With frogs inside?
― The Rite of Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
pinot finished 6th iirc
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
Catching up on everything myself. (I hadn't realized how absolutely handy the NBC web package deal is over here -- $30 for a full year of coverage of most of the major races? I can live with that.) Today was nuts!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
rip contador
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
what the actual fuck just happened
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
chaos
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
biggest WTF Tour moment in FOREVER
― Ludo, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
did Porte and Froome collide?? or did some angry Colombian fan steal Froome's bike
― Ludo, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Froome running will make for one hell of an iconic photo
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
This is crazy! I don't think I've ever seen anyone try to run up Mont Ventoux before.
― toby, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/manual/31118/31118_000_021_02.jpg
Froome upon the mountain
― Ludo, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm guessing the motorbike had to avoid some twat trying to get some screen time and Porte etc were the unfortunate result. Had to do a double take when I saw Froome running up the mountain
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
wtf
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
at fuck
― cozen, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
wt*
― cozen, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
total madness.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Madness.
So Porte, Froome and Mollema all crashed behind a motorcycle. But what happened to Froome's original bike? Did it get run over?
Very stupid that other sky dude didn't give Froome his bike tho.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
froome is 6" taller than henao, fit might've been an issue?
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
For those last 100s of meters?
Froome gets to keep yellow they're saying now. Not sure how I feel about that.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
sounds like they've taken the times from 3km out, kinda bullshit tbh
1. Froome2. Yates 47"3. Mollema 56"4. Quintana 1'01"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
crash probably wouldn't have happened if they hadn't moved up the finish line to avoid the summit and then forgot to bring the finish line barriers to keep all the dummies off the road
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnVzU--XYAA42zu.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
looks like they readjusted the times again, Quintana gains some seconds
1. FROOME2. YATES + 00' 47''3. QUINTANA + 00' 54''4. MOLLEMA + 00' 56"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Why were the crowd booing Froome when he got the yellow jersey again? Same thing happened at the British GP when Rosberg got 3rd. People are just fucking nasty all over right now.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Mollema has been 1st, 3rd and now 4th today. No doubt people are the worst (^) but it's the inconsistency that irks me. If it were anyone other than Froome I'm positive they wouldn't have done this. Which stinks.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
*2nd, 3rd, 4th
Quintana's time was clocked from before the crash, Mollema's time from after the crash. Trek has protested. Travesty.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
?
As I understand it, the times given were the finishing times across the line - Froome and Porte were given Mollema's time (as that was the group they were in before the crash), whereas Quintana was given the time of the next group on the road, even though he actually came in slightly behind them (the argument being that he was held up by the aftermath of the crash and that broke up the group he was in).
― remain in the privacy of the booth (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't clear, but indeed. Froome and Porte were compensated. Even Quintana, who had fuck all to do with the crash and was indeed behind the group they gave him the time of, gets compensated. But Mollema's 24 seconds he gained by getting up quick and riding his balls off got annulled. The rider who got up quickest is being punished here. It makes no sense whatsoever. As Mollema said after the race: I should have just taken it easy and stayed with Froome and Porte then.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
That's one way of looking at it. Another way is that a motorbike brought down Mollema's group of three, but Mollema had the good fortune not to be the one who took the full force of crashing into the motorbike (Porte) or having his frame snapped with no replacement bike anywhere nearby (Froome), so it's not as if he Mollema was any keener than either of those two at getting back up and riding again. In reality, but for the crash the three of them would have stayed close together and would probably only have been separated by 2 or 3 seconds at the line (in what order, I couldn't say) and Quintana would almost certainly have lost more time to them than he's ended up doing.
― remain in the privacy of the booth (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 14 July 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
what a time to be alive
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 July 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
xpost honestly i'm more cheesed that quintana is gaining off this than anyone else
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 July 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, agreed.
― Madchen, Friday, 15 July 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link
Yep. Footage just resurfaced of Quintana holding on to the back of a motorcycle, whizzing by Porte trying to get back on his bike, does not help either.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 15 July 2016 10:01 (seven years ago) link
(here)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 15 July 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
I would have given Froome bonus seconds for the indignity of riding the neutral yellow bike for geeks btw.
― Johnny Cage - 4'33" Fatality (King Boy Pato), Friday, 15 July 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
oh god it looked like he was riding a lego bike, poor bloke
so much shade @ quintana. i get doing what u have to do to get out of there but cmon dude
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 July 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
sidebar, i have been watching Orica's youtube channel, fun bunch of dudes imo
poor gerrans tho, out of the tour and rio. tough
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 July 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
These last few days, nutty.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 July 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
time trials a welcome slice of normcore
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 July 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
Lol. There's something deeply beautiful about riders who really know how to TT. Seeing Dumoulin sitting on his bike as aerodynamic as possible, body hardly moving, is a thing of grace.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 16 July 2016 09:59 (seven years ago) link
yeah he was so impressive!
i saw a photo of alaphillippe's TT crash, wtf happened there?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 July 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
Cav with the win!!! Nicely done sir
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 July 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
Just goes to show how much omega pharma was the wrong team for him.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 17 July 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
god that stage looked like a beast. so brutal. and still, whither goest thou quintana
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 July 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I'd have to say this was my favorite stage overall so far, not that there haven't been some good ones. The only thing that would have made it great would have been if Quintana had put Froome to the test but I don't know whether to credit Sky's relentless efficiency or to think that Quintana is turning into a bit of a bust here this year. Hell, Astana applied more pressure in the end.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
Man, Sagan pulling a rabbit out of a hat there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
he's pretty good at those throws across the line
that was a fun stage in the end! props to martin & alaphilippe for livening things up. bit of a crucible for lil alaphilippe having to keep up with a v8 like martin for so long, talk abt hauling ass
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
Until today I barely knew Martin and Cancellara were there, which seems very strange. Probably because of the time trial situation.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
For some reason, I read this as "Mrs Sagan pulling a rabbit out of a hat there" and wondered how I'd managed to miss this in yesterday's highlights.
― remain in the privacy of the booth (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:20 (seven years ago) link
:(
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 July 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link