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Le Tour 09: Stage 17: Bourg Saint-Maurice - Le Grand Bornand
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 21-07-2009 19:53
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Five-ascent monster stage
Today's stage is a constant up and down through the high mountains of the Savoie and Haute-Savoie. Five classified climbs are on the menu from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand: the Cormet de Roselend (18 km at 6.1 percent), the Col des Saisies (15.1 km at 6 percent), the Côte d'Arâches (6.3 km at 7 percent), the Col de Romme (8.8 km at 8.9 percent) and the Col de la Colombière (7.5 km at 8.5 percent).
The last two climbs will be the most difficult as the ascent to the Colombière will be spiced up by the Col de Romme climb, which makes its first appearance in the Tour. Lance Armstrong took his third consecutive stage win in Le Grand-Bornand in 2004, and Germany's Linus Gerdemann won there in 2007 to take the yellow jersey. This will be a hard, long day for any rider in the peloton.
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:01
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It would be great if we saw a strong attack group at the Col des Saisies to make the stage interesting.
If a strong group with guys who were 7+ minutes down like Evans, Gerdeman, Sanchez, Feillu, Menchov, Moreau and Pellizotti formed, it would be great.
Will it happen? Probably not. But I'd like to see the guys down a lot TRY to make an early move to force the action. |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:04
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Yep..but you got it right..best for us would be early atack. Not left all for last 1 cat, climb.
Saxo lost Voigt today..this is big hit. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:05
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A bad day to go on holiday 
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:07
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I like Nibali, with all the other major contenders (not Armstrong, if you consider him one) not far behind.
@SN: Where you going?
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:08
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I considered making a bet: Will Evans attack on the first possible mountain? Yes/No |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:10
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Deadpool wrote:
I like Nibali, with all the other major contenders (not Armstrong, if you consider him one) not far behind.
@SN: Where you going?
Italy
I should be able to still catch the race or atleast highlights of it on Rai or Eurosport, but it wont quite be the same in Italian
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| Dan_Grr |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:31
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CrueTrue wrote:
I considered making a bet: Will Evans let down on the first possible mountain? Yes/No
Fixed. |
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| Speedtrash |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:52
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definitely a hard stage, always up-down up-down...there is like 30km flat...
last two climbs are really hard, both over 8%, I am looking for some action!!!
hopefully Sastre can attack and gain some time on others...expect A.Schleck to attack also
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:57
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This is gonna be great, if the race is amde hard from the bottom of Col de Romme it will be a killer. Col de Romme + Col de la Colombiere is harder than Mont Ventoux, and Romme is having the heighest gradient in this years tour. Someone will lose big time tomorow.
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| niconico |
Posted on 21-07-2009 20:58
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I say Armstrong. I don't know why.
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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 21-07-2009 21:27
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schleck93 wrote:
This is gonna be great, if the race is amde hard from the bottom of Col de Romme it will be a killer. Col de Romme + Col de la Colombiere is harder than Mont Ventoux, and Romme is having the heighest gradient in this years tour. Someone will lose big time tomorow.
Not only that.
1)they have already been racing for almost 3 weeks
2)had a difficult mountainstage today
3)they have 5 climbs in that stage
4) at the foot of the col de romme , they will have no space recover.
I hope we see some of the favourites crack completly.
perhaps Conta won't eat adequate and will lose the tour ( it all can happen see Paris - Nice where they al thought Contador was unbeatable)
personnaly i betted on Nibali (you never know  )
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| niconico |
Posted on 21-07-2009 21:29
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Stijn_vranken wrote:
schleck93 wrote:
This is gonna be great, if the race is amde hard from the bottom of Col de Romme it will be a killer. Col de Romme + Col de la Colombiere is harder than Mont Ventoux, and Romme is having the heighest gradient in this years tour. Someone will lose big time tomorow.
Not only that.
1)they have already been racing for almost 3 weeks
2)had a difficult mountainstage today
3)they have 5 climbs in that stage
4) at the foot of the col de romme , they will have no space recover.
I hope we see some of the favourites crack completly.
perhaps Conta won't eat adequate and will lose the tour ( it all can happen see Paris - Nice where they al thought Contador was unbeatable)
personnaly i betted on Nibali (you never know )
I doubt that'll happen again, especially with Armstrong backing him.
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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 21-07-2009 21:35
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A_Schleck wrote:
Stijn_vranken wrote:
schleck93 wrote:
This is gonna be great, if the race is amde hard from the bottom of Col de Romme it will be a killer. Col de Romme + Col de la Colombiere is harder than Mont Ventoux, and Romme is having the heighest gradient in this years tour. Someone will lose big time tomorow.
Not only that.
1)they have already been racing for almost 3 weeks
2)had a difficult mountainstage today
3)they have 5 climbs in that stage
4) at the foot of the col de romme , they will have no space recover.
I hope we see some of the favourites crack completly.
perhaps Conta won't eat adequate and will lose the tour ( it all can happen see Paris - Nice where they al thought Contador was unbeatable)
personnaly i betted on Nibali (you never know )
I doubt that'll happen again, especially with Armstrong backing him.
I remember some ppl saying during paris -nice. Contador is way to strong and he'll never make noobmistakes like not eating and drinking enough and still it happens
maybe he'll have a landis-bad day, where he will lose minutes.
I find it hard to say right now who's gonna win. the top 10 stand within 3 min.
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| af11 |
Posted on 21-07-2009 22:06
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If they want to crack Contador they have to do something like they did in last years Giro when Di Luca and Ricco both attacked after he was isolated. It's almost like the teams have to gang up and throw all their cards in early. Isolate Contador and hope for the best. |
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| hakab |
Posted on 21-07-2009 22:16
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Andy Schleck on twitter: Jens is okay he is not in danger get stitches an broken cheekbone but he told us to kick a... Next days with a smile
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| hakab |
Posted on 21-07-2009 23:22
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Jens Voigt said this himself to team saxobank's people:
"I think I was very lucky not getting severely hurt from today's crash. Now I hope that you can focus on the race and I wish you all good luck with the hard stage tomorrow”. |
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| chrica04 |
Posted on 22-07-2009 01:05
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I am guessing Armstrong and Contador will rule the day. Armstrong has shown he has always ridden well over many passes then short steep ones, like Verbier. I am guessing Vandevelde goes on the attack and picks up some time on the favorites 
Also, the Romme they are saying is going to be the hardest climb, because of its gradient and then right before the Columbiere |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 22-07-2009 01:15
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Armstrong should be happy if can just hang on. |
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 22-07-2009 02:26
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This is random but oh well
A good Tour for next year would be a stage to Mount Blanc, a stage to L'Alpe du Heuz and a stage to Mount Ventoux all in the same Tour. It would be very interesting. |
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