TDF 2017: 14 July - Stage 13 - Saint-Girons - Foix 101kms *Spoilers*

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Froome attacks!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • B3rnieMac
    B3rnieMac Posts: 384
    If Landa is in yellow at the end of the stage, has there ever been a single team to have 3 people wear the yellow jersey in a single Tour?
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Froome doesnt look great on a bike
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Froome attacks!

    And I am watching ads for hearing aids - grrr
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Froome and Bardet with the first dig.
    Froome remains at the head.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    smithy21 wrote:
    Kwia is one hell of a rider. The amount of work he has done already and now covering Quintana. Top class.

    MY MAN!

    As Stem Watcher and the French Exchange Student go on the attack.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Just testing out Aru's descending skills.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Quintana etc very close to Contador and Landa.

    That will be some group when that happens.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    So before junction what do you recko: will Kwia go to the front to work for Landa?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Great route
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    I think they will all work.

    Edit. If they make it.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    imatfaal wrote:
    So before junction what do you recko: will Kwia go to the front to work for Landa?
    Millar reckons Kwia to push on and get Landa into yellow.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,031
    How does Froome play this, pretty sure he'll be keen for the GC group to open things up early on that climb get that gap to Landa down.
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    What's the gap between Landa group and Kwia group?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Jakob climbs off. Aarme Jakob.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Jakob climbs off. Aarme Jakob.

    Too, too late, already.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    How does Froome play this, pretty sure he'll be keen for the GC group to open things up early on that climb get that gap to Landa down.
    Try and attack two or three km from the top of the summit. If he gets away have Kwiatkowski wait
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    What are UAE doing on the front of the yellow jersey group?
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    imatfaal wrote:
    So before junction what do you recko: will Kwia go to the front to work for Landa?

    So probably should have said If they junction...


    The gap looked about to disappear but Contador was having none of it
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    edited July 2017
    smithy21 wrote:
    What are UAE doing on the front of the yellow jersey group?


    Ah, have to love the TDF, where the man in 10th place chases because the man in 11th is up the road. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    these short stages make for great GC shake ups
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,160
    RichN95 wrote:
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    How does Froome play this, pretty sure he'll be keen for the GC group to open things up early on that climb get that gap to Landa down.
    Try and attack two or three km from the top of the summit. If he gets away have Kwiatkowski wait

    I don't think Froome has it today, and plan has always been to get Landa up to threaten podium.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    have Astana dropped a bag of cash off at the UAE team hotel?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    smithy21 wrote:
    What are UAE doing on the front of the yellow jersey group?
    Protecting Meintjes's 10th place from Contador?
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Sun Dodger
    Sun Dodger Posts: 393
    smithy21 wrote:
    What are UAE doing on the front of the yellow jersey group?

    Helping out another Italian team maybe??
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,031
    Top 3.5k of this one look like a beast, couldn't call who is going to prove strongest.
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,160
    That gap between Landa and Kwia stretched out again quickly
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    RichN95 wrote:
    smithy21 wrote:
    What are UAE doing on the front of the yellow jersey group?
    Protecting Meintjes's 10th place from Contador?

    It's so feckin depressing.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    How does Froome play this, pretty sure he'll be keen for the GC group to open things up early on that climb get that gap to Landa down.
    Try and attack two or three km from the top of the summit. If he gets away have Kwiatkowski wait

    I don't think Froome has it today, and plan has always been to get Landa up to threaten podium.
    Even if he doesn't get away, it would be beneficial to break up the peloton
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Like him or not Bertie always seems to be involved when we get a stage like this. He's certainly a racer.

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