TDF 2018, Stage 12: Bourg-Saint-Maurice Les Arcs > Alpe d'Huez 19/07/2018 - 175,5 km *Spoilers*

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    well at least this year its a real race :lol:
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rigoberto Uran has abandoned

    Vuelta head to head with S Yates?....
    And Porte

    and Froome

    lol

    There were mutterings on the ITV podcast that Froome might well do the Vuelta. Millar suggested that it's harder to keep/gain race fitness as you get older, so going from GT to GT isn't so silly. Not sure if that stacks up in reality, but it's interesting that there's already talk of Froome going for it.

    I wasn't really loling because I thought he wouldn't do it, more the thought of him basically just winning everything for ever more! 5 GTs in a row.......
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rigoberto Uran has abandoned

    Vuelta head to head with S Yates?....
    And Porte

    and Froome

    lol

    There were mutterings on the ITV podcast that Froome might well do the Vuelta. Millar suggested that it's harder to keep/gain race fitness as you get older, so going from GT to GT isn't so silly. Not sure if that stacks up in reality, but it's interesting that there's already talk of Froome going for it.

    I would bloody love it.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    What time is kick off today? I need to plan my lunch break!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Pross wrote:
    What time is kick off today? I need to plan my lunch break!

    20mins, they are just signing on.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross wrote:
    What time is kick off today? I need to plan my lunch break!

    Roll out at 10 past, start at 25 past.
    Top of the Madeleine around 1 o'clock UK.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    Cheers, I'll catch the Madeleine then crack on with my work before the finale.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    A bit of extra security on the Alpe today apparently. Dutch corner has had soe sort of limit placed on how many people can be there, Dutch police are present there, and there are barriers further down the mountain than before.
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  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    Good. Decreases the odds of riders being impeded from racing (or worse).
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    A bit of extra security on the Alpe today apparently. Dutch corner has had soe sort of limit placed on how many people can be there, Dutch police are present there, and there are barriers further down the mountain than before.

    Interesting that the Politie are there.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    A bit of extra security on the Alpe today apparently. Dutch corner has had soe sort of limit placed on how many people can be there, Dutch police are present there, and there are barriers further down the mountain than before.
    It's good that there's more barriers. This mountain has become unraceable for large sections.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    This was always going to be crunch day if there were to be any Froome or Sky related shenanigans. Fingers crossed that the fighting stays of the athletic type.
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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    It will all be ok.

    People on the internet are all talk and no action.

    Sky comfort blanket to suffocate the peloton again.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    that dutch bunch of hooligans, I'm not surprised they've had to ship their own police in. The firebrigade to put out flares would be helpful too
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    The firebrigade to put out flares would be helpful too

    Word
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Pozzovivo out the back with the Greipel autobus. Hmmmm.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Lawson Craddock watch - he's moved off his customary position, albeit not too much further up.

    As I write that he slips back again. Two riders shepherding him through as well. One thing he's allegedly struggling with is the sheer mentality of working within the bunch after a whole week of having lots of braking space etc, so he may be trying to get refamiliarised with being deeper in the bunch.

    Having two riders with him suggests that EDFS-SaleMustEndNow at least are expecting an autobus to form PDQ and are just hanging out. Or they have realised that the LR is pretty much their only competition left, of course.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Lawson Craddock watch - he's moved off his customary position, albeit not too much further up.

    As I write that he slips back again. Two riders shepherding him through as well. One thing he's allegedly struggling with is the sheer mentality of working within the bunch after a whole week of having lots of braking space etc, so he may be trying to get refamiliarised with being deeper in the bunch.

    Having two riders with him suggests that EDFS-SaleMustEndNow at least are expecting an autobus to form PDQ and are just hanging out. Or they have realised that the LR is pretty much their only competition left, of course.

    He's in a tricky position, politically. He's taken a load of help from the team to hang in there, always claiming he's not interested in personal glory, but in being able to heal up and help later. Now there's nobody left for him to help his personal ambitions may be exposed. Will the team ride for him at the expense of their own stage chances?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Rowe off the back. High pace set by literally everybody trying to get into the break
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Rowe off the back. High pace set by literally everybody trying to get into the break

    He makes his break for Lanterne glory.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Quintana attack! Wowzer.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Wout is off the back as well.

    This could get lively.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Valverde in the break
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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Sky now on the front trying to calm it the **** down.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Lawson Craddock watch - he's moved off his customary position, albeit not too much further up.

    As I write that he slips back again. Two riders shepherding him through as well. One thing he's allegedly struggling with is the sheer mentality of working within the bunch after a whole week of having lots of braking space etc, so he may be trying to get refamiliarised with being deeper in the bunch.

    Having two riders with him suggests that EDFS-SaleMustEndNow at least are expecting an autobus to form PDQ and are just hanging out. Or they have realised that the LR is pretty much their only competition left, of course.

    He's in a tricky position, politically. He's taken a load of help from the team to hang in there, always claiming he's not interested in personal glory, but in being able to heal up and help later. Now there's nobody left for him to help his personal ambitions may be exposed. Will the team ride for him at the expense of their own stage chances?

    Have they given up on Pierre Rolland?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    RichN95 wrote:
    Valverde in the break

    Interesting. I bet the break are really happy to have him with them.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    inseine wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Lawson Craddock watch - he's moved off his customary position, albeit not too much further up.

    As I write that he slips back again. Two riders shepherding him through as well. One thing he's allegedly struggling with is the sheer mentality of working within the bunch after a whole week of having lots of braking space etc, so he may be trying to get refamiliarised with being deeper in the bunch.

    Having two riders with him suggests that EDFS-SaleMustEndNow at least are expecting an autobus to form PDQ and are just hanging out. Or they have realised that the LR is pretty much their only competition left, of course.

    He's in a tricky position, politically. He's taken a load of help from the team to hang in there, always claiming he's not interested in personal glory, but in being able to heal up and help later. Now there's nobody left for him to help his personal ambitions may be exposed. Will the team ride for him at the expense of their own stage chances?

    Have they given up on Pierre Rolland?

    Who?


    He's got in the break, think he's only good for a stage chance now, outside shot at the spots.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    inseine wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Lawson Craddock watch - he's moved off his customary position, albeit not too much further up.

    As I write that he slips back again. Two riders shepherding him through as well. One thing he's allegedly struggling with is the sheer mentality of working within the bunch after a whole week of having lots of braking space etc, so he may be trying to get refamiliarised with being deeper in the bunch.

    Having two riders with him suggests that EDFS-SaleMustEndNow at least are expecting an autobus to form PDQ and are just hanging out. Or they have realised that the LR is pretty much their only competition left, of course.

    He's in a tricky position, politically. He's taken a load of help from the team to hang in there, always claiming he's not interested in personal glory, but in being able to heal up and help later. Now there's nobody left for him to help his personal ambitions may be exposed. Will the team ride for him at the expense of their own stage chances?

    Have they given up on Pierre Rolland?

    If they ask him to ride for Craddock then you'll have your answer! Until then I suspect he'll be allowed to do his own thing at the front.

    Sort of a reverse Steve Cummings, if you like.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Horse sculpture on top of the mountain!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mamil314
    mamil314 Posts: 1,103
    On this stage one might be glad that England kickball team did not beat France in the finals with a controversial decision. Sky train would need protection Mad Max style

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