The Bull Shark Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Gorilla should be upset with himself in not making it to the break today. So far he has just been a passenger in the race.
scotty Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Sky now pushing the pace. No idea why.Force of habit.
DJuice Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 This is a very strong group. If I was a sprinter in the main peloton I would be worried.What is the odds on Brambilla for today?
The Bull Shark Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 What is the odds on Brambilla for today? It depends if they can drop BH. But, I think you will see a big attack with 20km to go from some of the other classics specialists in the break.
J Wakefield Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Froome has acknowledged how good Landa is and with reports of him leaving sees him as a very good challenger. Sky seem to pop out GC contenders to be snatched up by other teams, Uran, Porte, Landa, the list grows. Sky buy GC contenders so they don't have competition.
shaper Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Sky now pushing the pace. No idea why.Probably marginal gains... they were going too slow to be optimally efficient !!
Fat Boab Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Sky buy GC contenders so they don't have competition. But unless they keep them until they're past their sell-by date, then the market will still have these okes on the market, just delayed by a year or 3. Surely that tactic would only genuinely work in the first few years of any team being launched, thereafter their pipeline will spew the riders back out?
shaper Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Questioned by FranceTelevisions, Team Sky's sport director Nicolas Portal declared: “We've let the gap to the breakaway increase to eight minutes but it has decreased against our will. We want it to go up again. We certainly don't want a bunch sprint finish. It would be a risky finale. We're not interested in bringing the peloton back. We want this stage to be the easiest possible but there's a lot of head wind. Tomorrow, Chris [Froome] has no right to fail. It'll be one of the time trials of his life.”
Mongoose! Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Questioned by FranceTelevisions, Team Sky's sport director Nicolas Portal declared: “We've let the gap to the breakaway increase to eight minutes but it has decreased against our will. We want it to go up again. We certainly don't want a bunch sprint finish. It would be a risky finale. We're not interested in bringing the peloton back. We want this stage to be the easiest possible but there's a lot of head wind. Tomorrow, Chris [Froome] has no right to fail. It'll be one of the time trials of his life.” Now that's what I call pressure ...
The Bull Shark Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 So pick your winner from the breakaway today !! Thomas de Gendt. It's Belgium's National Day.
J Wakefield Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 But unless they keep them until they're past their sell-by date, then the market will still have these okes on the market, just delayed by a year or 3. Surely that tactic would only genuinely work in the first few years of any team being launched, thereafter their pipeline will spew the riders back out? Fair but if you look how they hire and so forth is a carbon copy of how US Postal used to recruit riders. As a rider becomes a threat to win they would pay more than current salary to become a domestique or super domestique with options to go for other Tours and smaller races but have their power during the Tour which was the only real goal of the year. Eventually some leave to become leaders at other teams - Landis vs Porte for example.
Vetplant Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 distance to go?95.2km Should probably start seeing some action from about 50km out, so in about an hours time...
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