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

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    Only 47 seconds separates 2nd from 5th place. without Froome, this TDF would be up in the air!

    Throw him out for snaffling some gels and you'll have an amazing next 2 days.

    worth considering

    I would give him a time penalty min
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Alan A wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    Only 47 seconds separates 2nd from 5th place. without Froome, this TDF would be up in the air!

    Throw him out for snaffling some gels and you'll have an amazing next 2 days.

    Part of me agrees. Very very dodgy stuff from Sky today. Muchos disappointed.

    Never gonna happen is it?

    Worst case, they throw Porte out after Froome sheepishly declares he took them in good faith and had no idea where they came from
    "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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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Brilliant 1st and 2nd Rides. Happy for Quintana too. Porte was great today. Lovely to see Contador losing some more time too. Come on Quintana!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    mididoctors wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    Only 47 seconds separates 2nd from 5th place. without Froome, this TDF would be up in the air!

    Throw him out for snaffling some gels and you'll have an amazing next 2 days.

    worth considering

    I would give him a time penalty min

    Porte took the gels, and i suspect would take any time penalty you give him...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    What are the punishments meted out for similar indiscreditions in the past? Do we have anything as a reference?
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    They won't. They won't punish him with anything. If they do, I'll eat my hat.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    PEG abuse

    Performance enhancing Gels.

    ive had an energy crash before and come to a grinding halt. What next a lift to the top in the car?

    CHEAT TASTIC


    I'm not sure you're deadly serious here but a couple of gels vs a car? really?

    yup chuck him out or dock him 5 minutes and chuck porte out. Then well have a race right into paris
    :D
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    the amount of suffering in that stage was something else
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well now we have another controversy. Sky just do this to keep Twitter in business ahead of a Murdoch buy out later in the year. You heard it here first.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    ddraver wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    Only 47 seconds separates 2nd from 5th place. without Froome, this TDF would be up in the air!

    Throw him out for snaffling some gels and you'll have an amazing next 2 days.

    worth considering

    I would give him a time penalty min

    Porte took the gels, and i suspect would take any time penalty you give him...

    more authorative statements there rock boy :roll:
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    AC still on 2nd.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    They won't do it but it' clearly Froome who asks for the illegal drink. They should give him a time penalty.
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Lichtblick wrote:
    What do the riders think of all these crazy people?

    Personally I like it, maybe at times it goes too far and too close but its all part of the TdF spectacle.

    If I was there I would probably do something stupid too! :D
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Well now we have another controversy. Sky just do this to keep Twitter in business ahead of a Murdoch buy out later in the year. You heard it here first.

    Fuss about nothing. If they do that, I assume there'll be bands of commissaires roaming the grupetto looking for guys taking water of speccies or a push.
    "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
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    donrhummy wrote:
    They won't do it but it' clearly Froome who asks for the illegal drink. They should give him a time penalty.

    They haven't. GC just came up.
  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    I don't often comment on the race threads but that was such a great stage I couldn't help :)
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  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    It is heartbreaking for TJ after an amazing effort out front all day.

    A brilliant win for Riblon. It's great to see a classic "away-all-day" attack working and a grimpeur taking the stage.

    Quitana delivers a big perormance although he was almost as smashed as Froome in the last few kms.

    Is Froome in trouble now for taking food from Porte after he presumably took an illegal feed from the SKY car? What is the penalty for whoever it is that is deemed responsible? (Apologies if this has been asked and answered a few pages back.) Thanks.

    DD.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Well now we have another controversy. Sky just do this to keep Twitter in business ahead of a Murdoch buy out later in the year. You heard it here first.

    Personally I'm more concerned about Contador's bike change just as Race Radio announced that the UCI will be weighing bikes at the finish.... :wink:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • nweststeyn
    nweststeyn Posts: 1,574
    aw brilliant, another thing for everyone to be OUTRAGED about. The world is a dreadful place innit.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    Only 47 seconds separates 2nd from 5th place. without Froome, this TDF would be up in the air!

    Throw him out for snaffling some gels and you'll have an amazing next 2 days.

    worth considering

    I would give him a time penalty min

    Porte took the gels, and i suspect would take any time penalty you give him...

    more authorative statements there rock boy :roll:

    Show me the evidence Froome took the gels from the car?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    Or maybe they'll apply the rules, which will be a fine. Geez guys all he did was take a gel, calm down!
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    edited July 2013
    nweststeyn wrote:
    aw brilliant, another thing for everyone to be OUTRAGED about. The world is a dreadful place innit.

    Not me mate. I am Buddha. I am Zen.

    other than people who type 'there' instead of 'their', of course.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    r0bh wrote:
    Or maybe they'll apply the rules, which will be a fine. Geez guys all he did was take a gel, calm down!

    NEVER! MASS HYSTERIA ALL ROUND!!! SKY TOOK A GEL! ENGLAND WILL FALL!!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • nweststeyn
    nweststeyn Posts: 1,574
    donrhummy wrote:
    They won't do it but it' clearly Froome who asks for the illegal drink. They should give him a time penalty.

    Even though all other riders in the race who have done this for the past 2 and a half weeks, as published every morning, have either received financial penalties or no penalty at all?
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Well now we have another controversy. Sky just do this to keep Twitter in business ahead of a Murdoch buy out later in the year. You heard it here first.

    Fuss about nothing. If they do that, I assume there'll be bands of commissaires roaming the grupetto looking for guys taking water of speccies or a push.

    Agreed. But you know, now he's released his power data we need to find something else to fan the flames.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    ddraver wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    Or maybe they'll apply the rules, which will be a fine. Geez guys all he did was take a gel, calm down!

    NEVER! MASS HYSTERIA ALL ROUND!!! SKY TOOK A GEL! ENGLAND WILL FALL!!!

    :D:D:D :roll:
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited July 2013
    Latest: Sky have been penalised with a 6 minute time penalty to Porte and Froome.










    muahaha..
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    Or maybe they'll apply the rules, which will be a fine. Geez guys all he did was take a gel, calm down!

    NEVER! MASS HYSTERIA ALL ROUND!!! SKY TOOK A GEL! ENGLAND WILL FALL!!!

    LIGHT THE BEACONS!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • nweststeyn
    nweststeyn Posts: 1,574
    I DEMAND TO BE OUTRAGED!!!!!
  • gsvbagpuss
    gsvbagpuss Posts: 272
    ddraver wrote:
    Personally I'm more concerned about Contador's bike change just as Race Radio announced that the UCI will be weighing bikes at the finish.... :wink:

    This

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