coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Froome? No, they ran out of broadcasting time to show anything other than an interview with G.
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coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
I like Ned but I don't think his rider knowledge is all it might be and I think he has a bit of a tendency to make it up as he goes along. Not that I could do any better.
philk56
Guru
- Location
- WAy down under
Would also love to see that! Don't know how Quintana has managed to get a podium place.
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
To be fair to the man, he's hung on Froome's wheel almost the whole way. You don't do that unless you deserve it.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
I think he may have lost his arm in that weather.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I think he was quite right to make sure of the white jersey, instead of risking everything to try for a podium place which he was very unlikely to achieve.
Quintana's podium is creditless, in my view. He was supposed to be the big challenger, he seemed healthy, never suffered any misfortune, didn't seem to have any bad days - and did absolutely nothing all race. I didn't want him to win over Froome, but I feel very disappointed.
My only remaining hope is that Sky don't repeat the formation finish, which I find disrespectful. Froome has a 4 minute lead, and he should win by that margin, not 2½ minutes.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
No, I don't think I could do any better either, but it was a bit odd the way they seemed to be writing off Izagirre even before the descent had started. He is a Basque, after all...
That Tour de Suisse TT maybe isn't such a good example though, being so different to today's race.
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
I knew I should have edited my post to say that hanging on is why he's on the podium. Not racing is why he didn't wear yellow.
Louch
105% knowledge on 105
- Location
- Kingdom of Kinnard
Has this been the least raced Tdf over the last few years? Lots of happy top ten riders not willing to risk places to try and win
Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
I've been glued to the telly this year and I've not been let down. Froome has obviously trained in new skills which were thrilling. For those who said it was a 'damp squib' or similar need to watch another sport like F1 (
) to realise how dull sport can be.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
It's been like that for a while; I just look upon it as inevitable that the GC will be a bit meh.
I re-read some of Stephen Roche's autobiography* this week and he was highly critical of the "top 10" approach and also of radios having led to less competitiveness - I can't disagree with either.
*published in 2012 so he was on about a succession of Tours where there was no racing, so maybe this year is just another one in a long line? I can't remember there being many gripping GCs ever. Perhaps 3 or so in the past (I was going to write 30 but...) 50 years? Even when there was racing the Tour never seems to have gripping outcomes in GC.
edit - that is not to say, however, that the stages are not competitive...not that the GC winners are not pushing themselves to the limit. It might just seem a bit meh at times.
I think the weather killed the GC race today, otherwise we might have seen some attacks but no one was willing to risk it in those conditions.
