TDF 2019, Stage 14: Tarbes > Tourmalet Barèges 20/07/2019 - 117,5 km *Spoilers*

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    Just as predicted, Movistar kick it all off
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    movistar
    "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
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Pross wrote:
    Not impressed by the President's security there as a bunch of seemingly non-accredited members of the public get up close!
    Notes the only one the security touched was the black women.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    ouuffff bammm big pressure
    "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: 16,646
    alaphilllpe looking chill now
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    alaphilllpe looking chill now

    Unlike his team. :P
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    Bardet dropped. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    bardet morale rock bottom i think.
    "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
  • Bardet dropped. :oops:

    *packs away SL2 album*
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    alaphilllpe looking chill now

    Unlike his team. :P
    only mas left ?
    "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
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Bardet stealing my climbing style there.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    bloody ineos on mass
    "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
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Bardet having a wadladie day.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    I said it before the Tour started but Ineos look a bit thin on mountain support this year and seeing Kwia go early must be a worry for them.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    Yates gone whilst Simon looks really strong.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    very much as i predicted but someone else won
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    Nibali is like a bottle of pop
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    Cow herding for AtC
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Rogue cow!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    MST wheels falling off
    "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: 40,217
    Is this a classic Movistar burning their matches too soon move?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    Pross wrote:
    Is this a classic Movistar burning their matches too soon move?


    yep they have a man up front who has to get on the descent before getting dropped by his own team.
    "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: 16,646
    Bardet.... oh dear.
    "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
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,137
    Pross wrote:
    Is this a classic Movistar burning their matches too soon move?
    There’s still plenty of Ineos wheels for Quintana to choose from.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    the soulor descent is technical till arrens. after that its big roads all the way to the Tourmalet even on the 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: 40,217
    Alaphillipe looking very comfortable
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    RichN95 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Is this a classic Movistar burning their matches too soon move?
    There’s still plenty of Ineos wheels for Quintana to choose from.

    Not as many as Movistar now.

    Mollema and Aru dropped.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    Nice by Wellens, forces Nibali into the gutter then outsprints him for maximum points.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Wellens shutting Nibali down in the sprint for the KOM points.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Wellens riding Nibs into the gutter!