TDF 2017: Stage 8 -Dole - Station des rousses 187.5kms *Spoilers*

blazing_saddles

Right, as we hit the hills, I'm ditch the Tour blurb for something more substantial.

Start 12h25 (Local time)

Tour de France 2017 Route stage 8: Dole - Station des Rousses
Saturday, 8 July 2017 - At 187.5 kilometres, stage 8 in the Tour de France travels from Dole to Station des Rousses. The race takes in three cols in the Jura mountains . Following an 11.7 kilometres climb at 6.4% the last 11 kilometres are played out on rolling roads.

The first 28 kilometres of stage 8 are the quiet before the storm. Then, starting in the village Arbois, the road goes up and down until the dyings metres of the race. Yet, the first real climb looms with 95 kilometres done. The Col de la Joux, peaking at 1,035 metres, is a 6.1 kilometres ascent with an average gradient of 4.6%.

A long drop takes the riders to the foot of the Côte de Viry. This is a 7.6 kilometres climb at 5.2%, that’s crested at kilometre 138.5 in the saddle.

Following a hilly section the pilots plunge down to Saint-Claude for the start of the finale. The last climb is called Montee de la Combe de Laisia Les Molunes, which is not only a long name, it’s a long ascent, too. Not the toughest t you can think of though. The Montee de la Combe de Laisia Les Molunes amounts to 11.7 kilometres, while the slope is averaging 6.4%. The summit lies at an elevation of 1,202 metres.

Still 11 kilometres left to race, in which to descend to 1,107 metres. So that’s not a descent at all. A rolling section runs to the finish line in the ski station of Les Rousses, close to the Swiss border.

In the Tour de France of 2010, Sylvain Chavanel soloed to victory in Station des Rousses.

Map:-


Profile:-


KoM:-
Km 101.5 - Col de la Joux6.1 kilometre-long climb at 4.7% - category 3

Km 138.5 - Côte de Viry (748 m)7.6 kilometre-long climb at 5.2% - category 2

Km 175.5 - Côte de la Combe de Laisia-Les Molunes (1 202 m)11.7 kilometre-long climb at 6.4% - category 1

Final Kms:-

Start town:-Dole

Athletics mainly contributed in the sporting reputation of the city. Roger Bambuck, Guy Drut, Jean-Claude Nallet are among those who took part, from the sixties to the eighties, in the youth training camps of Dole. In terms of cycling, the birth city of Louis Pasteur welcomed the Tour de France twice. In 1939, Luxemburger François Neuens won there after a breakaway while Maurice Archambaud claimed on that same day but in the afternoon a time-trial between Dole and Dijon. In 1992, it was in Dole that a stage headed towards Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc won by Swiss rider Rolf Jaermann.

The Finish:- Station des rousses

In 2010, was decided the first and only stage finish on the soil of Olympic Nordic Combined champion in Vancouver, Jason Lamy-Chappuis. The day's hero was to be Sylvain Chavanel, smart enough to join the good breakaway before taking off in the final kilometres of the climb. Already a stage winner a few days before in Spa, the never tiring attacker finished the job on his own. A stage success and a special bonus for the Frenchman who re-captured the Yellow Jersey he had lost on the cobbles of Northern France in Arenberg Porte du Hainaut.

The obvious choice for food must be....



but the wine in the Jura is.......unusual, a bit of an acquired taste.
So, a bit more cheese is in order.



The other famous wine of the Jura, plus some nuts under a cheese dome.

No_Ta_Doctor

And, of course:

davidof

Vin jaune is perfectly drinkable, but a bit expensive. Keeps a long time too.

The odd thing is that the summit at les Rousses is called La Dôle. So the stage is really Dole to La Dôle


La Dôle - les Rousses

mamil314

Blazing Saddles, thanks for doing these headers. They are nice.

emadden

Pics from the last time they finished here in 2010

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcyclin ... 472807952/

Richmond Racer 2

Heading out to for this first thing tomorrow. Hack to Les Rousses from Geneva airport - hopefully ahead of road closures....

Hmm, comte....

mfin

+1 on Comte

blazing_saddles

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

Heading out to for this first thing tomorrow. Hack to Les Rousses from Geneva airport - hopefully ahead of road closures....

Hmm, comte....

It's that time again. RR on her travels once more.

mfin

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

Heading out to for this first thing tomorrow. Hack to Les Rousses from Geneva airport - hopefully ahead of road closures....

Hmm, comte....

It's that time again. RR on her travels once more.

I hope she doesn't take any shît from that woman in the red shoes.

Richmond Racer 2

IT ME

above_the_cows

Some local produce.

No_Ta_Doctor

There's probably some filthy joke to be made about Tony Gallopin winning the slutspurt (that's Danish for finishing sprint, I kid you not) in Rousse's station. But I for one am far too mature to make it.

above_the_cows

No tA Doctor wrote:

There's probably some filthy joke to be made about Tony Gallopin winning the slutspurt (that's Danish for finishing sprint, I kid you not) in Rousse's station. But I for one am far too mature to make it.

