TDF 2018, Stage 8: Dreux > Amiens Métropole 14/07/2018 - 181 km *Spoilers*
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Dreux > Amiens Métropole 14/07/2018 - Stage 8 - 181 km
Stage 8 in the Tour de France sets off in Dreux to arrive in Amiens after 181 flat to gently rolling kilometres. It’s Bastille Day so the French fast men Arnaud Démare and Christopher Laporte will be dreaming about winning this one.
It’s Quatorze Juillet when the flag drops just outside Dreux and the riders head up north. The departure place hosts a Tour de France peloton for the first time in its history.
On the other side of the spectrum, Amiens and the Tour de France share a long history. The first time the race arrived in the northern French town was in 1932 when André Leducq took the stage honours. It was one of six victories for the French GC-rider, who topped it off by winning the overall that year 24 minutes and 3 seconds ahead of runner-up Kurt Stöpel.
In the sixties and seventees Amiens was popular in the Tour de France as it hosted seven stages. Rudi Altig, André Darrigade, Marino Basso, Joseph Spruyt, Eric Leman and Ronny De Witte – they all took stages in the town. The last time the race visited Amiens was in 2015, when André Greipel outsprinted Peter Sagan and Mark Cavendish.
Fast forward to 2018. Although the race features two KOMs – Côte de Pacy-sur-Eure (2 kilometres at 4.3%) and Côte de Feuquerolles (2.3 kilometer at 4.3%) -, the rolling route really is a red carpet for the sprint teams.
Entering Amiens the peloton turns left with 4 kilometres left to fly down a drop. So the rhythm will be high when the riders hit a sharp right-hand bend with 2.8 kilometres to go, shortly followed by a slight left-hander. The drop ends 2 kilometres before the line with a 90-degrees left-hand bend, while the route turns left at a roundabout with 500 metres to go. The last 700 metres are slightly uphill (1%).
Video of the last 5kms.
https://youtu.be/Hg0KVAweKvY
The 8th stage of the 2018 Tour de France starts at 11:50 and the finish is expected around 15:46cet.
Favourites 8th stage 2018 Tour de France
*** Fernando Gaviria, Marcel Kittel, Peter Sagan
** Arnaud Démare, Alexander Kristoff, André Greipel, Dylan Groenewegen
* Mark Cavendish, John Degenkolb, Sonny Colbrelli,
The team hotels for this stage.
Dreux
No previous stage
Sub-prefecture of Eure-et-Loir (28)
31,200 inhabitants (Drouais)
117,000 in the 81 municipalities of the agglomeration of the Pays de Dreux.
The Royal Chapel is one of the jewels of the city. Its park and gardens provide breath-taking views. Built in 1816, it became the necropolis of the House of France under King Louis-Philip and houses the recumbent of the royal family. The building is a fine architectural example of the 19th century.
Labelled as "Musée de France", the Museum of Art and History is sheltered in a neo-Romanesque chapel built in 1895 in the historical centre of Dreux and refitted in 1950 to receive artistic and historical collections.
The Romanesque house, listed as a Historic Monument, is the oldest building currently known in Dreux. The first floor of the facade bordering Sénarmont Street is detached from the rest of the building by its particularly careful implementation. Geometric patterns in the shape of diamonds, pleated ribbon or zigzags point to a mid-12th century construction.
DREUX AND CYCLING
The greatest victories of French football are indirectly linked to Dreux, where world and European champion Patrick Vieira was trained before becoming one of the mainstays of the national team and the London club of Arsenal. The city has never received the Tour de France but in 2009 it hosted the start of the Tour de l'Avenir. It remains a good memory for Julien Bérard, winner of the prologue ahead of final overall winner Romain Sicard. A pioneer of the Tour de France is linked to the city of Dreux, where he died in 1963. A native of Versailles, Marcel Godivier was a professional from 1907 to 1922. He won two stages of the Tour in 1911, the first after a breakaway in Brest, where he had just finished his military service, the second at the Parc des Princes in Paris. Marcel Godivier finished 6th overall that same year.
Specialties: The Durocasse cake is the most famous sweet specialty of the city: vanilla butter cream, brioche with syrup and nougatine. Baker Raymond Leloup created it in his workshop on the Grande Rue.
Feuille de Dreux, a cow milk cheese, soft and rind bloomed, which is in the form of a white disc covered with several chestnut leaves and measuring 16 to 18 cm in diameter for a thickness of 2 to 3 cm. Its weight is between 300 and 500 gr and it contains only 15% fat. It seems that Feuille de Dreux appeared in Eure-et-Loir at the beginning of the 20th century.
