Stage 16 - Tuesday, July 20 2010, Bagnères-de-Luchon - Pau, 196 km

Hermy · 20-07-2010 4:03pm

Moreau

IM0 · 20-07-2010 4:03pm

Ill go for fedrigo

dastardly00 · 20-07-2010 4:07pm

Sandy to sneak it.

SomeFool · 20-07-2010 4:08pm

Moreau

Hermy · 20-07-2010 4:09pm

Can I change my mind?
Barredo has 32 seconds...

SomeFool · 20-07-2010 4:10pm

Hermy wrote: »

Casn I change my mind?
Barredo has 32 seconds...

They should catch him on the hill.....

Hermy · 20-07-2010 4:13pm

Go Morerau

kenmc · 20-07-2010 4:13pm

Oh please not lance. anyone but pharmstrong.

SomeFool · 20-07-2010 4:15pm

Hermy wrote: »

Go Morerau

In fairness he did most of the work to catch Barredo.

mloc123 · 20-07-2010 4:15pm

lol @ Lances sprint atempt

kenmc · 20-07-2010 4:15pm

There is a god. And he hates Lance too!

Speak Now · 20-07-2010 4:16pm

Fedrigo

NickDrake · 20-07-2010 4:16pm

Great!!! The Uniball didnt get it

IM0 · 20-07-2010 4:17pm

me@ucd wrote: »

Ill go for fedrigo

:cool:

Dodge · 20-07-2010 4:18pm

Delighted for him. Another French win too. Great stuff.

Now hopefully Thor leads the leading group home

Hermy · 20-07-2010 4:19pm

lol at Phil Ligget - Lance starts his sprint from the back of the group and Phil still thinks he's in with a chance.:rolleyes:

Hermy · 20-07-2010 4:21pm

GO THOR!!!

kenmc · 20-07-2010 4:22pm

looks like nico was about 3 beind thor

goldencleric · 20-07-2010 4:22pm

... and he does! Nico just in there behind him

joker77 · 20-07-2010 4:23pm

me@ucd wrote: »

:cool:

Ah stop patting yourself on the back - he was favourite in the bookies from a few k out

dastardly00 · 20-07-2010 4:27pm

why did Nico go the for the sprint in the peloton? (he came 13th, fair play!)
Bit random though.

IM0 · 20-07-2010 4:34pm

joker77 wrote: »

Ah stop patting yourself on the back - he was favourite in the bookies from a few k out

maybe but I called it about 15min from the end ^

and also dont have a clue where to get on the fly odds

-because I dont bet on this sort of stuff at all.

goldencleric · 20-07-2010 4:34pm

Wow! some boos for Bertie! Almost feel bad for him ... actually no I do feel bad ... Go Schleck!

Dodge · 20-07-2010 4:34pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

why did Nico go the for the sprint in the peloton? (he came 13th, fair play!)
Bit random though.

He said after one of the earlier stages (the Stage won by Hushovd) that if he knew his group home was "sprinting" for 7th he'd have gone for it "for the laugh"

Few points on the green jersey. MAybe a couple of quid into the team kitty

ednwireland · 20-07-2010 4:37pm

goldencleric wrote: »

Wow! some boos for Bertie! Almost feel bad for him ... actually no I do feel bad ... Go Schleck!

if the crowd were booing its pathetic.

bbosco · 20-07-2010 4:38pm

Dodge wrote: »

He said after one of the earlier stages (the Stage won by Hushovd) that if he knew his group home was "sprinting" for 7th he'd have gone for it "for the laugh"

Few points on the green jersey. MAybe a couple of quid into the team kitty

Maybe a bit of statement after yesterday's debacle with Gadret that after a long, tough day he had the legs to sprint, that he's still top man on the team.

velopeloton · 20-07-2010 5:01pm

Feed zone at Soulom.

Hungrycol · 20-07-2010 5:09pm

me@ucd wrote: »

ok we get it roche is in the peloton, let us know if he goes up the road or out the back :rolleyes:

...because I asked for updates as to how's he doing. Much appreciated Rovi.

Murph100 · 20-07-2010 5:31pm

Thor might have one less contender for the Green jersey :

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/alessandro-petacchi-under-investigation-for-drugs-report-27071

alfalad · 20-07-2010 5:39pm

Hungrycol wrote: »

...because I asked for updates as to how's he doing. Much appreciated Rovi.

+1 Thanks Rovi and everyone else for posting during the day as I'm in work and watching in the net would not go down well!

nacho libre · 20-07-2010 5:43pm

well, I just can't see Schleck doing enough damage on Thursday for him to be in Yellow on Sunday. He may get 30 seconds on Contador during Thursday's stage but i just can't see him gaining a minute and a half which is the very least he would need going into the trial time on Saturday.

ednwireland · 20-07-2010 9:05pm

just thought these shots of the tourmalet were fabulous (shame about the quality )

doccy · 20-07-2010 11:25pm

nacho libre wrote: »

well, I just can't see Schleck doing enough damage on Thursday for him to be in Yellow on Sunday. He may get 30 seconds on Contador during Thursday's stage but i just can't see him gaining a minute and a half which is the very least he would need going into the trial time on Saturday.

Seconded.
Andy needs some Bjarne Riis magic. Now Bjarne could climb a mountain...ahem.

joker77 · 21-07-2010 9:58am

Jens Voigt descends the Peyresourde Pass on a loaner bike after a crash shattered his own

http://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/tour-features/saying-no-sag-wagon

That stage pretty much got off on the wrong foot. For starters, we just went out so hard. We started out climbing up the Peyresourde Pass and everybody came out with their guns smoking.

I came over the top only 20 seconds down on the front group, but about 2 kilometers into the descent my front tire blew and I thought, “Oh God,” and I went down. Just one year after my horrible crash, and there I was tumbling on another mountain descent. And let me tell you, about the only place that feels good right now is my right ankle. The rest of me is all road rash. Plus I’ve got five stitches in my left elbow and then there are some ribs that are not in the right place! I may have to get x-rays, but I hate x-rays (the radiation), and plus, if I’ve got a fractured rib, what can anyone do about it?

The worst thing of all was that I almost got forced out of the Tour for a second year in a row. The problem was that the first team car was behind Andy Schleck, and the second had decided to go up ahead to hand out water bottles at the foot of the next climb. As a result I had no bike, because mine was shattered.

So then the broom wagon pulled up and was like, “Do you want to just get in?” And I said, “Oh no, I don’t need YOU!” But there I am with blood spurting out my left elbow and no bike. Finally, the race organizers got me a bike, but it was this little yellow junior bike. It was way too small for me and even had old-fashioned toe-clip pedals. But that is the only way I could get down the mountain, so I had to ride it for like 15-20 kilometers until I finally got to a team car with my bike.

Then, I still had to get up to the grupetto. All I can say is that that desperate times need desperate measures, but I got up there. And once I did it was grupetto all day long.

Needless to say, I had plenty of time to come up with a fitting book of the day. It’s from the Disk World series by Terry Pratchett. In it, the protagonist is Conan the Barbarian, who is a 70-year-old who has just survived everything. At one point he, and his other old warrior friends capture this village, but then they find that they are surrounded by an army of tens of thousands, and his only reaction is, “Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!” And that’s the way I was today when I was lying on the ground. I just thought, “Oh no, I’m going to Paris this year, I’m going to Paris. There’s just no way you are going to get me out of this race for the second year in a row!”

And a video interview:
http://video.saxobank.com/video/683038

Stage 16 - Tuesday, July 20 2010, Bagnères-de-Luchon - Pau, 196 km

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