Tour de France - Stage 9, 168.5km - Saint-Girons / Bagnères-de-Bigorre, July 7th

[One Eyed Aussie]

Porte group.

Ta...........

 

[sjonnie]

Bakelants back on too, did they slow? I think so, 50s back to MJ

 

[The Sheep]

Shame so many people have said they will not watch cycling this year esp. this Tour because it has got so dull. This stage has some real promise.

True they should have had more faith in contador

 

[TANK91]

Is Contador in the Froome group, even if Froome looses time today then its not the end of the world Valverde can gain 2 mins and Froome will take it back in the ITT.

 

[fantomas]

Sky train losing time. 1:40 down now. Seems certain now that Froome will be alone for the rest of the day.

Hmm, I shouldn't trust letour.fr. Only about 1:10 now, but Sky exhausting their own train.

 

[trevim]

i think the problem is Contador and Valverde's egos. Neither is willing to risk their own placement for the teams success. The ds's should just say - if one of your teammates wins, its still good, and send rui costa and Kreuziger up the road.

You can then attack to them anyway.

That's true but also Saxo might not be willing to sacrifice some valuable WT points that Kreuziguer can probably score with a top10 placing

 

[Miburo]

i think the problem is Contador and Valverde's egos. Neither is willing to risk their own placement for the teams success. The ds's should just say - if one of your teammates wins, its still good, and send rui costa and Kreuziger up the road.

You can then attack to them anyway.

Froome will let them ride and wait for his teammates, even if they've 4 minutes at the end of the stage Froome will take that back easily later on in the tour.

 

[Aditya]

Bakelants should transfer some of his cojones to the main GC contenders. The man never gives up.

 

[virandociclista]

What's the point of isolating Froome if they just give him a new train?

Hope for some froomedubnesss.... Froome can try to attack early and got out of fuel... They can not let froome get food or water in the car.... Starvation!!!!

 

[Bakhjulet]

Quintana has been cool so far, surely he will attack eventually.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Porte dropping from the pack

 

[Hayabusa]

Porte is completely done so Sky won't be coming back. Movistar need to attack now or they're just riding for second place, and even then Contador will just break Valverde later on and take that away as well.

 

[The Hitch]

Movitrain and Saxo train = just as boring as sky train.

I wish i could fall asleep and wake up in an hour to see what has happened.

 

[karlboss]

No need to attack, work hard on this climb and make sure sky don't get back. Then start the attacks on the next climb. Froome either responds or watch a group ride away for 10 minutes. He'll mark Valverde and only Valverde I'd say. I think Contador would let Kreuziger go, I don't think Valverde would any lieutenant go and would get the team to chase back any group. MOvistar has been good but Valverde's ego will be Froome's greatest ally.

 

[Adam.S]

Haha that cocky prat porte dropped from his group. Funny as he was saying Nairo was silly yesterday for his attack but now hes far in front of him.

 

[saneguy]

Porte group stuck at a minute behind Froome group

 

[martinvickers]

Shame so many people have said they will not watch cycling this year esp. this Tour because it has got so dull. This stage has some real promise.

Promise?

Come on , this has the makings of the best stage in decades! AS vandevelde said, they're going to be making commemorative t-shirts of this stage!

 

[ruamruam]

Is Dan Martin in the yellow jersey group?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Don't think Porte got dropped from his group

 

[bubblegum]

any one care to recap for the looser who only just tuned in?

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

Promise?

Come on , this has the makings of the best stage in decades! AS vandevelde said, they're going to be making commemorative t-shirts of this stage!

Contador stealing the Vuelta from Purito last year will take some beating but lets wait and see. Plenty of stage have had potential only to end up being pretty dull.

 

[Nastyy]

The break needs to drop De Gendt and Hesjedal to have a proper go. Hesjedal is toast and is skipping turns, De Gendt wasted too.

 

[Ruby United]

Just over 1min to Porte from froome.

 

[Scott SoCal]

Is Dan Martin in the yellow jersey group?

Think so... and Tommy D

 

[The Hitch]

Promise?

Come on , this has the makings of the best stage in decades! AS vandevelde said, they're going to be making commemorative t-shirts of this stage!

Popovych had the promise to be the best rider in decades.

Promise, until it turns into something real, is just promise.