Tour de France Stage 20 - Time Trial

pelevin

Hard to look beyond Chris Horner for this one.
The 54km route apparently includes four climbs and lots of twisting roads.

Ladbrokes have Tony Martin 1/4. Next closest Nibali a distant 12/1. They've forgotten to quote Horner's odds for some reason.
http://sports.ladbrokes.com/ie-ie/Cycling-c110000020#

REBELSAFC

pelevin wrote: »

Hard to look beyond Chris Horner for this one.
The 54km route apparently includes four climbs and lots of twisting roads.

Ladbrokes have Tony Martin 1/4. Next closest Nibali a distant 12/1. They've forgotten to quote Horner's odds for some reason.
http://sports.ladbrokes.com/ie-ie/Cycling-c110000020#

Its been three long weeks....looks like you've finally cracked!!!

MPFG

Nibali to win , then Tony Martin, TJ Van Garderen , JC Peraud and Pinot

seany15

Martin ftw, nibs then peraud to take enough time out of pinot.

Idleater

seany15 wrote: »

Martin ftw

That was quick

Lapin

Now that Tony Martin is finished for the day, is there any hope that the commentator might STFU about him ?

DDC1990

Roche passed through the first time check 2,20 down and has disappeared! :O

No record of him going through the second time check at all, even though he should be finished.

REBELSAFC

DDC1990 wrote: »

Roche passed through the first time check 2,20 down and has disappeared! :O

No record of him going through the second time check at all, even though he should be finished.

He is still out there. Went through the third time check 6.39 down in 65th position. Looks like he's freewheeling to Paris


Finished 7.34 down.

Aoibheann

He's currently 67th at the finish, 7'34 down on Tony Martin. You should be able to see the standings at every timecheck here.

Aoibheann

Liked the handshake between Peraud and Pinot before Peraud started, lovely gesture there! Hopefully both of them will remain on the podium after today, would much prefer that to seeing Valverde on it in Paris..

DDC1990

Aoibheann wrote: »

He's currently 67th at the finish, 7'34 down on Tony Martin. You should be able to see the standings at every timecheck here.

Yeah I had that and it showed his first time and nothing else for ages. All the guys around him had finished long ago.

Maybe just slow to update, though they had Tony Martin's up straight away :P

MPFG

REBELSAFC wrote: »

He is still out there. Went through the third time check 6.39 down in 65th position. Looks like he's freewheeling to Paris


Finished 7.34 down.

Saving himself for San Sebastian next week ...and maybe Colorado in 3 weeks

But I a not going to get hopeful again :pac:

Aoibheann

Tejay's looking great today, shame about the bad day on stage 16.

FLAT FOR PERAUD!!!! He must have lost 20+ seconds there, that's such a shame! Still has 6 seconds on Pinot in the live GC standings, so hopefully this won't have screwed up his chances.

pelevin

Mollema 134th or so at that split?!

Aoibheann

pelevin wrote: »

Mollema 134th or so at that split?!

136th at the second time split anyway, 6'46 down on Martin.

Valverde already 1'50 down in the first split, looks to be suffering - 2nd and 3rd will be Peraud and Pinot, just remains to be seen what order they finish in. Nibali looks pretty smooth to me so far.

pelevin

You'd imagine there's a lot of those riders in Mollema's timezone wouldn't even be particularly pushing themselves.

Aoibheann

Peraud at 1'52 on the second time-check, Pinot at 2'16. Barring some changes in the last 15km, this will put Peraud into 2nd overall.

EDIT: And now Bardet needs a bike change.. Another rear flat. What's going on with the AG2R tires today at all?!

pelevin

AG2R, stop patching up punctured tubes you cheapskates!

Aoibheann

Great time by Peraud, particularly considering that flat. 6th on the stage, 2'27 off Martin's time. Pinot 45 seconds slower again, so that's the podium switch confirmed!

MPFG

Got to hand it to AG2R ....really best team in this year's Tour and having a great year

Not sure what happened to Carlos Betencur but shows they didn't need him and maybe should kick his ass to the kerb

They can do it with the French riders and Pozzo

pelevin

Tough on Bardet to lose 5th place by 2 seconds after a puncture

Brian?

Valverde is Spanish TT champion? Did no one else show up?

Aoibheann

A lot of very emotional people today, it seems. Nibbles on his second-last trip to the podium in yellow, Peraud after learning he was up to 2nd, Lavenu, Madiot..

Gutted for Bardet missing 5th place by TWO seconds after that puncture. Poor kid. He has a seriously good future ahead of him though. Looks like we have a pretty great set of future GC winners (current if you include the still incredibly young Quintana!) in the new crop of cyclists.

Lusk_Doyle

"Nibaldi". Go RTE.

http://m.rte.ie/sport/touch/cycling/2014/0726/633296-nibaldi-all-but-confirms-tour-victory/

dastardly00

pelevin wrote: »

Hard to look beyond Chris Horner for this one.
The 54km route apparently includes four climbs and lots of twisting roads.

Ladbrokes have Tony Martin 1/4. Next closest Nibali a distant 12/1. They've forgotten to quote Horner's odds for some reason.
http://sports.ladbrokes.com/ie-ie/Cycling-c110000020#

Best opening line for a stage thread ever!

Lusk_Doyle

pelevin wrote: »

Hard to look beyond Chris Horner for this one.
The 54km route apparently includes four climbs and lots of twisting roads.

Ladbrokes have Tony Martin 1/4. Next closest Nibali a distant 12/1. They've forgotten to quote Horner's odds for some reason.
http://sports.ladbrokes.com/ie-ie/Cycling-c110000020#

How much did you lose / waste on that bet?

pelevin

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

How much did you lose / waste on that bet?

I'm not trying to suggest anyone here should start a Pelevin Fund or something like that - even though, yes, it would help - but in short I lost the lot. I'm even putting things like my tyre levers on eBay to try to scrape together something to get me through.