TdF 2013-Stage 21 ** SPOILERS*** Versailles / Champs-Élysées

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  • menchovʹsstabilisers
    menchovʹsstabilisers Posts: 122
    Eh? Where did Froome lose time?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,549
    Fantastic sprint, pleased for Kittel.

    Cav's wheel did jump about a foot in the air, but I think he was already beaten.

    Poor leadout and the mountains and the chase back earlier in the stage look to have cost him.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sean Kelly. Definitely shitfaced
    _
  • TommyB61
    TommyB61 Posts: 103
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Well done Froome.

    Well deserved.


    This.
  • menchovʹsstabilisers
    menchovʹsstabilisers Posts: 122
    Ah, they came across as a team.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
    What? Exceedingly good cakes?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Well Done, Big Congrats Chris Froome

    Knew you could do it me ol' mucker!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    EEEEEE i quite enjoyed that.
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Geraint rode all that tour with a broken pelvis.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I cant believe those bikes held up under those watts :shock:

    The Champs sprint is something else.

    Big win from Kittel.

    Cant believe Sky gave up 45secs at the end there.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Menchov'sStabilisers wrote:
    Eh? Where did Froome lose time?

    Fannying about lining up the sky team for the photo.
    _
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Lichtblick wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Not for the first time I have to say that IMHO it was a bad idea to have the last stage at night.

    Why?

    No lights? They don't usually race at this time of night? They've had all day presumably doing nothing much? A stunt to please the crowds which does not suit the actual riders?


    Haven't heard any complaints from the riders.

    The entire 3000k is a stunt to please the crowds :lol:
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    I want a Pete Kennaugh of my own.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Chapeau Froome - made up for you.

    Well done Kittel

    and Chapeau Macaloon for an excellent horse ploy - a worthy gag for the 100th tdf :D
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
    What? Exceedingly good cakes?

    :shock:

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Cant believe Sky gave up 45secs at the end there.


    Screws up comparisons with LAs Champs-Elysees times :wink::lol:
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • menchovʹsstabilisers
    menchovʹsstabilisers Posts: 122
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Menchov'sStabilisers wrote:
    Eh? Where did Froome lose time?

    Fannying about lining up the sky team for the photo.


    Not for the first time that their echelon riding was found wanting...
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    My baby! If it hadn't been for that pothole...........

    and a dismal lead-out train.






    Probably smashing up the Quick Step bus right now.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    EUROSPORT!

    STOP INTERRUPTING THE MONTAGE!!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
    What? Exceedingly good cakes?

    :shock:

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same
    Yes I know, little in British joke for you there Litchy :wink:

    Funnily enough my best mates parents had 'If' on the wall in the downstairs WC, read it many a time whilst emptying the bladder, easily my favourite poem.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
    What? Exceedingly good cakes?

    :shock:

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same


    That's not a nice way to refer to Kittel and Greipel :wink:
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Wonder if Ritchie and Froome get to cuddle up to each other again tonight.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
    What? Exceedingly good cakes?

    :shock:

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same

    .. then you obviously didnt care enough?
  • menchovʹsstabilisers
    menchovʹsstabilisers Posts: 122
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
    What? Exceedingly good cakes?

    :shock:

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same


    That's not a nice way to refer to Kittel and Greipel :wink:

    :lol::mrgreen:
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    NOS set has been invaded by sweaty Belkin riders...

    That Lars Boom's a sexy boy I must say.....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 83:56:40
    2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 0:04:20
    3 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha 0:05:04
    4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:06:27
    5 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:07:27
    6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:11:42
    7 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:12:17
    8 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:15:26
    9 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:15:52
    10 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin-Sharp 0:17:39
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,174
    Well you don't get better sprint finishes than that, Kittel doing a Cav, going early and holding on. Proper clean sprinting between the three best out there. Froome losing big time :lol:
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    NOS set has been invaded by sweaty Belkin riders...

    That Lars Boom's a sexy boy I must say.....

    Switches over to NOS...
    Correlation is not causation.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited July 2013
    I really really wanted that to be beautiful but wasn't it just a bit.. Weird..?
  • menchovʹsstabilisers
    menchovʹsstabilisers Posts: 122
    I hear there's going to be a big firework display. They didn't say whether that was going to be in the OPQS teambus or on the Arc de Triomphe though.

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