tuckandgo wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
tuckandgo wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
Team Kenya's South Africa trained mountain biker is chomping at the gravel....Pozzovivo dropped
Holy crap, 80K's to go and Froome is going on an ITT....this feels like Floyd in the TdF 2006 whiskey and testosterone stage.
If there was ever a stage for it this is it.
Both down and uphill negate (well, reduce) the advantage of riding in a group. And almost all the rest of it is down or uphill
Well, I suppose if you have won enough mountain bike races, you've done a 2.5 hour solo ride off the front, so why not....go Floyd....ahem go Sky!
Serious question, do you guys think Yates took away his strength (climbs) by going too deep on his weakness (TT)? He's been flat since the TT
Serious answer.
I think he consistently burnt too many matches (to use a good tri analogy) trying to gain a time buffer, and then burnt the last one and set fire to the box on the TT. He probably thought he could smash it up to and through the TT and then would have enough left to tick over defending the lead. In reality he has burnt all his matches and bonked (in grand tour terms), rather than be able to press on at steady state. You can't attack again, and again, and again, successfully, against the best cyclists in the world, and not expect to force a
sans jours Yeah, that was my feeling when he was attacking constantly and having no jours sans. Froome has been off and honestly Dumoulin has only done ONE attack so far which was yesterday. Other than that, he has marked the competition.
Having said that, either Froome has ridden his way to week 3 peak, or he's going to blow apart tomorrow after today's stage.
Froome 10 min up on Yates. 37 seconds on Dumoulin,
This descent should be epic too. Froome has built a buffer so he does not need to take risk.
Pinot riding well with Dumoulin and looks like he flats!!!