Live blog: Tour de France Stage 8: De Gendt wins Stage 8 with phenomenal breakaway performance + Alaphilippe attacks + Geraint Thomas crashes (snaps bike in half)
SUMMARY
They're off!
Medium mountains stage today.
They’re off ! Stage 8 is underway with many attacks already
L’Étape 8 est lancée ! Et déjà des attaques #TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/CX0tpcnCVh— Tour de France (@LeTour) July 13, 2019
Thomas de Gendt is in the break
Obvs.
After fighting for several kilometres, @ADM_RossodiBuja has finally forced his way into the breakaway group.
Après plusieurs kilomètres de lutte, De Marchi a finalement réussi à intégrer l’échappée. #TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/HhIyIaCEjq— Tour de France (@LeTour) July 13, 2019
Here's the route
No long cols, but shitloads of climbing throughout the day.
Should be fun.
After the longest stage of the #TDF2019, the peloton will face a middle-mountain stage between Mâcon and Saint-Étienne today!
Who will get the Yellow Jersey at the end of Stage 8?#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/RI0gRRIPUs— Tour de France (@LeTour) July 13, 2019
Solihull councillors agree to ride cycle route and discover it's rubbish
Poor signage, unsuitable shared space, parked cars, bollards, unnecessary crossings – all in under a mile.
Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe launch podcast
Sometimes riding GC at the Tour de France just isn’t enough.
So Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe decided to launch a podcast from the heart of the action…
It gives an interesting insight into the relationship between the two childhood friends, who are living the dream and riding the biggest bike race in the world together.
We’ve started a podcast Listen to our first episode now and send in your suggestions for a name. There’s a signed jersey waiting for the person who comes up with our favourite ✍ @LukeRowe1990
> https://t.co/RQNrKnITTz pic.twitter.com/ThcBVTPJ9S
— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) July 13, 2019
De Gendt is (entirely predictably) racking up the mountain points
or @DeGendtThomas, who is the first to arrive at the Côte d’Affoux.
pour Thomas De Gendt, qui passe en tête de la Côte d’Affoux.#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/a3akT8Cm0C— Tour de Franc (@LeTour) July 13, 2019
Holloway pedestrian safety improvements will see removal of cycle lane
Campaigners say TfL should be protecting all vulnerable road users.
De Gendt and De Marchi out front as Sagan struggles to stay in the bunch
40KM@DeGendtThomas and @ADM_RossodiBuja count a 2’45” lead over the peloton, which @petosagan has just rejoined.
Thomas De Gendt et Alessandro De Marchi comptent 2’45” d’avance sur le peloton où est rentré Peter Sagan.#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/5F9mPn7By3— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) 13 July 2019
Crash for Thomas as hectic stage 8 reaches finale
Crash for @TeamINEOS. @GeraintThomas86 was involved with @kwiato !
Chute pour la @TeamINEOS. @GeraintThomas86 était impliqué ainsi que @kwiato !#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/t06RwoRpEq— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) 13 July 2019
Alaphilippe has attacked with Pinot!
“Some things are so predictable like sunshine in July and an Alaphilippe attack” – Ned Boulting, as Alaphilippe tries to regain the Yellow Jersey.
An attack from @alafpolak1 and @ThibautPinot! they take the bonuses in this order.
Attaque d’Alaphilippe et Pinot ! Ils prennent les bonification dans cet ordre.#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/ZA6Me0aLjr— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) 13 July 2019
De Gendt wins Stage 8 after day-long breakaway
“I had a really good feeling all day… with 70km to go I really started believing in the victory.”
@DeGendtThomas of @Lotto_Soudal wins stage 8 of @LeTour #TDF #TDF2019 https://t.co/Sp3Ic88SuA pic.twitter.com/I8tRAyt4Yn
— World Cycling Stats (@wcsbike) 13 July 2019
Thibault Pinto's race bike
He was close to a stage win but has pulled out some useful time in the general classification, and here is a look at his bike. We’re talking about Thibault Pinot of course and his Lapierre Xelius SL Exclusive
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Makes a nice change from abusing apostrophes?
ECM shut down in 3, 2, 1…
Given the source, though, I'm going with Occam's Razor and assuming it was just a fancy-sounding word used without really having a clear idea what they meant by it. It seems like the cameras were recording, because they had clips of the incident that were posted on social media.
Kasia, it doesn’t get any better than that!
@mdavidford Latent can mean present but not active, so perhaps that's just a slightly convoluted way of saying the cameras etc were in situ but not rolling.
Yeah, it always takes a while for the law to catch up with new technologies and it's not necessarily predictable which ones will become popular and be a big problem. Personally, I'm hoping that new laws are drafted to cover the use of perv glasses (e.g. the Meta ones) in public as they are bound to be used abusively.
In the Netherlands they use a rolling road dynometer to test for illegal ebikes Dutch police roll out new checks to curb powerful e-bikes | Sticky Bottle https://share.google/UPwTJZ2JWZtr0IAzq
@mitsky A somewhat pedantic point of minor interest (but when has that stopped me?) but traffic rules and even traffic lights predate the widespread use of the motor car; the first traffic light in the world was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868 (unfortunately, being gas powered, it exploded shortly afterwards and injured a policeman). Driving on the left was mandated by Act of Parliament in 1835. Horse-drawn traffic was actually considerably more dangerous than motor traffic, with an average of 150 people per year being killed in London in the Victorian era in traffic incidents; last year 98 people died in traffic incidents with a population more than twice the size (the numbers may of course be somewhat skewed by the fact that modern medicine can save victims in ways undreamt of back then).
Think of it more along the lines on not letting the greys in, so that the reds aren't out competed. It's better to discourage the behaviour, before it has become established.
3 thoughts on “Live blog: Tour de France Stage 8: De Gendt wins Stage 8 with phenomenal breakaway performance + Alaphilippe attacks + Geraint Thomas crashes (snaps bike in half)”
G snaps bike in half.
G snaps bike in half.
Correction, not G’s.
But what a strong ride back into the group.
Great race today!
The peloton needs more riders
The peloton needs more riders like De Gendt and Alaphilippe. Guys like this definitely make watching a 5 hour stage worthwhile. It’s what racing should be. Attack attack!!
MSM need to fact check before
MSM need to fact check before publishing stories saying G broke his frame, he fell off and lost the chain and was soon back underway. If people had looked at the video footage of the incident they would have seen G crash on a bike bearing his rider number and riding a bike with the same rider number after the crash. I can’t see his team mates swapping race numbers over in the heat of the moment.