TDF Stage 15*Warning-contains unmasked spoilers

ednwireland

Samatan – Pau

Distance: 158.5km
Highest point: 324m
Category: Rolling
http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france/stage-15



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retalivity

greipel to make it 4?

Sidenote, i missed this, not sure where else to post it

manafana

a quiet enough day before the rest day would been nice to see them push up for harder finish.

DDC1990

A related video that I hadn't seen either.

NSFW language, so put on headphones.

Unregistered.

Nico could get into the break early here

BQQ

Cav didn't stick around till now for nothing.

Mint Sauce

BQQ wrote: »

Cav didn't stick around till now for nothing.

Still think he's in with a shot?

Would be crazy if Sky got a one-two, and the green jersey over all, add to that, all British.

Are Wiggens and Froome in the Team GB squad?

DominoDub

Peter Sagan will be the new Green God for a long time ...Sean Kelly is now a big fan called him a REAL Rider yesterday after slagging off Franck Schleck.

neris

DDC1990 wrote: »

A related video that I hadn't seen either.

NSFW language, so put on headphones.

when did that happen? if fairness looked like a fairly big n bulky piece of kit the cameraman was carrying. didnt help that he wasnt looking where he was going. good catch, say there could have been interesting scenes if it had dropped totally

dastardly00

irish-stew wrote: »

Still think he's in with a shot?

Would be crazy if Sky got a one-two, and the green jersey over all, add to that, all British.

Are Wiggens and Froome in the Team GB squad?

Cav is too far back to win the green jersey (Sagan - 333 pts.; Greipel - 236pts.; Goss - 204 pts.; Cav 129pts.). But he should be in with a chance to win today's stage.

The Team GB squad is Cav, Wiggins, Froome, Millar and Ian Stannard.

flying11

Dan Martin in the break at the moment.

I dont think the break will make it to the finish though

AG2R

Sorensen
Martin
Vanendert
Izaguirre
Fedrigo
Burghadrt
Devenyns
Vinokourov

ednwireland

irish-stew wrote: »

Still think he's in with a shot?

Would be crazy if Sky got a one-two, and the green jersey over all, add to that, all British.

Are Wiggens and Froome in the Team GB squad?

the only reason i can see cav sticking around till sunday is to try and win on the champs elysee again

AG2R

yeah it's been close down already....

DDC1990

Lol Bossen Hagen - Threw his arms out begging the peleton to stop attacking :P

BQQ

irish-stew wrote: »

Still think he's in with a shot?

Would be crazy if Sky got a one-two, and the green jersey over all

As the other guys said, green jersey contest is over.

I was referring to the stage win today and/or Sunday.

retalivity

Peter Sagan signing boobs outside the liquigas bus this morning!

lennymc

sagan certainly has been the star of this tour for me.

mahoo

lennymc wrote: »

sagan certainly has been the star of this tour for me.

I think she ^^^^^ probably feels the same

death1234567

retalivity wrote: »

Peter Sagan signing boobs outside the liquigas bus this morning!

I hope he's signing his phone number...epic rack...

lennymc

has anyone been following tweetersagan on twitter? some quitue amusing tweets.

mahoo

death1234567 wrote: »

I hope he's signing his phone number...epic rack...

plenty of room for the full international dialing code

lennymc wrote: »

has anyone been following tweetersagan on twitter? some quitue amusing tweets.

yeah. he's good. DeniMenchoff is funny too... this morning "Katusha share hotel with Europcar. Caruso go to toilet in envelope last night and leave it outside Rolland room."

AG2R

Tweeter Sagan ‏@TweeterSagan
Many fan ask: 'True Sagan sign boobies at start?' Sagan: 'It was either autograph or motorboat. Children watching, and a Schleck, so...'

Tweeter Sagan ‏@TweeterSagan
Many rider complain about nails on course. Ok, Sagan admit that have little bit dandruff problem, but Mr Cav been very helpful.

Darkglasses

Just back from work, anything interesting on today's stage or business as usual?

Darkglasses

Ooh, the cycle show, Monday at 8 on ITV4. Anyone expecting this to be good or bad?

BQQ

Peloton need to step on the gas.

SomeFool

Darkglasses wrote: »

Ooh, the cycle show, Monday at 8 on ITV4. Anyone expecting this to be good or bad?

Better than 'ear to the ground' anyway I suppose

Darkglasses

SomeFool wrote: »

Better than 'ear to the ground' anyway I suppose

Ah but it clashes with Monday Night Soccer!

j@utis

lennymc wrote: »

sagan certainly has been the star of this tour for me.

me considering buying a very "genuine" liquigas jersey from china go sagan

Darkglasses

j@utis wrote: »

me considering buying a very "genuine" liquigas jersey from china go sagan

Even better, get a TDF green jersey replica!

manafana

dumolin to win this for me.

mahoo

just following on the ticker..looks like break might stay away if you apply the 10k per 1minute rule of thumb. 6'20" with 47km to go... will we see some more tongue from tommy?

retalivity

Out to 8 now.

Would like to see vdv or devynyns win, but if i was betting id go for tommy v again

BQQ

over 8 mins now.

Tommy surely doesn't have the legs after his huge effort the other day.

