Tour de France 2018, July 27, Stage 19: Lourdes > Laruns

Borderfox

Sagan is in a heap so Demare should finish 30 minutes ahead of him

CrowdedHouse

He looks under severe pressure

JoeyJJ

Thats the polkadot sorted..

neris

https://twitter.com/MRasmussen1974/status/1022563894747914241

lizzylad84

At work do can't see the. How's Sagan looking? Hope he survives today. Still not ruling out a giroesque from attack

neris

https://twitter.com/MRasmussen1974/status/1022821478042021889

De Bhál

lizzylad84 wrote: »

At work do can't see the. How's Sagan looking? Hope he survives today. Still not ruling out a giroesque from attack

Sagan out the back and struggling

retalivity

Yeah wtf are katusha at, on the take??

CrowdedHouse

The best bit of it

Nope. The biggest part of the bunch accepts following diligently the big white ‘it’s a travelling asthma miracle circus’ train in fear of being nuked by their own power meters at the end of the day #whereisContador

Borderfox

Id say its the ds punishing them

CrowdedHouse

retalivity wrote: »

Yeah wtf are katusha at, on the take??

Allegedly trying to protect 12th place on GC from Bob Jungels in 13

#FFS

Melodeon

Date: Friday 27th July
Type: Mountain
Distance: 200.5 km
Start/Finish: Lourdes > Laruns

Stage Map:



Stage Profile:

dastardly00

Thanks Melodean! :D:D

dastardly00

Stage specific thread here
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=107631837#post107631837

JoeyJJ

Moviestar getting someone to drop back to meet Landa so they can launch Quintana soon?

Borderfox

Froome still sitting behind Thomas so don't rule him a miraculous recovery today

at1withmyself

Half day from work so back just in time to see Froome take the yellow??

tuxy

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Allegedly trying to protect 12th place on GC from Bob Jungels in 13

#FFS

What goal do you think they should be working for?

Borderfox

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Moviestar getting someone to drop back to meet Landa so they can launch Quintana soon?

Benatti dropped back to Landa

at1withmyself

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Moviestar getting someone to drop back to meet Landa so they can launch Quintana soon?

Would love to see something happen today, I think Quintana looked good the last few days so could be good!

JoeyJJ

Lets hope Quintana has the legs (and Dan obviously).

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I have a horrible feeling Froome is gonna go for a long range spin attack and put 2 mins into Thomas. I shall tell my laptop to fcuk right off in work when/if that happens

dastardly00

at1withmyself wrote: »

Would love to see something happen today, I think Quintana looked good the last few days so could be good!

Hard to know what condition he is in though after his fall the other day

Itziger

If, and it's one big mofo IF, they could drop the Sky domestiques then there might be fun. Otherwise,............más de lo mismo.

Borderfox

Sagan 10 minutes behind

odyssey06

When (Irish time) approximately should we expect the finish?

JoeyJJ

I guess the Landa move is to try to burn the sky domestiques

mr spuckler

was planning on an early exit from work today, but have a feeling it could be a good stage so am inclined to stay and watch it on my phone. decisions decisions!

Borderfox

Woet Poels on the way back??

DominoDub

Backing the Green ....come on Peter Sagan

Hope he makes the time cut today.

at1withmyself

Poels coming back again

dastardly00

Amador seems to be dropping back from the breakaway to help Landa

dastardly00

Poels has some amount of bouncebackability

mr spuckler

odyssey06 wrote: »

When (Irish time) approximately should we expect the finish?

earliest estimate is 4:32, latest 5:11.

https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-19

at1withmyself

dastardly00 wrote: »

Poels has some amount of bouncebackability

Up the front now, he must have some pace on him to go up and down the climbs like that!

mr spuckler

DominoDub wrote: »

Backing the Green ....come on Peter Sagan

Hope he makes the time cut today.

update from Guardian text coverage...:) Demare is in that group too, should be more good news.

Sagan watch: Goodish news for the Slovak. He’s now part of a group of 19 riders in a grupetto shelled out of the back of the yellow jersey group. If he can stay with them, or they can organise themselves to stay together and finish together, you’d have to say there’s a very good chance the race organisers won’t kick them out of the race even if they do finish outside the time limit. As well as being final, their decisions are also discretionary. And let’s face it, they owe Sagan one after kicking him off the race rather unfairly last year.

mloc123

This is a dumb question I am sure... But to win the green jersey, you need to make it to Paris?

eeeee

mloc123 wrote: »

This is a dumb question I am sure... But to win the green jersey, you need to make it to Paris?

yeah

mr spuckler

mloc123 wrote: »

This is a dumb question I am sure... But to win the green jersey, you need to make it to Paris?

correct on all fronts :pac:

Captain Red Beard

Isn't the scenery glorious, almost matches Mahon Falls on a crisp summer morning.

dastardly00

Zakarin doing a lot of wheelsucking and not contributing at the moment

fat bloke

And Rob Hatch's word of the day (running contrary to France and the French):

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you: The "TourmaYay".




Honestly, I don't know how my tv remains intact and my forehead unbloodied

mloc123

dastardly00 wrote: »

Zakarin doing a lot of wheelsucking and not contributing at the moment

Speaking of wheel sucking. Seems Froome isn't taking his role as super domestique very seriously.

MPFGLB

Nico doing a good job on Comms.....even calling Sean 'Kelly' surely that is like addressing the Queen without first having been spoken to ???:eek:

Raymzor

JoeyJJ wrote: »

I guess the Landa move is to try to burn the sky domestiques

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

MPFGLB

Raymzor wrote: »

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

SKY more worried about Dumoulin, Roglic & Quintana

They have a plan !!!

kilns

Raymzor wrote: »

JoeyJJ wrote: »

I guess the Landa move is to try to burn the sky domestiques

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

They would to put a serious amount of time into Thomas as they wouldnt have the Time Trials to worry him

Borderfox

Katusha must be fighting for their hair today

dastardly00

Sky have been a level of magnitude more dominant in the Tour this year compared to previous years

at1withmyself

MPFGLB wrote: »

Nico doing a good job on Comms.....even calling Sean 'Kelly' surely that is like addressing the Queen without first having been spoken to ???:eek:

I am enjoying him, he has a great insight into team sky and knows exactly how they work.

mr spuckler

Raymzor wrote: »

Surprised to see Landa and Bardet were left up the road

I think it was very early to be chasing lower ranked riders. they're going to have used a lot of energy pulling out that gap and still have 80+km and a huge amount of climbing left.