On the Route, near Vernon: Monet's gardens at Giverny.
Amiens Métropole
Prefecture of the Department of Somme (80)
134,000 inhabitants (Amiénois)
180,000 inhabitants in the Community of agglomeration Amiens Métropole
The birthplace of Jules Verne.
Notre-Dame cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this Gothic masterpiece displays a harmonious figure, fascinating sculptures, and outsized dimensions. From the top of its towers, a fantastic panorama opens on the city and its surroundings.
The Hortillonnages: Just a few steps from the station you’ll find a 300-hectare mosaic of land and water. The floating gardens form a village in the heart of the city.
The centrepiece of the city’s homage to Jules Verne is the house in which he lived from 1882 to 1900 with his wife Honorine. It houses a museum that details the life, work and public activities of the writer, who composed most of his works there (more than 30 novels). The Maison de Jules Verne, a picturesque building with a brick facade and a tower topped with a terrace, welcomes more than 30,000 visitors a year. On the first floor, where the bedrooms were located, a Parisian bookstore has been recreated, as has the salon and office of Pierre-Jules Hetzel, his first editor.
Built during the reign of Napoleon III on the model of the Louvre, Musée de Picardie is one of the most beautiful museums of the Fine Arts in France both by the richness of its collections and its architectural coherence.
AMIENS METROPOLIS AND CYCLING
The capital of Picardy is the meeting point between Jules Verne, the most translated French writer in the world, president Emmanuel Macron and the 105-year-old world hour record holder, Robert Marchand, all Amiens citizens by birth or choice. The first stage finish here in 1932 saw the victory of André Leducq – the Tour winner that year - while the latest went to another André, Greipel in 2015. Yet another André – Darrigade – raised his arms in Amiens in 1964. In other words, finishes in Amiens usually lead to bunch sprints, as the names of other winners attest – Rudi Altig, Marino Basso, Eric Leman or Mario Cippolini. As we celebrate the centenary of the end of the First World War, we must mention Emile Friol, sprint world champion in 1907 and 1910, who was buried in the Saint-Pierre national necropolis of Amiens.
Specialties: Macaroons (Trogneux macaroons, Brigitte Macron family), chocolate tiles, pate Picard (duck), flamiche (tart) with leeks, Picard ficelle. Amiens, stronghold of the textile industry thanks to the culture of woad, a blue pigment used to dye jeans.
Stage 8 in the Tour de France sets off in Dreux to arrive in Amiens after 181 flat to gently rolling kilometres. It’s Bastille Day so the French fast men Arnaud Démare and Christopher Laporte will be dreaming about winning this one.
It’s Quatorze Juillet when the flag drops just outside Dreux and the riders head up north. The departure place hosts a Tour de France peloton for the first time in its history.
On the other side of the spectrum, Amiens and the Tour de France share a long history. The first time the race arrived in the northern French town was in 1932 when André Leducq took the stage honours. It was one of six victories for the French GC-rider, who topped it off by winning the overall that year 24 minutes and 3 seconds ahead of runner-up Kurt Stöpel.
In the sixties and seventees Amiens was popular in the Tour de France as it hosted seven stages. Rudi Altig, André Darrigade, Marino Basso, Joseph Spruyt, Eric Leman and Ronny De Witte – they all took stages in the town. The last time the race visited Amiens was in 2015, when André Greipel outsprinted Peter Sagan and Mark Cavendish.
Fast forward to 2018. Although the race features two KOMs – Côte de Pacy-sur-Eure (2 kilometres at 4.3%) and Côte de Feuquerolles (2.3 kilometer at 4.3%) -, the rolling route really is a red carpet for the sprint teams.
Entering Amiens the peloton turns left with 4 kilometres left to fly down a drop. So the rhythm will be high when the riders hit a sharp right-hand bend with 2.8 kilometres to go, shortly followed by a slight left-hander. The drop ends 2 kilometres before the line with a 90-degrees left-hand bend, while the route turns left at a roundabout with 500 metres to go. The last 700 metres are slightly uphill (1%).
Video of the last 5kms.
https://youtu.be/Hg0KVAweKvY
The 8th stage of the 2018 Tour de France starts at 11:50 and the finish is expected around 15:46cet.
Favourites 8th stage 2018 Tour de France
*** Fernando Gaviria, Marcel Kittel, Peter Sagan
** Arnaud Démare, Alexander Kristoff, André Greipel, Dylan Groenewegen
* Mark Cavendish, John Degenkolb, Sonny Colbrelli,
The team hotels for this stage.
