TDF 2018, Stage 17: Bagnères-de-Luchon > Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet 25/07/2018 - 65 km *Spo

1…6791112…21

Comments

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    froome is going to attack on descent.
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Dumoulin doesn’t have much support left.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    So, having used up his team, Bardet fails to follow it up...
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Sky come to the front for the descent, described by Rolf Sørensen as "grim"
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Wow, I saw a couple of mouths open there.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    6 Sky in a yellow jersey group of about 20 so only lost Rowe?
  • PiccolaAquila
    PiccolaAquila Posts: 5
    Surely Bardet will go early on this final climb after burying poor Latour?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    So, having used up his team, Bardet fails to follow it up...

    seems so... he has been team sky'd

    they all look thumped
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    its very 1990's defend 6-10 on gc
    "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
  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    Jalabert is finding it hard to contain his annoyance at the tactics perfectly playing into Sky’s hands again.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Thomas crashes into Froome on descent!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Sagan crash according to race radio
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    ...Hope the French
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Sagan Down.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sagan has crashed!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Sagan has crashed.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    So Peter Sagan, crashes.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Has Thomas made some sort of deal with the devil that allocates all his usual crashes to other members of the peloton?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Thomas crashes into Froome on descent!


    Oooof! you...

    If it werent for the continuous coverage feed...

    :lol::lol:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Hope he's ok... though I thought Sagan never crashes...
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    dish_dash wrote:
    Hope he's ok... though I thought Sagan never crashes...

    Another one of those myths it seems.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Ah, the know-it-all Essex guy who must have started watching cycling c. 2012 has left the bar so just me and some Dutchies now.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Above The Cows wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    Hope he's ok... though I thought Sagan never crashes...

    Another one of those myths it seems.

    Maybe he was distracted by the divorce...
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Pross wrote:
    Ah, the know-it-all Essex guy who must have started watching cycling c. 2012 has left the bar so just me and some Dutchies now.

    Just be glad you don't have an office load of them and you get to drink something.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Sagan back on and 6.1km behind the leaders apparently
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    dish_dash wrote:
    Hope he's ok... though I thought Sagan never crashes...

    You've been waiting years to say that.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Pross wrote:
    Ah, the know-it-all Essex guy who must have started watching cycling c. 2012 has left the bar so just me and some Dutchies now.

    Nodding sagely?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Alaphilippe takes a corner while looking over his shoulder and almost loses it.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Pross wrote:
    Ah, the know-it-all Essex guy who must have started watching cycling c. 2012 has left the bar so just me and some Dutchies now.

    Blessings.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Ah, the know-it-all Essex guy who must have started watching cycling c. 2012 has left the bar so just me and some Dutchies now.

    Nodding sagely?

    Looking glum for some reason.

Categories