Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

[rich p]

I can't help wondering if Sky regret taking/acquiring the maillot jaune so early in the race.

 

[coffeejo]

They didn't mean to get it so early IIRC.

 

[Arrowfoot]

I couldn't quite decide whether it was a team effort or two great individual efforts that happened to coincide...

It was a good plan. Attack the Sky train early to drop Froome's support team and leave Froome with little reserve at the late stage. Next year will be interesting as they worked out the formula. Quintana endurance was amazing. Can't remember which year when Mercxx and his team attacked one stage from the moment go and caught everyone napping. It does provide tremendous excitement and entertainment when great tactics come to the fore.

 

[Bonus]

I rode up Alpe du'Huez once, but not in 39 mins!

 

[Arrowfoot]

Or maybe Movistar should have put Sky under more pressure much earlier on to wear out the domestiques long before the Alps. Already looking forward to next year.

That will certainly be the plan next year.

 

[coffeejo]

Good grief, two adverts for BT sport in one break.

 

[coffeejo]

That will certainly be the plan next year.

I'm surprised everyone left it so long tbh.

 

[HF2300]

It was a good plan. Attack the Sky train early to drop Froome's support team and leave Froome with little reserve at the late stage.

I thought it was AG2R etc. doing that. Not very clear why Sky would be bothered about one FDJ rider over 3 hours behind on GC, or even Pinot's later attack.

 

[HF2300]

Yay Quintana!!

 

[Andrew_P]

Time for Quintana up the Alpe. 39.23. The fastest since Floyd Landis in 2006.

Is it? http://www.climbing-records.com/2013/07/all-time-top-100-fastest-rides-on.html

Actually you are right..

Been updated now, 3 of todays riders are now in the top 100, froome knocked 8secs off 2013 time. Valverde is the stand out performance.

http://www.climbing-records.com/search?updated-min=2015-01-01T00:00:00+02:00&updated-max=2016-01-01T00:00:00+02:00&max-results=48

Still a way off Landis time though :-)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The rides today certainly did not look unbelievable. All the riders looked like they were giving everything.

 

[rich p]

Is it? http://www.climbing-records.com/2013/07/all-time-top-100-fastest-rides-on.html

Actually you are right..

Been updated now, 3 of todays riders are now in the top 100, froome knocked 8secs off 2013 time. Valverde is the stand out performance.

http://www.climbing-records.com/search?updated-min=2015-01-01T00:00:00+02:00&updated-max=2016-01-01T00:00:00+02:00&max-results=48

Still a way off Landis time though :-)

The stand out time really is that of Carlos Sastre as the only one of the top 20 to not have a dope question against him. AFAIK
But that's a bit of a diversion!

 

[jowwy]

I can't help wondering if Sky regret taking/acquiring the maillot jaune so early in the race.

Why would they regret it - froome won, not lost........now if he had lost the tdf then regrets there certainly would be

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Who hell TT?

 

[psmiffy]

I can't help wondering if Sky regret taking/acquiring the maillot jaune so early in the race.

Of course not - they got one of them cuddly lions every day - I wonder if they have a great big long glass case with them all carefully labelled or do they do the decent thing and give them to kids