Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2022 (Tour de France)

[Grassmarket 2,763]

Ooh, that’s a tough final climb.  Down to the lakeside at Ouchy & up to the athletics stadium….I always took the bus.  Pogučar written all over it, probably literally unless the Swiss Police anti-vandalism squad have been busy overnight.

[Agger 1,591]

5 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

No stopping Tadej, wins yet another stage.  By the end of all this, could have a bigger margin of victory than he had last year if he keeps pushing through the mountains

No doubt that he is a massive favourite, but Vingegaard is stronger on longer climbs than what we had today. Quite a bit to talk about him losing 5 minutes.

[Wumo 2,798]

1. Filippo Ganna (4) - 4

2. Dylan Groenewegen (8) - 12

3. Fabio Jakobsen (5) - 17

4. Jasper Philipsen (2) - 19

5. Mathieu van der Poel (81) - 100

6. Dylan Teuns (6) - 106

7. Michael Woods (28) - 134

8. Matej Mohoric

[heywoodu 13,565]

11 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Ooh, that’s a tough final climb.  Down to the lakeside at Ouchy & up to the athletics stadium….I always took the bus.  Pogučar written all over it, probably literally unless the Swiss Police anti-vandalism squad have been busy overnight.

At least it has a bit more potential than the Planche of yesterday, where as expected literally nothing interesting happened in the entire stage until the last 200 meters  

[Grassmarket 2,763]

Sagan in another crash, looking ruefully at a broken bike.

[FancyFenchel 106]

Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4)

Stage 2 - too late (176)

Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5)

Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5)

Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16)

Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6)

Stage 7 - T. Pogačar (1)!

Stage 8 - M.Matthews

 

 

Coivd strikes back:

 

UAE Team!

 

 

Chruis Froome being 41st yesterday - it's his best result since 2018.

 

 

 

Also yesterday German Eurosport commentator said Roglic is Slovak.

[Grassmarket 2,763]

Unbelievable bad luck for Thibaut Pinot. First he crashes, then literally a minute later he goes to pick up a musette & his soigneur hits him in the face with it!  

[Agger 1,591]

24 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Unbelievable bad luck for Thibaut Pinot. First he crashes, then literally a minute later he goes to pick up a musette & his soigneur hits him in the face with it!  

That was a Trek soigneur

[Grassmarket 2,763]

13 minutes ago, Agger said:

That was a Trek soigneur

He’ll be up at 05:00 to clean the cars for the rest of the Tour.

[hckošice 13,278]

Stage 8

Saturday - July 9th, 2022

h. 13:20 (GMT +2)

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Dole - Lausanne

186.3km - Mountains (Uphill Finish)

 

STAGE CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Wout VAN AERT

4:13:06

 

  Michael MATTHEWS

+0

 

  Tadej POGACAR

+0

 

Complete Standing

HERE

 

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GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Tadej POGACAR

28:56:16

 

  Jonas VINGEGAARD

+39

 

  Geraint THOMAS

+1:14

 

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POINTS CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Wout VAN AERT

264

 

  Fabio JAKOBSEN

149

 

  Tadej POGACAR

128

 

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CLIMBER CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Magnus Cort NIELSEN

11

 

  Tadej POGACAR

10

 

  Jonas VINGEGAARD

8

 

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YOUTH CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Tadej POGACAR

28:56:16

 

  Thomas PIDCOCK

+1:39

 

  Brandon McNULTY

+7:02