Tour de France stage 10: Tuesday, St-Gildas-des-Bois - Saint Malo

[Pricey_sky]

In my Cycling weekly tour guide it mentions that this isn't a typical flat sprint stage, it has a few little steep kicks along the way so we will see.

 

[jens_attacks]

FWIW I just watched a Sastre interview where he claimed that the sprinters would be out of contention for this. And that he believes it'll be among the more explosive break-away riders or possibly even some GC guys.

Sounded odd to me. We'll see soon enough I suppose. I'm done trying to predict bikeraces myself.

hello there??!! it's the day after the restday
it will finally be a battle for the breakaway. i go with chouchou

 

[Pippo_San]

Little Richie to go ballistic and after winning with a margin of 7 minutes on the peloton he'll start talking trash against Vomitstar & co, calling them out.

Now that would be awesome.

 

[BigMac]

Break will take it. Btw, why Vomistar? Anything to do with stage 9?

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Given that the stage will be heading North all day, does anyone know the wind direction?

Any headwind could really hurt a breakaway?

 

[manafana]

boassen hagen my dark horse to do something here.

 

[Poursuivant]

Apparently crosswinds could play a part towards the end.

 

[Leonardus]

Pretty strong wind from the north, break is pointless but echelons are possible deep in the final. Only reason to watch the stage.

 

[mwallack3]

How is this not a bunch sprint? There is not a single corner inside the last 5 km. Winds could play a factor inside final 25 km, but what is Sastre talking about?

 

[Gubby Allen]

Why? It's not hilly or anything and Cav, Kit, Greipel are indisputably faster.

I actually think Cav will be there at the end, but collectively I just think there's enough little kicks in it and a possibility of some wind that one or two of the pure sprint teams trains may get disrupted. Unlike later this week when we have the most nailed on sprint stages you'll ever see.

I'm expecting Cav & Sagan to fight this one out, but could two or three of the non pure sprinters placing well.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Pretty strong wind from the north, break is pointless but echelons are possible deep in the final. Only reason to watch the stage.

Just checked.

20kmp head winds all day.

Any breakaway will be toast!

 

[Gubby Allen]

Has anybody got the Official Tour Programme? If in the UK, the yellow 14.99 one.

I know the thing is littered with more mistakes & **** up's than 'It'll be Alright On The Night" (The Argos Shimano roster is listed as an entire old AG2R squad with Nicolas Roche listed as their leader)

But on the stage tomorrow (page 126) can anybody check whether their race profile has this stage as having 5 categorized climbs tomorrow?

Cotes de Cokaifagne, de Francorchamps, Lierneux, de Barvaux and one right at the finish?

Have they accidentally lifted a profile from a completely different stage?

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Has anybody got the Official Tour Programme? If in the UK, the yellow 14.99 one.

I know the thing is littered with more mistakes **** up's than 'It'll be Alright On The Night" (The Argos Shimano roster is listed as an entire old AG2R squad with Nicolas Roche listed as their leader)

But on the stage tomorrow (page 126) can anybody check whether their race profile has this stage as having 5 categorized climbs tomorrow?

Cotes de Cokaifagne, de Francorchamps, Lierneux, de Barvaux and one right at the finish?

Have they accidentally lifted a profile from a completely different stage?

I have and the profile is wrong.

It shows stage 1 from last year which was definately not a sprinter stage.

 

[roundabout]

Completely different year and completely different country.

Those are climbs of stage 1 from last year

 

[nilfen]

Cav.

10char

Agree

Btw, Cavendish. makes 10 chars

 

[jens_attacks]

Just checked.

20kmp head winds all day.

Any breakaway will be toast!

ok then 35 km/h snoozefest

 

[Gubby Allen]

Completely different year and completely different country.

Those are climbs of stage 1 from last year

Thanks, tbf apart from all that, it's a first-class professional stage profile.

 

[Gugashwill]

My predictions:
5 chateaux (1 with a moat)
2 cathedrals
4 horses spooked by helicopters
7 cattle drinking from streams
zero hilltowns

I don't think it's cattle's landscape, more likely ploughman's.
Some stables along the course we might see, nevertheless.

 

[The Hitch]

Considering what Movistars tactics have been like so far, i half expect this to be the stage where they send Quintana up the road.

 

[Alpechraxler]

Considering what Movistars tactics have been like so far, i half expect this to be the stage where they send Quintana up the road.

to spread tacks ?

 

[manafana]

Could get interesting for final 10km anyway

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

As long as you can sit through the first 187km...

 

[Pulpstar]

Considering what Movistars tactics have been like so far, i half expect this to be the stage where they send Quintana up the road.

With Cav, Kittel and Greipel all blowing on the 4th cat stopping the chase from OPQS and Argos and Lotto. In your dreams mate :0

 

[Fight.The.Power]

The finish is going to be very quick. Last 2km are straight as a ruler, good quality road and downhill.

Gonna be doing well over 60kmph at the end. Lets hope no one falls off !

 

[auscyclefan94]

I have to question BMCs approach, which appears to be to support an inferior former GC winner. But as an American fan I consider that small stuff viewed againsted the misaligned ethics of USA Cycling's approach, which is to exploit weaker riders and keep the sport obscure, under the political radar in the USA, and out of any real money.

I'd root for Dan Martin and Talansky at this point. Who knows, maybe Talansky can crack the top 10.

The odds are to the strong team. Movistar?

Well they certainly shouldn't support TJVG. Evans was the logical leader of the team. Gilbert is not up to the mark at the moment. Evans looked very good in the Pyrenees on stage 9. I think they will look for stage wins now.