Men's Road Cycling UCI Tour de France 2017

[heywoodu 15,152]

Surprise! The flag to signal the start was waved, Backaert (Wanty, of course), Bodnar and Marcato attacked and nobody responded, so they're gone. And surprise! Lotto-Soudal put someone at the front of the peloton to help Quick-Step's Julien Vermote keep control of the lead group, so Lotto-Soudal can help Kittel win again

 

 

[heywoodu 15,152]

Oh, and according to Dylan Groenewegen, Robert Wagner will finally be replaced as lead-out 

 

The news is that Timo Roossen will take his place and do the lead-out today, which is the only rider in the entire train who actually seems to know what he's doing, so that's good. 

[Dunadan 1,103]

Cataldo is out and Fuglsang is in pain after today's fall...bad news for Astana.

[heywoodu 15,152]

Another fall for Degenkolb today, who just yesterday seemed to be in good strength 

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Katusha, Direct Energie, Lotto (both) riding for Kittel against Bodnar.

[heywoodu 15,152]

Well at least Groenewegen is closing in day after day, we might actually have a serious sprinter soon (after Tom Veelers who did a fantastic job replacing Kittel a few years ago)  

[hckošice 14,838]

Stage 12

Thursday - July 13th, 2017

h. 11:10 (GMT +2)

 

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  Pau - Peyragudes 

214.5km - Mountains

 

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[Agger 1,663]

Fuglsang crashed resulting in 2 small fractures. So typical!
Will be interesting to see what he's capable of tomorrow...

[heywoodu 15,152]

Fastest times on the Peyresourde:

 

 

Vino and Mayo 

 

Quite a lot of 'fun' names on there  

 

Edited July 13, 2017 by heywoodu

[Gianlu33 4,579]

Finally again a big stage, whitout a Kittel win