Stage 10 - Wednesday, July 14 2010, Chambéry - Gap, 179 km

doccy

Lumen wrote: »

I don't think he's been poor, he just hasn't been a contender. I don't think this has surprised many people, media hype is just that. Having a fancy air conditioned bus can't make you climb that much faster.

Touche.
Thankfully I've been oblivious to the media hype that seems to have made a lot of people on here dislike him.
He climbed a lot better last year (albeit in an easier Tour) so by those standards he has been poor. Maybe he has a fracture, sigh...

murf85

Great ride from roche today well done to him infairness

JacksonHeightsOwn

i recorded the stage but it stopped recording about 6km from the end

delighted for Roche

he's now above Wiggins and some other real heavy hitters in the GC

i think young Roche deserves some credit from certain media types now

god i hope he finishes above Wiggins

Trojan

Delighted for the young fella. He's certainly driven, I'll be interested to read his diary tomorrow if he does one, particularly with the kind of stages we have coming up next 2 days.

Zipp101

Heard he has an interview on RTE tonight,anyone know what time?

thereturn

Zipp101 wrote: »

Heard he has an interview on RTE tonight,anyone know what time?

Good stuff.Probably their sports time programme on the radio.It starts at half six or seven I think.

Captain Havoc

So this is what happened me at work today. I have the Eurosport player and the live tracker going and I'm taking a look here and there as the opportunities present themselves. There's about 10km left the break has about 10 mins, 6 riders and none of them any threat to the yellow jersey. Anyway it gets busy and at about six o'clock I get a chance to check the live tracker, what do I see: a graphic of a podium with a picture of Roche on top, huh, ha, ho, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh, hang on wait, Roche was in the pack 10 minutes behind the break, unless the leading pack got taken out by a train, I didn't see this happening. I see Schleck and Contador in the 2 and 3 slots, huh, ha, ho, eeeeeeeeehhhhh, ROCHE IS ON TOP OF THE GC, yippppeeeeeee, big smile, running around shop, work colleague looking at me bizarly. Hang on wait a minute, Roche was in the pack with the others, what's going on, I recheck, he's 3 minutes something ahead of Schleck, was he in the break and I missed it? I knew there was an AG2R rider but not Roche. What's going on, my brain can't take this. I check here, which didn't help as there was a mention of Roche in a break but with 10kms or so to go he couldn't make up 10 minutes. I eventually check another section of letour site and see, he didn't win but he had moved up in the GC. There was always something in my head that was realising he could not of won or taken yellow because of the numbers involved, still felt like a muppet though.

BryanL

ednwireland wrote: »

my remotes getting worn out when i watch the live coverage at weekends (switching between the 2)
mind you someone has to pay for it ! (i guess tg4 payed lot less to broadcast with irish language commentary )

Watch TG4, with Kelly commentary on the computer from eurosport site

ednwireland

he didnt get interviewed. He was still in doping control

alibabba

Good man roche. Typical fighting irish attitude. Great to see.

titan18

ednwireland wrote: »

my remotes getting worn out when i watch the live coverage at weekends (switching between the 2)
mind you someone has to pay for it ! (i guess tg4 payed lot less to broadcast with irish language commentary )

Ya,when I'm away from home at weekends and have to watch ITV4,it's ridiculous,breaks every 15 minutes is crazy

joker77

From Roche's tour diary:

I'm an average descender in the dry, but in the wet I'm terrible. The tarmac was melted by the sun on some of the corners, and as I tried to cut one of the chicanes as tight as possible, my wheel hit a pothole and jumped across the road. For a split second, I had visions of the peloton laughing as they passed me crawling out of the ditch on the way down, but I made it around the corner.