Criterium Du Dauphine 2017 *** SPOILERS***

gweeds

Froome obviously sees Porte's descending as a real weakness.

kingstonian

Froome really giving it some beans on the descent

imatfaal

It's normal for the Green Jersey to roll in during the presentations on a MTF - but the KofM? The Mountain's classification seems devalued in recent years - or is has it always been like that and I have been too wrapped up in GC to notice

kingstonian

Kwia working hard for Froome

philwint

Just back in from my ride for the last 15km - looks like exciting stuff

Kwia is fantastic to watch.

[edit] just as I type that he blows up - still a great turn though

kingstonian

philwint wrote:

Just back in from my ride for the last 15km - looks like exciting stuff

Kwia is fantastic to watch.

[edit] just as I type that he blows up - still a great turn though

Yep, he was working like a Trojan before they hit the final climb

the article don

That was a nice gesture by Bert, giving Porte the thumbs up as he passed. Joy for cycling fans globally, as an erstwhile member of this forum once said.

Great race overall and a deserved winner. Porte looks great.

philwint

That was fabulously entertaining

Mad_Malx

That was very good. Sadly I didn't realise I was watching delayed Eurosport and spoilered the finish before birdsong pulled off.

Missed bit between penultimate peak and start of last - did Porte loose a minute on the descent?

jameses

Interesting to see the time bonuses making a bit of a difference to the final standings - unless my maths is wrong, Porte would have been 4 seconds ahead of Fuglsang, Froome and Aru would have been equal 3rd and Martin down two places in 5th.

onyourright

Mad_Malx wrote:

Missed bit between penultimate peak and start of last - did Porte loose a minute on the descent?

Nearly, yeah.

Not for the first time, Froome was simply far better than the others on the descent (including the chasing Porte). He takes the corners efficiently, pedals hard out of them, and then tucks properly. There’s a big gap in performance here. Even while travelling faster than the others, he looks safer. Maybe he knows these roads better?

Mad_Malx

^ta

RichN95.

Antonio Nibali has been learning from his brother. DIsqualified for holding on to a team car

blazing_saddles

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

RichN95.

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

The thing with Froome is can bring in Henao, Poels, Thomas, Landa, Nieve....

EnacheV

Porte is dissapointing me again and again as each day passes

Now he whines that he was attacked by Froome lol. what a loser. he can't even win a 1 week stage race when he is in absolute peak.

At TdF he won't even make top 5 , he is to early flying. That only if he doesn't fall ill in the next 2 weeks because off pushing to hard since january.

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Richie Porte:

“I think I showed in the end that I’m going well and I’m on track for July. It’s bitterly disappointing to lose it by such a small margin but credit to Jakob Fulgsang. I think I was up against it from KM0 as it seems there were a few guys who preferred to see me lose the race and they lose their podium as well. I don’t know what you can really learn from a stage like that. I guess that’s racing but bring on July.”

lol

so he whines about Froome (3 or 4 time TdF winner, another 3 or 4 GT second places) not protecting his podium place in a 1 week race ? hahaha

milton50

Wow. Told you Fuglslang was looking impressive.

Froome definitely has a bit to find between now and July but then again he may be timing his peak perfectly.

bobmcstuff

Either Porte is on a flyer or he's peaked too soon and will crack hard in the last week of the tour.

I think my money's on the latter.

ocdupalais

RichN95 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

The thing with Froome is can bring in Henao, Poels, Thomas, Landa, Nieve....

Don't forget Alpe D'Huez Kenyuck and 8RPM Kiry... along with some 3rd rater like Kwiatkowski or Stannard...

Lanterne_Rogue

Ah well, I thought Porte was showing a harder edge, but today it sounds (and looked) like he was wanting Froome to hold his hand.

epc06

RichN95 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

The thing with Froome is can bring in Henao, Poels, Thomas, Landa, Nieve....

Not much use when your climbing legs have deserted you

RichN95.

EPC06 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

The thing with Froome is can bring in Henao, Poels, Thomas, Landa, Nieve....

Not much use when your climbing legs have deserted you

His climbing legs were fine. He just did too much work on the front himself. There's only so much any rider can do.

Vino'sGhost

RichN95 wrote:

EPC06 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

The thing with Froome is can bring in Henao, Poels, Thomas, Landa, Nieve....

Not much use when your climbing legs have deserted you

His climbing legs were fine. He just did too much work on the front himself. There's only so much any rider can do.

Though Porte did more work. I'm cynical

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

EPC06 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Cor, that was a sweet stage.
Fuglsang and Porte covered the final climb in just about equal time, but Birdsong looked to be singing with a bit more breath to spare.
Dan Martin's attack, along with Froome, basically won him the GC.
Impressive ride from young Louis M, eventually breaking Bardet in the process. Froomey almost back to a bit of his old style weaving.
Definitely a few points off where he would expect to be, three weeks from Düsseldorf.

The thing with Froome is can bring in Henao, Poels, Thomas, Landa, Nieve....

Not much use when your climbing legs have deserted you

His climbing legs were fine. He just did too much work on the front himself. There's only so much any rider can do.

Once upon a time he could drop Bardet et al regardless.

rick_chasey

In my mind they were all going slowly if Benoot could more or less keep up, but maybe it's more Benoot was going very well.

rick_chasey

Vino'sGhost wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

His climbing legs were fine. He just did too much work on the front himself. There's only so much any rider can do.

Though Porte did more work. I'm cynical

Porte did more of the final climb on his own than Froome did!

RichN95.

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RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

Vino'sGhost wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

His climbing legs were fine. He just did too much work on the front himself. There's only so much any rider can do.

Though Porte did more work. I'm cynical

Porte did more of the final climb on his own than Froome did!

I would suggest that Porte is better suited to longer solo efforts, hence my mention of teammates. Froome also attacked on every climb.

epc06

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Vino'sGhost wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

His climbing legs were fine. He just did too much work on the front himself. There's only so much any rider can do.

Though Porte did more work. I'm cynical

Porte did more of the final climb on his own than Froome did!

I would suggest that Porte is better suited to longer solo efforts, hence my mention of teammates. Froome also attacked on every climb.

The TT was very telling as they always have been. He just doesn't have the legs he should have at this stage of the season.

No_Ta_Doctor

Porte's comments are a poor show, I thought he was mates with Froome?
Froome clearly tried to win the race; attacked early, helped burn off Porte's team, attacked again and gapped him by over a minute, caught Fuglsang and Martin, but couldn't respond on the final climb when Fuglsang (who'd done little work that I could see) went with Martin. It was a gamble and it didn't pay off, but it was proper racing.
It was a gutsy ride from Porte, but this is racing, you don't get a free pass.