Men's Road Cycling UCI Tour de France 2017

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Groenewegen again one of the 2-3 fastest guys in the sprint, but his 'train' sucks sooooooooooo bad.

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Oh and Greipel, again 

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Bouhanni acting like Bouhanni and hitting Bauer 7km from the finish.

 

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Vermote has already clocked well over 1000km in the lead of the peloton so far this Tour 

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Stef Clement trained with Luis Angel Maté last winter and Maté (Cofidis rider) told him nobody at Cofidis can eat pork meat, there can be no female massage people etc, all because of Bouhanni and his religion 

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Tristan Hoffman of Bahrain-Merida about why they're still helping Kittel's team to win: "We're going for Sonny Colbrelli all the way."

 

Dude.....Colbrelli is hopelessly out of shape, 6th, 9th, 18th in the sprints, come on. 

 

And 100% sure we'll see the same thing tomorrow: every sprint team riding to bring Kittel to the finish, again. 

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With his 14th stage win Kittel overtakes Erik Zabel as the most successful german rider at the Tour. Him probably winning the green jersey is a big relief, because he has been the best sprinter for a long time and deserved to win it much earlier.

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Stage 11

Wednesday - July 12th, 2017

h. 13:05 (GMT +2)

 

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  Eymet - Pau 

203.5km - Rolling

 

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Meanwhile the boys at Wanty are getting angry, because no other teams seem to be interested at all in at least trying to attack. Team manager Hilaire Vanderschueren is furious, Offredo (who was in the attack today) was furious after the stage. At least their mentality is good. Vanderschueren: "We're trying to make this race at least a bit of fun to watch, but nobody wants to help..."

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Marc Sergeant, manager of Lotto-Soudal: "We'll ride for Greipel again tomorrow, because otherwise we might as well not have brought him." 

 

Today might easily be the most boring stage of all by the way. Yesterday at least there was a ton of quite interesting castles and stuff to see, today it's mostly farmland and a whole lot of nothingness. There's the Notre Dame de Cyclistes which has an interesting historical story (Google for it, especially the part about Luis Ocaña), but that's about it. And then, for the 95496th time, Pau.