La Vuelta 2017 **SPOILERS**

[400bhp]

Froome's big goal is 5 Tours de France, so he wouldn't jeopardise that next year by doing the Giro.

Froome's or Sky's?

By the way I'm not asking you to answer that, more rhetorical.

 

[User169]

Sigh...

 

[User169]

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Bollocks. Wrong thread. Sorry all..

 

[smutchin]

Bollocks. Wrong thread. Sorry all..

I assumed it was meant to be a pithy comment on... something or other.

 

[Beebo]

Didn't one if the big team owners try to get a million dollar grand slam prize, but to make it fair it required all GC contenders to ride in all 3 races, and no one wanted to do it.
Or did i imagine it?

 

[gavroche]

Congratulations to Contador for winning such a hard stage today. I am always amazed when I see riders going up mountains at high speed and then, within 1 second , they are completely spent and are reduced to crawling. I know how they feel but it must be terrifying for them, knowing they still have miles to go. As for Contador, despite some of his past, he is still a great champion.

 

[sleaver]

Froome's big goal is 5 Tours de France, so he wouldn't jeopardise that next year by doing the Giro.

Or he could show Quintana how it's done Considering it was Quintana who (or Movistar) said before the Giro that he was going for the double and won, erm, neither.

I wonder how long it will be before the Giro organise a route that suits Froome to try and tempt him.

 

[Adam4868]

Didn't one if the big team owners try to get a million dollar grand slam prize, but to make it fair it required all GC contenders to ride in all 3 races, and no one wanted to do it.
Or did i imagine it?

Oleg Tinkof offered it.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Congratulations to Contador for winning such a hard stage today. I am always amazed when I see riders going up mountains at high speed and then, within 1 second , they are completely spent and are reduced to crawling. I know how they feel but it must be terrifying for them, knowing they still have miles to go. As for Contador, despite some of his past, he is still a great champion.

I know they'd ridden a reasonable distance previously, & had already been climbing, but out of curiosity, I timed Contadors last 5K. & I got 21:59
Quite a decent time for a ParkRun...............

 

[Adam4868]

Just watching the highlights and it dawns on me that this might be the last time I see that Alpecin advert on the bus.

Distraught.

Fear not.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0sWvbrT1uo

 

[brommers]

I wonder how long it will be before the Giro organise a route that suits Froome to try and tempt him.

In what way don't the routes suits Froome?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Congratulations to Contador for winning such a hard stage today. I am always amazed when I see riders going up mountains at high speed and then, within 1 second , they are completely spent and are reduced to crawling. I know how they feel but it must be terrifying for them, knowing they still have miles to go. As for Contador, despite some of his past, he is still a great champion.

He's a great big doping nobber. I still like him in a "look at this clown, he doped to f*ck, trying to convince everyone he didn't" kind of way.

 

[SWSteve]

I know they'd ridden a reasonable distance previously, & had already been climbing, but out of curiosity, I timed Contadors last 5K. & I got 21:59
Quite a decent time for a ParkRun...............

My PB is 1:39 ahead so im better than him, right?

 

[sleaver]

In what way don't the routes suits Froome?

I was going to say the ITT but then the The Tour this year didn't have as many ITT km's as in the past.

I rever you back to my earlier disclaimer about possibly not knowing what I am on about

 

[rich p]

Just watching the highlights and it dawns on me that this might be the last time I see that Alpecin advert on the bus.

Distraught.

I recorded the stage and watched it on intermittent fast forward.
At times, I was in a dilemma as to whether to FF the Alpecin advert or that utter farking dahlia daffodil Carlton farking Kirby.