Tour de France 2017 stage 9: Nantua > Chambéry - 181,5 km

[Robert5091]

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I just wanna rip Voecklers tongue out of his mouth.....such a show pony....

And he's jumping around on his bike like on a **** trampoline, pretending that Cat 3 is Alpe d'Huez.

The man has to hold onto his "Tounge of the Tour" award (plus National gurning Champion)

 

[RattaKuningas]

What if Quintana was a smokescreen all the time and Betancur is the real leader.

 

[Finn84]

Sky, Wanty and Dimension Data seem to be teams with no rider in the break.

 

[Netserk]

Waste of energy, Tibopino. Focus on the big climbs.

 

[Rollthedice]

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I just wanna rip Voecklers tongue out of his mouth.....such a show pony....

And he's jumping around on his bike like on a **** trampoline, pretending that Cat 3 is Alpe d'Huez.

The man has to hold onto his "Tounge of the Tour" award (plus National gurning Champion)

"Tongue d'Or"

 

[Tank Engine]

Pinot takes the first two climbs

 

[portugal11]

Perfect stage so far to trek

 

[klintE]

Love this break

Is it too early/flat for ThiboPinot going for the stage hunt?

He wants the Polka dot jersey, so he'll to wait until Sunday when the route contains half of the HC climbs on the whole parcours. He's already 10 minutes down, so almost everyone except Barguil will let him go.

Yep

 

[No_Balls]

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Love these small road climbs. Makes for a good scenery.

 

[TommyGun]

we need more rain now!

 

[RattaKuningas]

Anyone knows what Sunweb tactic might be? 3 of their riders are single handedly pulling the break right now.

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

Beards rock!!

Can imagine "The Badger" looking like a mass murderer with a full facial....

 

[No_Balls]

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we need more rain now!

Hows the weather forecast? More rain?

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Conador going to go for a long one ala the Col du Télégraphe in 2011.

 

[Red Rick]

Honestly expected a lot more chaos in the first hour

 

[Ikbengodniet]

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Anyone knows what Sunweb tactic might be? 3 of their riders are single handedly pulling the break right now.

The tactic of Sunweb is Demare OTL.

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

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Honestly expected a lot more chaos in the first hour

They haven't been riding for an hour yet.....patience....

 

[klintE]

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Anyone knows what Sunweb tactic might be? 3 of their riders are single handedly pulling the break right now.

They want Barguil to win assuredly.

 

[TommyGun]

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we need more rain now!

Hows the weather forecast? More rain?

Intermittent showers (70% chance) and possible thunderstorms (20%), so not guaranteed.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Weird coding error on the live pages at letour.com, whereby riders each have 1 2/3 flags by their names: Dutch riders appear to be dual Papua New Guinea nationals, Sepulveda looks to be half Bosnian, and Belgian riders apparently all have close connection with Cambodia.

 

[staubsauger]

Wasn't it Wanty's prime objective to put Guillaume Martin into the polka dot jersey? Now he hasn't made the move at all. Silent top 10 spot instead???

 

[ice&fire]

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we need more rain now!

We need more rain later

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

Any news on Gesink??
Is he def out ??

 

[No_Balls]

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Any news on Gesink??
Is he def out ??

He's out

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

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Anyone knows what Sunweb tactic might be? 3 of their riders are single handedly pulling the break right now.

They have Matthews in the group they are trying to get him to the intermediate sprint and making it as difficult as possible for Demare and Kittel to make the time cut.