Impey and Trentin are both in good form. Would take one to the Vuelta. What a value for money signing Impey has proven.
I am unsure how well A.Yates is travelling. I base this on how easily a rider moves up the peloton when the road tilts uphill. Anyway Yates will need to ride a conservative race.
Yes, it’s very hard to get a read on him. Mind you, keeping a low profile until it gets hilly is understandable.
Pinot still looks like the biggest threat to Ineos, although he’s only one descent away from disaster at any time!
Cross wind causing havoc. Porte missed the gap and hasn’t stayed with the many of the main threats.
How ■■■■■■ good are sky at always being in the right spot
Porte loses 1:40.
Goodnight.
He only needs to look to Australia’s only Tour De France winner to show him how he should race. Every stage has to be taken seriously and when any threat is at hand, you ride at the front and take responsibility.
Porte, Uran, Fuglsang and Pinot lose 1m and 40s, while Landa made the front group but was brought down in a crash and lost over 3 minutes - Gotta say that that Trek Segafreddo’s tactics have hardly helped Porte - Get his second mountain domestique in Ciccone ( who rode the Giro ) going in a breakaway in stage 6, then winning the yellow jersey which means Porte’s limited team had to control the peleton for two days - Then Stuyven who is the ace for the crosswinds goes in the break yesterday before today’s stage in which cross winds were predicted, so is too tired to help Porte - In saying that it appears that Porte is not a STRONG leader and he is awful in cross winds - Porte should be better because he is a very good ITTer.
todays loss takes away any time gains he will get in the ITT
the other teams need to gang up on ineos
how good was van Aert justvsmashig the sprinters and only because Groenewegan missed the front group.
ciccione was in the third group with Landa
Poor old George Bennett was looking good for GC - went back to the team car to collect bidons for the team and bang the split occurred & he lost 9 minutes!
That last 12-15 km was insane. The gap to the Pinot/Porte group as low as 12 seconds - the front group averaged over 60 kph for that distance - and blew the difference out to 1.40
Little wonder Ewan and Viviani had nothing left in the tank to challenge WVA - the worlds longest sprint!
so frustrating for Porte, pays to be up near the front no matter what the stage.
How’s this for comedy gold. EF worked hard to force the split, but left their GC rider in Uran behind.
Lance said Uran was at his limit when EF were working…
Apparently Trek radio said there will be winds in 5kms watchout…and riders said its ok.
I can’t imagine that the EF team bus was a happy place after the stage.
there wouldnt ahve been many happy team buses.
Viviannis look at the finish was funny too as Van Aert out throwed the bike,
Very interesting last 30kms with the field breaking up so much. The Peleton did a great job of ensuring the second group didn’t get back on even when they got it down to 12 seconds - they were literally almost on the back, with even the cars moved away.
Over the last few ks Sunweb did all the work but Matthews just didn’t get out early enough to capitalise.
I reckon all the fast guys were cooked, and only WVA had anything left.
There is a possibility of cross winds on Wednesday. The key to cross winds in a GT is it must occur in the last 30 to 40kms. Teams wont create an echelon with 80kms to go.
Its amazing the teams predicted the crosswinds almost to the exact kilometre of it happening.
