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Roglic has developed here, he had a good Romandie ride, but I didn't expect him to go before the summit and thought he might get distanced if an attack were to have occurred prior -- but he was the one to have attacked so he has performed better than he has before and therefore must have developed in this ride.
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anyone else finding this tour boring? Lack of mountaintop finishes is making it too boring 4 me #vuletafarbetterimo
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Well, it wasn't the most entertaining stage, but a breakaway rider won, and one who did no work whilst Pantano and Mollema were driving it for Bertie.
Roglic was 66/1 at SP into 33/1 pre-start, so there was interest on him, definitely. But not by me, I have to admit. Not a loss though, thankfully. The breakaway never required 10mins, it would have been different without TFR involvement and we never saw much fisticuffs from the GC contender, except for nearing the summit, and SKY's pace was high, but not high enough to close down the 3mins on the final climb proper, however Roglic would always be strong along the flats with some 8kms to-go even if they were closing on him, and so it would have been maybe a closer run thing, but not necessarily a different result, I don't think. |
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I sometimes say that it is a boring stage on the bunch sprint stages when a small group is off the fron with no hope, but I don't really mean it, I love being a part of the Tour and enjoy something in it each day, even the rest days. [:laugh:
To answer your question, no I don't find it boring but I accept that there could be more GC excitment with riders smashing each other stage after stage in the mountains. Vuelta is a top GT race, I agree with you on that, though. Being the last of the GTs it seems to be more consistently enthralling, but it's not like the Tour. |
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Sky make it a bit dull imo,policing everything , so superior to the other average teams who have infiriority complex
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not really interested in betting on the tour but love the scenery combined with quality racing but finding there are too many sprint finishes and the mountain stages are finishing in the valleys. took today of work and would have expected more fireworks to be honest.
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Well I confused the stages between tomorrow and today, so that was a bit embarrassing, but I think given it is a summit-finish and Froome has won a summit-finish in two of his three Tour wins (last year he didn't technically win on the summit as the ITT had a short descent, and stage 8 was now his famous top-tube descent win) so there is an expectation that the foru main GC men should fight each other tomorrow on the final climb, and that might make for much more engrossing entertainment. I think that whilst there might again be two races on the road, between GC and breakaway, the final climb should give is a much greater sorting out between the GC combatants since we haven't seen a "bury-mode" attempt by a GC rider, except for Aru's 2.4km effort on stage 5, which wasn't the kind of climb they will be facing tomorrow.
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