Tour, Stage 18: Quick Change at a Bad Time

 Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) is having a great Tour despite his near daily need of a bike change when the race is at its most decisive.  Today it was the gravel section across the final climbs plateau that puncture his front tire.  He manged to keep racing on the flat while both calling for his team car and staying with his group on the gravel road.  His bike change was swift and he was able to catch up on the decent to finish with his GC rivals.  I do enjoy seeing the cowboy bandit scarf method of a mask that Porte's mechanic is employing.

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Tour, Stage 18: Alone Together

 It was the Ineos-Grenadiers guys, Michal Kwiatkowski and Richard Carapaz, who were the first to hit the gravel section on the top of the Montee du plateau de Glieres.  The announcers on NBC Sports were equating this stretch of road to Paris Roubaix, but it is more clearly a mini Strade Bianchi.  Perhaps Phil Liggett didn't want to draw attention to a race that NBC doesn't broadcast.  

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Tour, Stage 18: It Doesn't Get Any Easier

 There is an adage in cycling that seems to be attributed to Greg Lemond the only American to win the Tour that has not had is victories expunged for doping.  He is quoted as saying that riding never gets easier, you just get faster.  This was the opposite for this quartet on the lower slopes of the Montee du plateau des Glieres.  Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) was drifted back through the peloton having once been in the break away.  He is now hoping to latch on to the EF Cycling trio of their leader, Rigoberto Uran and his domestiques Daniel Felipe Martinez and Hugh Carthy.  It may not be fair to call Martinez a domestique, after all he has won a mountain top finish stage in this year's Tour.

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Tour, Stage 10: Right Back in the Action

As the lead men road past the screaming French cycling fans, it was their countryman, Julian Alaphilippe (Quickstep) who was going to be first over the Montee du plateau des Glieres.  Now the Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ) had dropped off the pace, it was Alaphilippe who took over the virtual Maillot a Pois of the King of the Mountains.  The French are still looking for their first stage win of the Tour and it is beginning to look like Alaphilippe might be able to give it to them.  It has been since the 1980's since a Frenchman has won their home tour in Paris, and it doesn't look like that is going to change this year either.  Though if Alaphilippe is able to keep riding like he did today, there could be an upset in the making.

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