July 8, Stage 8: Belfort - Porrentruy 157.5km *Warning - contains unmasked spoilers

ednwireland

Belfort – Porrentruy

Distance: 157.5km
Highest point: 1,046m
Category: Medium mountains

dastardly00

Anybody who suffered during Saturday's stage, will not be looking forward to this stage.
I wonder will Dan try and get in an early break?

Esroh

Ed
Thanks again for being our personal Stage Guide your playing a blinder;)

ednwireland

Esroh wrote: »

Ed
Thanks again for being our personal Stage Guide your playing a blinder;)

doing my best , wait till i'm busy one evening

happytramp

dastardly00 wrote: »

I wonder will Dan try and get in an early break?

There could be a few breaks. The Sky boys will be VERY selective about who they let away.

seve65

Look at those 20% ramps on the last climb.

app.strava.com/segments/1286159

and lauren t's VAM of nearly 2000 says it all.

manafana

yeah tommorow will test the legs, 3rd last climb should ride the group of any of those not in form, then final climb might break some, wonder how much it will come back within top and the finish.

Darkglasses

Really excited for tomorrow's stage. This is my first year watching the Tour, and road racing in general, and I think I'm hooked for life. Beats the hell out of waiting 1/2 weeks for Formula 1 racing!

BQQ

Think this is one for a breakaway.

Someone like Paulinho. Won a stage in 2010.

AG2R

The way to break the sky train is to keep attacking it, make them change their pace. They've been great when dictating the pace themselves but if they need to keep upping it and then slowing down to only have to kick on again it may break them

GetWithIt

I reckon Sky are going to ride to plan, the same plan, on each and every mountain. Form the train and pace Wiggins up. That is the quickest way for him to get from the bottom to the top and irrespective of whether anyone attacks that's what they'll do.

Whether they can do that on every mountain as effectively as they did yesterday is debatable. The loss of Svitsov is going to be felt at some some stage. Rogers did his job yesterday with Garmin doing Rogers job. That's not going to happen again.

manafana

wish astana would let it go, and make sky work if they want chase it down some good names in the break.

Rovi

Jensie giving it socks off the front!!!

Darkglasses

Roche loses some time, he's lost his chain. Race is very stretched and broken up.

Darkglasses

Nico gets some assistance to rejoin the peloton. Good to see if you're a Roche fan!

SickBoy

Any streams available?

Darkglasses

Crash! Samuel Sanchez has taken a hit, he's finished for today. Shoulder injury it appears

A_Sober_Paddy

Is that Sanchez's third crash this year?

aindriu80

couldn't see exactly what happened but looks like someone just fell asleep

Darkglasses

Eurosport saying his own teammate pulled over to the side too quickly. Sanchez is heartbroken,horrible to see.

mahoo

roy out front... id love if he won a stage. he was so agressive last year but never got the stage win he deserved. he's a real ballsy rider

real shame about sanchez. another big retirement

Esroh

SickBoy wrote: »

Any streams available?

TG4
http://www.tg4.ie/en/tg4-player/tg4-player.html


They are showing tennis on the tv so its in english with Phil ligget until tomorrow

sq_forever

Enough of these crashes. Race really loosing it's gloss when the likes of Ryder Hysedal and Sammy Sanches abandoning. Can't see anyone to threaten Evans and Wiggins in the Alps now. Gutted at the loss of Sammy S.

ednwireland

sq_forever wrote: »

Enough of these crashes. Race really loosing it's gloss when the likes of Ryder Hysedal and Sammy Sanches abandoning. Can't see anyone to threaten Evans and Wiggins in the Alps now. Gutted at the loss of Sammy S.

Another stupid crash on a straight road (just replaying in on the eurosport player) the riders just seemed to run into each other

manafana

this is all over the road, sky have had to work overtime today, lucky enough its tt and then rest day.

A_Sober_Paddy

ednwireland wrote: »

Another stupid crash on a straight road (just replaying in on the eurosport player) the riders just seemed to run into each other

Is there anyway to watch Eurosport player without paying for it? Heard it was free, but whenever I try to use it they ask me to sign up and pay?

AIR-AUSSIE

Its €5 your one month. Its not free.

ednwireland

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Is there anyway to watch Eurosport player without paying for it? Heard it was free, but whenever I try to use it they ask me to sign up and pay?

nah it costs money i just have a yearly subscription ( i watch waay too much cycling)

Darkglasses

ITV4 is also showing the Tour, which is free on Saorview. Although you miss out on Carlton Kirby's ramblings.

retalivity

is the letour site acting strange for anyone else?

Its not showing the gaps or where they are on the road anymore. (the updates are working ok though)

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2012/us/live/aso/

AG2R

Sagan leading the descent

retalivity

hello liquigas, what have we got here......

A_Sober_Paddy

AG2R wrote: »

Sagan leading the descent

His an animal and only 22:eek:

AG2R

Liquigas is seriously going for this with Sagan here

AIR-AUSSIE

Are liqigas not working a bit too early? Like Garmin yesterday?

AG2R

Think they just want to get him over the climb and thats it

AG2R

Martin dropped on the last climb

AG2R

Sagan dropped from the peloton, he's strong but not that strong

riparooo

AG2R wrote: »

Martin dropped on the last climb

Strange that both today and yesterday he seems to be struggling.....

AG2R

Klodens been dropped too!


Alot of riders just falling off, Lotto have put in a huge effort

Rain Taarame dropped too

AG2R

PINOT Thibaut amazing ride

GetWithIt

Roche-watch?

AG2R

not in the wiggins group,think he's in the peloton as he's not listed with the dropped riders on the Tour website

Darkglasses

Haha, brilliant to see the FDJ sporting director going berserk in the car behind Pinot. He must do it now!

j@utis

haha that was hilarious when you couldn't understand what he was saying. gap is melting though and it's still 3km to go. go pinot!

Darkglasses

Van Den Broeck really going out to catch Thibaut now. Very exciting stuff. Marc Madiot in the car going absolutely postal behind him

j@utis

and yet again pinot is getting barked on

AG2R

He's still going mad!




HOW WAS VAN DER BROCK ALLOWED TO Break there

Evans is trying to go too

Darkglasses

1km to go and Cadel is chasing too. COME ON Thibaut!!

AG2R

what a ride by Pinot, unreal such raw power on the climb

AG2R

Evans got caught