2012 Tour de France: Stage 8: Belfort → Porrentruy (157.5km)

[Frosty]

About 10-12 people in the autobus.

 

[Gubby Allen]

Interesting entry on the live feed:

13:46:09 CEST
The 40-year-old Schleck is putting on a good show for the youngsters chasing him.

 

[Froome19]

VALLS FERRI Rafael 128 VCD +00:05:16 RIBLON Christophe 78 ALM +00:09:02 CASAR Sandy 141 FDJ +00:11:28 MARZANO Marco 46 LAM +00:15:44 PAULINHO Sergio... 177 STB +00:18:48 ALBASINI Michael 202 OGE +00:19:54 FOFONOV Dmitriy 183 AST +00:28:33 HUGUET Yann 216 ARG +00:39:55 URTASUN PEREZ Pablo 38 EUS +00:4

Break and GC placings

 

[Kwibus]

Allrrrrighty that's a nice break!

Coppel, Velits and Mollema join!

Did I say before how incredibly strong Voigt is?

 

[Dutchsmurf]

Mollema in the break too. More people trying to get ahead.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

VALLS FERRI Rafael 128 VCD +00:05:16 RIBLON Christophe 78 ALM +00:09:02 CASAR Sandy 141 FDJ +00:11:28 MARZANO Marco 46 LAM +00:15:44 PAULINHO Sergio... 177 STB +00:18:48 ALBASINI Michael 202 OGE +00:19:54 FOFONOV Dmitriy 183 AST +00:28:33 HUGUET Yann 216 ARG +00:39:55 URTASUN PEREZ Pablo 38 EUS +00:4

Break and GC placings

I hope Sky send Astana a muffin basket.

 

[Frosty]

9 in the chase group

VALLS FERRI Rafael 128+00:05:16
RIBLON Christophe 78+00:09:02
CASAR Sandy 141+00:11:28
MARZANO Marco 46+00:15:44
PAULINHO Sergio... 177+00:18:48
ALBASINI Michael 202+00:19:54
FOFONOV Dmitriy 183+00:28:33
HUGUET Yann 216+00:39:55
URTASUN PEREZ Pablo 38+00:40:54

4 chasing behind them

Edit; Annoying, i spent a bit of time formatting that so all the numbers and times were above each other, but it seems to get rid of it when i press reply.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Chavanel needs to undestand that he won't be going in a breakaway today.

 

[Kwibus]

Still lot of strong riders trying to bridge.

Which isn't good for the break.

 

[LaFleur]

van der Broeck trying to get away - this break dead aswell?

 

[Frosty]

Peter Velits is one of the chasers too.

 

[Kwibus]

Bloody shame I have to go for a while.

Very interesting so far.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

van der Broeck trying to get away - this break dead aswell?

Vanendert
.......

 

[Frosty]

Huge chase group now. Who is the Rabo with the injured right elbow?

 

[Kwibus]

Huge chase group now. Who is the Rabo with the injured right elbow?

Mollema.

..

 

[vcampbell]

van der Broeck trying to get away - this break dead aswell?

He is Vanendert.

But this stage is a madness. I don't know what will happen

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Lack of a BOTD is a nightmare for the grupetto - going to struggle to make contact before the bottom of the first cat 2 climb.

 

[Froome19]

Vanendert as well attacking

 

[LaFleur]

Vanendert
.......

Ok, sorry. One shall never trust David Harmon... Team Sky should just send Rogers in the break and see what happens

 

[superconfex]

Cav's work is done

 

[Frosty]

Cav now struggling off the back

 

[Caruut]

I'm not sure VDB will be too happy you got him mixed up with Jelle there.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I'm not sure VDB will be too happy you got him mixed up with Jelle there.

Jelle has some feats Jurgen is sorely lacking though

 

[Froome19]

Bernie and Cav go bust off the back

 

[Roude Leiw]

if no break will go soon, a lot of guys will struggle with the timelimit this evening