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Tour de France 2016, July 18, Stage 16: Moirans-en-Montagne / Berne *SPOILERS*

  • 17-07-2016 07:32PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭


    Date: Monday 18th July
    Type: Hilly
    Distance: 209Km
    Start/Finish: Moirans-en-Montagne / Berne

    Stage Map:
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    Stage Profile:
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    Finale:
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    The General Classification after Stage 15:
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    Preview (© http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/):
    The first part of the stage uses some winding roads, and there are a few stiffer climbs when the route switches between valleys.

    At first the stage goes north, then it heads east to the finish. It will be a difficult stage for a sprinter to win. There’s a pause in the route’s undulations just before Berne, but the riders face a steep climb to the finish.

    It’s possible that a sprinter could win today, but the uphill finish could mean it comes down to the puncheurs. The lull in the climbing before Berne will allow the fastmen’s teams to gain control, although the climb to the finish does them no favours, again!

    Trek-Segafredo will be trying to deliver Fabian Cancellara to a stage win in his home town in his final Tour de France.


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,764 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Sagan, GVA, maybe Spartacus because it's his final TDF stage into his home town.

    Bookies take on it:

    Sagan - 5/1
    Kristoff - 8/1
    Cav - 12/1
    Spartacus - 12/1
    Coquard - 14/1
    Kittel - 14/1
    GVA - 18/1
    The Gorilla - 18/1
    Bling - 18/1
    EBH - 25/1
    Alaphilippe - 33/1
    Cummings - 40/1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,840 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Do the bookies give the nickname in the odds as well :D

    A weird stage before a rest day. Sagan to ruin the fabianparty


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    What, no rest day???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭C3PO


    bazermc wrote: »
    What, no rest day???

    Tomorrow, I think?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    Sammy Bennett to get his top 10 finish today.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Today is Mandela day so expect a big effort from Dimension Data. Remember last year Mandela day was the day Cummings mugged Pinot and Bardet.
    Another long shot is Darryl Impey who looked very strong when helping Matthews win stage 10 but may not get the opportunity as the stage finish suits Matthews


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    cunavalos wrote: »
    Today is Mandela day so expect a big effort from Dimension Data. Remember last year Mandela day was the day Cummings mugged Pinot and Bardet.
    Another long shot is Darryl Impey who looked very strong when helping Matthews win stage 10 but may not get the opportunity as the stage finish suits Matthews

    If it suits MM then EBH should be in with a shout too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Alaphillippe and Tony Martin have broken away and will attempt a 200km two man TT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    cunavalos wrote: »
    Alaphillippe and Tony Martin have broken away and will attempt a 200km two man TT

    Brilliant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭pelevin


    Alaphillippe & Bardet are 2 young French riders easy to like in terms of racing attitude.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    pelevin wrote: »
    Alaphillippe & Bardet are 2 young French riders easy to like in terms of racing attitude.

    Alaphillippe hasn't done much to help Dan out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,104 ✭✭✭✭neris


    this is boring


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Alaphillippe hasn't done much to help Dan out.

    He was never meant to help Dan out. Lefevre selected him to do his own thing so was cleared of any domestique duty.
    "We are bringing a French rider to the Tour for the first time in years, and everybody knows how talented Julian Alaphilippe is," Lefevere said. "He won the Tour of California and had a great Dauphiné, fighting hard to book a place in our team for Le Tour. Now the moment has come to give him the opportunity to discover the race and see how far he can go, without putting any pressure on him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    peloton are not gonna let them two much of a gap


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    cunavalos wrote: »
    He was never meant to help Dan out. Lefevre selected him to do his own thing so was cleared of any domestique duty.

    Where did it say that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Where did it say that?

    Sorry, it was an interview with LeFevre on cyclingnews
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/etixx-quickstep-name-team-to-support-kittel-for-tour-de-france-stage-wins/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    cunavalos wrote: »

    Sorry I meant where in the article did it say he wouldn't ride for Dan?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Sorry I meant where in the article did it say he wouldn't ride for Dan?

    To be honest looking back on the interview it was probably a misinterpretation on my behalf, I suppose it would be correct to say he was not selected to work as a domestique for Dan (in the Team Sky definition).

