Tour de France - Stage 10, Tue Jul 9, St-Gildas - Saint Malo, **Unmasked Spoilers**

dastardly00

Stage 10, St-Gildas-des-Bois - Saint Malo, 197 km

This stage should be relatively straightforward. The only difficulty might be crosswinds when the peloton reach the coastline with 25km to go. Everyone will be well rested, so there's very little chance for a breakaway to succeed. With no real climbs or anything to whittle down the peloton along the way, it's going to be a massive bunch sprint with all the sprinters involved.




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Stage betting: M Cavendish 10/11, A Greipel 11/4, M Kittel 8/1, P Sagan 9/1.

Here's a link to the Irish riders' diaries thread.

Live TV coverage on Eurosport1 from 12.45pm, ITV4 from 2pm, and TG4 from 1.10pm.
Highlights on Eurosport1 at 7.30m, Eurosport2 at 9.15pm, ITV4 at 7pm, and TG4 at 10.25pm.

Live text-ticker will be here.

Darkglasses

Greipel or Kittel for me.

Reginald P. DuM

Darkglasses wrote: »

Greipel or Kittel for me.

Agreed.... Better lead outs, should be a ding dong final, lets hope everyone stays up..

RobFowl

St Malo is a beautiful town :-)
Been there 4 times and never disappoints

Cav for me

Inquitus

Cav ftw.

TinyExplosions

Small bets on Sagan and EBH, so if I were you guys, I'd stick some cash on both of em crashing today!

Morrisseeee

Cav/Sagan or Sagan/Cav ftw & 2nd
/come on my velogames pocket rockets

edit: don't think this is going to be as exciting as stage 9 !..............unless.......

MPFG

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Cav/Sagan or Sagan/Cav ftw & 2nd
/come on my velogames pocket rockets

edit: don't think this is going to be as exciting as stage 9 !..............unless.......

What about the cross winds

lennymc

MPFG wrote: »

What about the cross winds

they were quite angry. Who knows what they will do. Cav for me.

buffalo

lennymc wrote: »

they were quite angry. Who knows what they will do. Cav for me.

The winds have nothing on Cav after he loses a sprint.

pelevin

Doubt it ever makes sense to expect someone other than Cav to win a bunch sprint. Few euros on Sagan in hope.

manafana

Guys don't write off Greipel or Kittel for this one their trains are good and this sort of sprint suits them as much as cavendish. I wouldn't have him at odds on anyway. Thinking about it this morning Boassen Hagen does have chance i expect sky get a free ride for much of today so he should been to get involved today.

The poor break is doomed really with a headwind as such for most of day.

More on stage 10 betting.

corny

Reverse forecast Cav and Sagan.

MPFG

No one backign Tommy Vocleur ???

Max_Charger

Few euro on Sagan to keep things interesting.

dastardly00

MPFG wrote: »

No one backign Tommy Vocleur ???

Nah i'll think he'll save his energy for more bumpier stages.

Even the lads in the breakaway today will know it's doomed.

MPFG

dastardly00 wrote: »

Nah i'll think he'll save his energy for more bumpier stages.

Even the lads in the breakaway today will know it's doomed.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek there ....but you never know about today

Wouldn't be great if someone came out and attacked ....and by someone I mean some team

Morrisseeee

MPFG wrote: »

No one backign Tommy Vocleur ???

Damn that spell checker is broken again..............."IT, whare ara you "

/^ intentional

MPFG

I am rubbish at spelling but worse at typing

I am sneaking posts in when my boss is not looking so haven't time to check

Thomas Voeckler for stage win aided by wind

Decuc500

I hope it's a flat out sprint between Cav, Greipel, Kittel and Sagan...and Greipel wins. Or maybe Goss will finally do something.

Anyone

Small E/W bet done on Kristoff @ 40/1

ullu

Any reason Degenkolb is such high odds? He's 150 on Betfair's exchange at the moment. I haven't seen any of the sprints this year - is he Kittel's leadout man?

