2016 TdF, Stage 7: L'Isle-Jourdain → Lac de Payolle (163km)

dastardly00

From Cyclingnews live ticker:

Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) has been dropped by the large group of favourites and he looks to be in real trouble. As Irish footballer-cum-pundit Keith Andrews would put it, Pinot looks like he's been caught on the travelator in Gladiators. It will be difficult to recover from this.

Thud

Sam 13+ mins back with Cav from the Dimension data website

pelevin

Must be one of the great feelings for Cummings there - well ahead, a strong descender flying down the mountain to, barring accident, certain victory.

neris

Dan making an attack of sorts

ITV doing their best to jinx him here

JK.BMC

'Thankfully there were no Stunderthorms today'

Great stuff from Cummings. Take that British Cycling.

:eek: 1km arch is down blocking the road

neris

Haha the 1km markers. down

RobertKK

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:eek: 1km arch is down blocking the road

It was bound to happen at some stage

brianomc

Puncture repair kit and CO2 canisters required asap

neris

Adam yates bike ended up on top of the flamme rouge

68 lost souls

3km time given kinda deflated the finish

Yates and Dan attacked and got take out by the arch

dastardly00

Someone got mangled by the Flamme Rouge. An Orica rider??

68 lost souls

dastardly00 wrote: »

Someone got mangled by the Flamme Rouge. An Orica rider??

Yates

neris

dastardly00 wrote: »

Someone got mangled by the Flamme Rouge. An Orica rider??

Adam yates

RobertKK

I wonder if someone had their thumb tacks out again causing punctures at the TdF.

brianomc

It's been some race so far for Dimension Data with Cav and now Cummings.

retalivity

Wtf pinot... have fdj drive at the front for you then just collapse and lose 3-4 mins

dastardly00

I had to laugh at the photographer trying to get a few pics of the riders trying to get through under the flamme rouge, and then copping on that he should probably help lift it up!!

dastardly00

dastardly00

What a season so far for Cummings. Stage wins in Tirreno-Adriatico, Tour of the Basque Country, the Dauphiné, and now le Tour.

pelevin

I wonder what would the Yates twins' astrology readings have said about the year ahead a while back. "I see some very strange and disturbing alignments."

dastardly00

So the provisional results have Adam Yates finishing in 73rd place, 3'39" behind Froome, Quintana, Valverde etc. I hope the results will be amended.

scott1974

The GC goes as far as 156 - Iljo Krisse.. does that mean there were a load of riders eliminated. Sam Bennetts group were 21mins down..

dastardly00

scott1974 wrote: »

The GC goes as far as 156 - Iljo Krisse.. does that mean there were a load of riders eliminated. Sam Bennetts group were 21mins down..

Sam was 188th... safe and sound.

http://www.procyclingstats.com/mob/race.php?id=163719

Darkglasses

Glad (almost) everyone emerged unscathed from the flamme rouge collapsing. Was pissing myself laughing at twitter at work :pac:

scott1974

Maybe the gc hasn't been updated but Bennett was 188 on the stage not on GC.
GC goes as far as 156 which is Keisse.

isitraining

https://twitter.com/pasport/status/751457530442878976

dastardly00

scott1974 wrote: »

Maybe the gc hasn't been updated but Bennett was 188 on the stage not on GC.
GC goes as far as 156 which is Keisse.

Yeah it's a bit odd that they still haven't the full GC updated. Shouldn't be any of any concern though as it'd be all over Cyclingnews, Twitter etc.

dastardly00

I feel sorry for Thibaut Pinot

I simply didn't have the legs. There's no need to look for an excuse. That’s three times that I’ve come to the Pyrenees and lost ground. That's it,” he said. “It's a season that’s almost gone up in smoke. The Tour is the highlight of the season and now on the first mountain stage, the objective is dead. We'll see what happens tomorrow, but if it's like today, there won't be any surprise. After two kilometres of the Aspin I realized I was not at my best.