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

[Roderick]

Attacking The Dawg on the ascent in stead of the descent or the flat when he's isolated. What a bunch of tactical geniuses at Movistar

 

[the sceptic]

more attacks please

 

[Gloin22]

Well that lasted long.. lol

P.S. That's better!

 

[trevim]

There goes my man Nieve! The epicness

 

[RedZone]

Quintana attack drops his teamates only hahaha.

 

[Hugo87]

Quintana again!

 

[maltiv]

Quintana doesn't have the legs today. Pathetic attacks

 

[bolingbroke]

Quintana gos and froome with him

 

[Scott SoCal]

Send Krueziger. Molema should go. AC should go. Hit him you f'ing sissies!

 

[lemoogle]

Andy looking good

 

[burning]

Somebody from Valverde, Contador, Mollema or Kreuziger needs to go asap

 

[The Hitch]

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.

Excuse me i never said anything needs to be the best ever. I said this stage was boring. And it has. Im hardly the only person who thinks that. Nothing has happened for over 100km despite the fact that there have been 4 climbs in that period.

Of course i must hate cycling for make that observation. Watching 40 riders do nothing for 3 hours isnt the reason most people watch the sport. Maybe you do though.

It's a long race. They've successfully separated Froome from his teammates )

They did that 100km ago.

What have they done since?

And isolating him from his teammates only works for todays stage. After the final 34k of this stage are done, Porte will be free to start with froome on every stage and protect him all over again.

 

[trevim]

Contador looks a bit better

 

[Unkown]

Schleck right at the front!

 

[Ferminal]

Andy looks good.

 

[Aditya]

Schlecket

 

[bolingbroke]

...and again

 

[saneguy]

Is Andy looking to attack as well. Riding right behind Froome..

 

[Gubby Allen]

Was that Nieve or Anton getting away?

Quintana again.

 

[the sceptic]

Saxo needs to do something here

 

[thehog]

Froome?

Valverde to go next.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Quintana does everything

 

[Vino's Mum]

Another little cheeky one from Nairo.

 

[spalco]

Shouldn't Froome just let Quintana go?

 

[The Hitch]

How many kms from home is the summit?

30.5

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