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

[shades1]

just turned on coverage , what happened to sky ?????

 

[Hayabusa]

Talansky starting to struggle.

 

[sjonnie]

All went crazy from the start, no break allowed to get away. Not until climb did it break up, Sky boys all dropped back and Froome is forced to follow Movistar & Saxo boys on his own. 5 boys up the road, 45s to malliot jaune group and another minute to the group Kevannaugh / Porte.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Ok, wrong info. Porte is actually coming back a bit

 

[kingjr]

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.

Do you suffer from depression by any chance?

 

[goggalor]

Porte looks shot.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Kennaugh should blow at some point right

 

[wirral]

The borgs are coming.

 

[LaFlorecita]

_O_ Amador

 

[GroupDK]

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.

your babling mate.. come on ' its cycling if you havent notice..

nvm go to sleep..

 

[sulgpallur]

Kennaugh should blow at some point right

Then porte sprints 1min cap, leads froome to victroy.
Edit: not gonna happen

 

[sjonnie]

Kennaugh should blow at some point right

Right about now. Group is blown apart and the sky boys are both dropped.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Did Gesink just drop Porte?

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

Do you suffer from depression by any chance?

What Hitch says makes sense though. If they just ride to the final climb then you could replace Movistar with Sky. They need to force Froome to work and the only way to do that is to let someone high in the GC kick on.

 

[woodie]

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

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

What needs to happen exactly for you to stop being so negative?

This is great, racing from a long way out, tour leader isolated from what everyone though was a near indestructible team and even if they make it back they will probably be too tired to do much. After what happened yesterday this is exactly what the teams needed to do imo

 

[Ruby United]

Only kennaugh with Porte now

 

[LaFlorecita]

Old man Matteo with Porte _O_

 

[Broth3r]

Paulinho pulls and Porte drops. Movistar working in the front, Saxo in the back

 

[Miburo]

Did Gesink just drop Porte?

Is Tossato still with Porte?

 

[sulgpallur]

Old man Matteo with Porte _O_

96 is PAULINHO

 

[Bakhjulet]

Jesus, it is stage 9, no restday so far, second day in the mountains, hot as hell, first half of the stage has been crazy, and some of you expect Movistar and Saxo to have the energy to mount an attack to isolate Froome right now? We are watching humans riding aren't we? Right now they are "resting", refueling, to eventually do something on Louron-Azet or D'ancizan.

 

[cineteq]

Ok, wrong info. Porte is actually coming back a bit

Froome's train is gonna suffer today, it's not over.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Find it hard to believe that Movi/saxo won't be doing anything here as the stars have aligned against sky.

Thomas injured, Kennaugh crashed at the start and Porte cooked himself yesterday.

If Froome doesn't lose time today they should all hang there heads. Long way to go yet...

 

[maltiv]

Wtf are Saxo and Movistar doing?

 

[shades1]

All went crazy from the start, no break allowed to get away. Not until climb did it break up, Sky boys all dropped back and Froome is forced to follow Movistar & Saxo boys on his own. 5 boys up the road, 45s to malliot jaune group and another minute to the group Kevannaugh / Porte.

thanks mate