After such an epic and, frankly, shocking (as in stunning, stupendifying and surprising) stage to the Galibier last night, it’s going to take more than a few hours to recover and get back on track for tonight’s VSP stage to the mythical L’Alpe d’Huez.
I think the semantics of Stage 18 have been covered brilliantly by the Community here, and there’s nothing left for me to say about it except, wow.
So without further ado, and with the maximum time for you to get your tips in, we present the VSP for Stage 19, the Queen of the climbs, L’Alpe d’Huez. Sit back and enjoy the spectacle, because if you though that was good, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
You know the drill. Good luck!
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Great racing. Loving this tour.
Mike Tomalaris just came in his pants (ditzy know-nothing Aussie TV guy).
And Grimplette thought yesterday was going to have to be the ride of his life. Bring on Grenoble!
Rolland just explained how to win on d'Huez: put it in the big ring and go a bloc for the last kilometre. Simple, really ...
@Mikeweb
A glance at those finish line photos and I don't think anyone can deny they fucking did everything they could. Every fucking one of 'em.
Fuck, what an amazing race. The organizers really got a good route together this time. This is Giro Epic.
It's Rouleund, actually.
@marko
No shit. Its leaning towards Cuddles, but never discount the motivation of having the MJ on your shoulders!
Grenoble. Now we will see. If the gap is less than 10s after that, will there we a GC race into Paris? Double. Dog. dare.
CN reported that TV sprinted to the line. Yeah, sprinted. Not MJ doing it...that's just rule 5 for you. Wow.
@frank
And we don't know how deep Cadel went on the last 2 days.
@Eightzero
Every bone in my body says they'll respect the tradition, but who know at this point.
WHAT.A.TOUR.