TDF 2022:- Stage 11: Albertville to Col du Granon, 157.1Km ***Spoilers***

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    blazing_saddles said:

    It's all well and good to design a course that encourages day after day of these manic starts, but what about the implications for anyone who otherwise might consider setting up an early attack on the Galibier?

    More or less guarantees that there will be no GC action before somewhere on the Granon.

    Makes up for the fact the stages are all so short. How else you gonna create fatigue?
    _
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,485
    edited July 2022
    Dorset_Boy said:

    pblakeney said:

    Nice to see that my Lacet's time of 14:17 is much closer to pro than average.
    Cheers me up does that.

    Which of the various Lacets segments is that PB?
    I'm 15:54 on this one: https://www.strava.com/segments/18588694 and 12:26 on this: https://www.strava.com/segments/9805364

    The first one.

    I won't be mentioning my Galibier time. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Jumbo sending bodies up the road early
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Break away formed it seems
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Nobody from Ineos, they're just letting Jumbo play their tactic out and seeing if there's something to exploit later
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Christophe Laporte, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Mikaël Chérel (AG2R-Citroën), Nils Politt, Max Schachman (Bora-Hansgrohe), Andrea Bagioli, Mattia Cattaneo (Quick Step), Simon Geschke, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Kamil Gradek, Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Victorious), Mathieu van der Poel, Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Jonas Rutsch (EF), Warren Barguil (Arkéa-Samsic), Mads Pedersen, Tony Gallopin (Trek-Segafredo), Maciej Bodnar, Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies), Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech)
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited July 2022
    Hopefully this means jumbo may try and launch on the galibier and jump to riders ahead for the descent /valley ... If laporte and WvA can get that far deep into the stage .
    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    In Wales they'd have just gone straight up the side of that.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    kingstongraham said:

    In Wales they'd have just gone straight up the side of that.

    They did exactly that, just out of my town.
    Looks just like Primoz Roglic’s other sport.
    Cyclists ride up, take one look and turn around!
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    MvDP is going to struggle to make the time cut, I fear.
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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,205
    Would love to know what him/ his team are getting out of carrying on; he's miles off form.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,592
    kingstongraham said:

    In Wales they'd have just gone straight up the side of that.



    Like this one I took a stroll down on Monday.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    edited July 2022
    blazing_saddles said:

    MvDP is going to struggle to make the time cut, I fear.

    Makes that attack with the green monster look pretty daft.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,592
    blazing_saddles said:

    kingstongraham said:

    In Wales they'd have just gone straight up the side of that.

    They did exactly that, just out of my town.
    Looks just like Primoz Roglic’s other sport.
    Cyclists ride up, take one look and turn around!
    Which one is that?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    andyrac said:

    Would love to know what him/ his team are getting out of carrying on; he's miles off form.

    Camera time
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Comes a point it may healthier to pack
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Will pidcock crack or make the front group cut on the granon ?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    kingstongraham said:

    In Wales they'd have just gone straight up the side of that.

    They did exactly that, just out of my town.
    Looks just like Primoz Roglic’s other sport.
    Cyclists ride up, take one look and turn around!
    Which one is that?
    The replacement section on the railway cycle path, just above Llanelly Hill.
    Couldn’t be bothered to zig zag the tarmac, so just went straight up the side of the mountain.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Well there you go.
    Cattaneo’s big effort earlier has already bitten his legs.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    ITV & Never Strays Car have managed to get Lizzie Deignan on commentary and podcast duties for the week.

    Well worth a listen on either!
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Ineos about to loose 3 riders from the bunch.
    Whatever the problem, Martinez is really struggling
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    UAE dying a death on the telegraph
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    mididoctors said:

    UAE dying a death on the telegraph

    Ja only what, 3 left ahead of Pog with 72km to go, including 2 HCs?
    _
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Mikkel Bjerg knocks off for the day to defend his Lanterne position

    UAE getting thinned out already
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    MvdP climbs off 😱
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    VdP abandoned. No surprise
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Sensible decision for MvdP, though a shame.
  • commuterlegs
    commuterlegs Posts: 271
    Roglic kicking it off
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Jumbo on the attack. Roglic
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Jumbo attack!
    Roglic
    Yates following
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