Tour de France: stage 13 Individual TT 37.5Km **Spoilers**

dahat

donfers wrote: »

Do you want the short or long answer?

I'll assume it is a yes.

Looks like it doesn't even fit him correctly tbh.

68 lost souls

donfers wrote: »

Anything under 54 minutes would be satisfactory for Dan, anything over would be a tad disappointing

54:25:55

donfers

68 lost souls wrote: »

54:25:55

not bad. not bad at all. not fantastic though

cunavalos

He will hold his GC position . Porte and Kreuziger remain behind and he actually gains time on the others

He jumps one place moving ahead of aru

donfers

cunavalos wrote: »

He will hold his GC position . Porte and Kreuziger remain behind and he actually gains time on the others

Kreuziger took a minute out of him, also looks like Mollema is going like a train...Froome may not take much out of his contenders here which sets up the latter mountain stages nicely

Burial.

Luke Durbridge

Quintana looks like he has thrown in the towel. Tour is effectively over, Froome is putting in a very good time.

donfers

in tears of joy here - we took 15 seconds out of Aru, GTFI!!!!

cunavalos

donfers wrote: »

Kreuziger took a minute out of him, also looks like Mollema is going like a train...Froome may not take much out of his contenders here which sets up the latter mountain stages nicely

He will lose a place to porte but stays ahead of kreuziger and the rest and moves ahead of aru so will keep a top ten on GC but the other contenders are moving away from him

68 lost souls

Quintana lost about 2 minute son Froome I reckon

donfers

cunavalos wrote: »

He will lose a place to porte but stays ahead of kreuziger and the rest and moves ahead of aru so will keep a top ten on GC but the other contenders are moving away from him

Hopefully he'll be cut some kind of slack in terms of being allowed to attack later...Carlos Sastre won the tour in similar circumstances but does Dan have the legs for a long mountain solo

velo.2010

Completely misreading some of the earlier times. Froome will have 3 minutes plus at the end (bar Mollema). So much for the organisers hoping for a close GC going into the final week!

xxyyzz

Is Quintana ill I wonder, he's going very badly.

68 lost souls

Yates puts 6 seconds into Quintana

donfers

xxyyzz wrote: »

Is Quintana ill I wonder, he's going very badly.

He's done OK in the end

dastardly00

Nairo Quinatna

Froome two minutes quicker than Quintana.

Inquitus

Vasil Kiryienka

Froome with what nearly 3 minutes on Nairo in GC now, that's got to be that now you'd think.

Burial.

Luke Durbridge

I know it's a broken record at this stage but it's such a shame Contador is gone. He would have crushed this stage. Tour is over as a contest besides a catastrophic incident for Froomedog.

donfers

Froome's second half of the time trial was impressive, got about 2 minutes on most of his rivals

RobertKK

That was a nice balanced viewpoint on the day put over by Tom Dumoulin.

Not an easy day to be happy.

donfers

astonished that dumoulin wasn't in the poll options!!!

Pudsy33

Martin did OK, beating Aru and Purito is a positive.

dastardly00

Nairo Quinatna

donfers wrote: »

astonished that dumoulin wasn't in the poll options!!!

And he was the favourite for the stage too! :pac:

Burial.

Luke Durbridge

Stage Top 10:
1 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Giant-Alpecin 00:50:15
2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 00:01:03
3 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 00:01:31
4 Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 00:01:35
5 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing 00:01:45
6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 00:01:54
7 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 00:02:00
8 Ion Izagirre (Spa) MovistarTeam 00:02:02
9 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep 00:02:05
10 Steve Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data 00:02:24

Super effort by Mollema again who looks to be in the form of his life.

cunavalos

donfers wrote: »

astonished that dumoulin wasn't in the poll options!!!

Worse than that only two of the options (Froome and Tony Martin) finished in the top 15

donfers

Geraint Thomas surely has to look at becoming a team leader elsewhere, he could challenge Froome in the future

Burial.

Luke Durbridge

donfers wrote: »

Geraint Thomas surely has to look at becoming a team leader elsewhere, he could challenge Froome in the future

I agree although he has been disappointing for me at this Tour, he was monstrous last year. His rise into a GC/climber is as impressive as Froome's meteoric rise though.

Inquitus

Vasil Kiryienka

Interesting battle for the podium now, you'd have to think Yates, Porte, Molema, Quintana are all in with a shout of the podium behind Froome, Porte looks the strongest to me of the bunch, if he hadn't lost big time with that unfortunate puncture he'd be much closer in the GC:

# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 58:02:51
2 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek - Segafredo 0:01:47
3 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEDGE 0:02:45
4 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:02:59
5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:17
6 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:03:19
7 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:04
8 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:04:27
9 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx - Quick Step 0:05:03
10 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:05:16

terrydel

Luke Durbridge

Burial. wrote: »

I know it's a broken record at this stage but it's such a shame Contador is gone. He would have crushed this stage. Tour is over as a contest besides a catastrophic incident for Froomedog.

Hes an epic cheat tho. A confirmed one. So if he was at his best and did it at mach 2 I still personally wouldn't give a ****.

Thud

Tony Martins

The next hill climb TT on Thursday should suit Dan, would have to think he'll pull back some time then

dastardly00

Nairo Quinatna

Thud wrote: »

The next hill climb TT on Thursday should suit Dan, would have to think he'll pull back some time then

Pull back time on who though?

It should suit everyone ahead of him as well.