highlandcowden Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 23 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Sometimes it can be very difficult to believe what you are watching. indeed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyness Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Brilliant stuff again today. Was just thinking ahead, I know there's rumours about froome doing it but I think it's highly unlikely, and Thomas will be targeting the world's, who goes as Sky's team leader at the vuelta? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereismillar Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 2 hours ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said: That was brilliant. A beautifully played shimmy. Send the second in command and last team member left with Froome up the road at the end and nobody knows what to do. Don’t remember ever seeing that done before. It was always going to happen , froome is happy to see thomas win this IMO, but is keeping his options open as thomas has been known to blow dramatically, that said he was in a support role then and if given support and wearing the jersey it could happen, thomas's talent is underestimated ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 At least the team leader didn't call his lieutenant back, this time! [emoji57]Suits you, Sir! https://youtu.be/nVTR5eSK_E4 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Brilliant stuff again today. Was just thinking ahead, I know there's rumours about froome doing it but I think it's highly unlikely, and Thomas will be targeting the world's, who goes as Sky's team leader at the vuelta? Well played by Sky. Thomas attacks, then Froome asks his competition, "what you going to do about that then?"[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]Cave, Kittel & Renshaw finish outside time limit.Would Froome forgo the Vuelta for a tilt at the World's RR, it's a climbers course in Innsbruck after all? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Somebody should ask Kelly "Who the fcuk is Warren Bardet?"![emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Hadn't realised that along with the Madeleine, Croix de Fer & Alpe, they're also doing the Lacets de Mont Vernier. Spectacular stage. http://www.cycling-challenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IMG_1641_-_Version_2.0.jpg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 5 hours ago, jaggyness said: Brilliant stuff again today. Was just thinking ahead, I know there's rumours about froome doing it but I think it's highly unlikely, and Thomas will be targeting the world's, who goes as Sky's team leader at the vuelta? I would have thought Froome would want to go for all 3 grand tours in the same year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyness Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I would have thought Froome would want to go for all 3 grand tours in the same year.I think any cyclist would want to go for all the GTs in a single year but there's a very good reason why nobody has been able to win all 3. The timing and maintaining your form for that length of time is verging on the impossible with the other contenders. Nibali for example looks undercooked just now but may ride himself into peak form for the vuelta. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Out in the Alps for yesterday's finish and today's start. Absolutely loving it. We were in Seez, a village about two km into the final climb yesterday, started to walk down the hill after the race finished and there's a cyclist coming up the hill - Cav. Everyone had gone past long ago. [emoji16] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Kruujswiyk in a mission today, 5.50 up on the peleton, virtual yellow by 3 odd mins.Still the Alpe to come though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Kruujswiyk in a mission today, 5.50 up on the peleton, virtual yellow by 3 odd mins.Still the Alpe to come though.5k to go and he now has only 1.11 on the yellow jersey, Bardet is in between the two and closing him down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Scrub that, under a minute now. Crowd being arseholes as usual on the Alp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Sky using big Tam like a domestique again. “You chase him”. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I can see Thomas taking this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Fantastic finish, a five way sprint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I can see Thomas taking this.And he did, sprinting away in the last 200m to take the win.Nibali lost a wee bit of time after a crash possibly involving a spectator. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Apart from a small turn at the front before Froome attacked he had a free ride all the way up. Worked out perfectly for him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Great stage. Thomas was great again but what a ride by Dumoulin again. At the Giro last year and this and the Tour now, he's showing you don't have to be a pure climber to have a chance. The Pyrenees will be interesting - the TT doesn't suit any of the tip 3 in particular now with Thomas, Froome and Dumoulin being good in that discipline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_T_Y Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Froome attacked right after nibali hit the deck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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