Tour de France Stage 10 Saint-Flour - Albi (217.5 km)

dastardly00

You could be forgiven for thinking that there is no racing today as the second Monday is usually a rest day. But today the peloton face another bumpy transition stage. With the sprinters taking it easy yesterday, expect them to contest the finish today.





Live: Eurosport1 11am-5pm, TG4 1.10-5.10pm, ITV4 11am-5pm, S4C 2pm-conclusion
Highlights: Eurosport1 11.00pm-12.00am, TG4 9-9.30pm, ITV 7-8pm, S4C 10-10.30pm

dastardly00

The GC teams are fearful of crosswinds and potential splits in the peloton

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Nico diary : https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicolas-roche-i-tried-to-get-rid-of-the-big-horsepower-guys-to-have-chance-to-win-38312806.html


And Dan Martin fans dont foget to catch the breakaway today as Dan is the guest ..Its on ES UK, Facebook ,Youtube

MPFGLB

dastardly00 wrote: »

The GC teams are fearful of crosswinds and potential splits in the peloton

I love an echelon

Splits, Uran in the second group and possibly Pinot.

EDIT: Fuglsang and Porte there too.

Eamonnator

Deleted User wrote: »

Splits, Uran in the second group and possibly Pinot.

EDIT: Fuglsang and Porte there too.

HTF did that happen?
Where's Dan?

Dan looks to be there in the leading group, missed it happening but EF were trying to drive it on in and then somehow got caught out in the back when the split happened.

15km to go, the gap is 23 seconds and the leaders in the second group have used up most of their team.

Up to 28 seconds as I type.

GetWithIt

Is Dan is the leading group? UAE were doing a lot of chasing

odyssey06

GetWithIt wrote: »

Is Dan is the leading group? UAE were doing a lot of chasing

TDF site says he is in front pelton...
https://racecenter.letour.fr/#/stageprofile

If you click on #1 Pelton, it gives you list of riders in that group in a popup window.

Just saw him number 121 in that front group with 2 team mates with him.

Eamonnator

That should do Dan a lot of good.
Top 10 on GC?

Itziger

Up to 9th it seems.

Joe Exotic

Dan is 2'32" back from Juilian Alaphilippe and 1'20" back from Geraint Thomas. Is it realistic that Alaphilippe is the target or will he fade away and dan is really chasing Tomas (or next best for a potential podium)

WvA went early there and beating that kind of company in his tour debut is something. Good on the lad.

dastardly00

murphk wrote: »

Dan is 2'32" back from Juilian Alaphilippe and 1'20" back from Geraint Thomas. Is it realistic that Alaphilippe is the target or will he fade away and dan is really chasing Tomas (or next best for a potential podium)

Alaphilippe will eventually fade when they get to the high mountains so Dan is really chasing Thomas

dahat

Only 1.20 off Thomas at this stage is a pretty good situation for Dan, he has to be pleased.

cunavalos

Dan was quite candid and relaxed in the interview on Eurosport, clearly happy to be in the position he is currently and looking forward to the pyrenees. Surprised Dan Lloyd didn't have a go at him over the white shorts though.

Even 15-20 minutes after the stage had ended he didn't realise the extent of the time gaps back to Pinot Fuglsang etc. he thought it was only around the minute mark.

Matthews will be sickened looking back on the sprint, the only rider with a leadout and he waits too long to open up his sprint and gets swarmed

MPFGLB

Dan Martin is in a great position for a podium ( his goal) but to beat Thomas and Ineos is a big ask ..the team is sooooo strong

So Dan's rivals were the guys caught out today and Steven Kruijswijk /Yates imo


So all good really ...he seemed like a happy man talking to Sean Kelly

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Here is Dan & Sean in the breakaway

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1rmGPeXoZVyJN

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Weepsie wrote: »

You'd think Dan, Aru and Henao could surely have it in them to light it up in the mountains. They don't seem to function as well as a team unit, but if they could get it together, who knows.

Aru,Costa & Henao dont seem to be the most gelled group of people

Havent seen Aru do any domestique work yet ...seemed to be up there on GC for most of this week but gone now

MPFGLB

https://twitter.com/cyclingmole/status/1150814654370844673?s=20

It was a crash that did for Landa, didn't see it or hear it mentioned on Eurosport :rolleyes:

So thats how he ended up in the Ciccone group.

Dr. Bre

Poor Pinot and Porte. Never get any luck in this race .

Lusk_Doyle

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Poor Pinot and Porte. Never get any luck in this race .

