Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 8: Oyonnax – Le Grand-Bornand, 150.8 km

[sir fly]

Gulf rules.

 

[Krokro]

How cute, he's bonking like he would be human after all

 

[Eclipse]

I saw disaster as that bottle slowly rolled across Teuns path there.

Pog having the decency to look spent

 

[woodburn]

To be fair he isn't necessarily all that wrong about that - it's just that Tadej is strong enough to make it totally irrelevant.

Think that is the point. He's so good you don't have to worry about mechanical as much, especially when minutes ahead.

Idea that he was forced to attack because team wasn't there when he used his team to set up attack didn't make much sense. He wanted to test everyone. He found out nobody is near him. Now race is over and he can be conservative.

But even if he had an issue today, it wouldn't have him impacted his ability to win race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

See you in The Clinic

Say hello to the shrink for me

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So next year we need to have Tour with short climbs and *** loads of wet descents to get it more equal. There's your challenge ASO!

Don't we have a Basque start coming up year after next? That will have lots of short climbs and wet descents even if they do what I expect them to do and avoid all of the best Basque climbs - even on the major roads there are a bunch of ramps and repechos.

 

[sir fly]

Commentators everywhere falling for it too.

Days of pretenders...

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Expected a dominant performance at some point, this was way beyond my expectations. Crazy stuff.

Wonder about the time cut now...

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

LOL Theuns going to win and my only bright spot was I selected Pogi for the win today in a contest!

Chapeau Theuns!

Edward T. approves.

 

[MrTea1976]

The Giro is always the best GT.

 

[gregrowlerson]

But until he wins again tomorrow, he's no Padun

 

[Netserk]

Carapaz was caught.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Mas and Carapaz finished together again, cute

 

[Volderke]

Pogacar the Wolf of Wall Bornand.

 

[Poursuivant]

Pogacar is getting his hotel massage as Carapaz comes in

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van Aert doing all the climbing solo it seems... pretty good effort.

 

[sir fly]

It's fair to say the only one in the race who could match Pogačar in the mountains is injured.
Time trialing is a different story.

 

[Netserk]

Pogacar the Wolf of Wall Bornand.

Like Sagan in Gap '15.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So who's looking forward to the rest day poll for the GC prediction?

 

[JosefK]

Jumbo dom beating Carapaz.

 

[woodburn]

Race for second should be fun, er boring.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Well done WVA, gave it everything

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Pog Bag

 

[Big Doopie]

Van Aert doing all the climbing solo it seems... pretty good effort.

my dreams almost came true.

 

[Cassirer]

Carsten Migels on german eurosport with a hint of innuendo, saying we wont understand how a 22yo can do this. He phrased it quite well I think