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Valverde lost the podium...again  No competition whatsoever for Martin.
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Jul 26, 2014 15:53
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Nooo, Peraud. That sucks
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Jul 26, 2014 16:04
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Let's watch that bike change again Bob
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Jul 26, 2014 16:05
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Where the hell as King Leopold come from?
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OK so two bike changes for AG2R, and FDJ can't seem to pin on the rider number in a non-retarded way. gg, French teams e: I forgot that Pinot's radio stopped working too serious gaylord posted:Where the hell as King Leopold come from? All I know is that he's got a German name and rides for a German team, so I'm goose stepping all over the place
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Jul 26, 2014 16:26
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When will Peraud pop
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Jul 26, 2014 16:31
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Van Garderen in the top5 for 2 sec. 
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Jul 26, 2014 16:41
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San Sebastian, Vuelta, Lombardia, worlds all left, anything else? Hope one of them is good
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I've been pretty quiet in the thread because I didn't want to jinx Nibali, but man does it feel good to finally see another Italian dominate the tour. As someone that watched Pantani in his prime and loved every second of it, I'm happy that Nibali did so well this year.
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Mr.Nice posted:Van Garderen in the top5 for 2 sec. Does that mean him and Bardet will be sprinting for the line tomorrow?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Does that mean him and Bardet will be sprinting for the line tomorrow? They'll be like Siamese twins
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Does that mean him and Bardet will be sprinting for the line tomorrow? Van Garderen outsprints the bunch to win the stage. Sagan gets 2nd.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:22
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Was I right in not really bothering with the Tour after stage 10? I watched the stages in the Alps but my interest dropped off a cliff last weekend and never came back.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:29
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You might have enjoyed watching the end of the ITT if you gave a poo poo about the other two podium places, but other than that the rest of the race was pretty boring, yeah.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:40
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Pocket posted:Was I right in not really bothering with the Tour after stage 10? I watched the stages in the Alps but my interest dropped off a cliff last weekend and never came back. Once Contador was gone there was literally no point in the tour.
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Pocket posted:Was I right in not really bothering with the Tour after stage 10? I watched the stages in the Alps but my interest dropped off a cliff last weekend and never came back. I enjoyed the last hour or so in all the mountain stages tuesday-thursday this week, but of course that requires a certain interest in the race beyond the GC competition. At the end of the day, it was maybe more show and less of actual competition, but still worth it. Then again, I'm also quite accustomed to ignoring the (lack of) GC competition since I've watched Tour since 1997, including all the lovely Armstrong years, and it's quite common for the gap between 1st and 2nd to be over 5 minutes aka done deal. Bolivar fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Jul 26, 2014 17:47
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It's been interesting to watch Sagan take green whilst not winning a stage and loving up every actual sprint.
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serious gaylord posted:Once Contador was gone there was literally no point in the tour. Nibali could have ridden off a cliff in the Alps two days after Contador went out. There's quite a difference between leading the race on the first rest day and winning it in Paris. It doesn't matter if you're an enormous favorite; you still have to perform at the end of the day.
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Also, you could say that the race for #2 is important because it's not exactly uncommon for the #1 spot to be disqualified in dope tests/trials after a week or a month or a year or 10 years...though usually it's too late for anyone to care. Peraud couldn't even give an interview to the French TV because he was crying so much after today's stage. I guess place 2 can mean quite a lot. Bolivar fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Pocket posted:Was I right in not really bothering with the Tour after stage 10? I watched the stages in the Alps but my interest dropped off a cliff last weekend and never came back. You were, watching the French riders battle for 2nd was pathetic and emasculating imo. Shame on them for riding like cowards, risk it all and go for a long range solo attack.
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Stage 20 Bergerac / Périgueux        Summary Full results Stage 21 Évry / Paris Champs-Élysées 137.5km  Stage analysis Mountain passes & hills Km 31.0 - Côte de Briis-sous-Forgescategory 4 Intermediate sprint  Finish  Weather Rain and Storms Stage 21 odds  Time schedule Start : 15h45 Finish : 19h10
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Jul 26, 2014 18:50
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Will Quintana be racing the Vuelta? Otherwise it has Froome ridden all over it
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Jul 26, 2014 19:25
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Hegay posted:Will Quintana be racing the Vuelta? Otherwise it has Froome ridden all over it Yes, he is.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:32
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I love Martin's WC stripe disk. Peraud's dream was to stand on the podium in paris all his life, so that's pretty meaningful for him I imagine. Quintana will poo poo in Froome's mouth in the Vuelta, looking forward.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:45
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vikingstrike posted:Yes, he is. That's good. Hopefully a Contador will recover in time as well. I'm sure Riis is going through his rotadex
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Jul 26, 2014 20:08
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Hegay posted:That's good. Hopefully a Contador will recover in time as well. I'm sure Riis is going through his rotadex Sysmex
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African AIDS cum posted:Sysmex Gonna use that new Tinkov connection and get some Full Size MGF
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Belkin did terrible today, Mollema blamed it partly on the bike after the race. Bianchi gave them new TT bikes on the second rest day and they only got to ride it twice, the second time being this morning. Now the team is freaking out and saying how unprofessional Mollema is to blame the bike. Good show.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Nibali could have ridden off a cliff in the Alps two days after Contador went out. There's quite a difference between leading the race on the first rest day and winning it in Paris. It doesn't matter if you're an enormous favorite; you still have to perform at the end of the day. Yeah he could have done, but he didn't. Instead you had 2 weeks of the top 5 marking each other to boring death.
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Hegay posted:That's good. Hopefully a Contador will recover in time as well. I'm sure Riis is going through his rotadex I believe it has already been reported that Contador is out of the Vuelta because his leg break was too severe to recover in time.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:31
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It has. He said right from the start it would be iffy and on Thursday IIRC they said he wouldn't recover in time. I don't like him terribly much but it's really a shame.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:49
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A lot of fractures occurring in the peloton of late. Brittle bones.
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Jul 26, 2014 22:04
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Lol at Thomas finishing ahead of Porte.
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Pvt Dancer posted:Belkin did terrible today, Mollema blamed it partly on the bike after the race. Bianchi gave them new TT bikes on the second rest day and they only got to ride it twice, the second time being this morning. Was a hell of a lot more than the bike. Riders that weren't even really trying finished way ahead of him.
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Jul 26, 2014 23:18
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I dunno, Mollema said he was cramping up after 10 km and his form was pretty good in the Pyrenees two days ago. The team response is just retarded. Mollema's always the first to blame himself when he underperforms, the director even acknowledged that and then goes on to say that it's really unprofessional to suggest that riding on a new TT bike turned out to be a bad idea.
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Unless his fit measurements got hosed up or he had the wrong size frame, I don't see how it could have caused major issues. Regardless, he looked awful on the bike. Moving his upper body all over the place.
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Jul 27, 2014 00:15
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Jul 27, 2014 00:53
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Its bad form to poo poo on your bike supplier when your team has been saved from the block by the skin of their teeth.
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Mollema is average. Ten Dam > *.belkin Tour de France is a poo poo race.
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