Critérium du Dauphiné ***spoilers***

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    This curtain raiser for the best Tour in recent decades has tongues wagging. About the commentators. Meanwhile
    3.05 at km 13
    Christophe Riblon (AG2R-La Mondiale), Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), Pieter Serry (Etixx-Quick Step), Romain Sicard (Europcar), Arnaud Courteille (FDJ), Albert Timmer (Giant-Alpecin), Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN-Qhubeka) have 3.05 lead at km 13.

    3.40 at km 30
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19622650#p19622650]Macaloon[/url] wrote:
    This curtain raiser for the best Tour in recent decades has tongues wagging. About the commentators. Meanwhile
    3.05 at km 13
    Christophe Riblon (AG2R-La Mondiale), Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), Pieter Serry (Etixx-Quick Step), Romain Sicard (Europcar), Arnaud Courteille (FDJ), Albert Timmer (Giant-Alpecin), Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN-Qhubeka) have 3.05 lead at km 13.

    3.40 at km 30

    hyperbole much?
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    hyperbole much?

    Worse than that, hysterbole. Contador may have his sock mockers, but he's a shot in the arm for any stage race. This was a fabulous event last year.
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  • Macaloon
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    Little collision between Nibali and Froome on the Allos, Froome gives Nibs a particuarly hard stare and Nibs pats him on the bottom for his troubles.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    Just to say, I've just come in from a small tour in the Vercors and it is really, really, really hot today. It will be hell on the stage this afternoon.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19622815#p19622815]davidof[/url] wrote:
    Little collision between Nibali and Froome on the Allos, Froome gives Nibs a particuarly hard stare and Nibs pats him on the bottom for his troubles.

    Wasn't Nibali.
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19622166#p19622166]bigcgilmour[/url] wrote:
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19622157#p19622157]frenchfighter[/url] wrote:
    Nice win for Bouhanni, very strong. Watch his ego go and go.

    Against nobody in terms of sprinters though, but a win is a win.

    come the tour he'll not be contesting the win, more like 3rd, 4th or 5th. Buttons sprinter...
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Boswell of UK Astana ripping the peloton to shreds. Froome with another 3 in train, & Kennaugh hanging on the back of group of no more than 25.

    Bardet jumps near summit. We await a trademark Nibali descent.

    Bardet, a local man, unlikely to be distracted by the frankly indecent vistas across the void.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043

    Bardet, a local man, unlikely to be distracted by the frankly indecent vistas across the void.

    Local, he's a Brivadois in the Hautes-Alpes. That's like being a Cornishman in Worcestershire. :lol:
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Bardet knows the climb and said before the stage that it was important to be in front before the descent.

    And that he is now.

    Lovely climb/descent btw.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19622837#p19622837]davidof[/url] wrote:

    Bardet, a local man, unlikely to be distracted by the frankly indecent vistas across the void.

    Local, he's a Brivadois in the Hautes-Alpes. That's like being a Cornishman in Worcestershire. :lol:

    Typical metropolitan elitism from Millar, there.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    He's absolutely hammering it on the descent apparently. More than 30 seconds ahead.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Absolutely fantastic descent this.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Noted fake Hautes-Alpinist Bardet with 45s. All sorts of risks.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    B. has locked his back wheel on a left hander.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    Bardet leader on the road and now on the climb to Pra Loup.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    1'20" advantage as he starts the climb!
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    6.5km 1'19"

    Might have been better to save this move for the Tour.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    He's surely got enough given the final climb isn't that hard?
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    froome on the radio, looks pi55ed
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Look at the view, man. What a climb.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    1m25 at 4km to go.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    Sky Train has run out of steam.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Valverde cracks under the weight of PTP responsibility.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    3k and he still has 1'20"

    Nibali calls it a day too
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,043
    1m15 @ 2km
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Deliberately dropped there Nibali.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Wow. Nibali shuts down. Millar saying a refusal to go too deep to protect Tour form.
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