I hope he crushes dream on the final climb.


We are about to find out.

10K to go and onto the final climb straight up to the finish! GC favourits all in a group, eye-balling one another!

TJ for the stage win . . does it matter?

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

Every Grand Tour stage win matters.

What were you saying about Quintana "just following wheels?" :)

What were you saying about Quintana "just following wheels?" :)

He must have had a peak at the Slowtwitch forum over night! :)

Here we go!

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

hopefully TJ won't repeat his attack on the Alpe d'Huez in 2013

and now he's going backwards

Quintana might get dropped toward the end of the stage

My feed from L'Equipe froze just when the Columbian climbing midget droid attacked. What's going on?

Quintana is the most frustrating rider from a spectator perspective. Seems like he rides not to lose rather than trying to win.

This is great. Total slugfest. Good for TVG and Landa.

Meanwhile TD is showing them all that he's not to be messed with.

My feed is on and TD throws it down and take midget droid with him!

I have no idea what you're talking about. He threw the initial haymaker.

These guys just gave away 20 seconds to Pinot

Go TVG!

They're racing for first.

Nice win.....but Nibbles and NQ giving away time to Pinot is not wise, given that when Pinot is on during a TT he's going to hurt them.

Great win for TJ today! I think he saw my post...

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Good on TGV, glad to see him fight after such a rough road.

WHAT A DAY.

Damn happy for Tejay, the MT boy. Great ride from Joe, VA boy.

Especially your first ever one (not counting TTT).

I'm no Tejay fanboy, but in my opinion this was huge for him. Finally did something.

Edit: just saw his interview. First thing out of his mouth was talk of not being in GC. He still has no sense of reality.

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Eurosport commentators jokes that Dumoulin was "trolling" Quintana and Nibali when Dumoulin attacked at the steepest pitch on the final climb

Also Landa is really good at leading guys out for stage wins! Not sure what he was thinking there.

Eurosport commentators jokes that Dumoulin was "trolling" Quintana and Nibali when Dumoulin attacked at the steepest pitch on the final climb


Why was Dumoulin doing most of the work over the final few Kms while NQ and Nibali just sat on? In fact, Dumoulin even did a WFT and seemed to be saying - "how about some help and a pull boys"?

A great last 10km. Pinot most likely the biggest beneficiary.

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

In his interview TD said he hopes NQ and Nibs lose their podium spots. He said Pinot is better in TT and it could happen. LOL. Patron.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev