TDF 2013 - Stage 10 *Spoiler*

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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    I know nothing is happening but am on holiday and need to time my run back to my room for the stage end. Any chance of meaningful info. Not as if its a spoiler thread or anything.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    There is going to an intermediate sprint at some point relatively soon.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    The breakaway has 3 mins 30. It has been around that mark for quite a while.
  • seanorawe
    seanorawe Posts: 950
    I take it nothing is really happening in this race? I logged on for an update, to read pages of arguments
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Nice of Europcar to arrange a clown to deliver bidons to their riders.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Typical sprint stage sean. No hope breakaway, totally flat...
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Cav stuck to Sagan like glue there - impressive. Wish he'd gone over the line first obviously...
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    No rules about straight sprinting this year then.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Macaloon wrote:
    Nice of Europcar to arrange a clown to deliver bidons to their riders.

    :lol:
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    TheBigBean wrote:
    No rules about straight sprinting this year then.

    Crazy isn't it? They cover like three time the distance as if they'd gone in a straight line!
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Very interesting how Stephen Roche talks about his son v's Neil Martin and his son
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    emadden wrote:
    Very interesting how Stephen Roche talks about his son v's Neil Martin and his son

    The Kimmage interview with Dan Martin and family was quite heavy on the elder generation's antipathy to each other.

    I imagine PK rather enjoyed that side of it.
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    emadden wrote:
    Very interesting how Stephen Roche talks about his son v's Neil Martin and his son

    Missed that, what's the gist?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Is that Bernard Hinault's house?
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    It seems to me that Stephen is often very hard on Nicolas...always with the lines "he will learn, he will improve etc" I read somewhere on an old thread that he was particularly hard on Nicolas whilst commentating during the Tour on British Eurosport some years back and whoever was co-commentating had to interject "he is your son!" or something like that
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Who is this Stephen Roche Bloke, he's rather good at this! :D
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    GREIPEL to win this one please.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Is Schwalbe One their new road tubeless thingum?
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    ddraver wrote:
    Is Schwalbe One their new road tubeless thingum?

    http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/arti ... ed--37801/
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    How is this peloton going to rescue this stage? It's been a crazy tour. Here's hoping wind in the final provokes shenanigans.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Is that Bernard Hinault's house?

    Was he mowing the lawn?
  • LutherB
    LutherB Posts: 544
    Are Stephen Roche & Sean Kelly friends?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Ahh thanks..bit interested in road tubless having gone so on the MTB recently. Thats not that though
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    hammerite wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Is that Bernard Hinault's house?

    Was he mowing the lawn?

    Alas no, I suspect he's ironing his lilac shirt for the podium presentation later. It was a very nicely mowed lawn though I will say.
    ddraver wrote:
    Is Schwalbe One their new road tubeless thingum?

    I have no idea, I want to know what 'Cheske Flange' (spelling?) is and what it has to do with the Tour of Poland?

    Interesting stage this isn't it. :D
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    GREIPEL to win this one please.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    LutherB wrote:
    Are Stephen Roche & Sean Kelly friends?

    Yes. Only 2 mics and more importantly 2 seats in the booth.
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  • Anonymous
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    mididoctors wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    Are Sky pulling for sprinter's teams in return for future stage favours? Or are they just nice guys?

    "sigh"

    the yellow jersey team ride as hard enough to make the stage winnable so the sprinters take over late-earlier depending on the time gap from the jersey to the riders in the break on GC


    Why be such a dick? Maybe its someone trying to learn about the sport.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,646
    So am I right in thinking that the most spectacularly interesting thing about today's stage is that there's a Cofidis rider in the break? Though to be fair, that's so unusual that I'd expect it to be a talking point until we hit the Alps.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
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    Correlation is not causation.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Above The Cows wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Is that Bernard Hinault's house?

    Was he mowing the lawn?

    Alas no, I suspect he's ironing his lilac shirt for the podium presentation later. It was a very nicely mowed lawn though I will say.
    ddraver wrote:
    Is Schwalbe One their new road tubeless thingum?

    I have no idea, I want to know what 'Cheske Flange' (spelling?) is and what it has to do with the Tour of Poland?

    Interesting stage this isn't it. :D

    I quite liked the sweeping shot of the river/mudflats/eastuary. Very nice.

    Tour of Poland, here's the thing..... I get a Grand tour visiting another country for the Grand Depart, I also get the dipping in to another country mid tour if logistics mean it has to happen. But why the hell is the Tour of Poland starting in the Dolomites?

    Yes it's a beautiful part of the world, but it's not Poland, it's Italy - somewhere that does very well when it comes to hosting their own races on their own patch. They have one week every year to showcase Poland to the cycling world as part of the TdF hangover, so why go to Italy?

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