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Stage 9 – ITT, Arc-et-Senans to Besançon

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  • July 9, 2012 at 7:42 am #16280
    drheaton

    Big day today, will Cancellara win? how’s Tony Martin doing? will Froome go all out or settle for his domestique roll? Lots of questions today and it should be as interesting.

    My team, made four transfers (40 penalty points):

    Wiggins
    Evans
    Froome
    Gusev
    Zabriskie
    Jeandesboz
    Levarlet
    Boeckmans
    Izagirre

    Unless I have a good day today I’ll be calling it a day on my title challenge (a’la Gesink) and shooting for a stage win.

    Oh, and the transfer window has closed and the stage has just started. Good luck everyone.

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  • July 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm #690639
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    chrisdstripes

    1,3,7,15 so not too bad.
    1,3,7,15 so not too bad. Tried to hedge my bets too much, and went for Brajkovic and Zabriskie instead of Chavanel and AN Other cheap DS. Now it gets interesting – so many good climbers will be looking to attack in the Alps, do you play it safe with Wiggins or go all out for KOM points and stage-winners?

    July 9, 2012 at 3:31 pm #690637
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    Gkam84

    Wiggo leading GC by nearly 2
    Wiggo leading GC by nearly 2 minutes :O

    July 9, 2012 at 3:29 pm #690635
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    drheaton

    Impressive showing, not just
    Impressive showing, not just from Froome and Wiggins but from quite a few GC guys, Nibali, Menchov and Kloden have all done well and you could argue that by only losing 4 minutes Schleck could have done worse 👿

    July 9, 2012 at 3:27 pm #690633
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    Wig_Billy

    Another fail from me.
    Another fail from me. 🙁

    July 9, 2012 at 3:18 pm #690631
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    Gkam84

    Was that Froome just showing
    Was that Froome just showing why its himself and Wiggo who are going for Olympic TT and not Millar? 👿 👿

    July 9, 2012 at 3:13 pm #690629
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    Gkam84

    Oh well, LL is going to score
    Oh well, LL is going to score me 0 again today :”( he’s 17th just now with 8 riders to come in, more that 3 of them will be faster. Grivko at 15th…..might struggle to get points from him aswell. :”( :”(

    July 9, 2012 at 2:59 pm #690627
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    Gkam84

    Wow, Evans is dying on his
    Wow, Evans is dying on his arse out there. Wiggo showing almost a minute up coming to split one…..

    GC could be Wiggo from Froome after today :O

    July 9, 2012 at 2:59 pm #690625
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    chrisdstripes

    Y’know what they say, there’s
    Y’know what they say, there’s always Froome at the top…

    Better day for me (37pts yesterday so that wasn’t hard) but should have Brad, Cancellara, Velits, Brajkovic and Grivko in the top 20 today.

    Awesome from Wiggins so far!

    July 9, 2012 at 2:57 pm #690623
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    Gkam84

    I have to just say now, my
    I have to just say now, my favourite part of this stage today has been that MASSIVE display of the TT guy in the field with the stopwatch rear wheel.

    Anyone got a contact out there in the helicopter with a camera?

    I want an aerial shot of that to blow up into a poster 😉

    July 9, 2012 at 2:56 pm #690621
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    TERatcliffe26

    Not great for me….
    my
    Not great for me….

    my team

    Wiggins
    Chavanel
    Rogers
    Roy

    Casar
    Grivko
    Lancaster
    Zabriske
    Izagirre

    July 9, 2012 at 2:51 pm #690619
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    Gkam84

    drheaton wrote:And they’re

    drheaton wrote:
    And they’re also reporting at the 10km mark Wiggins is already 20 seconds up on Evans.

    30 seconds now being tracked by GPS, he’ll catch him half way at this rate

    July 9, 2012 at 2:50 pm #690617
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    Gkam84

    Aye, Froome is nailing it,
    Aye, Froome is nailing it, but again, only the first split, uphill.

    Yes Teej was still fastest at second split by 2 seconds, then was the best part of 10 seconds down at the line…..

    So we’ll see, Is Froome leaving it all on the start of the stage or can he continue that pace? 😕

    July 9, 2012 at 2:49 pm #690615
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    drheaton

    And they’re also reporting at
    And they’re also reporting at the 10km mark Wiggins is already 20 seconds up on Evans.

    July 9, 2012 at 2:48 pm #690613
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    drheaton

    Forget the Panzerwagon, hear
    Forget the Panzerwagon, hear comes the Froome-wagon… (sorry, bad pun)

    ”letour.fr” wrote:
    Boom, zoom… Froome!
    Froome has taken 23.41 seconds off the time set by van Garderen at the first check, that’s 16.5km – much of it uphill – at an average speed of 46.8km/h!

    July 9, 2012 at 2:37 pm #690611
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    drheaton

    Gkam84 wrote:Can’t really

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Can’t really judge anything on the first split though, because the timing is just at the top of the small climb, So Canc was never going to be fastest through split one

    TJvG fastest at second check by 2 seconds, all but Evans and Wiggins on the road.

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