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TdF'13 Stage 9: Saint-Girons to Bagnères-de-Bigorre (July 7)
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| fickman |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:23
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Alakagom wrote:
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Damiano Cunego was crying like a Baby a few days ago saying people are underestimating him as a CG Contender, jmmmmm poor Cunego I wonder why people was doing such a thing 
Can someone please tell me WTF happend to TJVG and Pinot, i allways new TJVG was overating but Pinot  ......
And now its more than clear that the white jersey is going to be a battle of 2 and that Kennaugh and Meyer has no real chances.
Why did you even categorize Kennaugh? He was always going to be a domestique that did hard work and then let go after he finished.
And anyway Kennaugh might not get the prestige of White Jersey, but he has come of age finally. With Kiryenka gone and Thomas still struggling with injury, Kennaugh will be now vital for Froome.
I know that but in the Pre Tour talk were people talking abut Kennaugh, Cameron Meyer and Rohan Dennis as White Jersey contenders and i was like
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:27
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Pinot was following good on the Pailheres yesterday but lost a lot of time during the descent (he has fear of descending) and also wanted to change bikes at the foot of the Ax 3 domaines and lost 6 minutes yesterday. I think he tanked today so he could get a stage win from a break later on
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:27
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Pinot seems to have mental difficulties. Made Wiggins look like Nibali on the descent down from Pailhères yesterday.
Might've given up on his GC aspirations after that, and lost time today to open the possibility of joining breakaways later in the race.
TVG was just overhyped after what he did last year. Now that there are proper climbs and far less TTing, he doesn't stand a chance. He seems to be worse than usual though, so maybe struggling to return to top form after Cali as well.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:29
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Pinot ?
On a scale of Nibali (100) to Andy Schleck (0), he probably scores a (-50) or something like that when it comes to descending skills.
And it's not that much a question of skill, it's just that he's like what Farrar has becomes, he shits in his pants when reaching high speeds.
So, after being dropped yesterday, he totally cracked (breakdown) and still hasn't recovered from that today.
He should focus on the Vuelta IMO, their ______/ profiles should suit him well.
TVG struggled because of the heat I heard, I don't know to what point it's a reliable information though. |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:29
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Leipheimer and Horner also sucked in the Tour when they dominated everyone on mt Baldy
And didn't TVG crash hard during the first stage?
Edited by Spilak23 on 07-07-2013 21:30
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:29
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
Pinot seems to have mental difficulties. Made Wiggins look like Nibali on the descent down from Pailhères yesterday.
Might've given up on his GC aspirations after that, and lost time today to open the possibility of joining breakaways later in the race.
TVG was just overhyped after what he did last year. Now that there are proper climbs and far less TTing, he doesn't stand a chance. He seems to be worse than usual though, so maybe struggling to return to top form after Cali as well.
Tejay claimed he didn't have heat stroke yesterday, but all the symptoms he listed off to the media were indeed the signs of having heat stroke.
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| fickman |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:32
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Thnxs 4 the onfo guys. I dont get that with TJ and the Heat, iirc at Cali there were temperatures over 40 C and he won Cali so I dont really understand 
Edited by fickman on 07-07-2013 21:36
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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:52
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I thought TVG would do much better.... |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:54
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What was quite obvious during the Quintana attacks: Roman 'big gear' Kreuziger seems to have no acceleration at all. But he could very well be on his way to his best TdF result
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| ruben |
Posted on 07-07-2013 21:56
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TVg himself said he did have problems with the heat, but he didn't understand why. Because he didn't have those problems in Cali and he trained to withstand heat |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:00
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Froome.exe says that his teammates are human.
They can't be all machines 
And good to see that Kwiatek gets support from guys like Velits and Chavenel instead of having 7 opqs riders waiting for Cav
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| issoisso |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:13
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I'm curious what Riis is going to do now that he's built a team around Contador and Contador is so obviously past it.
That is, if he's still around the sport next season.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:14
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Spilak23 wrote:
What was quite obvious during the Quintana attacks: Roman 'big gear' Kreuziger seems to have no acceleration at all. But he could very well be on his way to his best TdF result
He got 13th, 9th which later became 8th and 8th again. Im not so sure he's going to do any better than that this year.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:20
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So, does anyone dare to guess what the GC will look like after the TT?
I'm expecting something like this:
1. Froome
2. Valverde (around 4mins behind)
3. Kwiatkowski
4. Mollema
5. Costa
6. Fuglsang
7. Péraud
8. Quintana
9. Contador
10. Kreuziger
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:21
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issoisso wrote:
I'm curious what Riis is going to do now that he's built a team around Contador and Contador is so obviously past it.
That is, if he's still around the sport next season.
Gonna call it like this: Tinkov buys the team entirely and finds a way to merge it with Katusha.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:29
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Tinkov hates Katusha so so bad
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| Cossack |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:36
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Wow, that was anamazing stage, unfortunately I couldn't watch it live, is there any website where I could find a full coverage to watch? Only found some highlights so far.
Edited by Cossack on 07-07-2013 23:18
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 07-07-2013 22:57
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Nice to finally see some vulnerability from Sky. Too bad no one could take advantage of it. Just from a Danny Pate perspective, I'm thinking Froome wouldn't have been isolated if Sky had brought Danny Pate instead of these guys that are turning out to be utterly useless (Geraint Thomas, Kiryienka, Siutsou). Even if Danny Pate were fatigued from racing the Giro, I'm thinking he would be more useful than these disappointments. Plus Danny Pate would have been more useful in the TTT, and they probably would have won it. Not that time is an issue for Froome at this point 
Loving Quintana though too.
Edited by Bushwackers on 07-07-2013 22:58
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 07-07-2013 23:05
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Only just catching up now. Amazing turnaround for Sky today thanks to some aggressive stuf from Garmin and Movistar. In end the net result was the removal of Sky's back up plan and strange that Movistar seemed to be thinking more of 2nd then first at times and never drove it home for whatever reason.
Anyway not going to focus too much on the end result but more on the spectacle that the racing produced - one hell of a stage. As for Sky wtf - tired, sick or just not that good? :/
Edited by ianrussell on 07-07-2013 23:09
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 07-07-2013 23:05
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Bushwackers wrote:
Nice to finally see some vulnerability from Sky. Too bad no one could take advantage of it. Just from a Danny Pate perspective, I'm thinking Froome wouldn't have been isolated if Sky had brought Danny Pate instead of these guys that are turning out to be utterly useless (Geraint Thomas, Kiryienka, Siutsou). Even if Danny Pate were fatigued from racing the Giro, I'm thinking he would be more useful than these disappointments. Plus Danny Pate would have been more useful in the TTT, and they probably would have won it. Not that time is an issue for Froome at this point
Loving Quintana though too.
Its hard to fault Thomas for riding with a broken pelvis
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