TdF Stage 10 - Tuesday July 14 - 193 km - Limoges → Issoudun
07-15-09, 02:40 AM
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07-15-09, 02:42 AM
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Riders have been known to remove the earpiece when fed up. They can claim 'techincal difficulties' too, and turn the volume off.
07-15-09, 06:20 AM
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Originally Posted by bbattle Because most of the riders and the teams are quite unhappy about the radio ban, they may well stage a "work slowdown" and poke along at 15mph.
Au Contraire, mon frere.
It would never happen. How do you keep people from breaking away other than picking up the pace in the peloton? If the peloton stuck to 15mph, a breakaway could gain huge chunks of time and kill the chances of all of the GC contenders in the peloton..
I suppose they could take a nature break at the finish line as a means of protest
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I suppose they could take a nature break at the finish line as a means of protest
.Au Contraire, mon frere.
07-15-09, 06:47 AM
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Renshaw stats on the lead out for stage 10....
61kph @ 583 watts that then kicked up to 800 watts, hitting a max of 823 watts! WOO!
61kph @ 583 watts that then kicked up to 800 watts, hitting a max of 823 watts! WOO!
07-15-09, 07:00 AM
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IMHO, the first week of the Tour was above average for first weeks on the excitement meter. You had a TTT that made a difference (unlike previous recent tours with no TTT, or limited time loss formulas.)
You had favorites losing time, caught out of the lead echelon in a corss wind.
You had an early break succeed.
You had the fastest sprinte in the world demonstrating that.
You had two stages end with 2 up sprints that were classic tactical battles.
You had Contador launch an attack that was so explosive he had to slow to make the next corner climbing an HC climb.
Now, admittedly there could have been more fireworks in the Pyranees with an epic stage with a mountaintop finish, but the Organizer's purposefully back end loaded this year's tour.
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07-15-09, 07:03 AM
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And as for having a boring stage yesterday, its difficult to isolate the affect of radio's or their absence on yesterday's racing.
A day after a rest day, with a profile that almost destined to end in a sprint finish, and a breakaway on Bastille day with 3 French riders in it. Did anyone expect yesterday to be much different than it ended up.
There was a break with some French riders in it. The peleton rode just fast enough to catch them. Cavendish won the sprint.
It did not take a rocket scientist to predict this exact result, with or without radios.
A day after a rest day, with a profile that almost destined to end in a sprint finish, and a breakaway on Bastille day with 3 French riders in it. Did anyone expect yesterday to be much different than it ended up.
There was a break with some French riders in it. The peleton rode just fast enough to catch them. Cavendish won the sprint.
It did not take a rocket scientist to predict this exact result, with or without radios.
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07-15-09, 04:56 PM
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Just like in last years Tour of California- they give Levi a break on his screw-up.
The Tour de France race jury took the decision on Wednesday morning to cancel the 15 second deficit that had opened in the peloton in the final kilometres of stage 10 to Issoudun.
Levi Leipheimer (Astana) and Bradley Wiggins (Garmin-Slipstream) had found themselves caught in the second group yesterday. However, today's decision to nullify the time gap returns the riders to 4th and 5th on general classification, respectively.
The Tour de France race jury took the decision on Wednesday morning to cancel the 15 second deficit that had opened in the peloton in the final kilometres of stage 10 to Issoudun.
Levi Leipheimer (Astana) and Bradley Wiggins (Garmin-Slipstream) had found themselves caught in the second group yesterday. However, today's decision to nullify the time gap returns the riders to 4th and 5th on general classification, respectively.
07-15-09, 09:51 PM
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Just like in last years Tour of California- they give Levi a break on his screw-up.
The Tour de France race jury took the decision on Wednesday morning to cancel the 15 second deficit that had opened in the peloton in the final kilometres of stage 10 to Issoudun.
Levi Leipheimer (Astana) and Bradley Wiggins (Garmin-Slipstream) had found themselves caught in the second group yesterday. However, today's decision to nullify the time gap returns the riders to 4th and 5th on general classification, respectively.
The Tour de France race jury took the decision on Wednesday morning to cancel the 15 second deficit that had opened in the peloton in the final kilometres of stage 10 to Issoudun.
Levi Leipheimer (Astana) and Bradley Wiggins (Garmin-Slipstream) had found themselves caught in the second group yesterday. However, today's decision to nullify the time gap returns the riders to 4th and 5th on general classification, respectively.
07-16-09, 04:22 AM
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From the video
"we are in a hotel room, MY hotel room....." Ok, we get it, its all about you Lance
"this is not the time to be humble, you're on LIVESTRONG.com" not everyone is as pompous as you. Lance in these videos reminds me of the obnoxious loud friend at the bar talking over everyone else trying to be in the spot light while everyone else is just like, wow
"Other riders were *****ing and whining that you were winning too much" - funny how he *****ed and whined about Contador.....
"Typical first week Tour stuff, nothing to talk about....."
Yea, other than sprint stages and seeing some of the best sprints in the world. I guess other peoples life time dream to win a stage means nothing.
"we are in a hotel room, MY hotel room....." Ok, we get it, its all about you Lance
"this is not the time to be humble, you're on LIVESTRONG.com" not everyone is as pompous as you. Lance in these videos reminds me of the obnoxious loud friend at the bar talking over everyone else trying to be in the spot light while everyone else is just like, wow
"Other riders were *****ing and whining that you were winning too much" - funny how he *****ed and whined about Contador.....
"Typical first week Tour stuff, nothing to talk about....."
Yea, other than sprint stages and seeing some of the best sprints in the world. I guess other peoples life time dream to win a stage means nothing.
Yet you continued to read / watch and then write about it.
Maybe you should go for a nice ride.
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