stage 17 - Embrun L'Alpe-d'Huez 210.5 km Spoiler
07-23-08, 08:05 AM
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The peloton is getting shredded on the Croix-de-Fer. Cunego is gone.
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07-23-08, 08:28 AM
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seems like all the guys on TV agree. i guess only the final climb will tell us. surely they know they must get time today. 
later.
later.
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07-23-08, 08:35 AM
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Agreed, Cancellara is not going to drop Evans on a mountain climb.
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07-23-08, 09:23 AM
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THe only option for any of the non csc riders is start attaching now (easier to say than do anyways), at some point the brothers wont be able to respond... csc wants to do 1 and 2 at paris for sure.
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07-23-08, 09:34 AM
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Go Sastre!!!
07-23-08, 09:36 AM
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07-23-08, 09:44 AM
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This is really turning out to be one hell of a race. I'm loving it.
I know it's said every year, but the spectators running alongside these guys are driving me crazy. I can't even imagine how frustrating that has to be for the riders.
I know it's said every year, but the spectators running alongside these guys are driving me crazy. I can't even imagine how frustrating that has to be for the riders.
07-23-08, 09:57 AM
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07-23-08, 10:04 AM
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While exciting, I'm not happy that the Tour will likely be won by a guy who made only one tiny attempt to attack... don't like the wheel sucker.
07-23-08, 10:05 AM
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Not a Sastre fan at all. Looked like Andy Schleck certainly had the legs to win today, and I sure would have liked to see him rather than Sastre have a go at it. Damned team tactics!
07-23-08, 10:08 AM
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Andy will have his day. He's the third-man on a super team. That's the hand he was dealt. Or accepted.
07-23-08, 10:09 AM
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I like team tactics, so I'm not a fan of the ITT deciding the tour. That said, Evans did what he had to do, and others didn't do what they had to do. So is racing.
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It was an epic stage, with fantastic tactics by CSC.
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The fact that CSC has their own in-house intense testing/anti-doping regimen makes me much happier to see one of their guys take the yellow in to Paris if at all possible.
Though versus only seems inclined to talk about Garmin-Chipotle and Columbia, those aren't the only folks who are making non-mandated attempts to get things under control.
Though versus only seems inclined to talk about Garmin-Chipotle and Columbia, those aren't the only folks who are making non-mandated attempts to get things under control.