Riis123 wrote:
So tomorrows stage apparantly cant be watched on Eurosport or Eurosport 2 live in DK, I suppose they finish the same time as they have done whole week?
Le Mans 24h and Queens tennis is on. Fortunately enough I got Eurosport player
Too bad, guess you still can watch it on some other streams, maybe Sporza or something like that?
Yeah Sporza also showing it. Bakelants will ride in green jersey tomorrow.
Wilier wrote:
So? Are you supposed to wait just because the crashed GC guy has the leader's jersey? What if he was second with a few seconds? Then screw him I suppose?
If the race leader is down, the peleton often waits, it's like an unspoken rule. There are excpetions though like in the 2012 Vuelta when Valverde in red was down and no one waited.
Funny enough, Froome & Sky were the instigators of that move back then and I remember being super pissed on SKY because of that. In any case, this was the second clear moment in 2012 where Froome showed (after attacking Wiggins at le Tour) that he was a pretty classless rider.
About today's stage, looked like a rather dull affair and I just skipped through the 20 mins vid. Don't think you can compare it a crash where only the race leader crashes to a crash, when large parts of the peloton hit ground. There didn't really seem be much point in investing anything anyway, so waiting seemed like the natural thing to do. Next two stages should be a goodie though.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
Hope Froome is ok. Is the next 2 stage both MTF?. Contador should attack as Froome maybe weak. I will love it if Froome wins tommorow that will kill any hop Contador has what a damaging blow if he crashes and beats him the next day.
atlanta wrote:
Hope Froome is ok. Is the next 2 stage both MTF?. Contador should attack as Froome maybe weak. I will love it if Froome wins tommorow that will kill any hop Contador has what a damaging blow if he crashes and beats him the next day.
Yeah, two mtfs on the weekend. Don't see why Contador's hope should be killed if he loses on both stages. This is a prep race for him and yesterday's showed clearly that he rides it like one when he attacked the whole SKY squadron on his own for the fun of it.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
atlanta wrote:
Hope Froome is ok. Is the next 2 stage both MTF?. Contador should attack as Froome maybe weak. I will love it if Froome wins tommorow that will kill any hop Contador has what a damaging blow if he crashes and beats him the next day.
Yeah, two mtfs on the weekend. Don't see why Contador's hope should be killed if he loses on both stages. This is a prep race for him and yesterday's showed clearly that he rides it like one when he attacked the whole SKY squadron on his own for the fun of it.
Yes Alberto looks much better this year, but you make it sound like he is not trying to win. He could not even beat Froome on stage 2 when someone did all the work. I think he needs to beat Froome to a stage win imo. But it will be a great TDF.
atlanta wrote:
Hope Froome is ok. Is the next 2 stage both MTF?. Contador should attack as Froome maybe weak. I will love it if Froome wins tommorow that will kill any hop Contador has what a damaging blow if he crashes and beats him the next day.
Yeah, two mtfs on the weekend. Don't see why Contador's hope should be killed if he loses on both stages. This is a prep race for him and yesterday's showed clearly that he rides it like one when he attacked the whole SKY squadron on his own for the fun of it.
Yes Alberto looks much better this year, but you make it sound like he is not trying to win. He could not even beat Froome on stage 2 when someone did all the work. I think he needs to beat Froome to a stage win imo. But it will be a great TDF.
I'm saying, that this is a preparation race for him and it always has been. Why should he lose sleep over a preparation race? At the Tour, everybody starts at zero. Contador never won the Dauphine in all his career, whereas this has been a season goal for SKY the past years - always. So, there's obviously a pattern.
By the way: "He could not even beat Froome on stage".... even?! Froome sprinted for 700 meters, which was insane. Could not even... you make it sound like it's the easiest thing to do. Yeah, he couldn't pass Froome, so what? Neither could Froome drop Contador.
Bakelants deserved the win after the arsehole move from Westra at the finish. I think if Westra had won, he would have been relegated to 2nd for forcing Bakelants into the barriers
i think you should watch the replay, westra didn't swerve much at all and in fact it was bakelants himself who went a bit wide, he steered himself into the barriers actually
the_hoyle wrote:
Bakelants deserved the win after the arsehole move from Westra at the finish. I think if Westra had won, he would have been relegated to 2nd for forcing Bakelants into the barriers
Well, that's why Westra probably didn't push through as Bakelants was already next to him. Bakelants would've won anyway.
It's something a lot of riders do, try to cut off the other guy as long as he's not next to you. Petacchi did it to Cav once and I remember Nys vs Pauwels in cyclocross. It's considered a legal move as long as the other rider is behind enough.
TimoCycling wrote:
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The stage is only starting now so give it a little bit of time
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