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i've read that sky have his official weight at 68kg and that is what all the sites are using to calculate his power outputs but they said at the dauphine as well and he is visibily thinner than a month ago. if you think he weighs the same as tony martin you need your eyes tested.

froome weighs no more than 66kg.

definitely. we won't see another max effort from him. the rest of the tour is going to be a borefest, contador won't race for second.

how can be possible for skeletor to match tony martin on a flat road?

a pr masterstroke by brailsford. He would have been shitting himself at froome and porte going insane on saturday but now they have changed the narrative to one of the team being weak. On ax3 porte shredded the gc riders then toyed with quintana then rode away with a big smile on his face. On sunday he is apparently dead and couldn't bridge to the leaders despite jens voight and other middle if the pack guys making it. Everytime the cameras were on him he looked like he was out for a fun ride, not someone toiling or fighting for a podium place. Bullshit.

did you greet at any point? i'm not ashamed to say i got a bit dusty at certain bits.

poor birdsong poor richie porte as well, sacrificed on the altar of plausibility.

how often do samples actually get retested? who have you heard of being banned for a retroactive test? if wada were serious about retesting they could have banned half the peloton for using CERA in 2007.

just read david walsh's report in the sunday times. There is no mention of froome's incredible ascent time. His credibility is destroyed.

the 2001 stage was the 12th stage and the second high mountain stage. The day before was a rest day and the day before that was a 32km TT.

you obviously don't understand what watts per kilo means. It makes bodyweight irrelevant. Do some reading.

how do you figure that out?

the argument that wouldn't cheat because they have too to lose is stupid. It's more likely that the track dominance is ped fuelled as well. 15 secs slower than lance. Faster than a doped to the gills ullrich. He is either a cheat or the greatest cyclist of all time.

the french are going to mental about this. this is from the science of sport preview so froome did roughly 6.4 to 6.5 on the final climb

froome went up faster than ulrich in 2003. clean new era, it's going to be difficult for the british press to spin this.

going by twitter froome only missed armstrong's 2001 time by 15 seconds?

kennaugh is apparently a world class climber now as well. his sprint at the end of his massive turn was loltastic

armstrongesque

i think this flat bit at the top of col de pailheres is my favourite area of the tour.

Yates in the Eurosport studio. He looks and sounds like an honest and trustworthy guy.

sagan gets his stage win and looks likely to hold onto green until paris. the serious business starts tomorrow. sky caught everyone napping on the first big climb last year, you have to assume tomorrow all the GC guys will be ready. apart from van den broeck and brajizic crashing out all the GC guys are pretty close together. it'll be interesting to see what andy schleck has to offer.

not a bad stage there. it looked like the break were going to make it but they struggled in the wind on the high open roads approaching marseille. cav beat EBH, greipel and sagan after a perfect lead out. lutsenko the astana rider was impressive in the break.

i'm not that bothered if he loses it i just want them to drive him to do something outwith the bounds of possibility. contador vs rasmussen in 07 all over again.

looks like we're in for a belting tour. big bjarne is tooled up.

could happen to anybody