TDF 2021: Stage 8, Oyonnax > Le Grand-Bornand 150.8 km **Spoilers**

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    zest28 said:

    A GC (Pogacar) is a better climber than Ineos their own climbers (Carapez).

    Ineos needs prime Chris Froome to beat this guy.

    None of them can climb like MvDP though.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Pog going into yellow today, isn't he? Needs another minute or so on wva I think.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited July 2021
    Doesn’t push a small gear does he

    He likes these first cat 7-8% jobbies doesn’t he?
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  • rozzer32
    rozzer32 Posts: 3,923
    Hey Lance, is that you?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Long way to go still
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Race radio down for sporza commentators
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Gap less than 3 mins now. He's ridiculous.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    G'wan Woodsy!

    Give us some hope there's still a point in watching
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    The weather was like this when I climbed the Colombière, I might have cried with the cold.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Ridiculous though it sounds, I'm not sure that 3 minutes of an 8km climb is enough for Woods.
    He's at least going to have to push the descent.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    lettingthedaysgoby said:

    Gap less than 3 mins now. He's ridiculous.

    Wants the bonus seconds at the line, doesn't he?
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,833
    Someone needs to tell Pog to make it look a bit more believable.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Lanterne_Rogue said:


    Wants the bonus seconds at the line, doesn't he?

    Not sure he's gonna need them after today, but yeah, looks like it.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    In the race for 2nd place, I'm wondering whether any teams regret their tactics yesterday.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited July 2021
    They're calling Carapaz as G4 and Van Aert as G5, so he must have caught the rest of the GC remnants.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    ..............only he's not.

    Omar Fraile is now pulling the remaining GC riders.
    Another...............er...........weird performance.
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Gap still dropping, now 2:30, with 5km of the climb to go
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Pogacar nearly in yellow
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,065
    Are we watching Pog's equivalent of Froome's Giro stage from a few years back?
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,833
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    Are we watching Pog's equivalent of Froome's Giro stage from a few years back?

    I was thinking more Lance on Luz Ardiden
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Reminds me of Armstrong and Javier Otxoa on Hautucam.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Crazy to think there's still 2 weeks of the race to go. What an opening week it's been.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    90 seconds now on Carapaz.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Now less than 2 mins to Woods.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    phreak said:

    Reminds me of Armstrong and Javier Otxoa on Hautucam.

    Very similar...........................weather.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited July 2021
    Teuns about to overhaul Woods :(

    (though I've got nothing against him to be honest)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    I think Madiot's 2 speed peloton has just aquired a third speed.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Carapaz 90 secs down on Pog
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Was that someone in a blow up p3n1s costume?

    It's no boar man.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    Giant Wang at the side of the road, no painting over that

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