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Tinsy, is your day dependent on when the tour finishes?
Yup, I wont get a chance for highlights, home is busy, work is Tour dependant.
Unless your looking to employ me, at which point, the balance alters.
Go SaxoBank (and Cav+Sagan)!
ooooh. Chavanel and Terpstra and Cav of OPQS.
What.....a........day......
Come on Chris! You don't expect the GC to get shaken up on a day like this...!
Llama said:
Bored of flat stages now bring on the mountains
I take it back
Looks like another TTT to me, impressive team work this.
Hardest core breakaway ever
Yup, playing to the sky weakness... clever.
Hope Contador falls off and takes out Sagan.
That'll mean that Chris Froome won't lose any time and Cav will win the stage! Can't stand Contador - cheating bastard.
Froome may well have a bad day today. 🙁
I'm kinda hoping that Contador has a puncture with 5k to go and we get a Cav - Sagan 1 - 2.
Maybe I'm misremembering but was it in 2011 when in the mountains Contador kicked and attacked after Schleck had a mechanical? I hope i'm right because it would be awkward to dislike a man based on a lie.
Google tour de france chaingate.
Dodgy steak is the usual reason to dislike him.
But at least they are racing today. Got to like them for that
OK, dont panick, 9k to go, Froome will lose time but not yellow, mountians to come, he is the strongest.
Contador was almost 4m behind wasn't he? Sky must be allowing him to get a minute away, saving themselves for tomorrow.
Fascintating.
GC action AND sprint finish action - two for one!
Great racing. You've got to love the way Contador races - history or no. He's even classier now he has had to tone back the doping - last years Vuelta was a brilliant race, and this could just maybe turn out the same.
Did this all start because of Valverde's puncture?
Doesn't look like sky are saving themselves - only stannard and g left...
Contador was almost 4m behind wasn't he? Sky must be allowing him to get a minute away, saving themselves for tomorrow.
He was 3'25" down so he'll finish about 2'20 ish down
Sky aren't allowing anything but they're ****ed, they've lost most of their riders having tried to pull it back, it's only G (injured) and Ian Stannard (knackered) left with Froome.
About the only good thing is that he can't lose too much more time cos it's only 3km to go.
Wonder with me if you will, what happens if Froome doesn't win?
Did this all start because of Valverde's puncture?
Nope. OPQS saw kittel weakening and went for it. The puncture helped get other teams on board though i think? The gap was at a minute when he puntured
shame for Valverde though. I like his style.
The big loser today is Valverde, he's way off podium now.
OPQS saw their chance to distance Kittel and went for it, Saxo Tinkoff saw their move and went with it.
What a win. OPQS were awesome
GET IN!!
WOO, go Cav! 🙂
Nice, good to see Sky suffering 😈
That's the best win I've seen for Cav.. what a brilliant ride!
awesome stage. awesome win.
you've got to love the Tour 😀
Can't believe you can put a minute into the yellow on a flat stage
Really looking forward to tomorrow now 🙂
Yeah, Contador is now at 2'45".
Not too bad.
Can't believe Sky got caught napping on a crosswind stage like that. 🙄
Yup, great win for Wee man, I whish I had put that bet on.
Clever riding from Saxo.
Clever riding from Saxo.
Very clever because Contador has Roman Kreuziger at 4th place as well which is a good double barrelled attack weapon against Sky.
Another clever move from Contador, reminiscent of his sneaky 'flat' stage attack in the Vuelta that caught Purito napping.
must say I don't think sky ever really recovered from Saturday - I was laughed at when I called it a silly move.
I would not want to be in the same bus as sky tonight
I would not want to be in the same TOWN as movistar tonight!
That Saxo bloke they just interviewed looked wiped out though.
Wow. What a stage.
A quite brilliant ride by Saxo Tinkoff. I have to admit I had written off Contador after the first mountains stages, but that has blown things wide open.
Great to see Cav winning again too. Did really well to get in that break and there was only ever going to be one winner at the end.
That was a bonkers stage. Well done to Saxo Tinkoff. And excellent effort from Cav. Unfortunate for Valverde though - wrong place and wrong time.
must say I don't think sky ever really recovered from Saturday - I was laughed at when I called it a silly move.
exactly - Porte went out with what - 30K to go or something. There is something not right there
(Contador) He's even classier now he has had to [b]tone back the doping[/b]
I think that says it all really 🙄
😉