I had been trying to come up with something involving Marion Rousse and couldn't quite get there...

above_the_cows

Anyway we have some lovely Cows in Le Comté country:

above_the_cows

And we also have some LOVELY Comtois horses:

This one's one of Froome's fat sprinters...



Meanwhile this dude is a real Trotteur de Charme...

RichN95.

I have 88p each way on Ben Swift at 300/1.

88p is the most they'll let me bet - this is why I'm confident there are no betting scams in cycling.

kleinstroker

mamil314 wrote:

Blazing Saddles, thanks for doing these headers. They are nice.

Agreed. Make me smile in the mornings

Richmond Racer 2

That's a great cow collective and a lovely trotteur de charme, AtC


So. Stevo C for this stage?

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

I have 88p each way on Ben Swift at 300/1.

88p is the most they'll let me bet - this is why I'm confident there are no betting scams in cycling.

Has to be one of the thinnest markets available no?

rick_chasey

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

That's a great cow collective and a lovely trotteur de charme, AtC


So. Stevo C for this stage?

BMC to line it out for 180km, no?

RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

I have 88p each way on Ben Swift at 300/1.

88p is the most they'll let me bet - this is why I'm confident there are no betting scams in cycling.

Has to be one of the thinnest markets available no?

Yeah. You can bet more on overall jerseys, but stage wins is poor especially for a long shot. Still I get £377 if he wins.

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

I have 88p each way on Ben Swift at 300/1.

88p is the most they'll let me bet - this is why I'm confident there are no betting scams in cycling.

Has to be one of the thinnest markets available no?

Yeah. You can bet more on overall jerseys, but stage wins is poor especially for a long shot. Still I get £377 if he wins.

You do well to have the patience to wait for the bizarre odds.

I got cheesed off when a few high profile tweeters started highlighting out-of-kilter odds which were usually the same ones I was looking at

Within 10 mins the odds would be ruined.

RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

I got cheesed off when a few high profile tweeters started highlighting out-of-kilter odds which were usually the same ones I was looking at

I assume that's Dan Lloyd. He is good.

I'm still not over Kruijswijk 150/1 for last year's Giro. The £850 crash.

Richmond Racer 2

Rick Chasey wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

That's a great cow collective and a lovely trotteur de charme, AtC


So. Stevo C for this stage?

BMC to line it out for 180km, no?

Obvs


Did you catch what Francois Thomazeau was saying on t'podcast this morning about BMC and their mullarkey on the Belles Filles stage?

rick_chasey

What that there is a DS battle raging within BMC?

RichN95.

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

Did you catch what Francois Thomazeau was saying on t'podcast this morning about BMC and their mullarkey on the Belles Filles stage?

The thing with BMC on that stage is, while it looked baffling, when ultimately the move went after Aru - Froome, Porte, Martin, Bardet - Porte just sat wheelsucking. They could have put time into the others, but he was obsessed with Froome. I'd be p1ssed off if I was his teammates that he turned down an opportunity to make some profit. (He must have learned at Sky that early narrowing down of the contenders is beneficial)

Richmond Racer 2

RichN95 wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

Did you catch what Francois Thomazeau was saying on t'podcast this morning about BMC and their mullarkey on the Belles Filles stage?

The thing with BMC on that stage is, while it looked baffling, when ultimately the move went after Aru - Froome, Porte, Martin, Bardet - Porte just sat wheelsucking. They could have put time into the others, but he was obsessed with Froome. I'd be p1ssed off if I was his teammates that he turned down an opportunity to make some profit. (He must have learned at Sky that early narrowing down of the contenders is beneficial)

I think LRP and Fenton are both too obsessed with each other tbh...which is how Aru skipped off

Fenton prob wont make that mistake again this Tour, mind

Richmond Racer 2

Rick Chasey wrote:

What that there is a DS battle raging within BMC?

Yeah, that one

rick_chasey

Ought to buy Riis in....

RichN95.

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

Did you catch what Francois Thomazeau was saying on t'podcast this morning about BMC and their mullarkey on the Belles Filles stage?

The thing with BMC on that stage is, while it looked baffling, when ultimately the move went after Aru - Froome, Porte, Martin, Bardet - Porte just sat wheelsucking. They could have put time into the others, but he was obsessed with Froome. I'd be p1ssed off if I was his teammates that he turned down an opportunity to make some profit. (He must have learned at Sky that early narrowing down of the contenders is beneficial)

I think LRP and Fenton are both too obsessed with each other tbh...which is how Aru skipped off

Fenton prob wont make that mistake again this Tour, mind

The problem is that unlike the original Fenton, Froome can't chase everything. He has to prioritise. Coming into this race he wouldn't have even known if Aru was the best in his own team. Now he knows - and he had to pay for that knowledge - maybe ten seconds over the market price.

rick_chasey

Week 3 is a long way away for Aru.....