LE TOUR STAGE 7 - [SPOILERS AHOY!!!]

niceonetom

IF YOU DON'T LIKE SPOILERS GTFO!!!

Here we go folks, the first mountain stage woohoo! And at last a chance to talk unfettered by the spoiler police!

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because it soooo hard to use spoiler tags, right?

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Predictions?

I can see astana working together on the climb and finding out if Cancellara really has taken enough drugs lost enough weight to hang on to yellow on a long (though not that steep) climb. Today we shall see LA don the yellow maillot and the 8th gate into hell will open. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, the sun will turn black and crumble and idiots across the world will rejoice.

scottreynolds

niceonetom wrote: »

Predictions?

Hard to look past Astana (A-Team) so thats the boring prediction. Here's my two outside random predictions.

1. Mehchov won't be happy with the past few days performances o will try and break today on the last climb.
2. My man Sastre will fly up the lst climb to try to put pressure on the A-Team

Caroline_ie

No ... Euskatel Euskadi FTW or ... Lance

Billy Whizz

Astana-led group of 15 will contest the sprint for the stage, with Evans taking it. All the favourites will be there, only question is whether Cancellara can hang on.

ednwireland

a thread per stage is better cos that tour de france one is getting a bit long

anyway hard to see past the astana boys. although the way cancellara has been cclimbing i could see him staying in yellow. and theres going to be somne guys putting in some big digs on that climb as an attempted show of strength, Cadel attacking anyone, cos he sure aiint done anything else this tour and he's going to try and get into contention even if ultimately he fails.

contador wins for me blows everyone away i think he may use this one to get the last week and armstrong love fest out of his system.

bring it on !

(spoilers are hard to read BTW not use - it thought you could turn them off but i couldn'y find them)

Funkyzeit

Can't see there being too much of a shake up with the main G.C contenders (
although do fancy Sastre to try something though)

Will be very interesting to see in Andorra -who in Astana is working for who...

TinyExplosions

Lance FTW -he'll show them young whippersnappers what's what.

lukester

Lancey to open up a serious can of whupass on everyone, and then do some stand-up with Ben Stiller at a comedy open mic in Andorra.

Chips Lovell

Predication? Armstrong to take yellow perhaps, but the real race will be Berto, Andy Schleck, Sastre et al marking each other and following him home right on his wheel. Attacks from Evans and Menchov possibly if they feel they can ride their way back into it. If so, they'll easily be neutralised by the others. Euskaltel will be in the break but they'll more than likely get caught before the end.

petethedrummer

Watch it sort of live here. Just like being there.

petethedrummer

Woohoo! A couple of my boys (Kern & Martinez) have gone up the road.

petethedrummer

COME ON!!! PEDAL YOU F**KERS.

Diarmuid

spoiler time!!



The girl in the Crying Game is a dude!

niceonetom

Chips Lovell

Reminds me of one of my favourite bars in Madrid. It's called "Luke, soy tu padre". We got some funny looks asking for directions the first time we went there.

Bambaata

anyone find a site showing a live video?

ednwireland

tg4.tv not sure might start live at 1:30

Caroline_ie

GOOOOOOO MARTINEZ FROM EUSKATEL!!!!!!!!!

Trojan

Anyone know approximately what time you'd expect them to hit the last 5-10k?

ednwireland

http://www.letour.com/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/700/etape_par_etape.html

click time scedules


EL SERRAT 10.5 213.5 14:56 16:17 16:35 16:55


first one is km to go 2nd km gone third is caravenne and rest is at average speed 40, 38 36 km/kh, currently averaging 37 , french time of course

petethedrummer

Caroline_ie wrote: »

GOOOOOOO MARTINEZ FROM EUSKATEL!!!!!!!!!

I've been sending him psychic messages of encouragement all morning.

zzzzzzzz

Bambaata wrote: »

anyone find a site showing a live video?

atdhe.net

kenmc

http://www.justin.tv/oleolep2p1

ednwireland

is that really 51 km of climbing ( as my eurosport feed tells) me :eek: gulp

gotta love the 2 intermediate sprints coming up, where are the sprinters now eh ?

kenmc

Holy f*ck, AVG of 90km/h descending for Cancellera. What the hell was his max in that case! :eek:

DrGroove

I have to say that was really impressive - just looking at Ab Fab Cancellara swoop down off the mountain was proper poetry in motion - and then just when he catches the bunch he punctures again....:(

petethedrummer

Go on Martinez! what are eurosport saying?? can the break away hang on??

Vélo

Spoilers?

I don't mind but others might.

niceonetom

Vélo wrote: »

Spoilers?

I don't mind but others might.

I've edited the top of this thread to deal with your concerns.

L'Enfer du Nord

Don't know if this has already been posted, but I find it the next best thing to actually watching the TV coverage live-

http://gaps.letour.fr/us.html

I think some of the break away won't be caught!

Vélo

Is Blorg in this years tour?

There's an awful lot of crashes:D

ednwireland

time gap plummeting now their hitting the main climb boonen down again and leipheimer (astana wont put so much pressure on now till he rejoins

L'Enfer du Nord

Caroline_ie wrote: »

GOOOOOOO MARTINEZ FROM EUSKATEL!!!!!!!!!

Hmm... After losing out to Simon Gerrans on mountain top finish last year I seem to remember him claiming that Gerrans had said he wouldn't contest the stage victory (why?). Found it hard to believe at the time, sounded like a sore loser.

RobFowl

1. 16:45 CEST (14.7km remaining from 224km)
   
   Dave Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde are up there near the front, as is Irish road race champion Nicolas Roche (Ag2r La Mondiale).

Courtesy of Shane Stokes

penexpers

Cancellara is suffering big time. Looks like Lance might be in yellow.

Lumen

I thought the point of this thread was that we didn't need spoiler tags?

penexpers

Cancellara is 40 seconds behind the peleton. The A-team are at the front of the peleton.

niceonetom

Cancellara has cracked! LA is virtual yellow! The prophesy is fulfilled!! We are undone!!!

There's no need for spoiler tags in this thread!

DirkVoodoo

Poor old Fabien! over a minute down off the peloton now.

Vélo

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dub_skav

Today's stage has confirmed that

riding bikes up mountains is hard

ednwireland

cadel attacks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caroline_ie

FECK!!! Is LA in for himself you think or for contador

penexpers

Contador attacks.

DirkVoodoo

OH....MY....LORD!

kmart6

Contador off like shot!

Caroline_ie

GOOOO ALBERTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

penexpers

Haha yer man is winning and no-one cares.

and he doesn't even bother to zip us his jersey.

ednwireland

contandor eat my wheels !!!!!!

thewing

For those of us with streaming blocked, can we have more descriptive updates than 'Oh My Lord' and 'So and So attacks'....

Thanks!

ednwireland

6 hours of pain !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

feillu wins

contadaor dancing on the pedals 10 s ahead of his rivals cadel trying to chase