banjo
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Not gonna spoil it for those watching later on catch up but 
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The Official 102nd Tour de France, thread.
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Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
...........chaos.
edited as I did spoil it for those watching later!
edited as I did spoil it for those watching later!
banjo
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If you're watching now you would of gathered what's going on, and I'm pretty sure they will show highlights of what happened. That's all I'm prepared to say as I don't want Stat telling me off.
If you're watching now you would of gathered what's going on, and I'm pretty sure they will show highlights of what happened. That's all I'm prepared to say as I don't want Stat telling me off.
Don't listen to what SB says!
Seriously though, we should be able to discuss things as they happen on this thread. That is part of the fun, surely.
Bold Seagull
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Ten Dam has dislocated his shoulder, had it popped back in by his team, then got back on his bike and carried on.
Mentals.
Simon Gerrans, Tom Dumoulin and William Bonnet not so lucky and all abandoned. Not sure if it was Bonnet who went down in the first crashed and then got ploughed into after. Whoever that was looked bashed up. Coverage didn't seem to catch the second crash which caused the neutralisation of the race. The it started it again, then neutralised again, then stopped. Was mentals, so so fast as well, it was like they had 2km left not 60km!
This sort of thing is becoming a bit inevitable with these tougher first weeks. Today is basically Fleche Wallonne, we have Paris Roubaix later in the week, so much battling for the front. Not sure what the answer is really, as in previous years the first week was really dull.
Jean-Christophe 'they call him JC' Peraud, for the second time today, and I make it seven times in three days of coverage now. Heckle and Jeckle will struggle now Gerrans is out, they won't be able to tip him for every single stage now...
Bold Seagull
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Cracking finish. Brilliant final climb.
banjo
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Great finish.
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Froome in yellow?
That was pretty special from Purito, really happy for him. Froome could have won that had he held back longer, but that was not really his purpose from this stage. He would have snapped your arm off this morning 20+ seconds gained on Contador, and 17 seconds on Nibali and Quintana. Pretty special. Not sure he will want to be in yellow so early though.
Bold Seagull
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Superb by Rodriguez, seemed to sell a bit of a dummy before Froome went and looked like he was dropping, then came back hard. Great racing. Seeing Nibali lose even more time, really not looking good for him. He's going to need something special on the cobbles again. Perhaps all this 'you can't win the TdF in the first 4 stages' is just nonsense these days!?
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I'm watching on catchup.
Footballers should be ashamed of themselves.
Footballers should be ashamed of themselves.
Tyrone Biggums
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I'd have my money on Greg Van Avermaet taking yellow. Should be able to pull out enough time over Martin.
Bold Seagull
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The 10, 6 and 4 second time bonuses do open up the possibilities of who can take yellow early on, Sagan rode well today, wonder if he's got something up his sleeve over the cobbles. He really does have the curse of the allrounder these days.
banjo
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I tried to tell them.
Good shout. Sky would not necessarily chase a break with GVA in it. Martin, maybe they would.
[MENTION=16159]Bold Seagull[/MENTION], Sagan is also a good shout, though he will have to do it alone. Taxo Sinkoff are putting all their eggs in the Contador basket it seems so far.
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I totally agree with [MENTION=12656]Pantani[/MENTION].
The whole point of the thread is so we can talk about the race, and who the fook is listening to me!
What a race, as an aside from the crash, neutralising, and the finish.
Did anyone else notice the elbow battles Froome was having going up, he took no s***.
Irrespective how they finish tomorrow Froome will be at least 2 seconds behind Martin, who I think will be in yellow tomorrow.
(unless Stybar pinches it
)
The whole point of the thread is so we can talk about the race, and who the fook is listening to me!
What a race, as an aside from the crash, neutralising, and the finish.
Did anyone else notice the elbow battles Froome was having going up, he took no s***.
Irrespective how they finish tomorrow Froome will be at least 2 seconds behind Martin, who I think will be in yellow tomorrow.
(unless Stybar pinches it
)