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*Tour de France - Stage 14* Saturday 18th July
*Tour de France - Stage 14* Saturday 18th July
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The climbers have to attack now...
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Bardet does...
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Stretched them...
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Uran still close, adding him...
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Bardet looks good...
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Bardet, Ura, Pinot, but Bardet out in the lead looking good!
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Pinot coming strong...
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Come on Bardet...
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come on cummings
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Pinot has got this -- Bardet is cooked!
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boooooooooooooooooooom
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WOW Steve Cummings that was brilliant, stuffed right up the French.
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Cummings brings the experience -- well done CJ if you pulled the trigger!
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Romain Bardet 1.76 £216.00 £165.00
£216.00 Mental race I had Backed roman at 70 Happy enough with the lay, Mental racing for trading  |
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Great Call CJ
hope you were on  |
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Cummings!!!
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Good mate, I'm glad, thought I might have steered you away a bit, certainly steered myself away from his chances.
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Unfortunately I haven't had a bet all day. So no return on that one for me.
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First ever GT win for MTN, and an African team at that, I believe.
...I think you're just trying to make me feel better for discounting his chances.  |
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Cracking stage we got 2 great races there
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I get it -- Team GB!
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Sepulveda DQ'd for getting in a team car and getting a ride!
 Wonder if they'll fine him for not putting on his seatbelt as well. |
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Even more oddly. Sepulveda wasn't even getting a ride in his own team car. Bizarre.
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The TV director jumped around a fair bit, at crucial moments too, but with 1km to go to the summit Bardet had a nice lead as Pinot led Uran behind. Uran cracked and dropped-off Pinot as Pinot accelerated to make some good ground on Bardet, and Bardet was still looking good but required bury-mode instead of looking back behind him. Cummings rode past Uran like he was second rate and was closing on Pinot fast nearing the summit, where Pinot, who was looking full of power and strength had Bardet just ahead. Pinot slowed once with Bardet instead of hammering past, and as it began to flatten out Pinot directed Bardet to come through to do some work, and perhaps not unsurprisingly Bardet didn't want a part of it. Cummings came up from behind, jumped them both and used his TT skills to put Pinot under pressure to hold his tail. He went into the sweeper hard, opened up a small gap to Pinot which was threatening iand which Bardet saw too late, and with his TT skills Cummings just put his head down and pushed for the line to win, proving that experience and heart can sometimes trump pedigree and prestige. Cummings' only other GT stage win came three years ago in the Vuelta on a flat finale, although he won his first race of the season in a hilly and indeed mountainous Spanish Classic, winning from Valverde -- impressive climbing ability indeed.
Froome hammered home to finish with a gap ahead of Quintana, probably confirmed he would have won the stage if it was all together. |
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...In that regard Froome's psychological advantage as well as his time advantage on the road is maintained and increased.
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now heard Sepulvedy had a broken chain at the last climb and both his team cars had missed him
. Lavenu took him aboard, maybe a 10' penalty would be enough in case of such a mechanical |