Stage 10 thoughts:
- Gee, who would have predicted Valverde having an awful day in the mountains and falling out of contention.
- Evans crash on Sunday may have had an effect but he looked very beatable on Hautacam. He reminds me a lot of Leipheimer in the sense that really quick accelerations put him trouble. Often, he paces himself back up, and will make an occasional surge himself. But, as I watched today, he seemed defenseless as guys kept surging. Evans gets a good deal of criticism for being a wheel sucker. Sometimes, the criticism is warranted. Not so at other times. He was forced work today but that big black 1 stuck to his jersey seemed like a figurative anchor as others seemed to play off his favored status. He often seemed to be looking around for help and found it lacking. He grabbed the yellow jersey by one second but the race is wide open right now. Evans' saving grace is his ability to time trial better than most of those chasing him.
- Yaroslav Popovych has been disappointing in support of Evans. He was gone early on the Tourmalet and is hardly performing like the star domestique that he was hired to be.
- Speaking of disappointing, what is up with Haimar Zubeldia?
- Vande Velde is having a heck of a race.
- Good move by Cobo letting Piepoli take the win
- Gee, who would have predicted Valverde having an awful day in the mountains and falling out of contention.
- Evans crash on Sunday may have had an effect but he looked very beatable on Hautacam. He reminds me a lot of Leipheimer in the sense that really quick accelerations put him trouble. Often, he paces himself back up, and will make an occasional surge himself. But, as I watched today, he seemed defenseless as guys kept surging. Evans gets a good deal of criticism for being a wheel sucker. Sometimes, the criticism is warranted. Not so at other times. He was forced work today but that big black 1 stuck to his jersey seemed like a figurative anchor as others seemed to play off his favored status. He often seemed to be looking around for help and found it lacking. He grabbed the yellow jersey by one second but the race is wide open right now. Evans' saving grace is his ability to time trial better than most of those chasing him.
- Yaroslav Popovych has been disappointing in support of Evans. He was gone early on the Tourmalet and is hardly performing like the star domestique that he was hired to be.
- Speaking of disappointing, what is up with Haimar Zubeldia?
- Vande Velde is having a heck of a race.
- Good move by Cobo letting Piepoli take the win
3 Comments:
Pipo looked like he was taking the win whether Cobo was going to 'let' him or not - that win gave him the Grand Tour hat trick!
Hmm... now it looks like his 'hat trick' will be forever tainted!
The biggest shame re: Popo is that while Horner is giving some schlub a lift to the finish of the Cascade Classic, he should have been riding in support of Evans and getting paid properly to do so.
They picked up Popo instead (and for so much more than Horner could have wanted) and look where it got them!
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