed to have attacked?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Saxos cunning plan is to have Paulinho hide in a bush until they come round a second time.
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  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    GSVBagpuss wrote:
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    Siutsou doing a solid turn and looking useful

    I thought he missed a time limt a while back, same with Lopex. Sky been biding their time for this stage?

    That was Kirienka the other Belarussian
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    The Hoog dropped. And saxo's rabbits caught too
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    *reminds self that Hoogerland was nearly killed at the start of the season and forgives him*
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)

    Well, women can't do that.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)


    Lots of bushes around... I admit, I stepped in HUMAN POO there two years ago...
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  • ddraver
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    Lichtblick wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)

    Well, women can't do that.

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Saxos cunning plan is to have Paulinho hide in a bush until they come round a second time.

    Burn
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    At the edge of a cliff aiming for the people on the road below.
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  • slimreaper
    slimreaper Posts: 738
    emadden wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)


    Lots of bushes around... I admit, I stepped in HUMAN POO there two years ago...
    Nice!
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Saxos cunning plan is to have Paulinho hide in a bush until they come round a second time.

    And then be swallowed and up and spat out by the peloton again?
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Lichtblick wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)

    Well, women can't do that.

    Not heard of the phrase squat and squirt?

    TJ pulling a bit of time out, Sky going up steadily.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    Is this like a joke you find on the side of a Penguin biscuit - is the answer the Alpe Loo-ez :lol:
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    emadden wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)


    Lots of bushes around... I admit, I stepped in HUMAN POO there two years ago...

    The whole place must stink! All that sweat, beer, p*ss and sh*t........
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    This is the BOTTOM of the climb, this is insane!!!
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Lichtblick wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    I went to the toilet at the apartment we booked that was above the bar on bend 16. The rest just pee down the mountain on those below them! (There's grass in most places and not usually sheer drops at the side of the road)

    Well, women can't do that.

    I've known a few that have tried! :shock:
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  • doug5_10
    doug5_10 Posts: 465
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Saxos cunning plan is to have Paulinho hide in a bush until they come round a second time.

    Not before Ricardo Ricco beats him to it!
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  • gsvbagpuss
    gsvbagpuss Posts: 272
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    where do all these hundreds of thousands of fans go to the loo?

    Is this like a joke you find on the side of a Penguin biscuit - is the answer the Alpe Loo-ez :lol:

    Chapeau!!

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