Pezcyclingnews: Lee’s Tour Lowdown: Pyrenean Pondering!

The second week and the Pyrenees are nearly behind us, so Lee Rodgers has taken his microscope to the last few day’s of the Tour and the domination of Mr. Froome and his ‘super team’ of Sky men. Shocking, surprising and unbelievable are all words we have heard and used these last two days. Here is the lowdown. Im a liiiiiittle surprised at how strong they were, said Greg Lemond after Stage 10, and he wasnt talking about the mojitos from the night previous. No, Mr. Lemond was in fact marveling at the almighty performances just put in by three men in Team Sky kit on the days stage, the same performances that prompted Mr. Unshockable, aka Sean Kelly, to exclaim Im in shock! With Chris Froome spinning his poor cranks about at what was estimated to be 115 rpm at times in the closing kilometers and slaying all hope at this years Tour for anything even resembling a race, Richie Porte drilling it like a GC contender himself to drop Nairo Quintana, and Geraint Thomas similarly smoking a mean trail to take 6th on the stage, it was all just a little overwhelming even for these hard men who have seen it all and got the palmars to prove it.Those poor cranks!Twitter was on fire throughout the closing kilometers with all manner of kind and charitable things being tweeted about Skys dominance, or, well, rather the opposite really. It was nasty in there. So nasty in fact that even...

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