TdF Stage 10 *Spoiler*

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited July 2010 in Pro race
They're off!

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Voeckler at the front of the bunch waiting for the flag to drop.
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Go Tommy!!
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Interestig stage this - at first sight an ordinary hilly transition stage, but the Cote de Laffrey is very tough and steep - 7km at no less than 9% average. Not yet the Mortirolo, but too steep to ride up piano piano as a sleepy peloton. Too far from the finish for any of the favorites, but perhaps a place for an outsider to try something, or otherwise interesting to see who of the sprinters manages to stick in the bunch...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Last km:
    PROFILKMS.gif

    Bastille Day today so obviously the French will be very active.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Petacchi wins the sprint, Hushovd second, McEwen third. Cav didn't contest it.
  • Abdoujaparov
    Abdoujaparov Posts: 642
    Haven't seen much of Gerdemann last couple of days, and he can descend well. Could be one for him...
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Love it when Harmon says the peloton are "strung out". Huh huh.
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,223
    Splitting to pieces - if the favourites aren't careful they could end up working very hard today. Wonder what's up with Cummings, don't very often see him hanging on the back but he's been there for the whole stage so far.
  • fastercyclist
    fastercyclist Posts: 396
    The first mountain looks unreal. Big GC boys to escape from the rest at this point?

    More post-race interviews with Wiggins now aiming for a top 50 placing in the GC? :lol:
    The British Empire never died, it just moved to the Velodrome
  • pomtarr
    pomtarr Posts: 318
    I'm not in front of ES at the moment - has Cadel started this stage or abandoned?
    "Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult"
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    AFAIK he hasn't abandoned.
    I like bikes...

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Hi pomtarr, Evans is still in the race.

    Four men up the road but, sacre bleu, no French riders. Could be a lively stage.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    edited July 2010
    Will Popo pack? Seems to be a headwind. Finally we have a selection of 4.
    No Frenchy! :shock:
    B Box and Ag2r haven't quit just yet................
    Lance trying to "neutralise" the stage already! :lol:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    A break of four has been let go.

    Mario Aerts (Omega Pharma-Lotto)
    Dries Devenyns (QuickStep)
    Sergio Paolinho (RadioShack)
    Vasili Kiryienka (Caisse d'Epargne)

    A few French riders / treams looked to try and bridge up but were shut down by Saxo, Caisse & Radioshack. A few unhappy Frenchmen
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    It's only 25 km to the foot of the Laffrey - if the breakaway does not have more than a couple of minutes advantage a good opportunity for decent (French ;) ) climbers to bridge the gap
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    So, Lance "bosses" the French to neutralise the Bastille Day stage?
    I feel more Gallic love coming Armstrong's way.
    Their commentators are not happy with The Red Rabble.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • pomtarr
    pomtarr Posts: 318
    Kléber wrote:
    Hi pomtarr, Evans is still in the race.
    Cheers K. Awesome - he is one gutsy f*cker.
    "Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult"
  • fastercyclist
    fastercyclist Posts: 396
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    So, Lance "bosses" the French to neutralise the Bastille Day stage?
    I feel more Gallic love coming Armstrong's way.
    Their commentators are not happy with The Red Rabble.

    He's doing what?

    What source are you using?

    I find it hard to believe any cyclists with a spine caring what Armstrong has to say any more?
    The British Empire never died, it just moved to the Velodrome
  • kozzo
    kozzo Posts: 182
    Two French riders trying to bridge (BOUET and ROLLAND)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,813
    the shack and caisse eyeing the team GC in paris
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    fastercyclist wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    So, Lance "bosses" the French to neutralise the Bastille Day stage?
    I feel more Gallic love coming Armstrong's way.
    Their commentators are not happy with The Red Rabble.

    He's doing what?

    What source are you using?

    I find it hard to believe any cyclists with a spine caring what Armstrong has to say any more?

    Rather than me paint you a picture. Have a read here:
    http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread ... 739&page=8
    Tells you what happened.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    You mean this bit?


    "Radioshack was just neutralizing the breakaway, cause Paulinho are in the lead group."

    "+1.... People need to calm down about Armstrong, seriously."
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  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    fastercyclist wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    So, Lance "bosses" the French to neutralise the Bastille Day stage?
    I feel more Gallic love coming Armstrong's way.
    Their commentators are not happy with The Red Rabble.

    He's doing what?

    What source are you using?

    I find it hard to believe any cyclists with a spine caring what Armstrong has to say any more?

    Rather than me paint you a picture. Have a read here:
    http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread ... 739&page=8
    Tells you what happened.

    Since you know all about this, what exactly DID they say to each other?
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    DaveyL wrote:

    "+1.... People need to calm down about Armstrong, seriously."

    +2....

    and +3......

    and +4......
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    It's good to know Robbie Hunter is just as angry in real life as he is on Twitter. "YOU F**KING IDIOT."

    Indeed.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    DaveyL wrote:
    You mean this bit?


    "Radioshack was just neutralizing the breakaway, cause Paulinho are in the lead group."

    "+1.... People need to calm down about Armstrong, seriously."


    No, that can't be right. Although, RS (and CdE) were doing the same thing teams do every day, there must be some giant plot behind it.

    Cycling News Forum - by and large, the home of paranoid idiots.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    afx237vi wrote:
    It's good to know Robbie Hunter is just as angry in real life as he is on Twitter. "YOU F**KING IDIOT."

    Indeed.

    Well, was it on one of the Real Peloton podcasts, where Ned said that one year Hunter was making "I'm gonna slit your throat" gestures at him from the team bus?
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    DaveyL wrote:
    You mean this bit?


    "Radioshack was just neutralizing the breakaway, cause Paulinho are in the lead group."

    "+1.... People need to calm down about Armstrong, seriously."

    Of course, he is right. C'est rien.
    But it is Bastille day and the Frenchies were missing up front.
    TV commentators were a bit miffed.

    Keep up the good sweeper work.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Well there's two up there now, isn't there?
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Are the race feeds back up?
    Eurosport went off air for about 30 minutes, due to Paris storms. Blank screens.
    Only Eurosport HD kept running.
    Col de Laffrey is a slog.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    FJS wrote:
    the Cote de Laffrey is very tough and steep - 7km at no less than 9% average. Not yet the Mortirolo, but too steep to ride up piano piano as a sleepy peloton

    Well,they're having a good go at it :lol:

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