Man of Honour
Froome starts his time trial at 15:54.
Pro Cycling Discussion 2016
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Soldato
Quintana down 46secs by the first sector, damn he's gone past Chaves who left 2 mins earlier 
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Caporegime
It would be so awesome if Froome overtook Quintana.
Soldato
It's pretty good from Quintana. Was expecting him to lose about 2-2.5 minutes today, and he's on course for that.
Soldato
He can't, Quintana left 2 mins after Froome or do you mean in the GC?
It certainly makes things exciting for tomorrow.
Caporegime
Ah, yeah, I'm thinking backwards.
He's overtaken Chaves instead!
He's overtaken Chaves instead!
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Caporegime
Up to 1:11 over Quintana now.
1:32 after 24km.
1:32 after 24km.
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Soldato
Fantastic performance 46secs faster than Castroveijo. Looks like Inzue was spot on on the 2.30 gap to be safe.
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Caporegime
In other news, Poels won the ToB stage and Cummings has taken the race lead after Vermote lost 2 minutes on the Haytor climb. Cummings leads by 49 seconds over Dumoulin, who is likely to gain time in tomorrow's TT.
Caporegime
Froome finishes 2:16 faster than Quintana, leaving 1:21 to make up tomorrow. It's a big ask. His domestiques better be on the ball.
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ToB sounds really exciting today, an early breakaway, several chases and splits on some climbs followed by some shared chasing. Totally made up for Cummings though, would be amazing if he's got some left in the bag for the TT. He's not a bad TT'er and DD are a strong enough team for the upcoming stages. Fingers crossed!
Kudos to Vermote though, performed out of his skin to get where he was on GC. It was going to catch up with him sooner or later...
Can't rule out Dumoulin though, he's in some fantastic TT form. Lotto-Soudal with Gallopin and BMC also looking strong, Rohan Dennis has been on a mission the last couple of days!
Kudos to Vermote though, performed out of his skin to get where he was on GC. It was going to catch up with him sooner or later...
Can't rule out Dumoulin though, he's in some fantastic TT form. Lotto-Soudal with Gallopin and BMC also looking strong, Rohan Dennis has been on a mission the last couple of days!
Associate
I would agree. The only way I see Froome winning is if Sky can burn off Quintana's team leaving him individually exposed. If it comes down to Quintana vs Froome 1 on 1 on the last climb I can't see Froome being able to take that out of Quintana.
Caporegime
Sky are going to have to absolutely batter the peloton and deliver Froome nice and fresh. If he has to do the work to get to the foot of the climb himself then I'd agree that he's buggered.
Soldato
Good thing is he has a decent cushion over 3rd and 4th, so can afford to roll the dice a little.
Final climb tomorrow certainly favours sky's usual tactics. And looked like more of the movistar team put in efforts today for the team prize definitely going to be a cracking stage tomorrow.
Associate
all they have to do is sit there on skys wheels and wait it out
Man of Honour
Froome needs 1 minute 22 seconds to get the lead, it's going to be a fascinating mountain top finish tomorrow!
Easier said than done, Tinkoff and Orica will be working hard to move up/regain a podium place too I suspect. So it will be intriguing and there is a lot to play for. Not sure on the teams position as this could bring BMC into play too.
Caporegime
Yeah, you'd best believe Contador will be balls to the wall to get on the podium.
Absolutely, and thinking about it have Tinkoff even won a stage yet?