Tag Archives: tactics
TDF Stage 19: Fireworks on Final Mountain Stage Set Up Dramatic Stakes for Tomorrow’s Time Trial
By Chris Carmichael When going uphill is what you do best, you have to focus your efforts on building a lead – or making up time – before the Tour de France leaves the mountains. Stage 19 was the final … Continue reading
TDF Stage 18: Audacious Tactics Finally Start Fracturing Pack of Yellow Jersey Contenders
By Chris Carmichael Fortune favors the bold, and Stage 18 of the Tour de France was the perfect setting for bold moves. At 200 kilometers in length, featuring three “beyond category” climbs, and finishing at the high-altitude summit of the … Continue reading
TDF Stage 16: Perfect Storm Transforms a Transitional Stage Into a Barnburner
By Chris Carmichael As soon as the Tour de France route is announced, riders and teams start plotting and planning. They examine the balance of the challenges – mountains vs. time trials vs. long windy stages, etc. – and that … Continue reading
TDF Stage 14: Inconclusive Results Don’t Do Justice to Today’s Great Action
By Chris Carmichael The climb up to Plateau de Beille is really difficult. By itself it’s as hard or harder than Luz-Ardiden, and when it’s preceded by 5 other big climbs in the Pyrenees, it transforms into a brutal ascent. … Continue reading
TDF Stage 10: Textbook Racing Strategies Yield Big Dividends for Omega Pharma-Lotto
By Chris Carmichael Stage 10 of the 2011 Tour de France is what’s typically referred to as a “transition” stage. The race has to move around the whole of France, using a combination of stages and transfers on team busses … Continue reading
