rare blood diseases, testicular cancer... pro cycling is a health care miracle worker! when are they going to get to work on the common cold?
a few right now, more later... a dutch-american obviously wants dutch and americans... but first, VOECKLER! the close up was all blurry because my little camera takes too long to refocus. this was the last rider i tried to take 2 pics of. westra TJ: dutch AND american
i'll have to finish later. my wife has a twisted idea that this is not the best thing i could be doing with my time.
instead of posting a lot of pics here i'll just give a link to my gallery which i made public. it's got all the dutch, aussies, kiwis and americans, and most of the other big names i got decent shots of.
much much etter in the TT too, especially since tejay got a much better start time. until about noon a fresh light wing blows down the rivers in lyon, but by 2pm, it starts to blow up from the south and you're not much protected either on the quais or in cours charlemagne. especially when the temps rise, and at the end it was in the 90's. we had pretty much figured jungels had to have won since he passed the rider in front of him right as he was coming up to us, something no one else did, and the last entrants we pretty much counted out, the difference in conditions was so great. but contador edged out jengels, and froome blew away everyone... and wins again today, as you say. tomorrow too, i guess.
Contador has overtaken Froome for the leader's jersey Today, for some strange reason, they allowed the (huge) break to include Talansky. They did manage to get a few Sky riders into the break, but looks they finally realize the error of their ways. Haha
Talansky bursts into tears on learning the news. It looked as though he had cracked in the final kilometre, but the Garmin-Sharp man buried himself in the finishing straight to come home just 7 seconds down on Nieve. Contador, meanwhile, appeared to pay for his earlier flourish on the final ramps and actually lost time to Talansky in the closing mile or so.
Looks like @andrewtalansky is turning the Dauphine on end this AM. Love that. Kid has balls the size of grapefruit grown in Chernobyl.— Jonathan Vaughters (@Vaughters) June 15, 2014
1 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin-Sharp 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 00:00:27 3 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto-Belisol 00:00:35 4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Belkin 00:00:43 5 Romain Bardet (Fra) Ag2r-La Mondiale 00:01:20 6 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-GreenEdge 00:02:05
18:00:59 CEST Froome crossed the line with teammate David Lopez in 20th place overall, 5:05 down on Nieve. The Briton closes the Dauphine in 12th place overall, having been dealt a considerable blow by Contador ahead of the Tour de France.
I wonder if Froome gave up to conserve energy for the Tour once he realized he couldn't win. And I wonder if Sky regrets pushing Wiggo out of the Tour.
I'm sure Froome kind of sat up. I'm sure if he were closer, he would have pushed more. He had smoking form all week. The two big talking points for me are 1) why the hell did they let Talansky go with the breakaway? They did realize the error of their ways, but that was shocking. 2) Contador did most of the stage by himself, whereas Froome was not only surrounded by teammates, there were a couple in the breakaway. At least an in form Contador can shake up the TDF a bit. I really want to watch this stage again.
Still, though. I can't imagine Froome would want to lose that much time. I think he's dug himself into a bit of a hole here.