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Tour de France 2017

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    stonemuse said:

    No particular surprises yet today.

    Nah they're going to wait till they're going up the Mountain... Bardet and Uran would be crazy to try anything now.
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    ForeverAddickted said:

    stonemuse said:

    No particular surprises yet today.

    Nah they're going to wait till they're going up the Mountain... Bardet and Uran would be crazy to try anything now.
    If Froome is feeling as good as he claims, I'd expect him to try and attack them (both in an effort to gain time and mess with their heads).
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    NornIrishAddick said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    stonemuse said:

    No particular surprises yet today.

    Nah they're going to wait till they're going up the Mountain... Bardet and Uran would be crazy to try anything now.
    If Froome is feeling as good as he claims, I'd expect him to try and attack them (both in an effort to gain time and mess with their heads).
    I hope so, could be fascinating considering Uran looks like he is in real form.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    edited July 2017
    NornIrishAddick said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    stonemuse said:

    No particular surprises yet today.

    Nah they're going to wait till they're going up the Mountain... Bardet and Uran would be crazy to try anything now.
    If Froome is feeling as good as he claims, I'd expect him to try and attack them (both in an effort to gain time and mess with their heads).
    Reckon those comments were made yesterday to mess with their heads today... Do they attack early, waste energy and find that Froome does just keep up and sail past them, or do they attack late and risk Froome just keeping up with them. Both Uran and Bardet finished over 30secs behind in the first Time Trial so surely need to finish around a minute ahead of Froome today to ensure he's not a threat come Saturday.

    Just glad Aru is effectively out of the running, for some reason dont like him, whether its because he tried to attack when Froome had the mechanical or whether its because he looks like Ed Milliband I really dont know
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Bardet could be making first move
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    stonemuse said:

    Bardet could be making first move

    Is he going to try to open up a gap on the descent prior to the Col du Izoard?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    I have a feeling that this plan of AG2R could badly backfire...
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Aru being dropped.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    This is fascinating
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    edited July 2017
    Hmm is Landa going rogue? - Or is this to force a Bardet / Uran attack?
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  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    It could be a cunning plan - Sky may want to have 2 riders on the podium, or to force the others to react.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    FINALLY!! - Bardet attacks :)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Froome attack
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    edited July 2017
    and here goes Froome :) - Bye Bye to the Tour de France 2017!!!!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Who on earth is going to win this Stage!!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Wow that was quite something.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Brilliant Stage!!... Bardet gets the seconds but sorry its now Froome's to seriously mess up!!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Blimey didnt realise the Simon Yates had done so well... White Jersey must be confirmed!!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Barguil has to be a future GC
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Blimey didnt realise the Simon Yates had done so well... White Jersey must be confirmed!!

    Should be now.
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    stonemuse said:

    Barguil has to be a future GC

    Barguil / Bardet... the French really shouldnt have to wait long for a Champion to come along
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    ForeverAddickted said:

    stonemuse said:

    Barguil has to be a future GC

    Barguil / Bardet... the French really shouldnt have to wait long for a Champion to come along
    Yup, getting closer
  • olster
    olster Posts: 1,397
    stonemuse said:

    Barguil has to be a future GC

    Warren Barguil 'future French tour winner' jersey 2017

    *See Pinot, Bardet, etc etc etc
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Sunweb surprised me, four stages, green and polkadot jersies, quite an achievement
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    stonemuse said:

    Sunweb surprised me, four stages, green and polkadot jersies, quite an achievement

    Not bad considering they won the Giro with Tom Dumoulin to.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Froome doesn't seem as strong as last year - but he's still strong enough - which says a lot about the man.

    Looking ahead to next year, will be quite a race if Landa goes to Movistar as expected.
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Still got the vuelta to come next month.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Red_in_SE8 said:

    Still got the vuelta to come next month.

    Which was superb last year.
  • All_Thaid_Up
    All_Thaid_Up Posts: 2,293
    The UAE team apparently will have a 30m budget next year, so expect them to be big players going forward
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Great race today. Nicely set up for the time trial.

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