Yep, I have every sympathy with Voight. Been there, got the t-shirt on that one!!!
Schlecks gonna have to start practicing his time trialing for next year i think....
Wiggos nowhere again. I remember his comments before the tour "I still get paid if I don't win, so I'm just going to see how it goes"
Nice attitude. still as long as you've a nice scooter on your saddle who cares eh? prick.
Nice attitude. still as long as you've a nice scooter on your saddle who cares eh? prick.
I feel your disappointment but thats a bit harsh.
The breakaways have done well in the mountain stages so far, I am surprised the pelaton let them get away.
sorry llama but his attitude stinks. remember when Milar said wiggo joined sky so he could hang around with rock stars? I don't think he was far off the mark. his attitude is "see what happens, don't really care" compare that to Voight who has just buried himself for a teammate. know who I'd rather have in my team!
I lost a bit of respect for Wiggins when he jumped ship from previous team after they'd taken a risk on him. Think he's playing it a bit too "kool for skool" at moment, he's getting into Cadel territory....
How is Lance doing today? He just looked fedup yesterday on that small/idiot crash infront of him.
"see what happens, don't really care"
I doubt that's what he really thinks.
Remember, Sky is being run by someone Wiggo knows well and has worked with very closely before.
warton - nobody goes into the TDF saying they are confident and are going to do well, they all say 'take one day at a time' and 'see what happens'.
He's in the main GC group hora, couple of minutes back from alberto and andy
Whats the gap in the overall standings at this stage? 2mins?
Hora - Lance doing okay today. Thinks he's in group four on road. Don't think he's crashed today 🙄
llama, but do they say "I still get paid, so I'm not going to worry to much about it" No they don't.
Ew, that chap in orange, you can see his shoulder blades through his jersey.
Hora - Lance doing okay today. Thinks he's in group four on road. Don't think he's crashed today
Phew
Just been reading some of the background stuff on Pantani (tragic) and Armstrong (shall we say, interesting)...
What a mental finish!!!!
quality finish!
I thought Shleck got a bit excited about catching the leaders, and just started sprinting without really thinking about how far from the line they were. Fantastic day though.
Where wigo
10 minutes ??
More ??
wiggins 5 minutes back.
too much expresso, the jam and zoot suits in the close season. not enough EPO 😉
now that was more like it.
Just been reading some of the background stuff on Pantani (tragic) and Armstrong (shall we say, interesting)...
hit us up some links I'm intrigued/can't be bothered to work for the next 30min!
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2004/mar/07/cycling.features ]Gaurdian[/url]
Armstrong stuff on Wiki - nothing new, but I find it difficult to get the measure of Armstong's rebuttals. American I guess.
Wiggins came in 4'55 down today
WIGGINS Bradley 31 SKY PRO CYCLING 5h 43' 05" + 04' 55"
So I reckon that'll put him about 7'30 down overall as he was 2'25 down on Andy S before today
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This was a predictions thread!
Oh well my missus can watch Emmerdale now.
So how far back was Wiggo as he wasn't mentioned on the cyclingnews coverage
Tough stage..
Lets hope wigo has some better days.
52km time trial at the end aswell.
podium out of question ??
16th place, WIGGINS Bradley, + 07' 18"
Really does depend on how he gets on with the rest of the mountains.
Poor old bumface. That's going to take some recovering from.
Wiggo? Podium? He's not even going to be on the same page of the results if he keeps losing 5-10 minutes on every mountain stage. Just remember that Contador is one of the world's best GC time trialists.
Just remember that Contador is one of the world's best [s]GC[/s] time trialists.
Better.
Yes well saying 'I still get paid...' is not good I admit.
Evans has dropped to 18th at 7:47
31st, ARMSTRONG Lance, + 15' 54"
Geraint Thomas is now looking at over 50 minutes behind Andy. He was so close as well.
Wiggins knew his result last year was a fortunate one, helped by a decent team who could help him when he appeared to be better than VandeVelde.
His signing up with Sky for a long contract spoke volumes; if you are really good you opt for a shorter contract then re-negotiate, rather than opting for safety with your Uncle Dave Brailsford...
...and his hair is rubbish...
Wigo is up for it.
Still doing very well in only his second tour..
not a fan of Evans but seeing him so distraught at the end of the stage was not nice.
Agree with the hair..
And the sunglasses
And the dress sense
eh, he's been in 4 tours hasn't he?!?!?!
Mushn't grumble really, 16th in a field of the world very best cyclists, wish I was that shit 😆
That was a guess.
Well he was very quiet for two then..
yes, think he withdrew from one of them
i don't know anything about road racing, but i certainly enjoyed my vantage point today, half way up the col de madeline 8)
just thought i'd bring that to the conversation...
The problem with being a British rider is that as soon as there's a suggestion that you might be quite good, you're immediately a TdF contender, even if you and everyone else knows that actually - you aren't.
So now that Bradley has cracked does he stop being British and revert to being Belgian/Australian?
