2016 TdF, Stage 8: Pau → Bagnères-de-Luchon (184km)

[ILovecycling]

Wow what a final

Chapeau Froome!

 

[Eclipse]

Froomedawg fully evolved into Froomegawd

Immense

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Hopefully Contador now realizes that his GC aspirations are definitely over.

 

[Laplaz]

Daniel Martin also strong today

 

[whittashau]

The other rides should be ashamed of themselves. Letting Froome ride away like that. He's not Bardet or Nibali or something. Simply no one wanted to put the effort into reeling him in

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

What the hell are Bora doing allowing Buchmann to ride for 30th on GC or something? His GC is over, he should be dropping time and trying to get in breaks on mountain days. Yet here he is pulling on the front of the Contador group, trying to limit his losses.

 

[gatete]

The king is dead, long live the king Quintana for moi

 

[Jelantik]

with this rate.. i think Froome is going to win it. Quintana.. lol.. Looking for Valverde to chase...

 

[webvan]

Re:

Race for GC over....

Maybe he attacked because he doesn't feel stronger than Quintana in the climbs, like Hinault in 84...we'll find out tomorrow.

 

[kingjr]

Tour is not over, Quintana has not lost significant time and Froome has yet to prove that he can stay strong for 3 weeks.

 

[SeriousSam]

Re:

Is Contador now going to ride for Kreuziger?

He should

 

[spalco]

I expected this to be a boring stage, glad I was so wrong.

 

[StephenC2020]

Feel sorry for Dan Martin. So close to yellow

 

[Nadalina]

Re: Re:

I didn't even know that you could do what Froome is doing now.

He invented something new.

Sagan, worlds 2015

Mohoric, 2013 worlds

Matej Mohoric won WC U-23 using this style. He actually "invented it" while competing with his mates in his home mountain village. Everyone was laughing at him. But a waste of energy? Obviously not.

 

[rainman]

Chapeau Dan aswell, super ride

 

[Irondan]

Re: Re:

Race for GC over....

Maybe he attacked because he doesn't feel stronger than Quintana in the climbs, like Hinault in 84...we'll find out tomorrow.

Maybe, but I don't think so.

 

[bassano]

nice win and good ride from froome but taking 22 second for such a effort can cost him much more tomorrow
Aru also defended himself good enough with alps still to race

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Idiotic by Froome and I can see him paying for it hard tomorrow

 

[gunara]

I don't like Froome or Sky, but that's simply awesome. Quintana - at least so far - doesn't deserve the same respect as him.

P.S. : Yet strangely I think Nairo will win the Tour with that

 

[Irondan]

Purito quietly riding very well so far.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Looking back now, maybe that whole Majka incident was to make the others think he was going for KoM, so when he attacked over the final climb, Movistar caught out by Froome not sitting up after the acceleration

 

[TMP402]

Re:

Froome won the Tour, British domination continues. 5th British win in 8 days.

I'm done with the Tour.

Not a nice sentiment.

3/4 jerseys held by Britons, each from a different team.

 

[Jelantik]

Re:

Hopefully Contador now realizes that his GC aspirations are definitely over.

if he wants it, he can podium. No way he was dropped like that if it's not his injury. But as we know, he doesn't care unless no.1. So yeah.. you can say it's over.

 

[bigcog]

Re:

Idiotic by Froome and I can see him paying for it hard tomorrow

Yep you have to wonder...

 

[DFA123]

Re:

The other rides should be ashamed of themselves. Letting Froome ride away like that. He's not Bardet or Nibali or something. Simply no one wanted to put the effort into reeling him in

He clearly is now. Admittedly not the most technical descent, but his technique was impeccable.