2017 Tour de France

[Pure Savage]

Why was serge pauwels helping Simon Yates?

maybe was just farting in his face

 

 

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[mikkelz]

Chuffed for Uran!

[Eugene Oppelt]

“I am very disappointed and I don’t know how to describe my feelings at the moment. To go home with five stage victories is great, but to go home because of a crash and before hitting Paris is a major disappointment. I couldn’t do anything to avoid that crash and lost some skin on my shoulder, back, elbow and hip, which are a bit swollen. I tried to carry on, but pedaling was just painful, especially as in the last couple of days I had to fight with stomach problems and a cold. Now I will take some time to recover before returning to racing and I’m confident the joy of winning five stages at the Tour de France will help me overcome these difficult moments.”

 

Kitten, after his crash resulting in DNF

[nickc]

_{More feedback from Uran and Bardet after yesterdays stage:}

 

_{In the post-stage emotion, French star Romain Bardet (Ag2r La Mondiale) criticized Urán for not following his wheel when he attacked. The fuming Frenchman chastised the Colombian for racing without panache. Bardet suggested Urán was only saving his strength for the finish-line time bonuses.}

 

_{When a French journalist asked for his reaction to Bardet’s comments, Urán just shrugged.}

_{“I don’t want to say anything. Everyone has their own manner of racing,” Urán said. “When you don’t have a team as strong as Sky, with climb so far away and such a long downhill, it doesn’t make much sense to attack. In the end, I worked to take some time on [Fabio] Aru.”}

 

_{When the journalist pressed Urán, and asked him if he would attack in Thursday’s mountaintop finale, Urán countered: “Why don’t you ask Bardet?”}

 

_{With that, Urán had the last laugh.}

 

[meathead]

Monsieur le President has joined in on the France 2 post-chat - he sure talks a lot!

Hello he is a politician it's his job

[Imploder]

Sooooo..... Apparently AC's time up the Col de la Coix de Fer is the fastest ever.

Mr Wakefield any comments on this?

[Tim Brink]

“I am very disappointed and I don’t know how to describe my feelings at the moment. To go home with five stage victories is great, but to go home because of a crash and before hitting Paris is a major disappointment. I couldn’t do anything to avoid that crash and lost some skin on my shoulder, back, elbow and hip, which are a bit swollen. I tried to carry on, but pedaling was just painful, especially as in the last couple of days I had to fight with stomach problems and a cold. Now I will take some time to recover before returning to racing and I’m confident the joy of winning five stages at the Tour de France will help me overcome these difficult moments.”

Kitten, after his crash resulting in DNF

 

[nochain]

Why was serge pauwels helping Simon Yates?

Mind blowing stupid...He was riding for like 12th place on the stage and he is not in GC fight.Think Yates would have lost more than another 30 seconds..maybe even a minute if he had to do it all alone.

But ja the bloods flowing and he probably just wants to get a good stage placing.

[J Wakefield]

Sooooo..... Apparently AC's time up the Col de la Coix de Fer is the fastest ever.

Mr Wakefield any comments on this?

 

If you read my article on why they going faster or as fast there a lot of answers in there for you but if we take it from a different angle on Contador alone he always gets better and goes stronger as a Tour gets deeper into the weeks. He responds vey well to load and volume. If you see how he has gone over the last 2.5 weeks he has actually gotten better and better. so this may mean he he came in well under done and battled in the beginning. 

 

He also hasn't done much over the last few days and could of recovered well into these 2 days and it is also well known he goes very well in the Alps. he always has over the last forever years.

 

Again, it was a huge once off effort, much like Aru wins, and AC paid for it later towards the end but Contador is well known also for these type of efforts and attacks go for broke. 

 

 

[J Wakefield]

Mind blowing stupid...He was riding for like 12th place on the stage and he is not in GC fight.Think Yates would have lost more than another 30 seconds..maybe even a minute if he had to do it all alone.

But ja the bloods flowing and he probably just wants to get a good stage placing.

 

Pauwels was going for a stage result. He was close to a potential top 10 which is a huge result on a stage like that for a rider like him and that has moved him into the Top 20 overall on GC.

 

Top 20 on GC at a Tour is a small increase in salary come negotiation time. 

[Eugene Oppelt]

A few pics by Vos, Gruber and Ramon

 

These PROs are real lean 'n mean in week 3

Attrition

 

[J Wakefield]

How many minutes would you estimate Louis needs over Yates going into the TT?

 

 

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He will need to do something big today to distance Yates to get a buffer for the TT.

[Eugene Oppelt]

These mountains

Unbelievable 

And its so quiet up there

 

[Jurgens Smit]

If you read my article on why they going faster or as fast there a lot of answers in there for you but if we take it from a different angle on Contador alone he always gets better and goes stronger as a Tour gets deeper into the weeks. He responds vey well to load and volume. If you see how he has gone over the last 2.5 weeks he has actually gotten better and better. so this may mean he he came in well under done and battled in the beginning. 

 

He also hasn't done much over the last few days and could of recovered well into these 2 days and it is also well known he goes very well in the Alps. he always has over the last forever years.

 

Again, it was a huge once off effort, much like Aru wins, and AC paid for it later towards the end but Contador is well known also for these type of efforts and attacks go for broke. 

 

 

 

Since he responds so well to the fatigue and load, won't it make sense for his training team send him into a GT slightly fatigued then?

To give him that extra bit in the first week where he did not really feature this year?

 

Or is the accumulative fatigue and stress of a GT to great to try something like that?

[Fat Boab]

If you read my article on why they going faster or as fast there a lot of answers in there for you but if we take it from a different angle on Contador alone he always gets better and goes stronger as a Tour gets deeper into the weeks. He responds vey well to load and volume. If you see how he has gone over the last 2.5 weeks he has actually gotten better and better. so this may mean he he came in well under done and battled in the beginning. 

 

 

Would you have a link for this article?

[Eugene Oppelt]

Go, Rigo, Go!