Pro Cycling Discussion 2016

Vonhelmet · 11 Jul 2016 at 09:21

Renshaw retired yesterday. How many more sprint finishes have we got left? Does Cav need him that much anyway given how adept he is at just picking wheels?

Edit: Probably three sprints left.

Vonhelmet · 11 Jul 2016 at 13:09

Rodriguez is retiring at the end of the season.

SoliD · 11 Jul 2016 at 13:27

Vonhelmet said:
Rodriguez is retiring at the end of the season.

Nooooo! Love Rodriguez, so close so many times.

Cosimo · 12 Jul 2016 at 07:05

Now two relatively easy stages before we hit Mont Ventoux and a time trial later in the week.

A look at today's Stage 10:

Cosimo · 12 Jul 2016 at 16:36

The last kilometre:

DaleTheWhale · 12 Jul 2016 at 18:21

I'll spoiler it still.

Shame to see Sagan outnumbered, but don't think he helped himself much by pushing the front for the majority, should have sat back a bit more and conserved himself.

But the OBE boys really had the upperhand, fantastic from them, great win for Matthews.

SoliD · 12 Jul 2016 at 21:32

Was it me or was that a really dull stage. Sagan back to his usual tricks of doing too much work! Thought he'd got out of that, but maybe he's still trying to push his price up in contract negotiations!

Contador out of the Olympics too due to his injuries! Vuelta it is then!

PermaBanned · 12 Jul 2016 at 21:40

Yeah, pretty dull. OBE played it to perfection, didn't really give Sagan a choice but to do the work. Credit to them, but if the stage had played out differently it probably could have been a lot more exciting.

booyaka · 12 Jul 2016 at 23:25

PermaBanned said:
Yeah, pretty dull. OBE played it to perfection, didn't really give Sagan a choice but to do the work. Credit to them, but if the stage had played out differently it probably could have been a lot more exciting.

agree - worked Sagan over big time - good win

Cosimo · 13 Jul 2016 at 07:32

Highlights of yesterday's stage:

A look at today's Stage 11

booyaka · 13 Jul 2016 at 12:18

https://www.facebook.com/GoProUnitedKingdom/videos/1749908321932819/

Cosimo · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:01

Looking like a big sprint finish today.

bayo000 · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:10

Looks like it's Sagan's to lose at the moment....

madindehead · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:17

What an insane ending so that stage.

Edinho · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:21

Quintana must have a big **** off card up his sleeve.

Movistar useless.

a1ex2001 · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:28

Crazy finish to the day Froome seems to have decided that this year is is just going to attack at almost any opportunity once those four were up the road nobody was catching them great work from Thomas to get on terms with them.

Interesting to see what happens over the net couple of days Froome should gain time on tomorrows TT and then we have the big one which surely Quintana must be targeting if he is serious about winning the race.

Bear · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:47

Fantastic break away and making it stick, but what on earth were Movistar etc thinking.

Cosimo · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:48

The last kilometre:

Reports coming in of a change to the finish at the top of Mont Ventoux tomorrow as very high crosswinds are expected. We may see the difficult stage neutralised.

Vonhelmet · 13 Jul 2016 at 17:43

If vonteux gets neutralised then Quintana is basically shafted, as it looks for all the world like his plan was to muller Froome up there.

Cosimo · 13 Jul 2016 at 18:19

Vonhelmet said:
If vonteux gets neutralised then Quintana is basically shafted, as it looks for all the world like his plan was to muller Froome up there.

Ventoux mountain top finish has been cancelled :

http://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/36786486

From the tour:

Stage 12 is shorten due to weather conditions at the top of Mont Ventoux, the finish will be at Chalet Reynard ⚠

EDIT: The climb is still there but the last 6 kilometres are cancelled.