'Dale Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 68km remaining from 216km The peloton's deficit to the three leaders has now yawned out to a quarter of an hour. Etixx-QuickStep are watching Julian Alpahilippe's hopes of taking yellow this afternoon chug up the road away from them, but for the time being, only Sky are working on the front.
Cheese Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Think this is the end of my lead in fantasy tour unless the bunch start moving very fast.
'Dale Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 As it stands, incidentally, Van Avermaet is the maillot jaune virtuel. The Belgian began the day 18 seconds down in 20th place overall, but he seems destined to leap up the standings today. Indeed, at this juncture, with the peloton still 15 minutes behind, the stage winner all but seems certain to come from the nine riders in the two groups off the front.
'Dale Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Think this is the end of my lead in fantasy tour unless the bunch start moving very fast. Vasil Kiryienka (Sky) is the man currently setting the pace at the head of the peloton, and the world time trial champions efforts are beginning to make some inroads into the deficit, which now stands at 14:25.
Spoke101 Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Think this is the end of my lead in fantasy tour unless the bunch start moving very fast.Yip. I think we going to drop big time today
BDF Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Vasil Kiryienka (Sky) is the man currently setting the pace at the head of the peloton, and the world time trial champions efforts are beginning to make some inroads into the deficit, which now stands at 14:25.Peloton must be 8-10km behind to make that distance up will be monumental in only 65km.
Vetplant Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Danny T waiting to make the jump across to Pauwels if the Sky-borg train gets the gap down to a reasonable size...? Still two Cat-2 climbs left after this one and the Cat-3 final climb... Plenty of action to come...
'Dale Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Gotta love the concentratedness of the leading trio 44 kms to the white chalk13:00 advantage #lacticacid
'Dale Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Back in the bunch it's Kiryienka controlling it for Team Sky, who have most of their riders amassed at the front. The gap is coming down as a result, and they're now less than 13 minutes in arrears.
Gandalf Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 is it too much to ask for to have the breakaway succeed. ffs
mrclarinet Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Quite enjoying the Robbie McEwen element on the commentary side of things...Always found Matt Keenan a bit monotone for hours on end.McEwen is bringing a fresh side of knowledge and experience...Monotone aside, Matt Keenan is always preferable to P&P...
tombeej Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 I reckon even if the bunch pull like absolute legends, they'll be lucky to bring the gap down another 7 minutes in these last 35km (5 minutes per km). So even then, say GVA takes the win, he'll be in yellow with a lead of 3 mins on GC. Which of course also means he could expect to be in yellow for quite a few days.
HappyMartin Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Movistar are killing it. Riders popping out the back. Gap falling quite quickly now.
Bianchisti Posted July 6, 2016 Posted July 6, 2016 Liking this comment by the commentator.... :"If I lose the yellow jersey I'll still have the green jersey and if I lose the green jersey I'll still have some world champion stripes." Peter Sagan ????????????
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