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Vedder said:
Chris Horner won't be sleeping well tonite with the news of cobo
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To be fair, I'm not sure Chris Horner sleeps at night in the first place

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Wout van Aert showing some serious class in the Dauphine - winning the time trial and a sprint finish for the stage win. Cyclocross is indeed the true steel. Unlike MvdP who is all in for the mountain biking in next year's olympic games, WvA will ride the TdF this summer. Already talk of him contesting the points jersey which he is sensibly down-playing for his first GT, but you'd bet the farm on him taking at least a stage win.
 

Bruce Wayne said:
Reading that Froome lost three litres of blood, and has fractured or broke all manner of things. Very nasty. It seems he was fortunate that he crashed very close to a race ambulance, as that must have ensured he had quicker treatment than might otherwise have been the case.
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Ironical that after such a career threatening injury (and possibly far worse than that), he stands to be awarded his 7th grand tour title after it emerged that Juan Jose Cobo, winner of the 2011 Vuelta a Espana, had been disqualified for doping.

Froome, who was second in that race, is likely to be awarded the title unless Cobo successfully appeals against “a three-year period of ineligibility” imposed on him by cycling’s world governing body.

If he is awarded the 2011 Vuelta title, Froome would not only have won his seventh grand tour, he would replace Sir Bradley Wiggins as the first British man to win a grand tour, since his Vuelta victory would predate Wiggins’s 2012 Tour de France triumph.

All this of course will be nothing to him now as he possibly faces up to a far harder battle to win, recovering from such a horrific crash is all that really matters.
 
spectateur said:
Sagen is back. After a quiet start to the season he's storming the tour de Suisse. The big races need racer like that.
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It's a bit weird at the moment with Froome out. Porte, Bardet and Quintana were all well off the pace in the Dauphine, with Dumoulin even further back. Hard to see Fuglsang sustaining things for 3 weeks, and it's hard to see Nibali backing up from the Giro. There's a big chance for someone to take the Tour with Froome out and yet everyone is in rubbish form. When Ineos' 3rd choice GC rider puts over a minute into Porte et al in the main warm up race it doesn't bode well for a competitive Tour.
 

Bruce Wayne said:
It's a bit weird at the moment with Froome out. Porte, Bardet and Quintana were all well off the pace in the Dauphine, with Dumoulin even further back. Hard to see Fuglsang sustaining things for 3 weeks, and it's hard to see Nibali backing up from the Giro. There's a big chance for someone to take the Tour with Froome out and yet everyone is in rubbish form. When Ineos' 3rd choice GC rider puts over a minute into Porte et al in the main warm up race it doesn't bode well for a competitive Tour.
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Well there's a couple of weeks yet. Doesn't seem anybody likely to peak too soon ala Yates in the Giro.
 
spectateur said:
Well there's a couple of weeks yet. Doesn't seem anybody likely to peak too soon ala Yates in the Giro.
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It's become pretty common for the winner of the Dauphine to win the Tour, so it's become a pretty good marker for form. Just not sure where Quintana, Porte, Bardet et al are going to see improvements. Even Dumoulin was well off in the TT.
 

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