TDF 2019, Stage 15: Limoux > Foix Prat d'Albis 21/07/2019 - 185 km *Spoilers*

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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    JA looking more subdued collecting yellow.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    That is one very tired man AP waiting for the podium
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    Thomas looking and sounding much better compared to yesterday during the interview.

    Alaphilippe looking the opposite.

    Ha, just posted that up.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Good to see JA looking more real subduing the tope talk.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    yeah not having mas on the final climb was a real problem. he sounds like a man who sees the end coming
    "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
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    edited July 2019
    I think the guys at 1:30-2:30 ish will be cautiously starting to look at each other more than Alaphilippe. After today it's difficult to see him not being isolated from final selections in the Alps and losing minutes.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    mididoctors wrote:
    Fairplay to Movistar... they came surprisingly close to pulling that insane stage victory off.

    bonkers

    thinking about it I kinda see what they tried to do there.

    Quintanas role intended or not was to speed up and slow down the middle group/break...basically a speed controller
    "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: 18,912
    Richard T. Biscuit wrote:
    I think the guys at 1:30-2:30 ish will be cautiously starting to look at each other more that Alaphilippe. After today it's difficult to see him not being isolated from final selections in the Alps and losing minutes.
    pinot has to go over Thomas as alaphillipe fades
    "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
    mididoctors wrote:
    yeah not having mas on the final climb was a real problem. he sounds like a man who sees the end coming

    He has been brilliant so far akin to many other races where he lifts the racing with his enthusiasm.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Today was like a very solid jab in Ala’s face.........the uppercut will come in the Alps

    G looks in good shape. Def expect Ineos will be glad of the rest day so they can gather their thoughts and plan for the next few days.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    edited July 2019
    Turbot Pinot, looking ever more tasty. Let's hope he doesn't get fried...

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  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    Of the less explosive riders Buchmann looks good.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    So if we are assuming Alaphillipe will crack we have 5 riders within a minute with 5 proper stages to go. Superb.
  • simon_e
    simon_e Posts: 1,707
    itboffin wrote:
    What are inoes doing ffs G is the reining champ support him for the bloody win stop playing around, G must be farked off

    Froome and brad wouldn't stand for it
    Would like to agree but we don't know what is said behind closed doors.

    Today's situation in the last couple of km might not look ideal but is it ever that way? Now Ineos keeps 2 players in the game (so when Bernal is next up the road G can sit in) and if he had pushed on sooner Thomas would have only gained a handful more seconds.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Pross wrote:
    So if we are assuming Alaphillipe will crack we have 5 riders within a minute with 5 proper stages to go. Superb.
    39 seconds to be precise.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited July 2019
    Double post
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    A quick quiz. Which of these riders is Emmanuel Buchman:

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    RichN95 wrote:
    A quick quiz. Which of these riders is Emmanuel Buchman:

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    Don't know but I'm hoping he got me my yellow jersey back

    Edit - apparently not as current leader picked Pinot. Should have helped me with combativity though
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Dead centre?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    Out of interest had anyone heard of Lennard Kamna before today? Was he a survivor from the break?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Dead centre?
    That's Rudiger Selig
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    is it a trick question?
    "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: 18,912
    Ineos rode well
    "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
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    RichN95 wrote:
    A quick quiz. Which of these riders is Emmanuel Buchman:
    ...
    Do actually know this, just because I quite like Bora for some reason. He looks like he could be an actor.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    FocusZing wrote:
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    Another good news day for Asthma UK
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    top 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
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    mididoctors wrote:
    top left?
    We ourselves a Buchmann expert.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    RichN95 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    top left?
    We ourselves a Buchmann expert.

    Yeah.

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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Sounds really upbeat.

    https://twitter.com/GeraintThomas86/sta ... 5196165120

    It's going to be a brilliant final week.

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