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

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Lead group comes back together aaannd - off we go all over again!
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Leaders got caught again, so GVA just blew it apart, again.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    GVA climbs well for a relatively heavy rider.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Pross wrote:
    One thing this stage is helping with is that question many ask, and I've been guilty of myself, 'how does rider x keep getting a contract on a top team?'. It makes you realise how hard some of the domestiques have to work in the early stages when the cameras often don't pick it up.


    Yep brutal job and they're phenomenal athletes that rarely appear at the end
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Whoopsie Froome just rode into a hedge.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Froome goes off road while everybody is on a break!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    blimey half team sky went wide and off the road
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Dammit, right in the ad-break
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Dammit, right in the ad-break

    In fairness to the TV companies, there's not been a moment of this race where they could have taken a break and something not happen.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Geraint trying for the Sky leadership. :P
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Thomas at the back but making his way up again
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Peloton look like they've given up on chasing the break.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Are the break going to be riding like grownups on the big climb or are they likely to be trying to drop eachother do we reckon? Not been a day for alliances really
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    ShutupJens wrote:
    Are the break going to be riding like grownups on the big climb or are they likely to be trying to drop eachother do we reckon? Not been a day for alliances really

    The climb itself will break things up, there'll be minimal benefit in trying to work together once they're on it.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Valgren attempts to bridge to leaders. Looks pretty smooth. DK commentary gets all excited.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Gap to peloton now under 2 mins
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    I like the real time distance gap and current speed graphics. It gives a good mental arithmetic work out trying to calculate how long it will take to close the gap based on current speed.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Gap to peloton now under 2 mins

    Coming down very quickly, if the timings are right (Millar has just expressed a little doubt about the timings).
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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Is Demare still in the race?

    The TDF have stopped showing his time.
    "The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    If the gap is coming down it's because Kwia is leading the descent :-)
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    "I'm going through my home village at 80km/hr and trying to get on the front and wave" :-D
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    ben@31 wrote:
    Is Demare still in the race?

    The TDF have stopped showing his time.

    Their stop watch probably doesn't have hours on it.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Remains of the break (half a peloton) swallowed up again. So Sky have Henao and Landa back.
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  • cygnet
    cygnet Posts: 92
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    New commentary high point: Rolf Sørensen was pro for 17 years but only learnt to pee off a bike after 15 of them. In case you're wondering, to the right.
    Sure the canondale rider in the break just appeared to have ignored this.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Looks like the local populace have a major UTI problem based on the colour of that river!
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Pross wrote:
    ben@31 wrote:
    Is Demare still in the race?

    The TDF have stopped showing his time.

    Their stop watch probably doesn't have hours on it.

    I wondered if it was too embarrassing for France ?
    "The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Well ridden by Valgren. Think he's at QS next year.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Alexis Vuillermoz overtook me on Mont du Chat once. I was suffering and he just skipped past. Not fair.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    ben@31 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    ben@31 wrote:
    Is Demare still in the race?

    The TDF have stopped showing his time.

    Their stop watch probably doesn't have hours on it.

    I wondered if it was too embarrassing for France ?

    He's aiming to win this stage on Bastille day.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Demare 16km behind. Ouch.
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