Critérium du Dauphiné 2017 **Spoilers**

[Pro Tour Punditry]

If he goes and creams the Tour, the Clinic (and others) will be apopleptic!

It would be worth seeing

Not in your TdeF fantasy team, then?

I reckon you should have him in yours, just to prove me wrong

 

[400bhp]

Observation mode.

Porte dragged Froome up the final climb today. I think Froome is too much inside Porte's head. Porte should have been sitting on Froome's wheel. He did not need to pull level with Aru. It's a bit like when you have a stong mate who you know can out climb you, yet you're on a good day and he's not and you can't quite believe that you are faster.

I think and hope that Porte banished those demons today by catching and riding away from Froome.

Superb performance even though he didn't win.

 

[smutchin]

So we've not seen Froome so out of form so close to the Tour before. What chance? Is he taking a more focused build up or is he losing his top end.

I don't think he's lost it but what I have thought all season is that his head hasn't been right. But I was reserving judgment until we saw how he did in the Dauphiné, which has always been the race where he hits peak form in the past. And now we have seen it, I'm convinced he's not a happy bunny.

Rumours are starting to do the rounds that he's leaving Sky and I wouldn't be at all surprised. What would surprise me is if the rumours are true that he's going to BMC - wonder how Porte would feel about that, obviously they are BFFs but would it mean Porte moving back down the pecking order again?

Like Dumoulin winning the Giro, I also feel that a rider like Fuglsang winning the Dauphiné is another sign that the racing is becoming more "human".

 

[Adam4868]

Froomey not lost it,still a class rider.Theres no way he'd go to any team to play second fiddle I don't think we should right him off yet.Just because we're so used to him winning.He will come good for the tour.
The power of positive thinking !

 

[mjr]

Like Dumoulin winning the Giro, I also feel that a rider like Fuglsang winning the Dauphiné is another sign that the racing is becoming more "human".

I would, but Astana.

 

[dragon72]

Is this race result confirmation that Albert Accountant is now just that guy who used to win GTs?

 

[smutchin]

Is this race result confirmation that Albert Accountant is now just that guy who used to win GTs?

He's probably done with the Tour but don't write him off just yet - in another year or two he'll have reached peak age for winning the Vuelta instead.

 

[mjr]

Is this race result confirmation that Albert Accountant is now just that guy who used to win GTs?

I'm sure that itv reported Bertie held a press conference claiming that Trek had told him not to attack at the Dauphiné in order to save himself for the Tour, but I didn't find much reporting of it online so I may have fallen asleep

 

[Adam4868]

I'm sure that itv reported Bertie held a press conference claiming that Trek had told him not to attack at the Dauphiné in order to save himself for the Tour, but I didn't find much reporting of it online so I may have fallen asleep

You did,I saw it on the highlights last night.Really.......cant be arsed I'll save myself for the tour

 

[roadrash]

Is this race result confirmation that Albert Accountant is now just that guy who used to win GTs?

Albert Accountant.... I like that , is that auto-correct at its best

 

[mjr]

Albert Accountant.... I like that , is that auto-correct at its best

It's a literal translation of his name.

 

[themosquitoking]

It's a literal translation of his name.

El Contador was one of the best Archer episodes.