TDF Stage 13: St Etiennie - Chamrousse *spoiler*

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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    Yeah, it's always been GT more or less alone that I've seen shepherding Porte around in the hills so far. Maybe Nieve just doesn't have great form, which isn't good for Sky...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Kwiatek dropped...
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    adr82 wrote:
    Still 3 or 4 Astana riders with Nibs up at the front

    Just switched on. Who chased the break? Did they make Astana work?
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Macaloon wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    Still 3 or 4 Astana riders with Nibs up at the front

    Just switched on. Who chased the break? Did they make Astana work?
    No, it was almost entirely Katusha and then Europcar.
  • d_o_g
    d_o_g Posts: 286
    adr82 wrote:
    No KOM points for Voeckler today then

    I'm a fan of Tommy, but this tour has been virtually all show and not much content from him, and he seems to be getting poorer the longer it goes on.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Europcar are such a strange team.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Ah you're right I think. I saw #6 being dropped but that's Pate not Nieve (#5)
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.

    Lopez showing well again this year!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    What's this about Arthur being out?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    ThomThom wrote:
    Europcar are such a strange team.
    Every morning they use something like this to decide the days tactics

    spin1.jpg
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Above The Cows wrote:
    What's this about Arthur being out?
    Yep, abandoned quite early on
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    BigMat wrote:
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".
    Injured. Got hit by a camera bike (or something to do with a camera)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    RichN95 wrote:
    ThomThom wrote:
    Europcar are such a strange team.
    Every morning they use something like this to decide the days tactics

    spin1.jpg
    Except it obviously isn't called "Spin to win" :P
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    BigMat wrote:
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".

    His main job so far seems to be keeping J-Rod company as they roll in behind the peloton each day.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Plenty of teams seem to want a hard race. That's a great sign.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    RichN95 wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".
    Injured. Got hit by a camera bike (or something to do with a camera)


    Excuses excuses (I'll let him off!)
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    RichN95 wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".
    Injured. Got hit by a camera bike (or something to do with a camera)

    I heard it was a shoulder injury from the shoulder vs iPad holding spectator on stage 3, and he can't get out of the saddle.
  • Coach H
    Coach H Posts: 1,092
    RichN95 wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".
    Injured. Got hit by a camera bike (or something to do with a camera)

    Got hit on the shoulder by a spectators iPad on one of the GB stages. Couldn't get out of the saddle for a few days
    Coach H. (Dont ask me for training advice - 'It's not about the bike')
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    r0bh wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Never mind Nieve, is Lopez even in this race? Apologies if he isn't but I don't recall hearing him mentioned even once. Presumably he's done "loads of work before the televised coverage starts".
    Injured. Got hit by a camera bike (or something to do with a camera)

    I heard it was a shoulder injury from the shoulder vs iPad holding spectator on stage 3, and he can't get out of the saddle.
    That will be it then. I just head 'camera' and filled in my own story.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    So De Marchi is solo (my bad) with 1min on Jan Bak and Kadri (Jan Bak has just distanced him though as he wasn't pulling his weight). Mollard and another Cofidis are another 30secs behind then you have the peloton.
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  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    adr82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Ah you're right I think. I saw #6 being dropped but that's Pate not Nieve (#5)

    Ah, Danny Pate picked because he showed good form at the Tour of California according to Sir Dave Brailsford.
    Rule No.10 // It never gets easier, you just go faster
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,095
    blel kadri has cracked
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Ah you're right I think. I saw #6 being dropped but that's Pate not Nieve (#5)

    Ah, Danny Pate picked because he showed good form at the Tour of California according to Sir Dave Brailsford.

    Another rider I have no idea why he is on the team overall let alone the Tour team.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Ah you're right I think. I saw #6 being dropped but that's Pate not Nieve (#5)

    Ah, Danny Pate picked because he showed good form at the Tour of California according to Sir Dave Brailsford.

    Pate is not a climbing domestique. He will have done his work earlier in the stage.
  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    r0bh wrote:
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Ah you're right I think. I saw #6 being dropped but that's Pate not Nieve (#5)

    Ah, Danny Pate picked because he showed good form at the Tour of California according to Sir Dave Brailsford.

    Pate is not a climbing domestique. He will have done his work earlier in the stage.

    He must be rrreeeally good for team morale!
    Rule No.10 // It never gets easier, you just go faster
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    Nieve dropped?! Bit early for that, surely.
    I think it was Kiryienka. Three Sky right up the front still.
    Ah you're right I think. I saw #6 being dropped but that's Pate not Nieve (#5)

    Ah, Danny Pate picked because he showed good form at the Tour of California according to Sir Dave Brailsford.
    They mentioned this in one of the podcasts. He was picked to ride on the front all day if or when Froome was in yellow. They said Pate himself admits that he wouldn't be picked to support a Porte lead team.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    For Porte's sake I'm hoping that Sky are gambling that G and Nieve are enough to help Porte for now as there's little requirement for a train to chase down an attack from Valverde etc and they're simply resting the remainder of the team for the final week before really pushing the pace. Can't see it though...
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,390
    Isn't Pate's main quality that he isn't Wiggins?

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