Tour de France Stage 15 - Limoux > Foix (185 km)

retalivity · 21-07-2019 3:46pm

Go pinot!!!

bazermc · 21-07-2019 3:46pm

Left for 30 seconds to put kettle on. What happened Thomas?

retalivity · 21-07-2019 3:47pm

This is great stuff

Inquitus · 21-07-2019 3:47pm

bazermc wrote: »

What happened Thomas?

He doesn't have it it seems, much like yesterday!

2smiggy · 21-07-2019 3:48pm

Getting very interesting now!

irishrover99 · 21-07-2019 3:49pm

Go on Pinot.

Angliru · 21-07-2019 3:49pm

Unreal from Pinot, no wonder he was so upset the other day losing time.

retalivity · 21-07-2019 3:51pm

Why is JA on the front, should let poels/thomas work

Angliru · 21-07-2019 3:51pm

Fair f*cks to Alaphilippe, not giving up and doing the work.

at1withmyself · 21-07-2019 3:52pm

Angliru wrote: »

Fair f*cks to Alaphilippe, not giving up and doing the work.

He should keep yellow if he stays calm

at1withmyself · 21-07-2019 3:53pm

irishrover99 wrote: »

Go on Pinot.

Pinot into 3rd and moving to second, go in Pinot

at1withmyself · 21-07-2019 3:53pm

Poels needs to earn his wage now

Inquitus · 21-07-2019 3:54pm

They move in on Ala, to try and to monster him out of it, Great tour soo far! Yates to take his 2nd stage, chapeau to him!

Ala to keep Yellow, but the rest of them will tighten up a fair bit.

Angliru · 21-07-2019 3:55pm

F*ck off Thomas

Inquitus · 21-07-2019 4:05pm

Provisional Post Stage Rankings

dastardly00 · 21-07-2019 4:08pm

Pinot lost about 1'40" to Alaphilippe in the cross winds stage I think? He'd only be 10 seconds behind now

irishrover99 · 21-07-2019 4:09pm

I really don’t trust Pinot in the 3rd week and I don’t think 1.35 is enough for JA.
I fear that Thomas could break our hearts again.

Angliru · 21-07-2019 4:11pm

Pinot the favourite now with Thomas, Bernal and Alaphilippe next favourites at evenish odds by the bookies. Pinot would have this Tour in the bag if he didn't bleed time in the crosswinds.

All she wrote surely for Alaphilippe. He's bound to have extended a tonne of energy already, it is coming into the third week and his team is getting weaker and weaker by the day.

Bernal might be compromised by the presence of Thomas but he's got a huge chance now considering I'd imagine he's only arriving into peak form.

Manny Buchmann is one hell of a cyclist on current form. Towed Bernal to the line.

Inquitus · 21-07-2019 4:12pm

irishrover99 wrote: »

I really don’t trust Pinot in the 3rd week and I don’t think 1.35 is enough for JA.
I fear that Thomas could break our hearts again.

I think it's all down to how their bodies will respond to the 3rd week of racing, there are still a bunch of riders who can win this, Thomas, Bernal, Pinot, JAL, Kruiswijk and even Buchman. The rest seem to have too much time to close.

Decuc500 · 21-07-2019 4:34pm

Have a feeling Thomas will keep on improving next week and go on to win it. I'd love to see Pinot win though.

Yates to continue riding at the back of the peloton, smoking cigars, and get another stage win in the alps.

Old man Valverde like a bad smell. He just won't go away.

Inquitus · 21-07-2019 4:40pm

Decuc500 wrote: »

Have a feeling Thomas will keep on improving next week and go on to win it. I'd love to see Pinot win though.

Yates to continue riding at the back of the peloton, smoking cigars, and get another stage win in the alps.

Old man Valverde like a bad smell. He just won't go away.

Aye, its defo the most open tour in many a decade thought which is great to see!

dastardly00 · 21-07-2019 4:42pm

The riders have a good bit of time to recover now. Tomorrow is a rest day. Tuesday is a flat stage that starts and finishes in Nimes. And Wednesday only has a Cat. 4 and Cat. 3 climb. That will suit Alaphilippe. I can see his lead being chipped away on Thursday and Friday and then the jersey changing on Saturday.

dastardly00 · 21-07-2019 4:48pm

Gaudu, Reichenbach and Molard have been great so far for Pinot

Inquitus · 21-07-2019 4:59pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

Gaudu, Reichenbach and Molard have been great so far for Pinot

Except for the crosswinds, as mentioned earlier in this thread, there is a high likely hood that Pinot loses the Tour due to the 1 min 40 secs odd he lost on that day, when he was caught on the wrong side of the split.

equivariant · 21-07-2019 5:09pm

Angliru wrote: »

All she wrote surely for Alaphilippe. He's bound to have extended a tonne of energy already, it is coming into the third week and his team is getting weaker and weaker by the day.

A bit of an overreaction surely. I think that he paid today for two huge efforts in the previous two days. The time trial was a huge effort and then second on the tourmalet also. After the rest day and a flat stage things could be a lot different.

Pinot looked strong today but he may not be so dominant in the alps. He probably needs to do that at least twice more to overtake JA - that is a big ask. I think that Alaphilippe made a small mistake today when he attacked Thomas and tried to chase Pinot. If he had ridden tempo with Thomas then he would probably have stayed with him to the line.

I would still give Alaphilippe a huge chance to win. I think that he can definitely stay with Thomas (really I don't understand why anyone thinks that Thomas should be putting time into Alaphillippe in the mountains) and he has 1:50 on Pinot which is a pretty big lead.

Angliru · 21-07-2019 5:35pm

Pity the day after the rest day isn't a mountain day. There's always one GC guy who completely bonks the day after the rest day and there's usually one guy who comes back like a new man.

Finnrocco · 22-07-2019 11:03am

Great to see the QuickStep mountain domestiques Viviani, Morkov and Richeze coming to the fore.

I wonder now will they sprint on Tuesday or will they all have the day off, Qs let the break go and get 10 minutes?

gmacww · 22-07-2019 11:36am

Angliru wrote: »

Pity the day after the rest day isn't a mountain day. There's always one GC guy who completely bonks the day after the rest day and there's usually one guy who comes back like a new man.

There is always one rider who gets the rest day spectacularly wrong. We name this day Tejay day. That said this year the recovery can be managed over Tuesday and Wednesday this year. I think it makes for a much more exciting Thursday - Saturday.

Lusk_Doyle · 22-07-2019 5:08pm

Finnrocco wrote: »

Great to see the QuickStep mountain domestiques Viviani, Morkov and Richeze coming to the fore.

I wonder now will they sprint on Tuesday or will they all have the day off, Qs let the break go and get 10 minutes?

You'd imagine that the team quest for yellow would trump over a collective hunt for another stage win for Vivianni. That said, IIRC, I recall Wiggins in yellow several years ago killing it at the front in the close to a sprint stage to set his man (Ben Swift?) up for the final push.

Inquitus · 22-07-2019 5:52pm

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

You'd imagine that the team quest for yellow would trump over a collective hunt for another stage win for Vivianni. That said, IIRC, I recall Wiggins in yellow several years ago killing it at the front in the close to a sprint stage to set his man (Ben Swift?) up for the final push.

Was that not on the Champs D'Eylsee for Cav?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SzcoD4lDw

Tour de France Stage 15 - Limoux > Foix (185 km)

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