Tour De France 2014 Stage 8: Tomblaine - Gererdmer La Mauselaine

[The Falcon Strike]

Kadri holding the peloton off here!!

 

[monty1104]

Geez, how good of a day has AG2R had!?!? Kadri wins the stage and goes into the polkadots, JC Peraud and Bardet finish top 10 on the stage.

 

[monty1104]

Talansky lost 2'20" to Contador. I'd say it's tour over for him, GC wise.

 

[Oaktree]

Nibali held his own on the final climb, Contador would've liked to have gained a few more seconds than he did.

 

[Belnakor]

Nibali held his own on the final climb, Contador would've liked to have gained a few more seconds than he did.

Contador looked strong.

Porte looked like he was struggling.

 

[Skippos]

That woman who started spinning Talansky's rear wheel when he crashed was brilliant.

 

[Oaktree]

Contador looked strong.

Porte looked like he was struggling.

It certainly looks like a two horse race at the moment, if Porte can come in the top 3, it'll be great.

 

[ben_1301]

How was the stare Nibs gave Contador the whole way up that last climb! he's certainly a lot stronger than in the Daulphine, should be close.

 

[ben_1301]

Also, Porte was great!!

 

[grouse mate]

Drives me nuts how Contador can climb like this on wet roads.

 

[grouse mate]

Also whats the word on Rolland? Has he picked up an illness in the last few days or something?

 

[alfy!]

Good stage, a nice taster of things to come in the mountains.

Contador looked amazing, his team is very strong.

Nibali just as impressive, will be interesting to see if he has the ability to strongly accelerate with Contador. At the Dauphine, he had no acceleration at all.

Porte with a good performance. Talansky gone (can't say I'm disappointed, after his tirade yesterday).

 

[blue gunslinger]

How was the stare Nibs gave Contador the whole way up that last climb! he's certainly a lot stronger than in the Daulphine, should be close.

contador must have a sore after having to look over both shoulders so much

 

[Belnakor]

Contador looked bloody good, didn't look like he was above 80%. just testing Nibs out a bit i reckon.

very interesting stage through for the tour, the peleton imploded as soon as they hit even those short climbs.

 

[ben_1301]

Contador looked bloody good, didn't look like he was above 80%. just testing Nibs out a bit i reckon.

very interesting stage through for the tour, the peleton imploded as soon as they hit even those short climbs.

Did you see him after the finish, looked like he wouldn't blow out a candle! Astana were no where to be seen.

 

[monty1104]

Happy to see Pinot do well. He was always on my PCM squad

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Bloody eyelids shut with 8km to go.

Need to post on BF more to stay awake

 

[ben_1301]

Bloody eyelids shut with 8km to go.

Need to post on BF more to stay awake

What I do is set an alarm on my phone for when the action is set to start, that way if and when I fall asleep the phone goes off in time for the fun to begin!

 

[The Falcon Strike]

What I do is set an alarm on my phone for when the action is set to start, that way if and when I fall asleep the phone goes off in time for the fun to begin!

Good idea, though with a baby going nuts last night and the other kids on school holidays, I knew I'd need every minute!