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'Had' is the key word in what you say. Hindsight is a wonderful thing especially in cycling and the truth is we don't know what would have happened if movistar attacked more earlier.

Time wise perhaps, but that ignores everything that happened afterwards. Who knows the result had that stage not occurred? Froome may have won by more Quintana by less.

Froome takes the polka dot jersey too.

Froome looking safe...

Froome must be having a bad day...

Nibali :lol:

Thomas wont win a stage, the best he will get is enough time to get on the podium, if Valverde cracks; but Contador is only a few seconds behind Thomas...

The closest completion is that for the polka dot jersey; Rodriguez and Bardet tied (68 points) with Fuglsang and Froome just behind (64 and 61 respectively). You would suspect with Rodriguez and Fuglsang so far down the GC they would be given more room to get in a break over Bardet at 12 mins...

My point is that there was a whole host of reasons that led to Thomas coming a cropper: Nibali attacking and putting the pressure on an infamous descent, knowing that it would force a chase behind. TvG changing line, possible because Gesink broke unexpectedly, maybe because he was under...

He attacked on the way up with the intention of using his descending skills to gain time, irresponsible. He knows the others are weaker than him at descending, including both the yellow and white jerseys, yet he was trying to gain time on them on a dangerous descent. He isn't respecting the...

Barguil wasn’t descending like a madman, well at least no madder than the rest, and he wasn’t looking to attack! Blame Nibali too, he should have respected the jerseys and not attacked in an irresponsible manner on a ‘dangerous’ descent where the most he could gain, barring no accidents, was a...

He wasn’t to blame, in the sense he wasn’t responsible; the race was to blame.

I don’t get all the hate towards Barguil! In truth it was a racing incident, a result of 10+ guys bombing down a mountain after several hours racing some of whom are better descending than others. If you want to apportion blame I’d start with TvG changing his line to take the inside line around...

To me itlooks like TvG is about to go on the inside of Gesink?

Looks like TvG moves to the right not appreciating Barguil is there forcing Barguil off line forcing him to crash into Thomas.

Wow some ride to only lose a handful of seconds after that fall! Can't really blame Barguil either IMO, did look like poor form by TvG though.

It's very difficult to prove a negative. Froome says he will release his data, which Sky aren't too happy about apparently. Trouble is some will still accuse them/him of cheating even if the data doesn't directly infer cheating.

Sagan for today?

I don't think anyone believes they can beat Froome, they are racing for second.

Well baring accident Froome will walk this race from now on. Nibali's form isn't there and Contador is cooked from the Giro and hasn't been the same since his ban anyway. Quintana is good but not good enough. The rest of this race will be for second.