Tour de France

Get in, Cav… Right, do not right off the Cav :wink::biking_man:

Team Sky, went the wrong way round the roundabout! Doh!

Nice one!

Cav looks so much stronger locking onto someone else’s wheel and leaving it late - though I’d be curious to see a HelmetCam view of his last hundred metres, looked a bit frantic.

Did he not latch onto another teams wheel? Great finish, but do like the Etixx team.

It looked like he and Renshaw made all the right decisions as it became hectic.

They even used Sky for a bit on the approach, then when Renshaw was done, Cav went looking for wheels and discovered that it’s way more efficient locking onto Griepel than it is leading him out yourself!

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Really enjoyed the TTT today. Froome kept his yellow jersey, but team sky missed out by 1 second to the very well drilled BMC team.

  1. BMC Racing (US) 32mins 15secs

  2. Team Sky (GB) +01sec

  3. Movistar (Spa) +04secs

  4. Tinkoff - Saxo (Rus) +28secs

  5. Astana (Kaz) +35secs

Nick Roche cost sky that. He was hanging out his arse and frome and the rest had to wait for him

See Ivan Basso has had to withdraw. They were giving him a check up after a crash a few stages back and they discovered he has testicular cancer. poor bastard.

Froome wins stage with a great break uphill and now leads by 2 mins 52. Contador 4 mins down.

As long as he stays on his bike, Froome just won the tour today.

Holy shit, did anyone see Geraint Thomas crash today. Went over side on a descent and whacked his head on a telegraph pole. Still managed to get back on his bike and finish. They breed them tough in Wales.

Just caught it on Eurosport, I was reading about it earlier. He said “the doctor examined me as I had a bash on the head, and asked me a few questions like ‘do you know who you are’, so i told him I was Chris Froome”.

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Thomas is a real hard nut… :cool: very good tour to-date supporting Froome but also placing 6th overall .

How he got up and finished…remarkable…

Couple of years ahead of Gareth Bale and Sam Warburton at Witchurch High school in Cardiff.

Warburton …Captain of Wales Rugby…was also a very good footballer but chose Rugger…

Something in the water in that part of Wales. :laughing:

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Sagan 2nd again… On to next year for him now!

Nibali looked amazingly strong today.

With the emphasis on amazing

He does nothing for a fortnight and then comes out and destroys the whole field with a lone breakaway?

Just saying…and remembering that five of his team failed drug tests a year ago.

Perhaps the French media would like to ask a few questions just as they would do if Froome looked as dominant as that?

It would appear one or two of the other leading group… :astonished:

not getting hold of the right gear…in these mountain finishes. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

The changing of cycles through the race…ok if mechanical/damage.

But not to have different cycles weights etc.

I think Nibali changed his for a motorised 250cc :wink:

He also didn’t know that the yellow had a mechanical problem when he launched his attack - even though he was looking at him…

And we now have clear footage of a spectator spitting on Froome.

Will the french media condemn or help launch a hunt for the tosser?

Will they fuck.

They are interested in nothing more than perpetuating lies, ignoring blatant cheating and sucking up to the organisers.

These are the same people who vilified David Walsh when he rocked the boat.

Team Sky must be wondering why they even support this event.

Lance Armstrong has damaged every future competitor but the media cowardly orchestrating a factless witch hunt leads to hatred being dished out on the stages.

There was TV footage and a hundred support vehicles + gendarmerie following.

Finding the guy who spat would have been easy - have we seen an arrest yet?

I do hope they prove me wrong and something is done.

But they won’t.