Darkglasses

ullu wrote: »

Any reason Degenkolb is such high odds? He's 150 on Betfair's exchange at the moment. I haven't seen any of the sprints this year - is he Kittel's leadout man?

Yeah, kittel will be the main man for Argos now. Degenkolb got a pretty serious tonking when he tried to sprint against sagan, never mind cav and greipel as well.

Darkglasses

Wow. The trash sections are clearly working. Big well done to the organisers there

buffalo

Just tuned in - Stephen Roche is commentating?

MPFG

He is just doing a guest appearance ...however it seems hard for Carlton to stop him talking....he is defo the opposite to Sean

Esroh

He had to throw in the dig at PK:D

Darkglasses

Flip's sake, those motorbikes are proper clowns today. Two of them barged their way into the front riders at a traffic island, one after the other. Dopes.

pelevin

buffalo wrote: »

Just tuned in - Stephen Roche is commentating?

Why should that upset you? We've one TdF winner, one Giro winner & one World Champ's winner, and they're all Stephen Roche.

Darkglasses

pelevin wrote: »

Why should that upset you? We've one TdF winner, one Giro winner & one World Champ's winner, and they're all Stephen Roche.

He's also a pain in the saddle.

buffalo

pelevin wrote: »

Why should that upset you? We've one TdF winner, one Giro winner & one World Champ's winner, and they're all Stephen Roche.

Who said anything about being upset? Just confused - I was wondering what happened to Kelly?

Now it's Phil Liggett. Am I listening to an ITV stream? Well, now my confusion is resolved!

godtabh

Are saxo in the mix? Finding it hard to spot them on ITV

Edit: I see them at the front now

pelevin

buffalo wrote: »

Who said anything about being upset? Just confused - I was wondering what happened to Kelly?

Now it's Phil Liggett. Am I listening to an ITV stream? Well, now my confusion is resolved!

Sorry if I misinterpreted it but I thought the sad face with al the ?'s signified being upset. Watching it on ITV but if I Sherwin was teamed with Kelly instead of Liggett I'd be a lot happier.

pelevin

Darkglasses wrote: »

He's also a pain in the saddle.

Each to his own. I think he's fine on commentary. Tobh on a vaguely related issue I'm very much on the Against Pat McQuaid side of things but am finding Paul Kimmage ever more a self-righteous, self-pitying, self-obsessed pain in the hole. Anyone he deems on his side he raises to sainthood, whilst anyone he deems against is pure villain. Might be quite unfair but that's how I'm finding him.

wanderer 22

pelevin wrote: »

Sorry if I misinterpreted it but I thought the sad face with al the ?'s signified being upset. Watching it on ITV but if I Sherwin was teamed with Kelly instead of Liggett I'd be a lot happier.

As a neutral third party...I believe it was a confused face

manafana

pelevin wrote: »

Each to his own. I think he's fine on commentary.

pain in the arse for me, doesn't offer the insight of kelly and kelly is still so involved in cycling in a way stephen isnt

godtabh

Who is involved in the garmin crash?

Morrisseeee

Talansky

dastardly00

7km to go.

buffalo

colm18 wrote: »

As a neutral third party...I believe it was a confused face

Are you winking at me? is that a flirting smiley? oh you!

MPFG

Had to laugh at Roche's comments on Hinault and his wife....he can be so indiscreet

Basically he said Hinaults wife is hard but it can't be a party living with Hinualt:eek:

manwithaplan

buffalo wrote: »

Are you winking at me?

Cue 'Allo 'Allo theme music.

retalivity

BOOOM

cav ostracisation in 3,2,1...

Lapin

Photo finish !

dastardly00

fcuk that's gotta hurt.

godtabh

nasty looking crash!

Max_Charger

Cav could be in trouble for that shoulder

jkelly85

Who won?

Darkglasses

Ouch. Cav didn't exactly avoid veelers there.

dastardly00

jkelly85 wrote: »

Who won?

Kittel, then Greipel, then Cav

retalivity

kittel won, cav shouldered someone out of it causing a crash behind the front 5-6

lol at eurosport completely dodging it.