Tour de France Stage 8 Tomblaine - Gerardmer *Spoilers*

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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Katusha put a couple of people on the front. Either for J Rod or Spilak? Gap down to under 9"30
  • ad_snow
    ad_snow Posts: 469
    43km/h average apparently. 35km to go.
    Red Arrows just finished doing a fly-by over my house.
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Peloton* have woken up - gap tumbling, now at 9 minutes.

    *edit - Belkin/Katusha/Astana
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Petit on the radio... break could do with pushing on a bit now.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Just nerves about the climb and rain raising the tempo.
    _
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    8:22, 33km
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    bad news for anyone that had TV Tommy in the PTP...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,699
    TV pictures are about to get shit, apparently. Bad weather.
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  • ad_snow
    ad_snow Posts: 469
    6:38, 27km
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,699
    6.40
    That's coming down incredibly fast.
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    ******CHENGWATCH / LR WATCH ******

    In a group of four stragglers off the back, canny.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Is this gap accurate? Tumbling like a motherfondler
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    That Garmin gilet is like an air brake...
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I might have been a bit premature in nailing down the cat.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,699
    Chavanel goes, Kadri chasing
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Chava attack!
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    The_Boy wrote:
    Is this gap accurate? Tumbling like a motherfondler

    the road has started to tilt.

    I thought Van Poppel was the youngest rider in the TdF not Yates? Phil keeps calling Yates the youngest
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Here we go...blue touch paper lit.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    The_Boy wrote:
    Is this gap accurate? Tumbling like a motherfondler

    the road has started to tilt.

    I thought Van Poppel was the youngest rider in the TdF not Yates? Phil keeps calling Yates the youngest

    van Poppel abandoned
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Chavanel goes, Kadri tries to follow, other 3 left behind (for now?).
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,699
    Tinkoff drilling, Nibali alone?
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    ******CHENGWATCH / LR WATCH ******

    In a group of four stragglers off the back, canny.

    Come on, Cheng. Move your Occidental backside!
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I might have been a bit premature in nailing down the cat.

    Release the cat, AtC. Yates has let me down. So to speak.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Many more tinkof riders at the front than Astana
    _
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Car-naj
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Saxo smashing it, Porte and GT in rain cape removal farce... gap down to 4'40''
  • YorkshireLad
    YorkshireLad Posts: 18
    Time to see what Nibs team can do up hill
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,699
    Yates dropping Terpstra and Petit
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Come on Yates!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    ******CHENGWATCH / LR WATCH ******

    In a group of four stragglers off the back, canny.

    Come on, Cheng. Move your Occidental backside!

    Shouldn't that be Oriental? Not that as a fan of Edward Said I would normally want to promote such crude differentiations.
    Correlation is not causation.

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