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

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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Gap falling as the peloton gets a bit frantic for the entry to the pave
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    On the pave - no crash
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Bora with Sagan nail it at the front when required.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Bardet puncture
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    They took that very cautiously. Bora in front.

    Bardet puncture
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Bardet puncture - having a wheel change. Bad luck so early on
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Bardet cops a puncture.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Disaster for AG2R there, 2 guys left standing by the side of the road...
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Amazing how the tubs take this hammering.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Bardet about a minute back on the peloton. Going to be a hard chase as the cobbles come quite close together
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    All through with no crashes.

    Not sure the stage is long enough to be truly attritional, no real gaps created - except Bardet's puncture.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Moscon must have had an issue as he is out the back.

    Going to get towed back by Dillier though :D
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Moscon out the back with Bardet.
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    What a day for the French fans. Real race and cup final.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Chasing potatoes, I think it's a Belgian phrase meaning they're in no man's land

    I thought it was broadly equivalent to being on a wild goose chase or otherwise being on a fool's errand
    Thanks. Though my schoolboy French was correct, interesting idiom. Every days a school day.

    Yeah, I've always heard it as "potato hunt", an exercise in futility.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Oh dear, Bardet bike change!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Interesting one for Moscon.
    Clearly he won't want to help Bardet, but will want to regain contact from Froome/Thomas asap.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    In case anyone was under an illusions, I love cobbled pro races
    _
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Oh dear, Bardet bike change!
    Getting his own bike back?
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Interesting one for Moscon.
    Clearly he won't want to help Bardet, but will want to regain contact from Froome/Thomas asap.

    Well Moscon will be on his own now as Bardet had to stop again for a bike change
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    What a treat to have one in July
    _
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Interesting one for Moscon.
    Clearly he won't want to help Bardet, but will want to regain contact from Froome/Thomas asap.

    He'll just get a tow.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Bardet has Latour as well as Dillier now
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,068
    Have any of the cobble sections been drenched with a hose pipe to spice things up a bit? :lol:
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  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    In case anyone was under an illusions, I love cobbled pro races

    I’d like to be associated with the comments of the last speaker
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Movistar Hunger Games hotting up now that Landa has lost his domestique.
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  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    TailWindHome wrote:
    TV graphics would be improved with a timer counting down to the next cobble section.
    Yeah, didn't they do that for Paris-Roubaix this year?
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    What a treat to have one in July

    +1
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Craddock gamely holding onto the peloton. Looked like he was trying to keep his weight on one side at the end of the second cobbled section though.
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    edited July 2018
    Edd and Millar haven't had to mentioned a chateau one! It makes me want to kry.

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