Ewan head and shoulders above the rest here, what pity he got injured.
It’s not a deep sprinting field this year. Too many injured or out of form sprinters.
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I reckon a break will probably take this, although there’s enough classics riders teams to try and stop that.
Love watching El Tractor on the front of the peloton he averaged 300 watts for last night I average 210 today for 80kms…and he will back up again tonight 
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No photo finish for the Mohoric win
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Carapaz caught on the line by the other GC favourites!
Looks like Roglic is officially cooked
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No-one was catching Mohoric today - BEX stuffed up by having Yates in the break who should have waited for stage 8 and 9 - Movistar again chased down Carapaz.
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great racing today
Roglic dropped
thomas dropped
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The Montague street of France 
Hope the green edge bus driver has an alibi
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This tour is over.
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Truck gets moved in time.
But SBS decides to pack in the ads on the tensest moments of the Colombier
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Pog just doing what champions do - putting his rivals to the sword on the first mountain stage of the tour
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A masterclass by Pogacar - The biggest surprise was Teuns outclimbing better climbers - Bahrain’s had a super 6 weeks.
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Wow, been waiting for the next dominant rider to come through. Pogacar, at 22 will have god knows how many TDF’s by the time he’s 30. Unheard of to win like this so young.
Going on the third last climb was amazing In a tour where we’ve become accustomed to Ineos riding tempo, and grinding away anyone that dares try to get away.
Pogacar could easily have ridden with the “elite” peleton for 3 weeks, taken few risks, taken seconds and the top of most of the climbs and won the ITT. Instead he goes on the 3rd last climb. Carapaz the only on able to even vaguely follow. Quickly they put a big gap on the rest of the motley bunch that you would say are the podium contenders. Then Pogacar calls Carapaz through for a turn. Carapaz gives the “yeah, nah”. At which point on the third last climb they could just slowly ease off. Instead Pogacar just says “FK it” and just blows everyone apart.
I’m not sure that Teuns outclimbed many climbers in that group, he just kept it upright better on the wet descent. Most of the breakaway were done by the time the last couple of climbs started.
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Hard to remember a GC rider being in such a dominant position after just one week of riding.
He’s only got to keep it upright to win this.
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If I’ve learnt one thing about cycling, If it’s too good to be true then it probably isn’t true.
Pogacar has been helped this tour given most rivals crashed the first few days. Still I have huge ?? over Pogacar.
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How many of his team unaffected by crashes?
UAE are an exceedingly weak team, Pogacar has had to do it mostly on his own.
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still only week 1 pogacar can crash and race is wide open.
That was my feeling as he rode away. But maybe his opponents were just no good. Thomas and Roglic (and Froome) were all so banged up they were hanging out with Cavendish, others had already gone home. The “elite” selection was a bunch of guys who would have come into the tour expecting to be 5-15. Maybe he was just the only genuine gc contender still standing, so he figured he’d put 5 minutes + into the others while he could, just so the not real GC guys didn’t get any ideas about trying to mess with him on a cross wind stage or some other random event, and so even if they do, and even if he cops a puncture and he has no team support, it won’t matter.
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