Tour de France 2017 stage 9: Nantua > Chambéry - 181,5 km

MPFGLB

Bloody hell .....looks mega tough...the final climb is a monster but the descent is where we might see the loss of the Tour for a few riders though could be neutralized if there are storms,which are forecast






General classification top 10 after stage 7:

1. Christopher FROOME
2. Geraint THOMAS + 12''
3. Fabio ARU + 14''
4. Daniel MARTIN + 25''
5. Richie PORTE + 39''
6. Simon YATES + 43''
7. Romain BARDET + 47''
8. Alberto CONTADOR + 52''
9. Nairo QUINTANA + 54''
10. Rafal MAJKA + 1'01''

Boscoirl

I can see froome extending his lead here, if Contador can stay with them to the final decent ( doesn't look like it these days) he might have a go

Inquitus

Odds are pretty crap, as likely to be a randomer from a break as any of the GC guys so not much value. If its a GC day, Dan sprints as well as any of them.

Chris Froome 5
Thibaut Pinot 9
Fabio Aru 9
Daniel Martin 10
Romain Bardet 10
Richie Porte 16
Pierre Rolland 16
George Bennett 25
Rafal Majka 20
Nairo Quintana 25
Simon Yates 28
Robert Gesink 25
Esteban Chaves 25
Jakob Fuglsang 28
Darwin Atapuma 40

dastardly00

I haven't heard or seen it mentioned anywhere but is this the Queen stage? If not, what stage is? No other stage has 3 HC climbs, although altitude wise it's okay.

No secret I have a soft spot for Pierre Rolland. He's been pretty quiet so far and I expected him to go today but maybe this is his stage? If he can deliver a performance like he did a few weeks ago I fancy him for this if he goes in a break.

I bought into the hype of Porte being in great form prior to the tour but once we get here it's hard or impossible to look at the team Froome has around him and say Porte has say chance.

dastardly00

dastardly00 wrote: »

I haven't heard or seen it mentioned anywhere but is this the Queen stage? If not, what stage is? No other stage has 3 HC climbs, although altitude wise it's okay.

Asked myself the same earlier when they said it was the hardest etc. If this isn't a queen stage what is :pac:

Weepsie

Thursday's is higher and looks nearly as brutal.

Darkglasses

I'd definitely think it's the queen stage, looks harder than stages 12 and 17 to me anyway.

Posted it previously, but this mini-guide is very handy - https://i.imgur.com/BGR9ZIb.png

greedygoblin

Weepsie wrote: »

Thursday's is higher and looks nearly as brutal.

Yep, Thursday's is one of the longest stages of the tour too, with most of the climbing in the latter half of the stage.

Lusk_Doyle

Deleted User wrote: »

I bought into the hype of Porte being in great form prior to the tour

Alas, the old adage, two swallows does not a summer make, rings very true here.

dastardly00

Today is a great opportunity for all the GC riders to give it 100% and not play safe given that tomorrow is a rest day and Tuesday & Wednesday are flat stages.

Inquitus

Demare dropped at km 0.001 clearly not recovered from his ills.

transylman

Inquitus wrote: »

Odds are pretty crap, as likely to be a randomer from a break as any of the GC guys so not much value. If its a GC day, Dan sprints as well as any of them.

5/1 for Froome seems good. He will be pulling at least one Ax3 performance out of the bag this year and today seems like a good candidate. Two of Richie Portes team wasted a lot of energy in the break yesterday, and as mentioned above tomorrow is a rest day followed by relatively flat days.

bazermc

There's no way Demare is going to finish today's stage. He's already been overtaken by the team cars.

Inquitus

Massive group up the road already, weather looks a bit dicey too, could be in for carnage today....hopefully!

ThisRegard

Inquitus wrote: »

Massive group up the road already, weather looks a bit dicey too, could be in for carnage today....hopefully!

Poor Kirby had the gangs with the torches around knocking at his door for less than that, better have a bucket of water ready by your letter box!

Inquitus

ThisRegard wrote: »

Poor Kirby had the gangs with the torches around knocking at his door for less than that, better have a bucket of water ready by your letter box!

Carnage in the GC, rather than people in the ditches....

retalivity

Bad crash with mori and gesink, both abandoned

Sunweb have 5 in the break!

Can't see Demare getting though this today, already well out the back.

retalivity

Pantano and mollema up the road for trek, as is demarchi and another bmc guy. Youd have to think bertie is going to try something from a long way out, possibly porte too

ThisRegard

Inquitus wrote: »

Carnage in the GC, rather than people in the ditches....

I'll read it how I want to read it in order to find maximum offence, even if none was intended.

rtmie

ThisRegard wrote: »

Inquitus wrote: »

Carnage in the GC, rather than people in the ditches....

I'll read it how I want to read it in order to find maximum offence, even if none was intended.

You understand the true purpose of the internet ðŸ˜႒

Gallant_JJ

Are Quickstep represented in the break? Seem like one of the only teams not

Gallant_JJ

Gallant_JJ wrote: »

Are Quickstep represented in the break? Seem like one of the only teams not

Stybar was there for them think he was dropped with a few others, only Sky, DD and Wanty without riders in the break.

Betancur is virtual yellow on the road , not that it'll stay that way.

retalivity

herrada abandons after a crash....roads are very dangerous..

dastardly00

Jesus Herrada from Movistar has crashed and abandoned.

dastardly00

Kelly's faux outrage about the riders ruining their kit because of crashes :pac:

dastardly00

Thomas has crashed

mhiggy09

Ag2r going full gas. Pretty kamikaze tbh

mossym

you get the feeling they were right when they said this stage was going to be the one that had most affect on the race