TimoCycling wrote:
All the crybabies here about SKY are silent now hopefully, fantastic stage!! And good that Porte cracked!
Sort out your shit man, this was clarification of yesterday.
What exact clarification? That Froome is doing really well? yeah. But the rest of the team cracked and it was a great stage, don't cry about it maybe being doping when he never tested positive, it's pathetic.
They cracked 20 hours after being absolutely dominant with six riders, that is not normal.
First two hours of the stage were great, after that Movistar ruined their chances and did brilliant work for Froome. They just ride for 2nd.
Movistar was riding to keep Porte away, ofcourse they were riding for 2nd at first. Later they noticed Froome could easily follow and tried with Quintana (I agree, awful attacks by him) and a 2nd place is absolutely great for Valverde, ofcourse they will ride for that.
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
Movistar ruined it !!! should have made Froome chase on the valley roads n then attack on the mountain.They just dragged him to the top.Valverde happy with 2nd i guess !!!
TimoCycling wrote:
The tactic of Garmin made the race for me, and it wasn't a really bad move at first, only stupid that Froome could follow easily. (I mean the attack on the flat) Froome is just unbeatable. I still don't get the riding by Quintana though, that was really awful lol.
Seriously?
You think that it a good tactic up till the point where Quintana did the only right thing (albeit too late)?
If i was the boss in the car with Movistar and I saw Porte getting back I'd ride to keep him away aswell. Rather have Porte out of the GC than let him come back and try to attack Froome wich won't work.
There is another 2 weeks coming aswell, so they eliminated Porte today, not a bad day imo. Ofcourse the attack by Quintana was awful but yeah..
TimoCycling wrote:
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
Wut? What was Cannondale supposed to do on Ax3 Domaines? They dropped on purpose,they dont care about mountain stages. Yoo compare two completely different things.
TimoCycling wrote:
Movistar was riding to keep Porte away, ofcourse they were riding for 2nd at first. Later they noticed Froome could easily follow and tried with Quintana (I agree, awful attacks by him) and a 2nd place is absolutely great for Valverde, ofcourse they will ride for that.
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
2nd is great? in what world??
Anyone who says 2nd is good is just making excuses for losing.
TimoCycling wrote:
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
Wut? What was Cannondale supposed to do on Ax3 Domaines? They dropped on purpose,they dont care about mountain stages. Yoo compare two completely different things.
Ofcourse they drop in the mountains, but they went from 1st in the team GC to last, so clearly they lost a lot of energy. How is it not normal a team loses energy after having wasted a lot of energy the day before? I don't get your reasoning.
TimoCycling wrote:
Movistar was riding to keep Porte away, ofcourse they were riding for 2nd at first. Later they noticed Froome could easily follow and tried with Quintana (I agree, awful attacks by him) and a 2nd place is absolutely great for Valverde, ofcourse they will ride for that.
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
2nd is great? in what world??
Anyone who says 2nd is good is just making excuses for losing.
What would you rather do? Lose Porte or try and break Froome wich won't work?
Jacdk wrote:
But one thing is clear after this Tour
Contador needs to focus on winning the Giro and Vuelta instead and just leave Sky to the TdF because he cant do shit anymore.
Guess the steaks are as good anymore
Please relax, he had a bad day yesterday - everybody can have that, even Contador.
He looked much better today and I think he will only get better day for day. It's gonna get hard for him to win the Tour but to say "he can't do shit anymore" is simply just stupid.
TimoCycling wrote:
Movistar was riding to keep Porte away, ofcourse they were riding for 2nd at first. Later they noticed Froome could easily follow and tried with Quintana (I agree, awful attacks by him) and a 2nd place is absolutely great for Valverde, ofcourse they will ride for that.
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
2nd is great? in what world??
Anyone who says 2nd is good is just making excuses for losing.
What would you rather do? Lose Porte or try and break Froome wich won't work?
TimoCycling wrote:
Movistar was riding to keep Porte away, ofcourse they were riding for 2nd at first. Later they noticed Froome could easily follow and tried with Quintana (I agree, awful attacks by him) and a 2nd place is absolutely great for Valverde, ofcourse they will ride for that.
And how is it not normal? The same thing happened to the Liquigas team after riding for Sagan the stage before the first mountain stage.
2nd is great? in what world??
Anyone who says 2nd is good is just making excuses for losing.
What would you rather do? Lose Porte or try and break Froome wich won't work?
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