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((((( 'LE TOUR' de FRANCE 2016 )))))
((((( 'LE TOUR' de FRANCE 2016 )))))
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Good win by Pantano the Colombians finally have something to cheer about in this race. Big ride from Alaphilippe I think he should of won were it not for some bad luck.
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Sagan in the break today or will he play it safe for the green jersey?
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Albasini for today
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good stage for him
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another Swiss rider Cancellara is very short, I think he's from Bern
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could be one for the classics riders
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noone wants it more today than Spartacus, Martin is doomed to fail.
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noone wants it more today than Spartacus, Martin is doomed to fail.
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the finish is taylormade for him, but Sagan and the likes of GvA, Kristoff will make it not that easy
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probably Martin is going to sacrifice himself for Alaphillipe
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Sagan! nowhere but on the line
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Sagan puts Cav in his bag
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usually it is Cav who is seen nowhee but on the line, while esp in this forum Sagan is confronted with winning far too less compared to his efforts being tactically inapt, but he's shown he isn't!
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riders who leave the tour early should get paid only half their price money at best, going for early stage wins and then drop out is far too easy to be compared with what real champions like Merchx or Hinault have achieved!
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At least Sagan is finally winning some stages, the green jersey wins he had over the last 2 TdF's were a bit hollow imo considering he didn't even win a stage. Good to see he has rectified that and is getting the wins to match his talent and amazing consistency. Since he became road race world champion he cant stop winning, he's certainly repping the wc jersey better than most have.
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Cavendish (31yo) 30 TdF stage wins
15 Giro d'Italia stage wins 3 Vuelta Espana stage wins -------------- 48 grand tour stage wins Sagan (26yo) 7 TdF stage wins 0 Giro d'Italia stage wins 4 Vuelta Espana stage wins -------------- 11 grand tour stage wins a little respect please... |
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moving on to todays stage, stage 17 which although not the hardest stage has probably the hardest mountain top finish of the race. I wonder what tactics Movistar will try to employ. Many were critical of their tactics last year and it doesn't look like they've learnt their lesson. I mean what on earth were they doing on the Ventoux stage, Team Sky definitely seem to have them rattled. It seems like their main goal is to get Valverde on the podium and win the team classification, it doesn't look like they believe in Quintana.
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I think cycling is moving too far in the direction of F1 racing with regards to equipment. Maybe they should look at standardizing sprockets/chainrings and do away with onboard computers.
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stage 17
h2h multi Yates @2.0 vs Valverde Porte @1.65 vs Mollema Aru @1.75 ys Bardet pays 5.8 |
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Hills have enhanced Froome to win Stage 17, 5/2 out to 4/1. Think it's £25 max.
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Sneaky. You pretty much could have guaranteed a break would go today unless Movistar/Astana killed themselves before tomorrow's TT,
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Probably teams are too big also to show vivid racing, should be not more than 5 or 6
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Another follow the leader yawnfest , with none of the contenders willing to leave their comfort zone and attack until right at the end where if you are lucky you might make a few seconds .
It's a lot cleaner these days , but crikey it also very dull. |
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Zakarin finally
although I thought he was going to crash there zipping his jersey up inside the final km. |
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I know Tom Dumoulin is a beast but not he should be so short (3.35, 2nd fav) for this mountain time trial. It's a 10.5km climb at 6.2%.
1st Froome, 2nd Porte for me tomorrow. |
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The time trial on stage 13 started with a 7km climb at 5% and finished with a climb of 3.3km at 5%. Dumoulin was the fastest up the first climb and also had the fastest final split which included the final climb to the line. He also won from a break on stage 9, a big mountain stage which finished on a 10.1km climb at 7.2%. The climb was regular and he was dropped on the previous climbs but paced himself back each time. Dumoulin took it easy yesterday finishing over 20 minutes behind the gc riders but the gc riders only really raced the final 5-6km and had a rest day 2 days ago so there's probably not a lot in that. My initial thoughts were that Froome would be a certainty for this stage but the way Dumoulin has been climbing and going in general makes me think he has a chance here.
stage 13 TT splits start to first intermediate- 7km @ 5.0% Dumoulin Porte +10 Oliveira +15 Clement +16 Boasson Hagen +17 Froome +17 Thomas +18 3rd intermediate to finish- 9.5km incl. 3.3km @ 5.0% Dumoulin Froome +15 Oliveira +35 Coppel +41 Dennis +24 Mollema +26 Thomas +50 Boasson Hagen +53 Valverde +1:02 Porte +1:05 Stage 18 Todays time trial(17km) - The first 4km are flat. The next 2.5km are at 9.2%. The next 4km are at 4%. The next 4 individual km are 8.3%, 0.2%, 8.2%, 2.5%. The final 2.5 km are slightly downhill. So 9km out of the total 17km are less than 2.5% gradient. 4.5km of the course has a gradient over 8%. The other 3.5km's are between 4.3% and 5.1%. The irregularity of the climb wont help Domoulin but the flatter sections should favour him and he could gain time there. The first time check comes after 6.5km. The final 2km's before that first time check are at 11% and 10.1% and could be decisive. The steep sections suit Froome and he'll certainly be looking to take his advantage there. The greater number of flattish km's should suit Dumoulin but time differences are usually greater on the climbs than the flat which should favour Froome. Tough call. |
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small bet on dumoulin, the 3.7 you can get now doesnt look too bad
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Big advantage for Froome by going after Dumoulin. Paced himself the best.
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I wonder how Froome would go if he used a normal chainring.
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Not sure what Astana are doing today, this may be inspired or ridiculous
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Hope this is not the end of Dumoulin's olympic aspiratons
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Pierre has no luck. Nasty off.
I'm starting to warm to him now he's not in the French team. |
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Porte down as well. Conditions absolutely horrendous, hope no serious injuries here.
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Froome down.
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42 £115 44 £184 46 £217 48 £4 50 £112 55 £118 Bardet delivers  |
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allez Bardet
great ride |
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good overs on the exchange
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