    Alaphilippe admitted himself he would do his best to help Dan in the high mountains http://cyclingtips.com/2016/07/dan-martin-feeling-great-as-tour-de-france-heads-for-familiar-roads/

    The biggest problem for Dan is that Alaphilippe is getting dropped by the Sky train before he can be of any use to Dan.

    Another possibility is now that any realistic chance of a top 5 on GC is gone for Dan and seeing that Kittel is misfiring, Etixx are in the need for stage wins and yesterday and today were seen as opportunities for Alaphilippe to get an all important stage win. The question is will he be able to recover sufficiently to help Dan in the high mountains later in the week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Missed who got the sprint? Was it contested?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    Missed who got the sprint? Was it contested?

    Nearly 40 km to go


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Missed who got the sprint? Was it contested?

    Sagan got 3rd place, not contested, Cav rolled in after him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭Gallant_JJ


    All together 22km to go.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,321 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Have money on GvA each way. It's a treacherous finish.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Thud


    Sam 6mins back so won't be involved


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Thud


    gotta be Spartacus now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    more gaps for froome?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    some deviation from sagan


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,321 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Thud wrote: »
    gotta be Spartacus now

    Flattened out too far before the finish

    Sagan wins it.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭Moflojo


    Sagan you beauty!


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,321 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    godtabh wrote: »
    some deviation from sagan

    After the line though, no?

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Sagan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭JK.BMC


    neris wrote: »
    this is boring

    WOW!
    That was absolutely savage. Can we have a world road race champs in Berne some day.
    And looking there closely, was that Sam Bennett again, just outside the top 10????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    more gaps for froome?

    I think all the GC guys are safe.
    Bunch did seem to split


    Looking again, I think I am completely wrong, sorry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭JK.BMC


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    I think all the GC guys are safe.
    Bunch did seem to split

    Where was Quintana? He musta been buried underneath all those rouleurs and lanky classic riders, about eye level with their arses! No sign of him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Quintana was there


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Top 5 on GC are all safe anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Porte and Dan Martin also safe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭isitraining


    JK.BMC wrote: »
    Where was Quintana? He musta been buried underneath all those rouleurs and lanky classic riders, about eye level with their arses! No sign of him

    Look out for the yellow helmet. He was there.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Brian? wrote: »
    After the line though, no?

    Watching live I couldnt tell but yeah well after the line.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Tony Martin, what a beast:

    "Martin went into long-distance individual time trial mode, doing all of the work with Alaphilippe in tow. The German was too strong even for four men to bridge across, and the quartet were swept up by the peloton finally after dangling in no-man's land for the better part of 80km."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,527 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    After all of Tony Martin and Julian Alaphilippe's hard work in their breakaway, they ended up finishing last!

    And Sam Bennett was back to familiar surroundings.... 179th :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭fishfoodie


    After all of Tony Martin and Julian Alaphilippe's hard work in their breakaway, they ended up finishing last!

    And Sam Bennett was back to familiar surroundings.... 179th :(

    At this stage, the balance on his bike probably doesn't feel right without the lantern rouge hanging off the saddle :D

    After the start he had, I think a finish will be a tremendous achievement.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭TheBlaaMan


    fishfoodie wrote: »
    At this stage, the balance on his bike probably doesn't feel right without the lantern rouge hanging off the saddle :D

    After the start he had, I think a finish will be a tremendous achievement.

    ...and if he gets the Lantern Rouge, along with it will come lots of lucrative invites to post-Tour criterium events.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    What a beautiful town at the finish there. Really picturesque.

    Great last 5km. Great finish from Sagan. Legend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    After all of Tony Martin and Julian Alaphilippe's hard work in their breakaway, they ended up finishing last!

    And Sam Bennett was back to familiar surroundings.... 179th :(

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    In the hotel afterwards Tony was full of beans and Alaphilippe was dead to the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,104 ✭✭✭✭neris


    cunavalos wrote: »
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    In the hotel afterwards Tony was full of beans and Alaphilippe was dead to the world.

    tony could do with a good meal, hes so scrawny he reminds me of this chap

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