Le Tour '18 stage 12: Bourg-Saint-Maurice > Alpe d'Huez 175k

mossym

remember froome going past wiggins and being told to come back the year wiggins won it? no question who was the stronger rider.

tough to say thomas doesn't look stronger than froome in this tour and is going to hand over the jersey despite being stronger

JoeyJJ

Happy enough anyone but Froome.

thecretinhop

RobertKK wrote: »

Boooooooooooooo
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unreal no commentry at all the clown

Sprinter Sacre

Cycling dies a little more every day

RobertKK

The tour de boo around France.

fat bloke

Geraint le grimpeur Thomas wins on Alpe-uh d'Huez.

neris

Great recovery from nibali. Glad froome didn't win that. Was driving with the player playing over bluetooth and my heart sank when I heard froome had gone off up the road. Sneaky ****er to attack aswell when nibali was on the floor

dulpit

Dan 1'45 down

scott1974

I reckon Martyn Irvine could be a grand tour contender if he went to SKY..

mhiggy09

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Happy enough anyone but Froome.

In the same boat, as much as I dislike froome and sky i do rather like Thomas and wouldn't mind him winning if the race was exciting and none of this sky train stuff.

nc6000

Are those boos I hear from the crowd at the finish?

pajor

Kruiswijk talking already to Dutch tv; “it was worth a try” with teary eyes

2smiggy

scott1974 wrote: »

I reckon Martyn Irvine could be a grand tour contender if he went to SKY..

Sky seem to work wonders with track riders. Froome also improved immensely from thier training methods

Doc07

Dan lost 1’45. Could have been a lot worse as he lost wheel around 6km to go. Actually it’s impressive.
Fair play also to Nibali almost getting back by the line.
Never saw near-track stands and messing from the lead group before on Alpe stage.

velo.2010

Thomas strong at the moment. If he falters later on in the race, a 'riding into form' Froome is there to take up the lead.

I'd say, mano a mano, Dumoulin may be the strongest individual rider but he can't defend against two Sky riders.

Choochtown

Anyone know why Sagan and Nibili had black armbands on today?

neris

Choochtown wrote: »

Anyone know why Sagan and Nibili had black armbands on today?

Their old boss at liquigas died unexpectedly yesterday

scott1974

velo.2010 wrote: »

Thomas strong at the moment. If he falters later on in the race, a 'riding into form' Froome is there to take up the lead.

I'd say, mano a mano, Dumoulin may be the strongest individual rider but he can't defend against two Sky riders.

I wonder at some stage is the Giro going to catch up with Froome.

retalivity

scott1974 wrote: »

I wonder at some stage is the Giro going to catch up with Froome.

Maybe in 2022.

Itziger

Doc07 wrote: »

Dan lost 1’45. Could have been a lot worse as he lost wheel around 6km to go. Actually it’s impressive.
Fair play also to Nibali almost getting back by the line.
Never saw near-track stands and messing from the lead group before on Alpe stage.

To be fair, your last sentence explains your first. He did ok but if the lads had gone for it, 'twould've been more like 3 minutes. I think he was dropped with more than 6 to go. Thought it was nearer 8k.
Just seen, still in 10th but now much more difficult to be top 5 which I'm guessing was the aim.

thelawman

Isn’t this Sky’s plan to have “G” in yellow? that way they can control the effort, time gap each day in favor of Froome, and give him the nod in the final week to take over yellow,

nc6000

Thomas just saying he's "still riding for Froomey"

neris

Time for movistar to give up this 3 leader crap and back Landa. Quintanas a busted flush and has been for a long time

BIGT4464

thelawman wrote: »

Isn’t this Sky’s plan to have “G” in yellow? that way they can control the effort, time gap each day in favor of Froome, and give him the nod in the final week to take over yellow,

1 min 39, that's a lot of time to make up or to just give up for Froome, he time trials well too.  Thomas will win this damn circus.

dahat

Nibali collided with a Moto according to the World of Twitter.

Burkie1203

So thomas did the alpe dhuez a few seconds quicker then Lance.

Those marginal gains aren't very marginal at all

Weepsie

scott1974 wrote: »

I wonder at some stage is the Giro going to catch up with Froome.

Nobody wonders this about Dumoulin though? Strange that.

De Bhál

Burkie1203 wrote: »

So thomas did the alpe dhuez a few seconds quicker then Lance.

Those marginal gains aren't very marginal at all

They did say there was a tailwind

Andy Magic

Burkie1203 wrote: »

So thomas did the alpe dhuez a few seconds quicker then Lance.

Those marginal gains aren't very marginal at all

They had a tail wind and lance was on a solo TT? Any links though I'm interested

scott1974

Weepsie wrote: »

Nobody wonders this about Dumoulin though? Strange that.

That's true but Tom didn't do a "Landis"...