TDF 2018, Stage 9: Arras Citadelle > Roubaix 15/07/2018 - 156,5 km *Spoilers*

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    MAKE THEM DO THIS EVERY DAY!
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Might not blink for the next 1.5hrs
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    adr82 wrote:
    Where's Dumoulin?
    The Sky group
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    This is brilliant!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Movistar have had to drop back for Quintana?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Peloton isn’t going that fast if the break still has two minutes and EF can get back on so fast
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Peloton isn’t going that fast if the break still has two minutes and EF can get back on so fast

    looked like froome was drifting off slightly and they slowed down slightly. they were looking behind as they left the last cobbles
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Peloton isn’t going that fast if the break still has two minutes and EF can get back on so fast


    Too early to drill it all the way to Roubaix?
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TdG putting the pain on in the break
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Kruisjwijk puncture
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Jez mon wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Peloton isn’t going that fast if the break still has two minutes and EF can get back on so fast


    Too early to drill it all the way to Roubaix?


    Kruiswijk mechanical


    Yeah the incentives aren’t to smash it because your leader isn’t your potential Roubaix winner.

    BMC, QS and Bora don’t have the numbers to make it hard to suit their leaders
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Peloton tea break. All coming back together.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Peloton tea break. All coming back together.

    This time they deserve it.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Ned Boulting pretending TJVG is a GC favourite.

    Hiatus in hostilities, Orchies next though
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    The next sector is the longest one. Things should break up for good.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Then "Mons en Pevele" after that

    Fake Mons en Pevele though
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Break post cos can't watch app and tweet

    US Twitter - NO ONE IS WAITING FOR TJvG!!

    BMC - Lol course not

    Sky playin' a blinder

    Wtf Terpstra you're supposed to be good at this

    Poor Cav yet again (thought he was going to sneak this one)

    Cobbles still have no place in a GT
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Was that a puncture for Lampaert
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Jez mon wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Peloton isn’t going that fast if the break still has two minutes and EF can get back on so fast


    Too early to drill it all the way to Roubaix?


    Kruiswijk mechanical


    Yeah the incentives aren’t to smash it because your leader isn’t your potential Roubaix winner.

    BMC, QS and Bora don’t have the numbers to make it hard to suit their leaders

    Assuming Geraint and Froome are feeling OK, in my fantasy DS role I'd be shouting drill it though.

    Aside from the potential time, getting through the sectors in a smaller group has got to be less dangerous
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    edited July 2018
    Haha big crash for TJVG

    (He seems to be physically OK, just covered in dust)
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    I get irrationally annoyed when ITV and Eurosport are both on an ad break at the same time and I can't flick from one to the other
    I was going to say the same thing. I always expect them to come back with an image of 30 riders on the floor.
    I have Planet Rock on standby. 1980s poodle-hair metal ballads fit perfectly with the TdF. Scorpions is ideal, but I can do a bit of Saxon or Foreigner.
    ITV break time. Planet Rock: Saxon - Wheels of Steel 8)
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    TJ and Cobrelli down. Sky take to the front again.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Lady Garden down slowly getting started again.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Ha got to admit I laughed.

    TJVG spends all that time grafting to get back on then stacks it on the turn in to the sectore
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Van Ladygarden down, just as he's got back on, right at start of the secteur.

    Chris Anker say's he's a "clown" with his bike handling and irritates the rest of the peloton.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    GVA puts the hammer down.
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  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    GvA going
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    GvA phwooooaaaar
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well I appear to have missed some action.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Greg has strijdtlust
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