Velominati Super Prestige: Le Tour de France Stage 19
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!
punch.
T5 getting pissed at the crowd? Can’t blame him, fucking morons..
Someone’s gonna get knocked over by a moron…
“go fuck yourself, Andy” is the same in Australian as in English.
@Blah
hahahaha
“But Cadel, Frank is reeeeeally tired from sucking your wheel all day yesterday and today.”
Attaque Rolland!!!
Holy Shit!!! Can Cuddles really hang?!?!? We’ll know shortly!!!
He CAN Go!
Rolland looks a lot less cooked than the Spaniards…
Roll em!
Oh my…Rolland has caught Happy Jack!
Hey Cadel. One ramp. Any ramp. Any one you like:
STICK THAT THING IN THE BIG RING, FUCKTARD!
This is awesome!
Go Go Go Cadel!!!
Good bridge to your friend, Sammy.
And Rolland goes! France is going to go mad!
THERE YOU GO!
TT Cadel. Gogogogogo!
Swivel-necking Spaniards! Just fucking ride!
Pierre, Pierre, Pierre
It’s gone from hoping that Cuddles can get back on to hoping that he can drop them!!! Go CUDDLES!!!
That Cadelattack just put another minute into the Maillot Jaune…
GO YOU GOOD THING!!!
ROLLED EM!
Awesome…
Pierre mother fuckin’ Rolland. I picked it!! Finally!!!
Vive la France!
Glad Pierre got to leave TV and show what we’ve suspected. GG
Frandy finish side by side. What a f%@king surprise.
Final kick by Cadel just to stick it up Frandy ‘s arses. Great stage, great stage
Wow, another EPIC stage!! And they’re making such ballsy moves!! I LOVE IT!!
Bianchi Denti takes this VSP. Strong work!
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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.
That was just amazing. Don’t feel bad at all that I haven’t got a lick of work done today.
Also, know there’s some hate for JV, but Garmin-Cervelo has been a lot of fun to watch. Great tour for them.
@frank
Cadel will not attack the tradition. Nor will Andy. Bertie has already enjoyed the Paris procession and won’t attack either.
Grenoble it is…
Been in meetings for the last 3 hours. Did I miss anything?
Both Andy and Frank will start after cuddles. They will have all the checks to aim at. It may be like LeMan and Fignon all over again. Tick. tick. tick. Someone better have the EMTs on hand. Not necessarily for the riders, but for Ligget and Sherwin.
@harminator
Completely agree. They seem to be men of honour (well, not sure about Bertie but he will not be close enough to matter anyways!)
@frank
Frank it was “just racing” to get back on the pedals & get back to the front where he needed to be…granted the situation was much different than last year but guarantee that had that occurred to a certain Leotard Schleck rider, all we’d hear about is how that ruined his tour.
That’s something Cuddles would have reacted exactly the same way to a couple of years ago, hence his initial reputation within the road racing field…difference is he’s grown the stones to deal with it and move beyond it, time will tell whether Andy either has or will.
@frank
Was that Andy doing a pretty reasonable Tommy (post stage 18) impression about 3 metres over the line…fuck his legs must be shot right now!!!!
@frank
The last four days of racing puts the Giro to shame. The racing has been far superior.
@Blah
Seriously, he can sod off. He’s been covering the Tour for the last 15 years & still knows nothing about cycling except that Pharmstrong was pretty successful one upon a time…