TdF stage 7 *spoiler*

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited July 2010 in Pro race
Getting underway in a bit.

Weather is a bit cooler but with a risk of thunderstorms for the finish.

Radioshack are thought to be planning something to try and get back in the game. Vaughters fancies Thomas for the yellow.

Let's hope they RACE this mofo!
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    iainf72 wrote:
    Getting underway in a bit.

    Weather is a bit cooler but with a risk of thunderstorms for the finish.

    Radioshack are thought to be planning something to try and get back in the game. Vaughters fancies Thomas for the yellow.

    Let's hope they RACE this mofo!
    Keen arn't you.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Harmon says final climb tough at the start. 3km downhill to the finish.

    I shall only watch the last hour of the stage and spend the rest of the time painting the porch door. I know how to roll!
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    A break is away: Pineau, Knees, Hondo, Dumoulin, Perez Moreno. Doesn't seem like a group built to last to me.

    PS Come on Geraint!
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  • Monty Zoncolan
    Monty Zoncolan Posts: 341
    Would love to see Geraint get those 20 secs on Fabian.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Catching up on chase play.
    Amazingly, 1st attack of the day sticks again.
    What is going on, this year?
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    iainf72 wrote:
    Harmon says final climb tough at the start. 3km downhill to the finish.

    I shall only watch the last hour of the stage and spend the rest of the time painting the porch door. I know how to roll!


    Crap. Should have picked Double L instead of the wee Irish Prince
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    iainf72 wrote:
    Harmon says final climb tough at the start. 3km downhill to the finish.

    Looking at the Official Website, it's not downhill, it's flat for the last 3km (in fact it rises 15m)
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Haha! Kloden yawning.
    I guess he didn't get such a good night's sleep in that lovely bed he had! :lol:
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    8 and a half minutes for the break. Could stick. Saxo doing a token job of pegging the gap, but it keeps creeping out.
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    stick? not with the climbs ahead, even if they aren't huge.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Scrumple wrote:
    stick? not with the climbs ahead, even if they aren't huge.

    Depends if the GC guys want to race or just wait. Right now Bouygues Telecom are chasing, which probably says a lot about the intent of the GC riders.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Vaughters on Twitter is really bigging up Geraint Thomas lately.

    Thomas to Garmin next year!
  • phil s
    phil s Posts: 1,128
    It's not a downhill finish. There's a small section of downhill but it's more or less 2.5km of false flat/drag to the finish line. Tarmac is melting here.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Catching up on chase play.
    Amazingly, 1st attack of the day sticks again.
    What is going on, this year?

    not enough preparation

    on an aside have i missed anything?
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  • Abdoujaparov
    Abdoujaparov Posts: 642
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Catching up on chase play.
    Amazingly, 1st attack of the day sticks again.
    What is going on, this year?

    not enough preparation

    on an aside have i missed anything?

    Nice scenery. That's about it.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Cavendropped.
    BBox have the bit between the teeth.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Cav feeling the heat. Dropped with 63 km to go.

    When was the last time we had a properly hot TDF? 2003?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    afx237vi wrote:
    Cav feeling the heat. Dropped with 63 km to go.

    When was the last time we had a properly hot TDF? 2003?

    2006 was quite sweaty, but a 2003 repeat would add to Armstrong's annus horribilus.
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  • phil s
    phil s Posts: 1,128
    2009 was pretty hot.

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  • Orleandrew
    Orleandrew Posts: 61
    "When you fall out the bed it's difficult to get a good night's sleep"

    Great, thanks for that Sean.
  • The Kennington Kaiser
    The Kennington Kaiser Posts: 406
    Orleandrew wrote:
    "When you fall out the bed it's difficult to get a good night's sleep"

    Great, thanks for that Sean.

    Hey, he just made up for it with his anecdote about fighting Eric Vandaeraden while they were sprinting for the line at 60kph. "That's how real men do it"
  • Snorebens
    Snorebens Posts: 759
    Who are BBox burying themselves for? Can't see these 5 having much left at the end in this heat....
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Snorebens wrote:
    Who are BBox burying themselves for? Can't see these 5 having much left at the end in this heat....

    Voeckler or Fedrigo, both good bets to get away on the final climb for the stage win.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    BBox blow Boom.
    Nice wood. :wink:
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    WTF has Voeckler got around his neck?
  • Snorebens
    Snorebens Posts: 759
    Ah ok - two on their way. Not sure who's with Voeckler? Lloyd is there
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Cancellara dropped.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Snorebens wrote:
    Ah ok - two on their way. Not sure who's with Voeckler? Lloyd is there

    Cyril Gautier and Mathieu Perget.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Coming back. Mechanical?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Orleandrew
    Orleandrew Posts: 61
    The Kennington Kaiser wrote:
    Orleandrew wrote:
    "When you fall out the bed it's difficult to get a good night's sleep"

    Great, thanks for that Sean.

    Hey, he just made up for it with his anecdote about fighting Eric Vandaeraden while they were sprinting for the line at 60kph. "That's how real men do it"

    Ha ha, yeah fair point.

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