Crashing or being caught behind a crash can be bad luck indeed but being poorly placed amd missing a split when the wind conditions are well known is inexcusable for a top pro rider with podium aspirations and should not be misconstrued as bad luck.

Lusk_Doyle

On echelons, there is something beautiful to watch them at work and seeing the yellow jersey at the front of an echelon hammering it is a great sight.

letape

Deleted User wrote: »

It was a crash that did for Landa, didn't see it or hear it mentioned on Eurosport :rolleyes:

So thats how he ended up in the Ciccone group.

Looks like Landa was taken out by an AG2R rider - video in link below:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CumbresCiclista/status/1150788892762787841?s=09

neris

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Poor Pinot and Porte. Never get any luck in this race .

Always thought porte was overrated as a leader and gc contender. Being a top super domestique does not make you a potential winner

dastardly00

letape wrote: »

Looks like Landa was taken out by an AG2R rider - video in link below:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CumbresCiclista/status/1150788892762787841?s=09

It was Warren Barguil who made contact with Landa.

Barguil touched wheels with Alaphilippe, then collided into Landa.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-barguil-admits-causing-mikel-landas-fall/

I hope those spectators are okay!

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neris wrote: »

Always thought porte was overrated as a leader and gc contender. Being a top super domestique does not make you a potential winner

Porte always seems to be alone ..eating the wind by himself
I dont think he is a leader of men and you need to be to be a champion


Fuglsang fell behind after going wrong way around a roundabout and then taking bottles ??

Landa was brought down by Barguil ? Landa always (like Porte) has a sad story

EF started the drilling yet Uran lost out big time...not sure how that happened ??

I really feel for Pinot becasue he looked the most promising to take on Thomas and becasue I like the animal loving woods living fella

dastardly00

https://twitter.com/procycletrumps/status/1150840027867504640

dastardly00

Viviani's face :pac:

I notice from that picture Viviani is also missing Italian national champs bands on his sleeves. Whats the story there? Some teams have them some don't. Dan and Nico don't have them but Dan did on his long sleeve on the Eurosport piece. But in that shot both Naesen and G do have them. Each team to their own i guess?

MPFGLB

So here is what hppened to the EF today ??

https://cyclingtips.com/2019/07/ill-fated-echelons-how-ef-education-first-missed-the-move-it-started/

cunavalos

Everyone seems to have an excuse for missing the split, some are more valid than others, George Bennett was loading up on water bottles for his teammates when the hammer went down. he would have been a great foil for Kruiswijk and arguably had better form and probably fancied his chances of a top 5 overall with an outside bet of podium.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/114260991/tour-de-france-george-bennetts-yellow-jersey-hopes-evaporate



He gets dropped on the first split when EF started the initial push at the big roundabout

cunavalos

Deleted User wrote: »

I notice from that picture Viviani is also missing Italian national champs bands on his sleeves. Whats the story there? Some teams have them some don't. Dan and Nico don't have them but Dan did on his long sleeve on the Eurosport piece. But in that shot both Naesen and G do have them. Each team to their own i guess?

Its even stranger than some teams do and some teams don't. At the team presentation Dan had a short sleeve jersey with the bands and viviani had the bands for stage 4 (It looks like viviani has half a band on the inside with space left for sponsor on the outside






I think in some cases it may be sponsor related at the jersey sleeve is prime real estate and another reason is that each rider has so many different jerseys sprintsuit, aero jersey and climbers jersey it may be hard to custom each type or order different configurations. I think Thomas has the band on one sleeve only

Ah you're right, Viviani does have have them inside and a sponsor logo outside. Much clearer in that picture.

dastardly00

cunavalos wrote: »

Everyone seems to have an excuse for missing the split, some are more valid than others, George Bennett was loading up on water bottles for his teammates when the hammer went down. he would have been a great foil for Kruiswijk and arguably had better form and probably fancied his chances of a top 5 overall with an outside bet of podium.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/114260991/tour-de-france-george-bennetts-yellow-jersey-hopes-evaporate



He gets dropped on the first split when EF started the initial push at the big roundabout

Very strange that they had Bennett doing water bottle duties

topcat77

dastardly00 wrote: »

Very strange that they had Bennett doing water bottle duties

Bad decision by Jumbo-Visma. They didn't cover themselves in glory at the Giro with equally strange decision making. A good DS is greatly unappreciated.

Dr. Bre

Kruijswijk is a dark horse for me . Can do decent TT