Tour de France 2018, July 27, Stage 19: Lourdes > Laruns

dastardly00

Amador seems to be dropping back from the breakaway to help Landa

dastardly00

Poels has some amount of bouncebackability

mr spuckler

odyssey06 wrote: »

When (Irish time) approximately should we expect the finish?

earliest estimate is 4:32, latest 5:11.

https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-19

at1withmyself

dastardly00 wrote: »

Poels has some amount of bouncebackability

Up the front now, he must have some pace on him to go up and down the climbs like that!

mr spuckler

DominoDub wrote: »

Backing the Green ....come on Peter Sagan

Hope he makes the time cut today.

update from Guardian text coverage...:) Demare is in that group too, should be more good news.

Sagan watch: Goodish news for the Slovak. He’s now part of a group of 19 riders in a grupetto shelled out of the back of the yellow jersey group. If he can stay with them, or they can organise themselves to stay together and finish together, you’d have to say there’s a very good chance the race organisers won’t kick them out of the race even if they do finish outside the time limit. As well as being final, their decisions are also discretionary. And let’s face it, they owe Sagan one after kicking him off the race rather unfairly last year.

mloc123

This is a dumb question I am sure... But to win the green jersey, you need to make it to Paris?

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mloc123 wrote: »

This is a dumb question I am sure... But to win the green jersey, you need to make it to Paris?

yeah

mr spuckler

mloc123 wrote: »

This is a dumb question I am sure... But to win the green jersey, you need to make it to Paris?

correct on all fronts :pac:

Captain Red Beard

Isn't the scenery glorious, almost matches Mahon Falls on a crisp summer morning.

dastardly00

Zakarin doing a lot of wheelsucking and not contributing at the moment

fat bloke

And Rob Hatch's word of the day (running contrary to France and the French):

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you: The "TourmaYay".




Honestly, I don't know how my tv remains intact and my forehead unbloodied

mloc123

dastardly00 wrote: »

Zakarin doing a lot of wheelsucking and not contributing at the moment

Speaking of wheel sucking. Seems Froome isn't taking his role as super domestique very seriously.

MPFGLB

Nico doing a good job on Comms.....even calling Sean 'Kelly' surely that is like addressing the Queen without first having been spoken to ???:eek:

Raymzor

JoeyJJ wrote: »

I guess the Landa move is to try to burn the sky domestiques

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

MPFGLB

Raymzor wrote: »

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

SKY more worried about Dumoulin, Roglic & Quintana

They have a plan !!!

kilns

Raymzor wrote: »

JoeyJJ wrote: »

I guess the Landa move is to try to burn the sky domestiques

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

They would to put a serious amount of time into Thomas as they wouldnt have the Time Trials to worry him

Borderfox

Katusha must be fighting for their hair today

dastardly00

Sky have been a level of magnitude more dominant in the Tour this year compared to previous years

at1withmyself

MPFGLB wrote: »

Nico doing a good job on Comms.....even calling Sean 'Kelly' surely that is like addressing the Queen without first having been spoken to ???:eek:

I am enjoying him, he has a great insight into team sky and knows exactly how they work.

mr spuckler

Raymzor wrote: »

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

I think it was very early to be chasing lower ranked riders. they're going to have used a lot of energy pulling out that gap and still have 80+km and a huge amount of climbing left.

buffalo

MPFGLB wrote: »

Nico doing a good job on Comms.....even calling Sean 'Kelly' surely that is like addressing the Queen without first having been spoken to ???:eek:

I was thinking it was funny that of the two Irish lads on the commentary team, neither have English as their first language. :pac:

De Bhál

that Lotto ad with the old guy telling us how much he loves his three friends is some sickening sheite to listen to...

mr spuckler

Sagan update, hopefully he can stay with that group as regardless of time cut it should be too big to be kicked out.

Sagan-watch: While the cameras have left the Bora Hansgrohe rider to endure his obvious suffering away from the public gaze, he seems – for the time being at least – to be safely ensconced in a grupetto of 19 dropped riders that is 18min 30sec behind the stage leaders.

Sagan watch: Pete and his travelling companions go over the top of the Tourmalet 19 minutes behind the leaders. Meanwhile at the sharp end of the race, the riders are pedalling into a headwind in the valley.

retalivity

Where did fuglsang go?

irishrover99

fat bloke wrote: »

And Rob Hatch's word of the day (running contrary to France and the French):

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you: The "TourmaYay".




Honestly, I don't know how my tv remains intact and my forehead unbloodied

Miguel Indur Ryan :pac:

c.p.w.g.w

Any chance of an attack on the Yellow today, and if so, where is more likely to happy

JoeyJJ

sky comfortable still, hopefully the cols ahead will make for some good counters from top the higher GC riders and they don't just try to hold their position

Boscoirl

Landa and Nieve should sky themselves to the finish

dastardly00

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Any chance of an attack on the Yellow today, and if so, where is more likely to happy

Dumoulin might try to gain back some time on Thomas before the ITT... probably on the upper slopes of the Aubisque

Hurrache

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Any chance of an attack on the Yellow today, and if so, where is more likely to happy

Most likely attack to come from someone standing at the side of the road anyway.