TDF 2018, Stage 11: Albertville > La Rosière Espace San Bernardo 18/07/2018 - 108,5 km *Spoilers

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,810
    philbar72 wrote:
    the mountains here are an absolute treat. Col du Pre, Roselend and the St Bernard as well as the mighty Iseran.

    I had the dubious pleasure of climbing arc 1800 and then 2000. that's just an access road for Les arcs, but the other climbs in the vicinity are really good (and some are fairly tough).

    Both myself and Miguel Indurain...cos we're totes the same...can confirm that the one up to La Plagne is horrible though. Just a constant 8% and seemingly located in an oven. I was not helped by being on an MTB with a destroyed freehub and having the Sunweb junior team doing intervals whilst I was struggling up...
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
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    Above The Cows wrote:
    I could murder a croziflette and a glass of cold génépi right now.
    I just happen to have in the main ingredients (photo taken this morning) - only I seem to have already made marked inroads into the Genepi.

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I could murder a croziflette and a glass of cold génépi right now.

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    Hey, animal rights.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Alright quantity of action predictions.

    Sizzler or snoozer?
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Snoozer, breakaway takes it. Action tomorrow.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Sizzler!

    Froome to attack early on the final climb, claiming he needed to put time into Roglic and Dumoulin but all along knowing he needed to put time into Thomas :wink:

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 44,048
    Find it odd that Barguil is bookies favourite and seemed popular on PTP for today. I didn’t see much in his ride yesterday to suggest he is in any kind of form.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Snoozer, breakaway takes it. Action tomorrow.

    Too much of a spectacle & maybe not much of an opportunity for attacks though. Watching the fans watching a procession; at least until they reach the barriers & the final couple of kms.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,810
    Think it's a get away on the Roseland and hold it on the final climb type day. One for a barodeur (sp?) I think. Possibly a day for Nibbles
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    I hope the Alps arent just a softening up exercise before the coup de Gras in the pyrenees
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,347
    Neither snoozer nor sizzler - reckon it'll be a slow rolling simmer, where it constantly threatens to boil up quickly if anyone turns up the heat, but ultimately it never quite kicks off. As usual it's the hope that kills you.
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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Movistar to have a go to see what shape Froome is in.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,256
    My prediction: It'll all kick off on the first mountain with groups all over the place then settle down into a massive anti-climax over the next two.
  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Above The Cows wrote:
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    This stage route looks like India.

    And the route up next to the first HC climb looks like Wile e Coyote!! :)
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  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    ddraver wrote:
    philbar72 wrote:
    the mountains here are an absolute treat. Col du Pre, Roselend and the St Bernard as well as the mighty Iseran.

    I had the dubious pleasure of climbing arc 1800 and then 2000. that's just an access road for Les arcs, but the other climbs in the vicinity are really good (and some are fairly tough).

    Both myself and Miguel Indurain...cos we're totes the same...can confirm that the one up to La Plagne is horrible though. Just a constant 8% and seemingly located in an oven. I was not helped by being on an MTB with a destroyed freehub and having the Sunweb junior team doing intervals whilst I was struggling up...

    #context

    I was on my climbing bike. spinning 34x25 up most of these nicely. weather was perfect on all the days. looking forward to this years escapades as well.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,810
    A little bit of local knowledge (I think). The climb up to Col de Pre, before it descends slightly to cross the damn, then continues up to the Roseland, is very narrow, tight and brutally steep by Alpine Standards. It's wide up from Beaufort for maybe the first 3rd then is basically a tarmaced (beautifully so) farm track.

    I confess I didnt ride it but driving it in a van+trailer was pretty tricky.
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  • moonshine
    moonshine Posts: 1,022
    A guy in a full on Sniper Ghillie suit just below me on Monte de Bisanne at 1550m :-) looks hot as hell in it!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,765
    It's a last couple of KM stage I reckon, though GC teams will put riders in the break to make Sky work (which might mean they let it go out too far for them to be used as stepping stones). There's a possibility of Movistar trying to get someone away over Cormet de Roseland, but I wouldn't put money on it. I don't think anyone with genuine GC ambitions is going to want to all out with tomorrow's stage lurking.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,810
    Francois has just reminded me that that side of the Tarantaise Valley was an infamous 'last stand" for the French Resistance during the war. One of our rides followed a path they used to the hut they were (I think) dynamited in by the Nazis

    (I feel so bad now that I now cant stop thinking what nonsense Carlton will make of that...:( )
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    edited July 2018
    I assumed Thomas would be in yellow today, but can we assume he has a fair chance of grabbing it today? Valverde doesn't look all that special so as long as G can stay with the front group, and GVA can't, it looks quite good for him.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,331
    108.5km. Boo.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,290
    If Luke Rowe leads the peloton over the first major climb again then the rest of the peloton forgo the right to say Sky are too strong to attack
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,765
    The cut for the time limit has been extended today, according to DK TV2
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Flag dropped, off we go...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,765
    Caruso trying to get away, Sagan wants to be in the break for the sprint
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,765
    Looks like a 50 man break if there's a real gap there.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,765
    5 off the front now
    Sagan, Caruso, Barguil, sicard, navarro
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,765
    Sky controlling the peloton, but there's a big group between them and the break
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  • G Hincapie
    G Hincapie Posts: 78
    I despair of the peleton following SKY like sheep already.

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,504
    Yeah it's maybe a bit boring Sagan winning it every year, but you can't argue he's not good value for the jersey
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