2008 Tour de France Stage 16 - Tuesday, July 22: Cuneo - Jausiers, 157 km

[adamastor]

grater siutsou wont be in a break away, columbia wont be aggressive.

oooops, wrong answer!

 

[Tyke1968]

What are the chances of Schumacher staying out there on his own for the stage win?

 

[Scotttri]

What are the chances of Schumacher staying out there on his own for the stage win?

Fair chance i'd say. He's a good climber and he's 22 minutes down on the GC guys, so they wont be to concerned

 

[whiteboytrash]

Fair chance i'd say. He's a good climber and he's 22 minutes down on the GC guys, so they wont be to concerned

well he can win and take the dope test out of the way.... now just to dodge the random tests.

 

[TheDarkLord]

Coyot (Caisse) has crashed. Tire was completely ripped off! He looks to be in pain.

 

[b1_]

Here we go up the mountain of death!

GO CADEL. Crash and burn Stuart O'Grady grrrrr.

 

[Capt.Injury]

I think its really dangerous right now with Monfort and Cunego in a 31 group breakaway group. RIght now, they have 7 minutes on the peleton, which means both of them are now within a minute of the yellow jersey, and they both have 2 or 3 teammates in the move with them. So they can drive the pace, THis could be a very dangerous group. Forgetting Landis getting DQ, this is starting to have shades of that day back in 2006 where the other teams didn't chase down Landis till its too late.

In fact, as Cunego's group hit the bottom, they have 8 minutes on the peleton, meaning Cunego is right now the virtual yellow jersey

 

[TheDarkLord]

The yellow jersey group better start chasing the Cunego group now if they don't want to let Cunego come up the GC rankings. The Cunego group has about 7 minutes over the yellow jersey group.

 

[whiteboytrash]

Coyot (Caisse) has crashed.

Unfortunate name.

 

[b1_]

Stuart O'Grady thinks the decent of this climb will be more important than the ascent. Could be.

 

[whiteboytrash]

Anyone have thoughts on how Sylvester Szmyd will go today ?

 

[Tyke1968]

People are dropping from the peloton like political dissidents from a brutal regime as the CSC team get serious. Cunego, up ahead, is hunting Schumacher down like a Terminator, too. This could get interesting.

Copied from Guardian.

 

[b1_]

People are dropping from the peloton like political dissidents from a brutal regime

lol. Someone's a frustrated novelist.

 

[TheDarkLord]

Pozzato was driving the pace in the yellow jersey group for a while. Why? I think Cancellara has been dropped.

The Cunego group still has an over 7 minute gap over the yellow jersey group, and are 2:30 behind potato head. I think there is a fair chance that they will catch Schumacher. Whether the yellow jersey group can catch the Cunego group is another question.

 

[b1_]

CSC will power the yellow group back to the breakaway. Schumacher doesn't look invincible to me. The big breakaway group is there to aid the main players in the yellow group.

 

[TheDarkLord]

Schumacher is holding his own over the Cunego group. His lead is still around 2:30. OTOH, the yellow jersey group is gaining on the Cunego group pretty fast, with the current gap around 5:40. Interesting!

 

[b1_]

Bye bye Cunego.

edit: Ha, popovich kicking ****.

 

[TheDarkLord]

By bye Cunego.

The gradient steepened big time at that hairpin bend, and off goes Cunego!

Popovych is doing quite well.

 

[serpico7]

Popo sure seems to be spending a lot of time at the front of the chase group. If he really wanted to be ready to help Cadel, shouldn't he conserving energy for when the yellow jersey group catches up?

 

[TheDarkLord]

Schumacher looks like he will be caught soon. He has only a 50 sec lead over the first chase group.

Arvesen has dropped back to the yellow jersey group and is pulling now.