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

[silvergrenade]

Spectators please get out of the way

 

[markene2]

I am kinda nervous that there will be crashes at the entrance to the cobbles section

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Astana on GVAs wheel, left side for the corner

 

[Salvarani]

This gonna be chaos

 

[rick james]

Yes, back from todays cycle in time for the cobbles...what have I missed

 

[saneguy]

Here we go!

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Bora in first

 

[bigcog]

Nibali near front ?

 

[Red Rick]

Bardet flat

 

[bigcog]

Bardet puncture

 

[Scarponi]

Bardet already punctured

 

[bob.a.feet]

Re:

Nibali near front ?

Yup

 

[movingtarget]

Re:

There’s a time and place for the I told you so style posts, immediately after a rider retires injured isn’t one of them

Thank you. The sad fact is you needed to post that comment. But of course it's the usual suspects.

 

[DNP-Old]

Bardet puncture.

 

[markene2]

Gonna be a loooong day for bardet

 

[jsem94]

Bardet...

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Fuglsang seems to seek GVAs wheel constantly, smart thinking imo

 

[saneguy]

Bardet losing time already!

 

[Hayabusa]

That's Bardet's GC over potentially, but same could happen to all the other contenders over the next 100km.

 

[bob.a.feet]

Unlucky Bardet

 

[silvergrenade]

Bardet will get back. Chill!

 

[Red Rick]

Aso must be happy about their parcours now

 

[Eclipse]

Re:

Bardet will get back. Chill!

A mintue back, no cars to draft and the pace isn't exactly going to ease up that much. They're going to need a big effort and even then it may split further causing it harder to get back through to the real contenders

 

[bigcog]

Re:

Aso must be happy about their parcours now

I was thinking that.

 

[Salvarani]

Bardet changing bike now