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Tour de France '10 Stage 18 Salies-de-Béarn - Bordeaux
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 22-07-2010 17:28
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Back to flat. Sprinters penultimate hurrah?
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Fun Fact: Bordeaux is getting a large laser - the only other is in California, it will be under the jurisdiction of the French Atomic energy comission (CEA), the laser is to develop optical and science technology, public investment is €3 billion over 15 years
Bordeaux is also the town visited 2nd most often after Paris
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| siwi |
Posted on 22-07-2010 17:29
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Im sleeping allready. What can u say? Only: Cavendish. |
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| Shooting Star |
Posted on 23-07-2010 10:20
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Cav indeed. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 23-07-2010 10:25
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Let's hope for a lot of cross wind  |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 10:35
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The weather forecast for Bordeaux today is occasional rain and 6 m/s wind from west, so crosswinds, but hardly enough to do anything. |
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| neve57 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 12:16
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columbia and lampre will go for the first sprint i guess |
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| siwi |
Posted on 23-07-2010 12:40
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Breschel is in the breakaway. Nice after the performance from him yesterday.
But they are only 4, so guess HTC and Lampre will lead the peloton...
Breakaway: Matti Breschel (Saxo), Benoit Vaugrenard (FdJ), Daniel Oss (Liquigas), Jerome Pineau (Quick Step).
Go Matti!
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| ruben |
Posted on 23-07-2010 12:46
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Don't turn your TV on before 17:00
its useless, because this will be a mass sprint |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 23-07-2010 12:51
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Not necessarily at all. There's not always bunch sprints on flat stages at the end of G.T. especially right after exhausting mountain stages like yesterday's. Everyone is tired, and if a large groups escapes, there'll be less teams to do the chasing.
It's the kind of break that could win with 10+ minutes... |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 23-07-2010 12:55
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Aquarius wrote:
Not necessarily at all. There's not always bunch sprints on flat stages at the end of G.T. especially right after exhausting mountain stages like yesterday's. Everyone is tired, and if a large groups escapes, there'll be less teams to do the chasing.
It's the kind of break that could win with 10+ minutes...
Except that the Green jersey battle is still very much alive - Lampre in particular know that Petacchi should gain on Hushovd in the bunch sprints - and he needs to do so, while theres always HTC there to chase for Cavendish
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 12:58
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There is virtually no wind, as just demonstrated on a stream i'm watching. The flag was still.
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| bully12 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 13:13
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Ive never seen such a flat stage after the mountains, normally they add a cat 3 or a cupl of 4s in to try to stimulate a breakaway, it seems the race directors would like a sprint
disclaimer- due to this post there will obviously be a breakaway win 
"Don't even suggest Plymouth is an easy game. Look at it this way. There's a greyhound going through a field and he sees a rabbit. The rabbit starts running. The greyhound fancies a bit of snap but the rabbit fancies his life. Who runs the hardest? The rabbit, absolutely. That's been my view on life." "Mick McCarthy"
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 13:16
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It was designed like this so that the Tourmalet was the last climb of any kind in the tour.
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| bully12 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 13:18
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oh yes so it was doddy i remember phil sherwin saying that, as well as describing every single church france have ever bulit
"Don't even suggest Plymouth is an easy game. Look at it this way. There's a greyhound going through a field and he sees a rabbit. The rabbit starts running. The greyhound fancies a bit of snap but the rabbit fancies his life. Who runs the hardest? The rabbit, absolutely. That's been my view on life." "Mick McCarthy"
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 13:33
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I feel like it should always be final mountain stage Friday then time trial Saturday then onto the Champs-Elysses Sunday. Everyone is right, there's nothing really to watch until the final few kilometers.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 23-07-2010 13:35
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 23-07-2010 13:43
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Goooooo!  |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 24-07-2010 11:31
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And in conclusion, Cavendish won |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 24-07-2010 11:41
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Yeah, a great perfomance by a guy with Bronchitis
But in all fairness Petacchi also has Bronchitis, both admitted to nearly not starting yesterday morning. A great ride by the both of them. - and they aren't the only Bronchitis suffers, a lot of the peloton has it.
Now, the green jersey is still alive. Here are some scenarios:
Cavendish wins in Paris, Thor can't win green.
Cavendish wins in Pairs, Petacchi comes 6th, Cavendish wins green.
Intermediate sprints will be vital.
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 24-07-2010 14:17
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Cavendish..easy win.
Thor had good lead out..then riders started to pass him..left and right..this was looking real bad. 14th.
Comment after..headwind..it was hard. Thor hard for benefit for you..you was hard sprint master. |
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