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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    poppit wrote:
    Thomas still up there?

    At least the Welsh team has a rider left. :)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Pretty weak German squad which brings to the fore their lack of breadth in type of riders.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    270km is SUCH A LONG WAY.

    They've done an average/hilly tour stage with 96km to go. Pffft...
    _
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Paolini has a very low saddle.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    poppit wrote:
    Uran might be a good shout, did well at the Olympic road race last year and coped well with the weather in the Giro.
    Fair.
    As long as he looks the right way.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    If they are going 10-15 km/h on the steepest part of Via im surprised their back wheels arent slipping all over.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Above The Cows wrote:

    Lovely sun in the Netherlands today :D

    It was this time last year too. Had a bit of a party atmosphere. This rain doesn't seem to be helping to recreate it in Florence (although I think they probably need a few thousand more drunk Dutch and Belgians to help too).
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Real shame for Martin. He is a real racer and knows how to handle himself in these conditions and these distances.

    Froome 45 secs adrift. Looks like GB are getting pounded. Oh well. I wonder where Stannard and Geraint are.

    6 laps to go.

    Martin crashed?
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  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    "They've got bags of 'experience' in the team car."

    That's a new word for it. :)
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Froome has abandoned. Lol.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Froome out?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    inseine wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Real shame for Martin. He is a real racer and knows how to handle himself in these conditions and these distances.

    Froome 45 secs adrift. Looks like GB are getting pounded. Oh well. I wonder where Stannard and Geraint are.

    6 laps to go.

    yeah involved in the big crash. Chased and made a third of the time back before dnf

    Martin crashed?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Froome has abandoned. Lol.

    As have Ten Dam and Dumoulin.

    Thought this thread was starting to go quiet.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    thegibdog wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    poppit wrote:
    Uran might be a good shout, did well at the Olympic road race last year and coped well with the weather in the Giro.
    Fair.
    As long as he looks the right way.

    Seeing some serious wedge enter my bank account would be very distracting for me too tbh.
    _
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I'm reading those CONAD advertising signs as something else.

    Do they deliberately gave no kms to go graphic to make us feel like it's some sort of never ending purgatory?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Samu abandoned.

    Breschel did earlier as well.

    Not sure why roche quit.

    Only 70 riders left.
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    IanLD wrote:
    'Team Sky' plodding round off the back not looking like they are going much further.

    Course doesn't suit any of them.

    Thankfully, there still 75 riders that the course does seem to suit. :)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Samu abandoned.

    Breschel did earlier as well.

    Not sure why roche quit.

    Only 70 riders left.

    You must remember roche moaning that he hates it when it's cold and wet in the Vuelta.
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  • outcastjack
    outcastjack Posts: 237
    Frenchie did something traumatic happen to you on a trip to Manchester velodrome?

    suprised to see Degenkolb up there
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I'm reading those CONAD advertising signs as something else.

    Do they deliberately gave no kms to go graphic to make us feel like it's some sort of never ending purgatory?

    Boardman is on an endless loop of saying the breakaway will get caught next lap.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    The two up front are team mates with netapp

    Degenkolb still there!
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    78 riders mentioned on the timer before the race director got bored with it. No Brits on it.
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Just in and i just KNEW wiggins would be out the race. is their a more selfish rider in the peleton just now. if it's not on his terms he spits the dummy out. there was no chance of him helping froome today. the excuses book will be doing overtime today.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Reichenbach falls!

    Been waiting for that for ages (because of the Sherlock link, not because im a sadist). Hope he's ok.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Reichenbach falls!

    Been waiting for that for ages (because of the Sherlock link, not because im a sadist). Hope he's ok.

    Lol. Good one.
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  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    Froome has abandoned 92 Kms
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    Ninety-odd km to go. If this is the attrition part, I can hardly wait until the racing proper starts! :)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Ger have three up front. Wow. Colour me surprised.
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  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Pretty weak German squad which brings to the fore their lack of breadth in type of riders.

    Three Germans at the front :D
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Given the names of riders that have abandoned and some of those still in the main group (Romanian called Nechita).. you have to think that for some it's just the end of a long hard season. Others just don't fancy it in this weather (not like they'll get a kicking from their employers) or they've crashed/lost touch being stuck behind a crash.

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