TDF 2024:- Stage 10: Orléans – Saint-Amand-Montrond, 187.3km ***Spoilers***

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143

    Bring in Bardiani, they'll do a job for you.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    I wonder if part of the issue is that the French teams have had some success so don't need to TV time?

    One other thing that has puzzled me with this year's route is that they had the first big mountain stage and TT on weekdays and then had a bit of a boring stage on the second Saturday.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320

    I remember loads of breakaways (once formed) last year. My memory could be wrong though. 😉

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    Kirby has turned up and immediately talks about the possibility of the stage being stopped due to bad weather and negative stuff about the gravel stage.

    My day is complete.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143

    I still dislike the "new" colour of the green jersey.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    Do we have an actual break?

    Nope, it’s a dummy.

    37kph in the first hour.

    zzzzzzzzz

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Yes, it's not that they weren't allowed to go it was just that they were never allowed to get a decent gap and it was rarely in doubt that they would get caught. It has been the same in most GTs in the last few years so now people can't be bothered.

    Anyway, the right bribes have presumably been offered for a few teams and some riders have gone up the road although the second group have given up.

    Philipsen with another dodgy sprint (or maybe not his fault on this occasion).

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Especially as there seem to be 3 or 4 teams wearing a similar shade.

  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104

    They always tell us the cost reflects the R&D - well in that case just stick with the same design for 4-5 years and bang S-Works out for a few grand I might be tempted.

    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Why is the ticker showing Jonas at 1 minute from the peloton?

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320

    I had a look back and by my reckoning there were 7 breakaway wins last year. 1/3 stages sounds decent.

    That said, they were mostly in the last two weeks.

    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • 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
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149

    Update on Vin's weight please?

  • Kauto5
    Kauto5 Posts: 90

    Looks like Vlasov's frame is the only break I'll see today

  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    edited July 9

    £500 max? will be on the internet somewhere.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661

    Bloody hell it's a slow day. I'm up on the feed and it's 62km to go. Booo

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Crosswind bit hopefully

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661

    Looks nervous, Politt pulling faces on the front.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    UAE up front

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    Not enough wind, probably. Nervous though.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    How much does a iPhone. Cost to make ? You'll be shocked

    £12

    "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

    Wind is a nothing burger

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661

    TuneDeFrance, give me strength. If I wanted that I'd listen to the dutch radio coverage.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    To think I killed a cat

    "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

    Get the reference you gain 5 points

    "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: 75,661

    Come on lads I've got a meeting at 4:30pm, get on with it.

  • 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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652

    Nairo

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725

    I have had to give up. I keep falling asleep.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.