The riders had an early wake-up call this morning, with the start set for 10:49. Well, when you are facing all those climbs and 204 km, you have to get an early start. Two riders decided to sleep in and not take to their bikes this morning: Enrico Franzoi (Liquigas) and the race’s oldest rider, Inigo Cuesta (Cervelo), who is 39 years old. Steven Cozza of Team Garmin became the third member of the US-based team to give up the race when he dropped out on the first climb.

As the peloton moves close to the last climb, the pack is led by riders from the Astana and Quick Step teams.

but will be checking in on the race frequently. I’ve also got the plumber coming this morning and there’s a Doctor Who marathon on TV. Ah, the life of a multi-tasker. More coffee, anyone?

Should I start a new thread over in the main section or leave this one here?

The audio of France Eurosport works but I can’t get any picture!

peloton strung out

some tired legs there

thanks for the reports since I can’t follow the video at work.

Maggie talking about one more big climb still to go but… you sure don’t see one on the course profile or any description of the stage. Nothing classified.

looks like the break might make it after all

28km to go

i’m all audio at the moment…

at least I can see pictures which is more than I was doing.

Or if it does the gap goes way down to less than a minute.

… pretty lookin’ stage today :)

or a helluva lot of bandwidth, TA is now live on RAI

this sucker stays away? who’d be in yellow if it did?

damn

won’t be fun to chase back now.

and continues

caught them while they were looking at each other

eff uu c tv

TV working hard

… guess which feed sucks.

Tommy can you hear me!

I’m glad for him. Nice celebration, too : )

Great victory

Well done Roy!