Tour de France 2019 stage 8 Mâcon - Saint-Étienne 200 km

[Broccolidwarf]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

I dunno man I might just go outside today

BLASPHEMY!

 

[markene2]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

You should check out the F2 race today also, it starts 10 minutes after the f1 quali, its been really exciting this year.

 

[Salvarani]

Someone better go when they start hitting these hills

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

You should check out the F2 race today also, it starts 10 minutes after the f1 quali, its been really exciting this year.

No danes in it, so I don't care - I watched F3 earlier

 

[Bardamu]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

I dunno man I might just go outside today

And do what?

 

[Keram]

Well this is dissapointing. I expected at least hour battle for breakaway and huge group. This is like flat stage break. This stage is tailor-made for break. De Marchi versus De Gendt today it seems.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

That's a very strong quartet up front, with a decent tailwind. I don't think a single team is strong enough to bring them back

 

[Gigs_98]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

I dunno man I might just go outside today

Pfffff what even is this "outside"

 

[Salvarani]

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That's a very strong quartet up front, with a decent tailwind. I don't think a single team is strong enough to bring them back

There are better climbers in the peloton if they wanna race, we will have to see if any team or someone wants to make it a hard race or not though

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

I dunno man I might just go outside today

Pfffff what even is this "outside"

I've heard it's where bike races take place

 

[Laplaz]

Same scenario as in stage 5. Bora and Sunweb working for a Sagan vs. Matthews sprint.

 

[Salvarani]

Damn, this is boring. I didnt expect fireworks, but at least something.

 

[HelloDolly]

Do you know what really pi***s me off...Sunweb & Bora are chasing but Allaphillpe will go on last hill and win ???
Cyclists have very little imagination

 

[Sestriere]

So I guess Matthews plans a late attack today? He has been hopeless in (flat) sprints so far. Everything else would be strange with Sunweb working again.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Well, I had two guys right: De Gendt and De Marchi, but one hardly needs to be a clairvoyant for that. De Marchi would deserve to win a TdF stage as a reward for his eternal attacking spirit.

 

[sir fly]

A considerable amount of vertical metres today and punchy conclusion. Bora and Sunweb might get a thank-you note at the end.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

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Damn, this is boring. I didnt expect fireworks, but at least something.

There's still a hope. Those 2nd cat climbs that come later might be too hard for Sagan - if some team decides to explode the race a go for a stage win. Astana or Alaphilippe could try something.

 

[HelloDolly]

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So I guess Matthews plans a late attack today? He has been hopeless in (flat) sprints so far. Everything else would be strange with Sunweb working again.

Emm...he may have been training on mountain terraine and is confused but his climbing is not at a level of some riders in the peloton , not even in his own team

Strategy will be to drop the sprinters and have a reduced sprint and hope they beat Sagan and Alaphillipe is not gone (or any other puncheur)

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

At least they’re all going hard today . This will take a toll by the end of the stage.

 

[Sestriere]

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So I guess Matthews plans a late attack today? He has been hopeless in (flat) sprints so far. Everything else would be strange with Sunweb working again.

Emm...he may have been training on mountain terraine and is confused but his climbing is not at a level of some riders in the peloton , not even in his own team

Strategy will be to drop the sprinters and have a reduced sprint and hope they beat Sagan and Alaphillipe is not gone (or any other puncheur)

With what's happened so far, Sagan has to be gone for Matthews to have a chance imo. As he is probably the better climber of the two, he could try to force a selection himself in the final kilometers.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Weak breakaway, boring stage, no GC battle, I guess I'll have to watch Wimbledon.

F1 qualification for me

I dunno man I might just go outside today

And do what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZAYdHcDtU

 

[Broccolidwarf]

What they are riding now, is not even a climb, it's just between 2 climbs - Massif Central is amazing

 

[sir fly]

They might get to the Hague pronouncing the surname (ES comment).

 

[Danskebjerge]

Maybe there should be a rule against teams blocking the entire road in the peloton. It should not be possible to prevent attacks from the peloton or attempts to catch a break-away by placing riders across the road as we saw today.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Maybe there should be a rule against teams blocking the entire road in the peloton. It should not be possible to prevent attacks from the peloton or attempts to catch a break-away by placing riders across the road as we saw today.

You don't need a rule, you just need to be in front of those wanting to block it