Tour de France Stage 8 Tomblaine - Gerardmer *Spoilers*

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  • YorkshireLad
    YorkshireLad Posts: 18
    3 Short sharp climbs should shred the domestiques, leaders left on the last climb?
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Yates not giving up yet. He sets off after Kadri and Chavanel.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Late license for Wine Lodge.
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Gap steadying after that Chava attack... can Yates bridge to the Frenchies?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Above The Cows wrote:
    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.

    They're heading East aren't they? So his head is oriental, his backside is occidental.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    pottssteve wrote:
    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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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    YorkshireLad wrote:
    3 Short sharp climbs should shred the domestiques, leaders left on the last climb?

    That's the idea.

    Depends how hard they ride up them.
    _
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Kadri drops Chavanel. He looks good today but riding the next two climbs solo is a big ask.
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Milton50 wrote:
    Kadri drops Chavanel. He looks good today but riding the next two climbs solo is a big ask.

    Meanwhile JRod out the back
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    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.

    Technically it is oriental, but seeing as he's off the back I'm guessing it's of more occidental proportions!
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    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.

    They're heading East aren't they? So his head is oriental, his backside is occidental.

    J-Rod meanwhile is heading to the antipodes.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Sky ticker has got Yates at 40" from Cadre
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Nibbles happy to sit on the russo-danske-postal train
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    Sky ticker has got Yates at 40" from Cadre

    Chava +29, Yates +40
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Yates almost has Chava. Hope he can keep contact on the descent.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Roads look slippery...
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  • YorkshireLad
    YorkshireLad Posts: 18
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    YorkshireLad wrote:
    3 Short sharp climbs should shred the domestiques, leaders left on the last climb?

    That's the idea.

    Depends how hard they ride up them.


    Ta, Nibs looking isolated already.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Yates losing time on chava now
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I like Blel Kadri.

    Don't know why, I just do.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    edited July 2014
    The_Boy wrote:
    Yates losing time on chava now

    at 1'05 from Kadri, 20" from Chava
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Kwiat go boom
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Kiwakowski out the back. Oh dear.
    _
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    edited July 2014
    Oh dear. Little Flower not looking like a GC contender here.

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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Woah. Kwia out the back. Wasn't expecting that.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    The_Boy wrote:
    Yates losing time on chava now

    at 1'05 from Kadri, 20" from Chava


    Yip. Was closer to chava before wasn't he? Or is he hiding steady and I misread the time gap earlier?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Everyone backing Valeverde?
    _
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    OPQS have maybe, just maybe put too much on his plate this year.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Bardet riding into white?
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Kadri keeping the peloton at 4'30"ish... if Yates can finish top three today it would make my weekend.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Everyone backing Valeverde?

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AvrZ7-xQocZcJBvsRjBFc4__Antwk1iI8iid59qghf0/pub
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