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

[Unkown]

Schleck still there in the lead group?

Yes 10 char

 

[Miburo]

Movistar is an easy target but I have no idea what position Saxo are racing for, 5th?

Don't think Contador can do any better.

 

[lemoogle]

If Movistar doesn't try anything then this whole thing by them has been pointless. "yeepee" porte is tired, but tomorrow is a rest day so who cares. If they cant try anything on Froome when he's alone then this is going to be the most boring tour ever.

 

[eljimberino]

For the tour, this is exciting.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Maybe you should try getting into tennis, since you clearly aren't interested in cycling.

Just ignore. Netserk is a troll. And - god knows why - a mod.

 

[Scott SoCal]

Movistar is an easy target but I have no idea what position Saxo are racing for, 5th?

Maybe hoping AC can ride himself fit.

 

[virandociclista]

Hope quintana win the stage

 

[Bavarianrider]

Maybe you should try getting into tennis, since you clearly aren't interested in cycling.

The last 2 hours have been a horrible borefest.

 

[akrogirl]

You patronise me for saying its boring but if you honestly think that riders cycling around a region together, for 2 hours, with no attacks and time gaps remaining the same the whole time, is something really exciting then you can find endless joy in watching full replays of all the sprint stages of the TDF in the last 10 years. Theres a reason montain stages get far higher ratings than the sprint ones.

Call me wierd, but I much prefer watching the sprint stages - I love watching a good sprint train in action

 

[uconnryan]

Go Cadel attack these guys

 

[Gubby Allen]

No, I patronise you because you are look at it as a black & white issue. There ARE boring stages & great stages. There are also alright stages, decent stages, good stages & so on. This is fine. It's not the greatest thing ever but I'm also not bored. It's not going to remembered in 10 years but how many are? What, it's terrible because it was really exciting in the beginning? Sorry Hitch, but that's an absurd logical failure. Sorry that I'm capable of appreciating things that are merely OK I guess?

It's a shame that you're so hard-bitten or cynical or whatever that everything needs to be best ever though. It's nice being able to appreciate a lot more than that.

Ive enjoyed it, brilliant first 1/3, pretty disappointing 2/3, so so far it equates to fair to quite good. Big next 30 mins though.

 

[maltiv]

The last 2 hours have been a horrible borefest.

I don't think I've ever seen a mountain stage with so few attacks.

...and that's on a stage where the yellow jersey has been isolated for 140 kms!

 

[lemoogle]

Call me wierd, but I much prefer watching the sprint stages - I love watching a good sprint train in action

At least for sprint stages you know when to watch.

After the start today I thought I was in for a great day of cycling and stayed home to watch.... little did I know I was going to watch movistar pulling froome up the climbs

 

[maltiv]

There won't be a single attack before the top.

Valverde wins the sprint.

What a ****ing joke this is.

 

[bolingbroke]

Just ignore. Netserk is a troll. And - god knows why - a mod.

Ok will do.

 

[vcampbell]

Do something FFS!!!!

 

[Scott SoCal]

I don't think I've ever seen a mountain stage with so few attacks.

...and that's on a stage where the yellow jersey has been isolated for 140 kms!

Huge wasted opportunity. Huge.

 

[eljimberino]

How much has today taken out of Froome? Brilliant tactics by Movistar and Saxo. This is real tour riding.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Sorry, but this is absolute boredom right now. You're watching a group ride, people.

 

[spalco]

Just tuned in coming back from the finale of Austria Tour - what did I miss?

 

[Gubby Allen]

There could be a few not finishing within 35 mins of this.

 

[Roderick]

Call me wierd, but I much prefer watching the sprint stages - I love watching a good sprint train in action

At least the sprinttrains you see make sense. This movi-train is probably the stupidest thing I've seen in the last 5 years

 

[auscyclefan94]

Movistar are blowing it!

 

[GroupDK]

bolingbroke @ you seem to neglet to put it in context..

it should be obvius..

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Fuglsang still there his goal (<10) seems reasonable..

 

[thehog]

I concede. This is boring and Saxo should have tried a break.