Tour De France 2024 Stage 8: Semur-en-Auxois – Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, 183.4k

[RobertCrawley]

This is where we need Alan Phillip to hot up the race.

 

[noob]

Are descent deaths generally this common? Once a year?!

 

[Netserk]

Are descent deaths generally this common? Once a year?!

No. I can't recall any deaths between Kivilev (2003) and Weylandt (2011).

 

[AmRacer]

I'm sticky bottle in the rain.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Abrahamsen still going strong, or as strong as he's able...

I don't think he'll make it, but what a brave ride.

 

[Rob5091]

Wonder who might win today's combativity award ....

 

[Mayomaniac]

Matthews getting outclimb by Groene today is pretty wild.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Wonder who might win today's combativity award ....

Don't think anyone besides Abrahamsen even remotely qualifies, he's earned it.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Commentators saying the peloton looks extremely nervous, now I'm nervous too!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Stage is set up beautifully for an unfancied flyer from young French baroudeur Mathieu Burgaudeau

 

[Colombiano Cadence]

WVA not sprinting today

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Wonder who might win today's combativity award ....

And will be able to make some sort of commemoration of Drege on the podium. I assume that the circles of Norwegian racing are fairly close to each other.

 

[AmRacer]

The break can still make it.

 

[RobertCrawley]

WVA not sprinting today

He's at the front.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Wonder who might win today's combativity award ....

Worked a lot harder for it than Grellier or Pedersen.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Bit nervous for the long, straight slight downhill before the final 1.5k on wet roads, tbh.

 

[Gigs_98]

EF tactics in this Tour make 0 sense.

 

[Colombiano Cadence]

He's at the front.

Exactly, working for Jonas. If he was sprinting today he wouldn’t be doing that, he would be conserving energy

 

[Barnacle Bill]

McCrossan was saying on comms that before the race Gouvenou was telling him how this stage was designed to ensure a long, tough battle to get in the break... must be pretty grateful to Abrahamsen that it wasn't another break-free day in the end.

 

[Unchained]

Cavendish at the front strangely.?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Were the long-held shots of the cross deliberately arranged by the production team with notes to each commentary team to make the Drege announcement?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Headwind should slow it down.

It's in a forest.

 

[dobrien]

Combativity prize plus most Polka Dot points possible; not a bad days work from Abrahamsen. Good show.

 

[Peyroteo94]

This stage finale looks scary.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Combativity prize plus most Polka Dot points possible; not a bad days work from Abrahamsen. Good show.

Chapeau.