TDF 2022:- Stage 12: Briançon to Alpe d’Heuz 165.1Km ***Spoilers***

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Froome flies the Jumbo nest
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Froome klaxon!
    For real this time, he's going on a potato hunt
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Froome. It's on.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    That scenery...

  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Froome klaxon!
    For real this time, he's going on a potato hunt

    Yep - he won't get across in time, leaders 1km from the top or thereabouts
  • mooro
    mooro Posts: 483
    Am I doing something dumb or is there no commentary on Eurosport?
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    edited July 2022
    kingstongraham said:

    That scenery...

    get time to look at it from this side. Coming down it's as fast you can/dare go. No real bends just curves until you get near the top
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    WVA going slowly. He must be caught in Froome’s vortex
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Is Froome the rider that would most piss off the French if he won on the Alpe on Bastille day? Or has he been rehabilitated?
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    amrushton said:

    kingstongraham said:

    That scenery...

    get time to look at it from this side. Coming down it's as fast you can/dare go. No real bends just curves until you get near the top
    For sure, once you get down past the tunnel entrance...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Nah, I think the french like an honourable come back...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Think we should probably have mentioned that Perez went solo some while back. He took the mtn points
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I assume Froome's brief is just to get some TV coverage for the sponsors. Going nowhere.

    Latour makes a strange attack at the very top, KoM points? I've lost track of how many are up the road.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pidcock attacks 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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    F L Y I N 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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    In contrast to all the fat bloke posts yesterday, I can say that this descent is just glorious!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190
    Have had the pleasure of following Tom around various corners in Otley/Ilkley/Pontefract town centres. Glorious to see him in full flight here
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pidcock is going very fast on his bicycle
    "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: 22,726
    Pidcock obviously wants Chris Froome’s autograph
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    Alaphillipe standard of descending from Pidcock
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Don't even try Chris!
    "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
  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190
    amrushton said:

    Alaphillipe standard of descending from Pidcock

    No, Tom's concentrating
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Absolutely no way Pidcock didn't go "Come on Froomey" as he went past then...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    blazing_saddles said:

    Pidcock obviously wants Chris Froome’s autograph

    Apparently he missed it on the way past, so sat up to wait for him.

    Rolf Sørensen has gone all romantic about young rebels waiting for old masters
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  • commuterlegs
    commuterlegs Posts: 271
    Not sure i took a breath watching Pidcock descending then, very contrasting styles descending next to Froome.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    The Lobster of Leeds waits for Froomey
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I assume Pidcock decided it was worth having Froome to share the work into the wind after the gradient seemed to flatten and road got straighter. Before that he looked like he was just having fun and was probably shouting 'weeeee' as he flew past others.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Pidcock has broken Twitter
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    They couldn't look much more different on the bike though!

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