Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle > Espelette 28/07/2018 - 31 km - Individual time-trial *Spoilers*

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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    curium wrote:
    Somebody confirm Dumoulin's time please!!!

    Dumoulin has it by 1s according to the classement provisoire
  • lucan2
    lucan2 Posts: 293
    Ned is struggling.

    Been a long for 3 weeks for him too.

    Appallingly poor commentary from Boulting today. Unbearable.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    curium wrote:
    G the first Tour winner born in the British Isles!

    Roche
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,154
    g deliberately sat up !

    ffs

    Letting his two mountain domestiques fight out the stage winning!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Sky with a 2,3,4. That's strength.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Pross wrote:
    g deliberately sat up !

    ffs

    Letting his two mountain domestiques fight out the stage winning!

    R5 suggesting he was 'in the red' with 3km to go.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    Pross wrote:
    g deliberately sat up !

    ffs

    Letting his two mountain domestiques fight out the stage winning!

    R5 suggesting he was 'in the red' with 3km to go.

    Damp on the descent - I read it as “I’m not gonna crash now”
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Pross wrote:
    g deliberately sat up !

    ffs

    Letting his two mountain domestiques fight out the stage winning!

    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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    G was clearly faster... even up the climb
    "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
  • alanparsons
    alanparsons Posts: 529
    curium wrote:
    Somebody confirm Dumoulin's time please!!!

    On tv it was
    Froome 40'50"
    Dumoulin 40'52"
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    Lucan2 wrote:
    Ned is struggling.

    Been a long for 3 weeks for him too.

    Appallingly poor commentary from Boulting today. Unbearable.

    Commentating on a TT live from start to finish is not a job I'd envy anyone, even worse than a sprint stage as at least that will have a few chateaus
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    edited July 2018
    Sky with a 2,3,4. That's strength.

    how on earth can you fight that?

    take any just about any team leader from this years tour and they would win with that team even without froome and g.
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    Guys, Dumolin won.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    curium wrote:
    Somebody confirm Dumoulin's time please!!!

    On tv it was
    Froome 40'50"
    Dumoulin 40'52"
    But the classement provisoire had Dumoulin as stage winner :?: :?: :?: :?:
  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    Pross wrote:
    g deliberately sat up !

    ffs

    Letting his two mountain domestiques fight out the stage winning!
    Two LOLs.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    Sky with a 2,3,4. That's strength.

    how on earth can you fight that?

    take any just about any team leader from this years tour and they would win with that team.

    Apart from Froome obvs.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Guys, Dumolin won.
    The timings are screwed. I am sure Dumoulin won. But when Froome crossed the line he was given a 40'50".
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Guys, Dumolin won.

    Yes, he did.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    I'm delighted for Froome, but feel sorry for Roglic.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Sky with a 2,3,4. That's strength.

    how on earth can you fight that?

    take any just about any team leader from this years tour and they would win with that team.

    Apart from Froome obvs.

    LOL you raise a valid point
    "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
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    Sky with a 2,3,4. That's strength.

    how on earth can you fight that?

    take any just about any team leader from this years tour and they would win with that team.

    Well you could assemble a team focused on winning, unlike say Movistar who are consistently less than the sum of their parts with multiple agendas going on
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,537
    Funny I thought Dumoulin had missed it looking at times and my old man just messaged me to ask wtf is going on, reckons someone's at it! Lol
  • curium
    curium Posts: 815
    Team Sky placed 2nd, 3rd and 4th !
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    I'm delighted for Froome, but feel sorry for Roglic.

    fried his nuts off on the Soulor yesterday
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Guys, Dumolin won.
    The timings are screwed. I am sure Dumoulin won. But when Froome crossed the line he was given a 40'50".

    Yeah it was doing the same with a lot of them; I think the timing line was actually a metre or two before the Skoda line.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Pretty similar but Inrng reverses G and Dumoulin. Inrng says Thomas has already ridden the course 3 times and it was his pre-race target, but I guess the question is how easy he might take it. As he has noticeably longer odds than Roglic and Dumoulin he should be a reasonably safe E/W bet for OK returns, given what Inrng and other pundits are saying.

    £20 free money right there, never in doubt - should have put more on:lol:
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    Good on you Tommy! Wasn't even planning to ride the tour in June and finishes second.

    Love the skinsuit story :lol:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • curium
    curium Posts: 815
    They originally called Chris Froome across the line at 40'50" but now say that Dumoulin won it in 40'52"

    :?:
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    roglic is cool customer.
    "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
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,235
    Pross wrote:
    g deliberately sat up !

    ffs

    Letting his two mountain domestiques fight out the stage winning!
    Lolz