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

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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,163
    Tao GH up there trying to get in the break
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Kluge looking shot. Think he'll climb off today, if I'm honest.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    Longest stage yesterday, then a short stage starting with a long unclassified climb

    Ouch
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    edited July 2021
    Merlier looks done too. Demare also out the back.

    We have a Sky past and present twosome off the front.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    Boy Van Poppel & Demare out the back

    Froome hanging
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    Big day for Cav
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    Tao struggling
    "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
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    TGH & Poels opening a gap at the front
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    Looks like TGH told to let him go
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,163
    Poels drops TGH. Not sure why Poels is going so hard.

    Froome dropped before Cav...
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Cav's off now though.

    Big autobus today then.
  • This going to be a horrible day for a lot of these guys :D
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Cavendish being given two guys to pace him, so there's that. Don't get the impression (yet) it's being raced quite as hard as yesterday either.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    Thomas out the back in a large bunch.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    Sketchy enough descent.

    Everyone seems to be taking it cautiously
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,069
    Echallon alert!
  • Speedbumps on a wet descent don't exactly look like fun
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    edited July 2021
    Think that damp road just got a bit damper...


  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    The race is already in bits.
    A pity about all the downhill flat.
    Woods goes grass cutting
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • One long line again
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,879
    Thomas with Cav 1m30 back
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    Strange situation
    "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
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Kluge, Merlier back in the Thomas/Cav group.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    WvA attacks
    "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
  • WvA trying to push this on, but I can't see them letting him go, surely?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    Nice bit of drone cam
    "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
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,892
    Roglic being dropped now too.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,137
    Roglic deciding group 2 might be more fun
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,615

    Nice bit of drone cam

    Not nice bit of Rog cam
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    Painful watching roglic and g drift out the back of the tdf .
    "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