Fedrigo for me.

Darkglasses

Tommy V having a look at the map in the teamcar...Is he gonna have a pop towards the end? I'll go mad if he does, what a legend.

torturedsoul

thats a major break.... where does this put tommy V if/when they stay away? he will move right up the GC surely

dastardly00

torturedsoul wrote: »

thats a major break.... where does this put tommy V if/when they stay away? he will move right up the GC surely

It wouldn't make much of a difference at all.
If he gained the advantage that the breakaway have now (over 11 minutes), it would only move him from 34th to around 30th place.

torturedsoul

crap, I thought he was closer... I was wondering why the peloton looked so relaxed.
cheers all the same dastardly

CramCycle

2 make an earluy break for the line, will they hold off? (no player only ES ticker in work)

JRant

If I was Cav I'd be royally p*ssed off at sky. He's been very very poorly treated by them this tour. It was his own team that put the hammer down when he got dropped from a climb 2 days ago, that gripel eventually won. He's been doing alot of domestique work and they can't even be bothered to help him in one stage. His one win was down to his own hard work and nothing to do with sky. Shame really as I really like Cav and to be honest I probably just miss the majestic sight of that HTC train in the final km's of a stage going at full tilt.

CramCycle

Tommy and co. are trying to catch them

CramCycle

Ticker stopped working, was Voeckler so awesome he broke it or did the two out in front hold off?

Peterx

Wiggins for yellow and then Cavendish for Gold presumably.
Winning the tour is huge, of course they are working for Wiggins.

On today's stage well done to the winner there, the second lad either couldn't or didn't come round him. And fair play to Tommy!

dastardly00

Fedrigo (easily) beats Vande Velde in a sprint finish

Unregistered.

Fedrigo!

dastardly00

JRant wrote: »

If I was Cav I'd be royally p*ssed off at sky. He's been very very poorly treated by them this tour. It was his own team that put the hammer down when he got dropped from a climb 2 days ago, that gripel eventually won. He's been doing alot of domestique work and they can't even be bothered to help him in one stage. His one win was down to his own hard work and nothing to do with sky. Shame really as I really like Cav and to be honest I probably just miss the majestic sight of that HTC train in the final km's of a stage going at full tilt.

This was Team Sky's plan for this year's Tour.
Cav acts as a domestique and gets little or help for sprint finishes, with the main goal being Wiggins to win overall.
In return, Cav had the whole GB team working for him in last years World Championships, and will also have them working for him in the Olympics.
I don't think Cav has any issues with the current situation.

Hungrycol

Peterx wrote: »

Wiggins for yellow and then Cavendish for Gold presumably.
Winning the tour is huge, of course they are working for Wiggins.

On today's stage well done to the winner there, the second lad either couldn't or didn't come round him. And fair play to Tommy!

Interesting: Has the Tour, Olympic and Worlds win ever been done in the same year?

JRant

dastardly00 wrote: »

JRant wrote: »

If I was Cav I'd be royally p*ssed off at sky. He's been very very poorly treated by them this tour. It was his own team that put the hammer down when he got dropped from a climb 2 days ago, that gripel eventually won. He's been doing alot of domestique work and they can't even be bothered to help him in one stage. His one win was down to his own hard work and nothing to do with sky. Shame really as I really like Cav and to be honest I probably just miss the majestic sight of that HTC train in the final km's of a stage going at full tilt.

This was Team Sky's plan for this year's Tour.
Cav acts as a domestique and gets little or help for sprint finishes, with the main goal being Wiggins to win overall.
In return, Cav had the whole GB team working for him in last years World Championships, and will also have them working for him in the Olympics.
I don't think Cav has any issues with the current situation.

Thats all well and good, Cav knew what he was signing up for and by the way he may still have had those riders help on the GB team regardless of who he rode for, but answer me this. Why is it the only day they decide to form a train is when he's been left behind by his own team? Wiggins leading out EBH for a sprint that he never had a hope of winning yet they wont turn a pedal to help Cav. I hope he gets out of there as soon as the olympics are over to be honest.

dastardly00

JRant wrote: »

Thats all well and good, Cav knew what he was signing up for and by the way he may still have had those riders help on the GB team regardless of who he rode for, but answer me this. Why is it the only day they decide to form a train is when he's been left behind by his own team? Wiggins leading out EBH for a sprint that he never had a hope of winning yet they wont turn a pedal to help Cav. I hope he gets out of there as soon as the olympics are over to be honest.

Why do you reckon EBH didn't have a hope of winning that stage? He has a decent sprint finish. Fair enough, he would have done a lot of domestique work during the stage, but there were very few sprinters left to contest for the win (Sagan, Greipel, Hinalut). I thought it was clever enough of Sky to try and get the win for EBH in that particular stage.

couerdelion

Cav's main aim this year is the Olympics. He has already said he thinks he is too light to be challenging for the sprints and it was a surprise to him that he managed to win one at all. Why would the team try and put him in a position to win if that's the case?

manafana

the tour and one day racing is a different kettle of fish,

ullrich managed to win road race and a silver in tt in 2000 some feet. Cancellera medalled in both in 2008 too.

before 96 pros couldnt compete so not long to go back for facts of riders winning in same year as other races.