Dreux
No previous stage
Sub-prefecture of Eure-et-Loir (28)
31,200 inhabitants (Drouais)
117,000 in the 81 municipalities of the agglomeration of the Pays de Dreux.
The Royal Chapel is one of the jewels of the city. Its park and gardens provide breath-taking views. Built in 1816, it became the necropolis of the House of France under King Louis-Philip and houses the recumbent of the royal family. The building is a fine architectural example of the 19th century.
Labelled as "Musée de France", the Museum of Art and History is sheltered in a neo-Romanesque chapel built in 1895 in the historical centre of Dreux and refitted in 1950 to receive artistic and historical collections.
The Romanesque house, listed as a Historic Monument, is the oldest building currently known in Dreux. The first floor of the facade bordering Sénarmont Street is detached from the rest of the building by its particularly careful implementation. Geometric patterns in the shape of diamonds, pleated ribbon or zigzags point to a mid-12th century construction.
DREUX AND CYCLING
The greatest victories of French football are indirectly linked to Dreux, where world and European champion Patrick Vieira was trained before becoming one of the mainstays of the national team and the London club of Arsenal. The city has never received the Tour de France but in 2009 it hosted the start of the Tour de l'Avenir. It remains a good memory for Julien Bérard, winner of the prologue ahead of final overall winner Romain Sicard. A pioneer of the Tour de France is linked to the city of Dreux, where he died in 1963. A native of Versailles, Marcel Godivier was a professional from 1907 to 1922. He won two stages of the Tour in 1911, the first after a breakaway in Brest, where he had just finished his military service, the second at the Parc des Princes in Paris. Marcel Godivier finished 6th overall that same year.
Specialties: The Durocasse cake is the most famous sweet specialty of the city: vanilla butter cream, brioche with syrup and nougatine. Baker Raymond Leloup created it in his workshop on the Grande Rue.
Feuille de Dreux, a cow milk cheese, soft and rind bloomed, which is in the form of a white disc covered with several chestnut leaves and measuring 16 to 18 cm in diameter for a thickness of 2 to 3 cm. Its weight is between 300 and 500 gr and it contains only 15% fat. It seems that Feuille de Dreux appeared in Eure-et-Loir at the beginning of the 20th century.
On the Route, near Vernon: Monet's gardens at Giverny.
Amiens Métropole
Prefecture of the Department of Somme (80)
134,000 inhabitants (Amiénois)
180,000 inhabitants in the Community of agglomeration Amiens Métropole
The birthplace of Jules Verne.
Notre-Dame cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this Gothic masterpiece displays a harmonious figure, fascinating sculptures, and outsized dimensions. From the top of its towers, a fantastic panorama opens on the city and its surroundings.
The Hortillonnages: Just a few steps from the station you’ll find a 300-hectare mosaic of land and water. The floating gardens form a village in the heart of the city.
The centrepiece of the city’s homage to Jules Verne is the house in which he lived from 1882 to 1900 with his wife Honorine. It houses a museum that details the life, work and public activities of the writer, who composed most of his works there (more than 30 novels). The Maison de Jules Verne, a picturesque building with a brick facade and a tower topped with a terrace, welcomes more than 30,000 visitors a year. On the first floor, where the bedrooms were located, a Parisian bookstore has been recreated, as has the salon and office of Pierre-Jules Hetzel, his first editor.
Built during the reign of Napoleon III on the model of the Louvre, Musée de Picardie is one of the most beautiful museums of the Fine Arts in France both by the richness of its collections and its architectural coherence.
AMIENS METROPOLIS AND CYCLING
The capital of Picardy is the meeting point between Jules Verne, the most translated French writer in the world, president Emmanuel Macron and the 105-year-old world hour record holder, Robert Marchand, all Amiens citizens by birth or choice. The first stage finish here in 1932 saw the victory of André Leducq – the Tour winner that year - while the latest went to another André, Greipel in 2015. Yet another André – Darrigade – raised his arms in Amiens in 1964. In other words, finishes in Amiens usually lead to bunch sprints, as the names of other winners attest – Rudi Altig, Marino Basso, Eric Leman or Mario Cippolini. As we celebrate the centenary of the end of the First World War, we must mention Emile Friol, sprint world champion in 1907 and 1910, who was buried in the Saint-Pierre national necropolis of Amiens.
Specialties: Macaroons (Trogneux macaroons, Brigitte Macron family), chocolate tiles, pate Picard (duck), flamiche (tart) with leeks, Picard ficelle. Amiens, stronghold of the textile industry thanks to the culture of woad, a blue pigment used to dye jeans.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
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Blazing Saddles wrote:It’s Bastille Day so the French fast men Nacer Bouhanni, Arnaud Démare and Bryan Coquard will be dreaming about winning this one.
