Schleck is toast. That was awkward to see. Poor guy.

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Quintana is GONE! BOOM!

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I really can't stand UK Postal. Go Quintana.

Quintana is absolutely stone faced the entire climb.

Like a boss

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Looks like maybe Froome will put it on his left hand then? :-)

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Wow. Froome with some ridiculous climbing.

My stopwatch says 58' 45" roughly. Any takers for a preliminary VAM analysis? Late in a long, hard raced, late stage?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q38Gyjv4EE anyone else feeling some ominous deja vu?

It is ridiculous what froome can do up a climb.

At least one person is

Lance Armstrong ‏@lancearmstrong17m
Hey @chrisfroome - no gifts on the Ventoux.

Im not one to claim somebody is doping but the way he rode away from Contador and then Nairo is just crazy!

Is Andy totally reliant on Frank? Will he have to follow Frank to be competitive?

Spinning what looked like 100 rpm. Cant wait to see veloclinics time analysis to see how it stacks up against the early 2000s :)

Hate to do this to you, but Evans? Tejay? Hope springs eternal and all that I guess :-)

Good call on Quintana. I should start following the early season stage races a bit better. Things like the White are always somewhat of a mystery to me.

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Like I said a few days ago after Saxo attacked in the crosswinds....everyone was getting too excited by that stage and its potential GC implications. AC still had to go mano a mano against Froome......and he once again came up short.

Today's result was really not much of a surprise, IMO. Froome has clearly shown he is the strongest guy in the race. As long as SKY could keep it together to Ventoux, he would be fine. He played it perfectly when Quintana attacked.....kept calm, sent his guys to the front to increase the pace and then reel him in.

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"If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." - Samuel Adams

Sagan's wheelie was the highlight of this stage for me. What an awesome dude, love his style.

there are sill like, 97 cat2 or higher climbs that Froome has to not have a bad moment on.

it ain't over!

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
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Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

Also as far as I can tell the Feed at 10k by sky was illegal, anyone know for sure? The UCI rulebook doesn't seem to allow it. Maybe they will penalize him..10 minutes? hehe

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

Yes it is. Barring a catastrophe (crash, illness, etc) Froome has it locked up (and has since the Pyrennes, really)

You cannot feed inside the last 20K, so yes, the musettes were illegal. Not too likely they will hit them with a time penalty this time, but if they do it again, they may well. SKY's pocketbook will be just a touch lighter this evening.

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I agree. watching that jump and how Froome climbed today, there is no way that this guy is not on a "special training program" that involves more than just training. His performance is questionable.

It'll be interesting to see what happens on L'A-H stage. The only hope for unseating froome, and its an extreme longshot , is to race the first time up like its the finsh , isolte Froome then somehow have energy to take time out of him on the 2nd ascent.

Its a big gamble because the most likely outcome is Contador dropping out off of the podium rather than moving past Froome, but at this point thier isn't a realistic scenario for beating him.

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barring catastrophe
but catastrophe is common in bike racing
you cannot bar it!

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

My stopwatch says 58' 45" roughly. Any takers for a preliminary VAM analysis? Late in a long, hard raced, late stage?


AFAIK, Iban Mayo holds the record for that climb in 55'51'' from Bedouin (Dauphin libéré 2004).

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