This is a beautiful climb by the by.

Hmmm.. well I might have got that wrong unless Froome is bluffing…

Ooh, this sounds exciting. I’m now going to try and stay away until I’ve watched the highlights…

I tell you what, Geraint Thomas is a hell of a bike rider, track, classics and now mountains, that man can do it all.

Can’t argue with that.

I think Nibbles has just been left by his team mates, that really is the end of his tour I reckon.

Whoa, Contador going too!! Holy moly!

Phenomenal effort from Gesink to stay ahead of this!

😯

I reckon they all knew that he wasn’t on good form, hence the team didn’t all stick with him.

Wasn’t expecting that from AC though! Pretty happy to see it though 🙂

And TJ!

And then there were three, or rather two…. Sky are pulling this apart!

Come on Richie!!! Drag them up and get the damm stage

Christ on a bike.

How the hell am I meant to get any work done?

Porte, Froome and Quintana left, Nairo to attack in 3, 2, 1…

TJV gone too! Now froome attacking!
RM.

OMG!!

Here we go…

He must be on drugs 😉

Let’s hope not… there’s a lot of discussion about those hacked figures…

This, this is seriously impressive.

Motor in the bike too. S’obvious.

17s already…. Yellow jersey race could be over..

Putting some distance in now….

You know my prediction earlier?
Yeah, I was wrong…

Quintana vs Froome?
Nibali, Contador, TJvG – have they got anything left for the next 2 weeks? Can Froome hold on like this for the next 2 weeks?

Great race. 🙂

No way he can take this to the top Shirley?

That’s a hell of a Maillot Jaune performance, hope he can finish the job for the stage, he’s going to be taking some serious time over everyone!

Going to be some seriously sceptical headlines tomorrow I reckon – Brit coming over to France and destroying the race with extraterrestrial style on 14th July..

Outstanding.

The gaps are growing and growing.

ah he started as a mountain biker, that explains it all 🙂

applauds Quintana – what a race

1.30 into Contador and 3.00 into Nibali with less than 5K left. Wow!
RM.

That’s what all we MTB-ers can do isn’t it….erm….. 😕

Oh excellent, Paul Sherwen is comparing him to Lance.
Great one Paul.

It’s true mind – he’s doing exactly what LA did (although hopefully without the doping). First mountain stage, set a monster pace all day, blow it to pieces on the final climb.

But I’m not sure it helps to actually voice that.

I think Froome is so desperate to win this year after the disappointment of last….

45 seconds on Quintana, impressive.

Edited.

Sky 1-2-3 come Paris with Porte & GT?

Sky didn’t set the pace today, Movistar did. Froome had all his DSs with him at the start of the last climb, the other teams didn’t.

Can the pharmacology experts save it for later?

Absolutely glued to this!

COME ON RICHIE!!

He’s closing Quintana down.