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Stage 8 Preview Dole to Station des Rousses, 187.5km Route Profile Final Climb Prime break territory today. This one should be worth watching. Expect: A huge fight to get in the break, and some pretty decent riders in there. Probably a big group too, 10+. Sky will not chase them, so...

Stage 7 Review Troyes to Nuits-Saint-Georges, 213.5km Result: 1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 5:03:18 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 3 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin 5 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 6...

Stage 7 Preview Troyes to Nuits-Saint-Georges, 213.5km Route Profile Last 5km Stick with the cricket or tennis. The Tour will get interesting again tomorrow.

Stage 6 Review Visoul to Troyes, 216 km Result: Cook c de Kock b Philander 3 Jennings lbw b Philander 8 Ballance lbw b Morkel 20 Root not out 184 Bairstow lbw b Philander 10 Stokes c de Kock b Rabada 56 Moeen not...

Stage 6 Preview Visoul to Troyes, 216km Route Profile Last 5km Yawn! Sprinters stage, nothing much to say about it. Expect: Rubbish break with wild card team riders. Sprint finish. Tune in for the last ten minutes, or maybe not even that. Watch the cricket or tennis instead :wink...

Stage 5 Review Vittel to La Planche de Belles Filles, 160.5km Result: 1 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3:44:06 2 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:16 3 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:20 4 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 5 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale...

Talansky 21st @1:13 :whistle: Though there is not much kudos predicted someone to beat Super Eddie's Taxi.

Anyone get on the 12-1 for Aru? That was seriously impressive he has to be considered a real contender now. BMC did an awful lot of work for 4th place. I suppose their riders are no use on the climbs anyway, so Richie may as well burn all his helpers up on the flat. Doesn't look good for him...

Indeed, that final climb is super steep though. Could see an agonising catch close to the line..

This is a proper break. Some really good riders in there, still doomed to fail I think but they will put up a fight.

Stage 5 Preview Vittel to La Planche de Belles Filles, 160.5km Route Profile Final Climb Shit gets real today. Pretty flat for the majority of the stage, then bam, steep relatively short climb. Expect: All the big GC teams totally hammering it into the bottom of La Planche de Belles...

Sorry for missing reviews and previews today. My internet was down last night and I was in work first thing today. Think the review part was covered by everyone anyway.

It is not good from Sagan, think we may seem him DQ'd from the race. Full speed or slow motion it looks really bad to me. You cannot take your hands off the bars to block people, that is not a natural reaction.

I did say it was extremely generous :wink: Plus it makes a really boring table if we make it realistic, Froome, Porte, Quintana no one else. Maybe Bardet.

Stage 4 Preview Mondorf-les-Bains to Vittel 207.5km Route Profile Final 5km Looks like a classic sprint stage, because that is what it is. Not much to say about this one. Expect: The smaller teams to get in a break away, and a real go slow from the peloton. A sprint finish, just tune in...

Stage 3 Review Sorry everyone a bit late today. Result: 1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 5:07:19 2 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 3 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 4 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 5 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:02 6 Arnaud...

Stage 3 Preview Verviers to Longwy 212.5km Route Profile Final 5km Lumpy and bumpy today. I have seen this one described as a mini classic. I'm not quite sure about that, if they ride it hard it will be a tough stage, if they soft pedal all day there is nothing particularly difficult...

Yeah Sagan positioned himself really poorly. He was second wheel with 600m to go. And seemed to get dropped off in to the wind way too early. Then did not launch his sprint immediately, hoping someone would come past and he could get out of the wind then launch his sprint later. With hindsight...

Stage 2 Review Result: 1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 4:37:06 2 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ 3 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 4 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 5 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 6 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 7 Ben Swift (GBr)...

Taylor Phinney takes the first KoM point. If he wants the jersey at the end of the day he might be wise to sit up and wait for the bunch now.