Business as usual. Froome is boring the life out of me.
Pro Cycling 2018
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Froome is too good.
It's not just Froome though, pretty much every rider in that Sky train could rival the main GC contender of other teams. Just look at how many of them are still making pace on the final climb while other GC contenders are already trailing by some distance. This absurd domination is simply not healthy for grand tour cycling.
What are you saying, they are cheating, or that they are just too good tactically?
More that theypay them enough to be climbing domestiques than they would earn being leaders at other smaller teams.
I'm boycotting the Tour after Froome was let in and will continue until Sky is expelled from cycling.
This joke lasted too long already.
This joke lasted too long already.
Exciting end to the race; nice to see two Brits doing well. Will be interesting to see the Froome/Thomas battle over the rest of the Tour.
Well said, the others are just miserable buggers.
Neither. They just have several riders as domestics that could be GC contenders at other teams and it's killing the competition. Perhaps a budget cap wouldn't hurt. As for tactics, you don't need to ride a tactical race when half your team can outpace the entire peloton. They just take command of every race and set a tempo that's so severe barely anyone can follow.
I have to say Dumoulin continues to surprise me. Unlike Nibali, Quintana and Bardet he's already ridden the Giro and he's still leaving them behind. Either him (and Froome) are supremely superior riders or those others are just not up to it. You'd expect the others to fare better in the third week though, those extra Giro efforts have to catch up to Froome and Dumoulin at some point.
Cheating. There's no tactical aspect to what they are doing, just like there wasn't one at US Postal a decade ago. The similarities are eerie.
Dumoulin did well yeah. Typical that there are so few TT kilometers in this year's Tour. I expected a lot more from Quintana, thought he'd be the best one in the mountains tbf.
In non-Tour news, so fecking glad that Evenepoel decided to turn down Sky and join Quick-Step. What a fecking talent he is.
Hope the riders chill the feck out in the early mountains today, can only leave work at 4.30pm CET. Would be a bummer to miss Alpe d'Huez.
I’m in the same boat as you. Looks like they’re not thinking about us:
“On today’s official timings the earliest anyone was expected to arrive in Saint-Jean was 3.05pm local time, which suggests the pace so far has been unexpectedly fast.“
The sprinters are getting slaughtered out there. We already lost Cav and Kittel and now Greipel, Groenewegen and Gaviria have all abandoned the race as well. Shame, you always want to see the best sprinters compete on the Champs-Élysées. It's going to be a weird final stage.
Seeing the stage development on letour.fr it looks like I'll make it in time easily. Hope you get there too!
Well, that sucked, Nibali. Can't get away from bots.
Same for Quintana, Bernal just closes the gap maintaining his tempo. Didn't even blink.
3rd time's the charm. Dumoulin to try? 
Not much of an attack if you accelerate 10 sec then let go
Bardet more successful, but a long way to go...
Bardet's attack looks more like it.
Some of the crowd are scum. Just stay in your place.
feck this. Great guy Cheater first, then crowd takes Nibali out.
Nibali's back. Took them a while to have an update on him. Looked really hurt on the ground.
Fecking stupid crowds. Fecking stupid feck you stupid crowds.
I like Bardet today. Trying and trying.
I didn't see how Nibali fell but if that's really due to some fecker in the crowd I hope there's some way to punish him/her.
If he down because of crowds, i hope those crowds get punished. Fecking stupid crowds. Proper stupid that dutch section.
Nibali to win.
Nibali isn't that far away, such a fantastic character.
Booo-urns.
Nibali to win.
Won Tour because Froome abandoned, won Giro because Kruisjwijk got crashed. I doubt he win another Grand Tour unless he got lucky again.
Thomas wins again!
I was just fooling around saying he'll win this stage after gaining more than half a minute there near the end and almost catching them.Won Tour because Froome abandoned, won Giro because Kruisjwijk got crashed. I doubt he win another Grand Tour unless he got lucky again.
Thomas should give Froome a big feck you as he's clearly the stronger one of the two at the moment. He won't though, unfortunately.
Impressed with Dumoulin today.
Impressed with Dumoulin today.
he should quit sky if that‘s what he wants. still not one of froomes prime aides could beat him after they changed teams (porte, landa)
Quintana is just all hyped. Bernal thou, what a ride.
Nibali won that tour by 7:39 and already had a gap on the likes of Froome and Contador before they abandoned, I wouldn't say he was lucky. He was really, really good that year. He doesn't seem too bad this year either, if you see what an effort he made to close the gap after his fall.Won Tour because Froome abandoned, won Giro because Kruisjwijk got crashed. I doubt he win another Grand Tour unless he got lucky again.
He wont because he wont get this close to win Tour in another team. He knows it.