TDF Stage 15: Tallard - Nimes ***spoiler***

RichN95.

antsmithmk wrote:

Kittel found out then? Super high pace from 5 km out blunts his kick.

I think two days in the mountains have done that.

philwint

That was ace

Gutted for Bauer though (and Elminger of course), brilliant ridefrom both of them.

frenchfighter

GShim did no work to help out. Despite the fact almost all of them have been riding the gruppetto every day, demonstrated by the fact they are at the bottom of the classification. They should have really brought Barguil along to give those flatland beasts more than one dimension. Cheng was on holiday today.

bobmcstuff

Thought the break were actually going to make it then, gutting.

frenchfighter

1. Alexander Kristoff (Katusha)
2. Heinrich Haussler (IAM)
3. Peter Sagan (Cannondale)
4. André Greipel (Lotto)
5. Mark Renshaw (OPQS)

cesco

frenchfighter wrote:

GShim did no work to help out.

Seems like they have helpful men in red to do that for them.

frenchfighter

They did a poor job of showing off Nimes as well as the large Colosseum. Lovely town and lovely Colosseum (largest outside Italy).

mulletmaster

Always so gutting when a plucky break gets caught so close to home. Can't imagine being one of those two guys, well worth TM monster effort to bring it back for Renshaw to come his usual nowhere......

nevman

nevman wrote:

Who is the Lotto Belisol rider that Giant-Shimano put on the front-he`s doing a great job.?

Looked like Marcel Sieberg doing the work for G-S-they pushed him onto the front from about 20k to bring back the break.He`s German.As is Griepel?

frenchfighter

Cheng rolls in with that group that got caught out. Rodriguez and Voeckler there as well.

thomthom

nevman wrote:

nevman wrote:

Who is the Lotto Belisol rider that Giant-Shimano put on the front-he`s doing a great job.?

Looked like Marcel Sieberg doing the work for G-S-they pushed him onto the front from about 20k to bring back the break.He`s German.As is Griepel?

It was Bak.

frenchfighter

Race went through Rocher de la Baume again today:



(Contador has over 800k, Froome has less than 400k)

awavey

appreciate Bauer probably didnt have much in the tank left so couldnt necessarily pushed out alone earlier , but did he mess his tactics up abit there, as they were looking around so much and concentrating on trying to not be duped by one another in the final km, that actually let the peloton catch up so much and by the time Bauer decided to go it alone it was too late to recover enough momentum/speed.

it was a sterling effort for the breakway, not taking that away, it just felt like Bauer should have won that at the least.

frenchfighter

OnYourRight wrote:

Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see Tony Martin doing much useful work. He can’t really be blamed/congratulated for bringing back the break.

Kristoff beat Greipel fair and square there.

Carrot.

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

(Contador has over 800k, Froome has less than 400k)

Justin Bieber has 53 million, Bob Dylan just 250,000

nevman

ThomThom wrote:

nevman wrote:

nevman wrote:

Who is the Lotto Belisol rider that Giant-Shimano put on the front-he`s doing a great job.?

Looked like Marcel Sieberg doing the work for G-S-they pushed him onto the front from about 20k to bring back the break.He`s German.As is Griepel?

It was Bak.

Thanks-very similar in team photos.GS must have known Kittel wasnt getting on.Gutted for the break today-if it was me i would be buying the drinks for the WHOLE peleton tonight.Cracking tour to date.

thomthom

OnYourRight wrote:

Armstrong has nearly 4 million.

Hematocrit level..?

above_the_cows

Ah shucks Jack you was riding like a box of birds brew.

frenchfighter

RichN95 wrote:

Justin Bieber has 53 million, Bob Dylan just 250,000

Touche.

cornerblock

frenchfighter wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Justin Bieber has 53 million, Bob Dylan just 250,000

Touche.

Beliebers vs Dyliners.

tailwindhome

Yates to be withdrawn on the rest day.

norvernrob

awavey wrote:

appreciate Bauer probably didnt have much in the tank left so couldnt necessarily pushed out alone earlier , but did he mess his tactics up abit there, as they were looking around so much and concentrating on trying to not be duped by one another in the final km, that actually let the peloton catch up so much and by the time Bauer decided to go it alone it was too late to recover enough momentum/speed.

it was a sterling effort for the breakway, not taking that away, it just felt like Bauer should have won that at the least.

Yeah I agree, if he'd just got his head down and kept riding he may well have made it. I was gutted for him at the end, they rode so well together for so long.

inseine

TailWindHome wrote:

Yates to be withdrawn on the rest day.

So that was his last stage. I assume it was semi planned and he's just tired. Shame but understandable.
What's next for him?

inseine

Sagan

"Maybe we could have no rest day and finish one day earlier in Paris…”

DeVlaeminck

Great finish, stage has tempted me to go down to Provence again this Summer, the kids will kill me if I tell them it's another 1000 mile drive this year though !

mike6

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

(Contador has over 800k, Froome has less than 400k)

Justin Bieber has 53 million, Bob Dylan just 250,000

All Spanish, except one, I would guess. The Spanish seem not to care how there own win.

frenchfighter

Miss. This.

mfin

mike6 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

(Contador has over 800k, Froome has less than 400k)

Justin Bieber has 53 million, Bob Dylan just 250,000

All Spanish, except one, I would guess. The Spanish seem not to care how there own win.

Well, a hell of a lot of people would also have been following to see what he had to say from his doping. People don't always follow people just because they like them.

mfin

Shame the break didn't make it, but this kind of thing makes it far more special when you finally do get such a long breakaway that finally makes it by just metres.

tailwindhome