Tour de France - Stage 18, Thu Jul 18, Gap - l'Alpe d'Huez, **Unmasked Spoilers**

Darkglasses

Poor Andy, hard luck dude.

Ciaran

Schleck and co. caught. I thought they'd last much longer than that.

Columbia

Gap is after being revised down to 5:30

thebourke

how is cadel evans doing?

retalivity

movistar are battering it

jinkypolly

Peleton is going to be ripped apart here.

Ciaran

Movistar are seriously pushing. The leaders mightn't stay away if they keep this pace up. Hopefully Quintana can use it for a decent attack.

hinault

Movistar and Quintana trying to crack Froome and SKY.

Darkglasses

thebourke wrote: »

how is cadel evans doing?

Don't know the exact time but he's in another group behind the yellow jersey group, nothing to write home about anyway.

Amazing speed going onto the Alpe.

n-dawg

voigt..... come on!!!!

hinault

Where is Joaquim Rodriguez? I fancied him for today.

check_six

Tejay moving away from Riblon now

Darkglasses

hinault wrote: »

Where is Joaquim Rodriguez? I fancied him for today.

Somewhere in the yellow jersey group

Columbia

Froome not sticking to Porte's wheel there. Bit of weakness?

hinault

Darkglasses wrote: »

Somewhere in the yellow jersey group

He'sright beside Froome.

C'mon Rodriguez!

Green&Red

Is Contador one of the three saxo just behind Froome?

Froome is looking in trouble

Darkglasses

Bauke, please. You're not fooling anyone.

Ciaran

Columbia wrote: »

Froome not sticking to Porte's wheel there. Bit of weakness?

Of course not, he's attacking.:rolleyes:

Green&Red

I take that back

Columbia

Columbia wrote: »

Froome not sticking to Porte's wheel there. Bit of weakness?

Guess not...goes on the attack

el tel

just Heard the word lampre for the first time in weeks

jinkypolly

Froome hits the nitro.

Morrisseeee

All we can hope for now is a Froome going bang, out the back door............oh look there's a pig flying by my window :rolleyes:

Give me more

Heh I was going to say, just as someone says that he takes them all on himself

corny

Sky mixing it up!!! I don't believe it.

check_six

hinault wrote: »

Where is Joaquim Rodriguez? I fancied him for today.

On Froome's wheel.

In other news, the fans seem to be gassed already, nothing left in the legs for those 100m chases on foot waving a flag while dressed only in bright green speedos!

ThisRegard

Columbia wrote: »

Froome not sticking to Porte's wheel there. Bit of weakness?

That's what I initially thought, and then look what happened.

Ciaran

check_six wrote: »

In other news, the fans seem to be gassed already, nothing left in the legs for those 100m chases on foot waving a flag while dressed only in bright green speedos!

Maybe they should do all the big climbs twice to tire the loonies out.

Darkglasses

Tejay still riding like a boss.

corny

They'll catch Teejay.

AstraMonti

hahaha. that's all.

corny

They're setting the stage up for Porte!

ThisRegard

AstraMonti wrote: »

hahaha. that's all.

Paging TinyExplosions, paging TinyExplosions !

Give me more

corny wrote: »

They're setting the stage up for Porte!

And there goes Froome dropping them all again =p

Quintana bridges the gap at least

Darkglasses

J-rod riding away from Contador.

AstraMonti

ThisRegard wrote: »

Paging TinyExplosions, paging TinyExplosions !

I 've no clue what you 're talking about

hinault

C'mon Rodriguez.

ThisRegard

Froome and Quintana like this is so reminiscent of previous stages in years past.

corny

Porte "do i have to stay behind Contador"

corny

Porte is smiling away. Not a bother to him. Its his turn to take the piss next year.

hinault

C'mon Rodriguez.

The riders should discard their helmets being a mountain top finish.

Give me more

Porte and Valverde dropping Contador.

Rodriguez right up there with Froome and Quintana. Not putting too much time over the guys behind them yet though

retalivity

saxo are done

Ciaran

Little kid nearly makes the race interesting by taking Froome out.

ThisRegard

That little kid nearly became a hero !

Columbia

Van Garderen still has 4:15, lost 15 seconds in 2.5k, at this rate he's going to hang on.

hinault

C'mon Rodriguez crack Froome.

check_six

J Rod goes for it

Darkglasses

There's a bit of fresh air between Quintana and Froome...

Morrisseeee

Go on Purito