L.V. : On Tuesday’s stage two. Chris Froome is again at what he showed on the Tour 2013. Obviously it is very, very, very strong. But if the differences are as important, it is also because his opponents are not at the expected level. Nibali dropped more than 10 kilometers from the summit. Froome Froome or not, he is not on this tour. By the time the yellow jersey up his attack, there is more than Quintana with it. The rest have all dropped to the train. Contador Look: it’s not as if he had finished second in the stage 3 minutes Froome. No, he finished in 3 minutes, but in 11th place, behind, for example, Geraint Thomas and Tony Gallopin.
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L.V. : It would be nice style. The both of them will not run for the 4th or 9th place. They do not care. So they certainly try something. If they have to do in the Pyrenees, it’s probably more Wednesday Thursday profile lends itself more. But will they? If you do not have legs, no forces, attacking temperament is not enough and attack at 80 kilometers to go if you are picking is guaranteed to make a big soup upon arrival. In short, be offensive does not mean do anything.
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L.V. : It is simply confirmation that Nibali as Péraud and Pinot, were able to take advantage of favorable circumstances. This is not a revelation. Withdrawals of Froome and Contador and lack of Quintana had opened the door. Nibali was very strong, and we will never know if he would have won a Tour with everyone. What one sees these days can not but incite meet Nibali is much less than last year, regardless of adversity. The absent are wrong. To win a race, you must already go after. There, the problem of Nibali is that it is clearly not at the level required to win the Tour. Regardless competition.
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L.V. : For the final victory, yes, no doubt. But something told me it was not the question. The winner in cycling, has become almost “naturally” suspect. Froome today is somehow presumed guilty in the eyes of public opinion and of many observers. This is the price of 20 years of lies (at least) in the world of cycling.
Froome was beautiful scream “I am innocent” would require that he can prove that everyone wants to believe in his good faith. It is anyway loser in the case. Although it is really clean, because nobody believes wins. So it is doped. Everyone has the right to have doubts over Froome, but honestly, not especially in light of Tuesday’s stage. He put a minute Quintana in just over six kilometers, not extravagant. And he stuck 4’25 “on Nibali is, again, more due to the weakness of the Italian at an extraordinary number of Froome. I’m more amazed door drop Quintana, by example.
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L.V. : Not necessarily. At least not right away. Quintana is 3 minutes, this is not an insurmountable gap, even if it is a lot. Anyway, still not enough to do anything. It would be wrong to engage in offensive too adventurous from the Pyrenees, at the risk of losing everything. With bonuses on arrival, if he can let go Froome pedal two or three times in the final climbs, it might suffice. But what we saw on Tuesday, it does not take the way. I still think Quintana will wait for the Alps play a trump card ultra risky.
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