Duncan 23 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Wiggins starting to put the hammer down for Froome?Thought exact same myself mate! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nibali gone. JVdB cracks now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan 23 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nibali has cracked!? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan 23 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Come on Froomey and Wiggo! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoghurto 9 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Come on Froome, go for it. I'd love to see him turn the screw on Wiggins. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Time for some Time Trialling, Wiggo! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan 23 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Come on Bradley. Let him go for the win! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 The final km is pretty flat. Great stuff from Froome here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeReadyStu 70 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Froome and Wiggins are doing a Schleck brothers here, "You go," "No, you go", "No wait", "But I'm going" repeat until stage finish. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoghurto 9 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Froome looked to have the legs to perhaps go after Valverde, but don't think Wiggins was too keen on letting him go. Shame. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Froome will go now if Wiggins doesn't have the legs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeReadyStu 70 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Wiggins owes a lot to Froome between the Vuelta last year and the Tour. Also not sure why Froome didn't go there, he could have won the stage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoghurto 9 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Feel a bit bad for Froome, in the past 2 weeks he often looked much stronger than Wiggins, but it's all about team hierarchy in cycling. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan 23 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Froome had that stage in the bag there if Wiggins had let him go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 1. A. Valverde2. C. Froome3. B. Wiggins4. T. Pinot5. P.Rolland6. J. Van den Broeck7. V. NibaliNo real change to the first four in the GC. Van Harderen moves up to 5th. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Feel a bit bad for Froome, in the past 2 weeks he often looked much stronger than Wiggins, but it's all about team hierarchy in cycling.Wiggins in yellow in Paris is all that matters. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingledtrout 7 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Amazing stage Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeReadyStu 70 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Makes you think what if Froome hadn't punctured in the first week and lost time... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Froome, Nibali, Van den Broecke, Van Garderen, Rolland, Pinot, Sagan, Uran, Moser........Exciting years ahead for cycling. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Makes you think what if Froome hadn't punctured in the first week and lost time...He would be in second with an even bigger cushion over Nibali. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeReadyStu 70 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 He would be in second with an even bigger cushion over Nibali. Haha, touche. Would have been nice to see Froome take the stage win though, but in terms of GC I guess he knew what he was signing up for when he re-signed with Sky after the Vuelta last year despite having offers from Saxo Bank, Lampre and Garmin, but obviously Sky made him the best offer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Haha, touche. Would have been nice to see Froome take the stage win though, but in terms of GC I guess he knew what he was signing up for when he re-signed with Sky after the Vuelta last year despite having offers from Saxo Bank, Lampre and Garmin, but obviously Sky made him the best offer.I think the plan was for Wiggins to get the stage win.......as long as they stayed together. As you say, Froome signed up for the job. He has plenty of years ahead of him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Job done!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime69 514 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 alright guys,,dont really know the ins and outs of the tactics involved etchow do the other members of the team (Froome, Cavendish etc) help Wiggins during the race?is it no just a case of every man for himself racing?forgive my ignorance Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoghurto 9 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 alright guys,,dont really know the ins and outs of the tactics involved etchow do the other members of the team (Froome, Cavendish etc) help Wiggins during the race?is it no just a case of every man for himself racing?forgive my ignoranceWiggins has 3 or 4 teammates around him at all times. Their job is to protect him from potential falls, especially on the flat sections. But their most important job is to keep him in their slipstream, which allows him to conserve a lot of energy. That's why you get Rogers, Porte and Froome in front of Wiggins, when the climbing begins with the rider in front taking the brunt of the wind. Helpers also get water bottles, energy gels and food for him and others from the team car, so he doesn't have to go back. If there's a puncture and no team car in sight, they may also give him their tyre. And if a team leader is dropped or has suffered a puncture or a fall, then his teammates drop back to ride in front of him to help him get back into the main group with a minimum energy loss.It's definitely not every man for himself, hierarchy matters in cycling. Of course there are guys, who are out there racing just for themselves, that's mainly from weaker teams, whose main goal is to get guys in the breakaway or go for stage wins in order to get maximum exposure for their sponsors.General classement contenders have their entire teams working for them, a couple of guys to help on the climbs, a couple to work on the flat etc.Sprinters have their teams do most of the riding in front on flat stages, setting up a so called train, where the idea is for the team to pull their main sprinter to the front, where they peel off one by one, while he stays in their slipstream for a final attack and sprint in the last couple hundred meters.If you take a look at today's and yesterday's stage, during the final climbs Nibali, main Sky rival, had Ivan Basso dictating a strong pace at the front, which lead to a lot of the riders being dropped, he was preparing the ground for a Nibali attack, which never came as yesterday the Sky boys had him covered and today he didn't have the legs for it and ended up being punished, when Froome and Wiggins pulled away. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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