TDF 2024:- Stage 9: Troyes – Troyes, 199km ***Spoilers***

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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    Chute!

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Remco suddenly looks a tad empty

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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    That's nasty. Vlasov

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652

    Vlasov into a ditch.

    Really should be getting a concussion check before continuing

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    That’s pretty much all the climbing done, as is Vlasov.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Vlasov in a ditch

    "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
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436

    Not sure they should have put him straight back on his bike, looked very dazed

  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    I guess the medical team can insist he stops

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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    Mobile check but they really should be stopping

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Turgis has been sitting on all day.

    .....total energy invisibility cloak

    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    I am beginning to think that the break has this. All the worst is over.

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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    MvdP moving towards front of GC group

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652

    Everyone needs to keep an eye on MvdP now - he's going to launch and Pog, Remco and JOnas will want his wheel when he does

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    When I stayed in France I just used them as roads ...you see cars on them at times ...that was the 1990s

    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908


    "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
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    Bling attacks off the front. MvdP in pursuit

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652

    The chance just went.

    Mathews jumped, Girmay and MvdP and Fuglsang and Rui Costa all followed

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Makes sense ...GC guys called it a day

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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    VdP looks like he means business. Wants to shave the tash off

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Former World champion Rui Costa doing a Rui Costa

    "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: 4,332

    Whilst agreeing that Vlasov should have been given a bit more time before letting him wobble off on his bike again, he'd done at least one cartwheel. Hopefully the way he initially struggled to climb back on is more a combination of dizziness and adrenaline than anything more serious.

  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    Gap now under a minute, 37k to go

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652

    Aside from being raw brutality in a skinsuit he really does know how to judge his moment. Done almost nothing today and now he's in a strong chase group 55" behind the knackered break with 36km to go

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
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    It gives him a legit excuse, but it wouldn't have changed anything 😅

    Fuglsang doesn't need to work either

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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933

    He certainly doesn't want to tow Girmay to the line, so he'll need to make his move early enough

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    Time going in the wrong direction again.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Risky by pog

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    This is not sensible

    "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