Tour de France - Stage 8 - Breakaways & broken bikes

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Geraint Thomas and his Ineos teammates crashed with 10km to go but fought back to limit the damage to Gianni Moscon's snapped frame. This was all going on whilst Thomas de Gendt rode a remarkable breakaway victory. Julian Alaphilippe stakes his claim to be considered a real GC contender, and Jeremy pulls out two of the worst jokes you'll hear all summer within a minute.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.9	The Tour de France on Bespoke with Gareth Rees-Owen.
0:10.9	Welcome to Bespoke at the finish line of stage eight of the 2019 Tour de France, a stage one by the breakaway king.
0:18.7	Thomas de Chent, he broke away early doors.
0:21.8	He had three other guys alongside him.
0:23.4	One by one, they all dropped back.
0:25.9	And it looked in all inevitability that he'd been caught,
0:29.6	especially considering what was going on behind him.
0:33.1	A big crash involving most of Team Inios riders.
0:36.6	Gerain Thomas hit the deck.
0:38.0	He fought back to get himself into the peloton.
0:40.5	And as he arrived, an attack by Julian Alaphilippe.
0:43.7	He was joined by Thibault Pino.
0:45.6	They both crossed the line in second and third.
0:48.6	Pino's got some time.
0:50.0	Alaphilippe is in yellow.
0:52.2	And Thomas eventually was in the main peloton and they came through a few
0:57.6	seconds down on pinot so no real losses as i can see so far but let's get some reaction from
1:05.0	the team in yos bus just around the corner here.
1:17.3	Just on the right-hand corner, Woodsie crashed in front of this and took out me and Janney.
1:22.7	And then obviously I had to chase back, but the boys were really good.
1:28.8	Got me pretty much within 100 metres and then I went across, slowly started to work my way up up the group but obviously by the time i got to like sort of top 15 is when they started sprinting for
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