That was just to check if we're reading your previews, wasn't it?
We are.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
No tA Doctor wrote:Blazing Saddles wrote:It’s Bastille Day so the French fast men Nacer Bouhanni, Arnaud Démare and Bryan Coquard will be dreaming about winning this one.
That was just to check if we're reading your previews, wasn't it?
We are.
It's accumulative fatigue.
All these flat stages have killed my concentration.
I'm just hanging on, going through the motions, waiting for something, anything......................interesting.
Anyhow, it does say dreaming.
Sorted."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Blazing Saddles wrote:No tA Doctor wrote:Blazing Saddles wrote:It’s Bastille Day so the French fast men Nacer Bouhanni, Arnaud Démare and Bryan Coquard will be dreaming about winning this one.
That was just to check if we're reading your previews, wasn't it?
We are.
It's accumulative fatigue.
All these flat stages have killed my concentration.
I'm just hanging on, going through the motions, waiting for something, anything......................interesting.
Anyhow, it does say dreaming.
Sorted.
Cool, can you edit me in then, I'm dreaming of winning a sprint stage on Bastille day as well.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
Have some more lovely Percherons.
This one reminds me of my local boy Dylan Groenewegen.
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So what is this stage...?
A salmon jumping up stream?Correlation is not causation.0 -
I was thinking a Black & Decker drill, but yours has more romanceAbove The Cows wrote:A salmon jumping up stream?Twitter: @RichN950 -
A majestic Marlin? Definitely a fish, at a stretch could be a range of budget power tools?0
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Above The Cows wrote:So what is this stage...?
A salmon jumping up stream?
They don't like it up 'em."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Its a dolphin balancing a red ball on it's nose...Half man, Half bike0
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The Venus de Milo with the head of a Troll Doll.0
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It's a very big dolphin and a tiny ball.Correlation is not causation.0
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Quite like Khukuri stage0
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Tempting for Cav to continue to Calais at the end of this?0
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It's the wrong way up, but otherwise it'd be a pretty credible attempt at Warhol's cover for the Velvet Underground & Nico.
(Cue Kirbyish segue about the GC candidates hoping to avoid a banana skin today, etc, etc)0 -
OK so today's Eye Spy folks...
1. Combine harvester
2. Person riding a horse
3. E.Leclerc hypermarché
4. The race doctor with the Sideshow Bob hair
5. Lazer Kiwi flag
6. Stuffed animal (extra points if it's a boar)
7. Vladimir Putin lookalike
8. Cows in jerseys
9. Helicopter shot of another helicopter
10. Haimar ZubeldiaCorrelation is not causation.0 -
Blazing Saddles wrote:The team hotels for this stage.
Surely these are for tonight? I'd be a bit annoyed about staying in Amiens and then having to schlep 181km back to the start.Correlation is not causation.0 -
Don't want to encourage yesterday's thread any more...
Here's how Sporza dealt with yesterday - https://sporza.be/nl/2018/07/14/michel-jose-saaie-rit/We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Cav adjusting his cleats just before the start.0
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Bastille Day: seems that the French breakaway boys are intent on enjoying the bank holiday by putting their feet up.
Zero interest again in becoming the hares."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Above The Cows wrote:Blazing Saddles wrote:The team hotels for this stage.
Surely these are for tonight? I'd be a bit annoyed about staying in Amiens and then having to schlep 181km back to the start.
Nope, cos tomorrow night the team hotels are all around Annecy."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
France play tomorrow. I think it will kick off.0
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Several punctures in the neutralised zone and opening kms. Are they using Durex feather lights instead of inner tubes?
Peloton on a cafe ride again to the extent that Berghardt accidentally rides off the front without trying and has the wee wee extracted by his mates. Long day ahead again, roll on tomorrow!0 -
Or do you mean Dreux featherlights?Pross wrote:Several punctures in the neutralised zone and opening kms. Are they using Durex feather lights instead of inner tubes?“You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”
Wilier Cento Uno SR/Wilier Mortirolo/Specialized Roubaix Comp/Kona Hei Hei/Calibre Bossnut0 -
marcus burghardt off the front.
struggling to go slowly enough for the peloton to catch him again.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Burghardt shows the correct way to deal with being caught out by today's edition of "Simon Says" and attacking when you're not supposed to:
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Waiting for Alaphilippe to kick off on a break. Pure panache.0
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Surprises me that there aren't riders in the peloton that would be allowed to break away, get 15 mins and stay away.
Long standing well respected domestiques and the like.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
good job they dont sell tickets for this.0
