Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**

[HF2300]

Why is Sagan still beating himself going out hunting intermediate sprints ? He has about a zillion point lead on Kittel, and Cav's gawn.

Honour, get Majka into the breakaway and support him, because he can and for fun and the hell of it, I think.

 

[Elybazza61]

Makes sense, yesterday was always going to a long-shot to have enough left in the tank for the final 250 metres.

Paris is always dangerous and his rivals/the other sprint teams are going to be super keen to get a win because they haven't had any this tour at all.

Probably looked at it and thought did he really want to endure four more days of suffering in the mountains just to get to Paris which isn't a guaranteed win and a risky stage when he could be spending that precious time on the track fine-tuning his racecraft.

I'm sure he's not too fussed considering how he's exceeded pretty much everyone's expectations this year and seems back to his best.

So basically all this one day at a time thing which he repeated yesterday was bullshit?;I should think British Cycling/team GB has been on his case all through the tour and it was only a matter of time when he left.

Oh and all this subterfuge about seeing a doctor and then straight off to the airport;why didn't he just say from the start "I'll go at the second rest-day" rather than stringing everyone along.

IMHO of course,you may sense I'm not Cav's biggest fan;respect what he's done but he can come across as a bit of a dick sometimes.

 

[HF2300]

So who will win today's Majka vs Pantano duel?

 

[Elybazza61]

Why is Sagan still beating himself going out hunting intermediate sprints ? He has about a zillion point lead on Kittel, and Cav's gawn.

Because he can and I think he just enjoys racing for the sake of it plus it's good to see the world champions jersey being worn with panache.

 

[smutchin]

So who will win today's Majka vs Pantano duel?

Froome

But seriously... Have they got enough of a lead to stay away? I really don't know, tbh. Astana look very interested and Sky certainly haven't been riding defensively.

 

[Elybazza61]

Restday https://twitter.com/laurenstendam/status/755342859549769728

Chris Froome replied that he thought he(CF) was in the wrong team

 

[smutchin]

Zakarin catches Majka and Pantano!

 

[HF2300]

Froome But seriously... Have they got enough of a lead to stay away? I really don't know, tbh. Astana look very interested and Sky certainly haven't been riding defensively.

Could they make a 10 min deficit over 8km though? They'd have to go some, and Majka and Pantano look OK - though Zakarin's added another dimension now.

 

[coffeejo]

Zakarin's gone!

 

[coffeejo]

And Pantano!

 

[HF2300]

Zakarin's gone!

And so has Pantano

 

[HF2300]

So who will win today's Majka vs Pantano duel?

Zakarin, apparently.

 

[coffeejo]

And so has Pantano

Zakarin's now riding solo and with gears to spare, according to Millar.

 

[mjr]

And now he's broken Pantano. It's such a shame the junior doper might not be allowed to compete at the olympics, isn't it?

 

[smutchin]

Could they make a 10 min deficit over 8km though?

We've seen big gaps get eaten up quickly on big climbs like this in the past but... Nah, not now, not with Zakarin riding like this.