July 16, Stage 14: Saint-Gaudens - Plateau de Beille 168km

Hermy

Jens takes a tumble but not even a scratch.

mahoo

cant wait to hear jens voigts comments on this stage... nice soft landing at least

ch2008

Eurosport stream here... http://procyclingtv.com/live-video-stream-2011-tour-de-france-stage-14/

Hermy

And Jens falls for the second time!:eek:

Beached

Jens is not impressed

mahoo

now he's pissed! ... poor old jens... shouting at the the photographers

Slideshowbob

Jens has old man syndrome - time to retire Jens - we have a new hardman thanks!

Go Johnny go go go!!!

And then he dismisses the TV camera motorbike - yes the same ones that promote the sport and ultimately help pay his wages. What a crank

Sr. Assumpta

.....but since people here seem to be alive......

Why isn't Vincenzo Nibali riding TdeF?? Am having a little trouble being impressed by the descending without him there to measure others against.

Aside: Earlier, ITV4 commentator called Frank&Andy's crew 'Team Leopard-Schleck'

Hermy

Yeah, smile for the camera Jens.:rolleyes:

JacksonHeightsOwn

Roche back on the main group now

but the signs are ominous

mahoo

Sr. Assumpta wrote: »

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Why isn't Vincenzo Nibali riding TdeF?? Am having a little trouble being impressed by the descending without him there to measure others against.

Because he's sane... look at how gadret is suffering after trying to do both. we might be able to add contador to that after today.
i guess he's hoping to do a good vuelta too

Johnners1878

Has Roche gone out the back again? The live feed http://gaps.letour.fr/us.php seems to say he has. Trek looking very solid for the Schlecks...

mahoo

titan18 wrote: »

Do people consider this to be the queen stage?Surely the monster next Thursday gets that honour. 4 NC climbs,ending on the Galibier, or even the following stage with the harder side of the Galibier and then the Alpe d'Huez.

there was a good link on here somewhere to a review of all the climbs on the TdeF this year. cant find it though.... it basically ranked all the climbs based on difficulty. i think 3 of todays climbs were in the top10 with the final climb being the hardest. interestingly, some of the cat 1 climbs were ranked as harder than HC climbs because of their gradients

gavkm27

c'mon Nic,hope he is in there somewhere in the Peloton

happytramp

Johnners1878 wrote: »

Has Roche gone out the back again? The live feed http://gaps.letour.fr/us.php seems to say he has. Trek looking very solid for the Schlecks...

Le Tour site never put him back on.

davyjose

mahoo wrote: »

there was a good link on here somewhere to a review of all the climbs on the TdeF this year. cant find it though.... it basically ranked all the climbs based on difficulty. i think 3 of todays climbs were in the top10 with the final climb being the hardest. interestingly, some of the cat 1 climbs were ranked as harder than HC climbs because of their gradients

Harder than Alpe d'Huez?

mahoo

gavkm27 wrote: »

c'mon Nic,hope he is in there somewhere in the Peloton

the europsport ticker has him down as 'delayed'.... think today will be the end of nico's top15 aspirations.

Morrisseeee

Here comes the BIG CLIMB /grabs can of beer, sits down ahhhhh

Just back from holliers & trying to catch up with all the action (where I only had TG4 for coverage!) but I'm now back to ES in HD, yay ! Whats the story with the Schlecks, who's their 'main' guy now, Andy or Frank ??!!

tawfeeredux

That graphic they just showed on Eurosport makes the last climb look scary!

mahoo

davyjose wrote: »

Harder than Alpe d'Huez?

yeah. i was surprised too. think Alpe d'Huez was 2nd with whatever formula they used

they may have taken into account the amount of climbing done before reaching the climb.. Alpe d'Huez is a short stage this year

corny

Everybody knows but Jens is a hard, hard man.

Morrisseeee

Fairly sure just saw roche in main group

copacetic

There's roche at the back of the main group now, just holding on. 103 from his team with him too.

cm2000

Good man Nico

GoldFour4

Yeah roche has done very well to get back up there

davyjose

copacetic wrote: »

There's roche at the back of the main group now, just holding on. 103 from his team with him too.

The form he looks in, I'll be stunned if he doesn't lose a lot of time, unfortunately.

copacetic

davyjose wrote: »

The form he looks in, I'll be stunned if he doesn't lose a lot of time, unfortunately.

Yeah, looks to be gone again, can only see 108 from his team in the group now? If he loses much he'll be second in the team now, unless Riblon goes backward from the front.

mahoo

why are garmin driving the pace?

mahoo

andy goes on the attack! here we go

Morrisseeee

Oh oh pace just gone up a few notches :cool: