Tour de France Stage 8 Tomblaine - Gerardmer *Spoilers*

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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    pottssteve wrote:
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    Break back up to 9'15"...


    This is what happens when they give Cheng a day off....

    Think Giant are letting Cheng have his head in his personal pursuit of the LR classement, fine reward for all the hard graft he's put in for Kittel over the last week.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Poem time coming up. Here's mine - by ee cumming. Somehow apposite for the Tour.

    somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
    any experience,your eyes have their silence:
    in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
    or which i cannot touch because they are too near

    your slightest look easily will unclose me
    though i have closed myself as fingers,
    you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
    (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

    or if your wish be to close me, i and
    my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
    as when the heart of this flower imagines
    the snow carefully everywhere descending;

    nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
    the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
    compels me with the color of its countries,
    rendering death and forever with each breathing

    (i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens;only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
    nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    I'm not much of a wine drinker so I am on the Warsteiner as they are riding close to the German border today. Very nice lager...
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    My Good God... Kirby is just horrific today. And that guy in the Dungeons makes it even worse. Enough to make a bad mood worse.

    At least Kirby doesn't commentate like every sentence needs to shouted as a statement (à la McCrossan), but he is still driving me nuts.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    pottssteve wrote:
    I'm not much of a wine drinker so I am on the Warsteiner as they are riding close to the German border today. Very nice lager...

    Good call on the lager and poem Steve
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State

    It's bigger than Lichtenstein.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State

    It's bigger than Lichtenstein.

    We may see a separate Tour take place in that gap
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State

    It's bigger than Lichtenstein.


    I'm bigger than Lichtenstein.....
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State

    It's bigger than Lichtenstein.


    I'm bigger than Lichtenstein.....

    Surely a post-of-the-tour contender
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Petit on the radio "are you sure this is the rear of the Peleton?"
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Riders in the break now heading into Épinal after lunch. 70km to go.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Cloudy with side wind but too laid back for the, I'll whisper it, echelon
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Lovely cows!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State

    It's bigger than Lichtenstein.

    We may see a separate Tour take place in that gap
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Gap now at 10.32. It has been declared an independent State

    It's bigger than Lichtenstein.


    I'm bigger than Lichtenstein.....

    Both excellent. Chapeau!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rob churchill
    rob churchill Posts: 272
    RonB wrote:
    Riders in the break now heading into Épinal for lunch. 70km to go.

    FTFY.
    I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    edited July 2014
    cows!

    http://imgur.com/jfbeGVk

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Cute Bichon Frisé waving at the peloton.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Reminder of those in the break, Chavanel, Terpstra, Yates, Petit & Kadri all now at 10.42
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    cows!

    http://imgur.com/jfbeGVk

    They are very pretty. Cheers GentlemanBear.

    jfbeGVk.png
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    So. Wine-Lodge in the break. Vinobali in the war room. Portad'or on manhoovers. That'll be Cheng with the Brie, then.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    emadden wrote:
    My Good God... Kirby is just horrific today. And that guy in the Dungeons makes it even worse. Enough to make a bad mood worse.

    At least Kirby doesn't commentate like every sentence needs to shouted as a statement (à la McCrossan), but he is still driving me nuts.

    emadden! Long time no post! How the devil are you? Still taking the photos? We're nearly neighbours!
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Macaloon wrote:
    Wine-Lodge

    Ooo that's a good one.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    pottssteve wrote:

    emadden! Long time no post! How the devil are you? Still taking the photos? We're nearly neighbours!

    Steve... my other job is getting in the way of everything - although I could be doing a year off next year to follow some races... Lets see!
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Everyone in the break comes from countries with red, white and blue flags.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rob churchill
    rob churchill Posts: 272
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    Wine-Lodge

    Ooo that's a good one.

    It is. I like 'Nellie' for Monsieur Chavanel.
    I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    emadden wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:

    emadden! Long time no post! How the devil are you? Still taking the photos? We're nearly neighbours!


    Steve... my other job is getting in the way of everything - although I could be doing a year off next year to follow some races... Lets see!

    Shame. They do work us hard over here, don't they!?
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,699
    Going to be a tough day for anyone trying for the lanterne. Looks like the peloton as a whole may miss the time cut.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    56km to go, break has best part of eleven minutes...

    ...meanwhile, Sky have just posted Pate's data for the Tour so far:

    http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290, ... 68,00.html
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Everyone in the break comes from countries with red, white and blue flags.

    And they all look more like the Italian flag that the one on Nibs jersey
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