Tour de France 2018 stage 9: Arras > Roubaix 156,5 km

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Van Garderen for TDF leader

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Why aren’t there 5 sunweb guys in front of Dumoulin right now?

Because he’s amongst the cars, easier to make your own way then, by drafting car to car

Even so, he still needs to get to the front of the peloton. Also he wouldn’t need to draft his own team car again...

Normally, teammates will wait at the back of the peloton, to tow him to the front, when the captain is amongst the cars.

Further back, they would drop back, but as said, amongst the cars, it’s easier without teammates

SOP

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Dan Martin looks to be struggling massively today, he will either abandon or lose a lot of time, there goes my fantasy team

 

[Warhawk]

Well ***, I finally switch over from the bloody poker and apparently we're rolling with Tejay again.

 

[Der Effe]

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Tom is a **** idiot, already got time penalty and doing same thing again in plain sight ... lmao

Did it in the Giro as well

 

[Broccolidwarf]

21 k to the first pave, for those timing when to tune in

 

[silvergrenade]

Seems like Dan Martin will abandon

 

[Forever The Best]

Well ****, I finally switch over from the bloody poker and apparently we're rolling with Tejay again.

Tejay will be out of GC either after today or after stage 10.

 

[Red Rick]

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Seems like Dan Martin will abandon

Seems like he doesn't fancy his chances for the GC fight today. I think he's hoping to survive today and hunt stages later on? At least try and make it to the rest day

 

[silvergrenade]

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Seems like Dan Martin will abandon

Seems like he doesn't fancy his chances for the GC fight today. I think he's hoping to survive today and hunt stages later on? At least try and make it to the rest day

Lets hope you are right.

 

[sir fly]

Any description of Richie's fall?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Any description of Richie's fall?

Not clear. A whole bunch of them went down and it looked like they tangled with some spectators as well

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Any description of Richie's fall?

Wasnt shown

 

[yaco]

Well if I was the DS at UAE then Matin would have retired from the TDF - Was already going to struggle on the cobbles and be out of the GC race - He's already won a stage and should rest up for the Vuelta in which he can achieve a good GC result.

 

[sir fly]

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Any description of Richie's fall?

Not clear. A whole bunch of them went down and it looked like they tangled with some spectators as well

Spectator makes the story worse.
It's Roubaix stage, after all.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

The fight for position has started

5 k to the first pave

Very nervous peloton, with lots of infighting...... we have not seen the last crash today

 

[DFA123]

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Tom is a **** idiot, already got time penalty and doing same thing again in plain sight ... lmao

Given that the time penalty was probably less than the time he saved by following the car, he might as well keep doing it.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Do you have commercials at Eurosport right now??

 

[silvergrenade]

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Do you have commercials at Eurosport right now??

Nope

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Thus begins 2 weeks of De Gendt in the break

Will he win today?

 

[Hayabusa]

Just hoping that no more of the GC guys get injured, would be a real shame for the rest of the race if more guys got taken out.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Break on the first pave now, 3,18 ahead

 

[DNP-Old]

Here we go.

 

[Kwibus]

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Tom is a **** idiot, already got time penalty and doing same thing again in plain sight ... lmao

Given that the time penalty was probably less than the time he saved by following the car, he might as well keep doing it.

Apparently it's OK to draft behind cars, but Tom was penalized because it was during a crucial part of the race. The rules regarding drafting are just crap.

 

[Oude Geuze]

Could the reason for all the crashes be the fact that the top GC contenders and mountain domestiques ride so few races in a peloton each year? I mean, this stuff happens in amateur races all the time but you would assume the pro peloton would be able to avoid it. Or is it just the tdf bringing out the extremes of competitiveness and nerves?