Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

[jarlrmai]

Why?

 

[tug benson]

G is back....The clinic crashes

 

[tug benson]

Nairo goes again...Froome follows

 

[jarlrmai]

Back comes G

 

[tug benson]

Purito takes the stage...Good win for him

 

[The Couch]

We've seen Kwiatek do this a couple of times (going in the attack and riding aggressively), but unfortunately we've seen him crash and burn many times as well in trying to do it

 

[HF2300]

Great win for Purito, superbly timed ride. Particularly liked the way he encouraged Fuglsang to stop attacking and work together, then disappeared off up the road.

 

[Hont]

Well that was a lot more plausible looking. Nobody could make an attack stick and the best way to ride up was a constant tempo a la Thomas. Maybe Tuesday's particular set of circumstances did explain the performance.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Ritchie or Geraint also on the podium in Paris?

Porte's nearly an hour down so doesn't seem likely.

 

[tommaguzzi]

Plausible yes. But then sky only need to ride round with everyone else.
Having said that non of the other contenders attacks looked anything like convincing seems like they have already conceded to me.
Sad to say it looks like we will have to wait for the next sprint stage before we get a little bit of actual racing now.

 

[smutchin]

Well that was a lot more plausible looking. Nobody could make an attack stick and the best way to ride up was a constant Tempo a la Thomas.

You should read the Thomas thread on the Clinic. Most entertaining. Apparently, he's now a better climber than Hincapie. FACT.

 

[Va Va Froome]

That rain today has certainly got me in the mood for heading to the Scotland stages of The Tour of Britain in September!

 

[JBGooner]

Isn't Froome supposed to struggle a bit in the rain .. or am I imagining that?
If so, another good day for him/missed opportunity for his rival(s).

 

[Hont]

But then sky only need to ride round with everyone else.
.

That's all they needed to do, but they employed exactly the same tactics as Tuesday - men on the front setting a high tempo and then Froome attacks.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

What's happened to Uran? He finished in the autobus today, over half an hour down. Is he ill?