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tdf 2017 Stage 15
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Not working!
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He's home -- Mollema -- is going to win this!
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No signs of slowing --
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Wow -- this is going to be so good for him -- wow!
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No mistakes, now...
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MOLLEMA!
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I am so happy for this guy, he has been trying after getting a good sniff last year -- so happy!
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Let's remember that TFR made this a much harder race to solve after they refused to get off the front when in pursuit of the break at the start of the day.
...And then this happens! Sometimes it's just meant to be, as a result, I think we might get another top-class rider at the WT level. |
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That race had everything, and was happy that Barguil and Calmejane made it in, although I left a lot of Calmejane out of the market on account of him not getting involved.
Mollema was 33/1 at SP out to 50/1 pre-start, but was matched on here with reasonable liquidity at 100s. That rights my ship after stage 13 screw-up. |
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Not really rights it so much as just wipes it ever happened.
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He's got a unique shape, but he can find his niche now, will be interestng to see where he goes. Good pedigree, too.
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Special mention for Bling -- he is going top class at this Tour -- to come in 5mins down on climbers after his win yesterday -- am fogetting my previous comments about him being overrated -- he is now RATED to top-class -- no doubt. Word champion material when in this condition. Might need to take another look at Bergen and Salmon Hill, in which case I might put the mining equipment away and reach for a fly rod -- 6.4% average.
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Thinking how this stage would have developed with Aru still in yellow?
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Not really mate -- doesn't pay to solve historical questions, unless they can have some effect on the remaning stages. Are you inferring it does?
I raised the question of how Aru can gain time on Froome when you brought up the ITT matter in terms of it advantaging Froome by about a min, and I didn't disagree, however by not having found a way into that question, I didn't give Aru much more thought afterward, especially when considering how he could -- and did -- lose positioning into stage 15 and lose Yellow. I thought two races would be fun, but then when it got so fun with Mollema I wished it was only one race. Have to go back to the tape -- all I remember is Froome -- mechanical -- Kwiatkowski like a rock beside him -- work-work-work -- good ride -- job done -- disaster averted -- Bardet at least tried on home roads! |
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Amazing ride by Froome. French crowd booing the yellow jersey as he was clawing it back tells you all you need to know about them. Local boy Bardet only in the hunt because of the Commissaires' lack of transparency when ducking the application of their own rules. Bardet's team had Froome on the ropes but they were impotent when it mattered.
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Personally I thought that ride by Froome was highly questionable. Have to be honest and say I can completely understand why he was getting booed. He was riding well above threshold for about 20 minutes - so hard he popped all his domestiques - to chase back on to a Ag2r team going full gas. And then he was able to stay with attacks.
I thought BMC made a right mess of that today. 4 men in the break and although they moved Caruso into the top ten that will be scant consoltation. I'd think they'll be desperate for a stage in the third week. Might be one for Kung on Tuesday? Brilliant ride from Mollema today. |
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BMC must have been smarting by getting beat by Bling on stage 14 when they did so much work for GVA, and hence they threw the proverbial Kithcen Sink at this stage, thinking that greater numbers would improve their chances of getting the win and Caruso was their most likely, obviously.
Stefan Kung was in the breakaway on stage 12 and rode well, he had wanted to get into one on an earlier, I don't recall which one exactly, assume it would have been one of the flatter stages, but was told that he was too strong and the sprint teams didn't allow him to go. That's what they used to say about Spartacus. |
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I'll let you do the stage 16 fred SP, but I've scattered a few coins on potential break candidates - Cummings 34/1, Kung 33/1, Van Baarle 66/1, Van Rensburg 150/1 & Senechal 500/1.
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