Interesting group that, a couple of climbers in there so I suspect that will stay away.
From the guardian, 51 mins ago:
"13 riders out in front; the highest-placed in the GC is Dani Navarro, 34 minutes behind Chris Froome"
Lead down to under 10mins now with approx 50Km to go.
the live tracker has started to show froome as a lone rider ahead of the bunch he'd been in. Error, or real ?
Interesting group that, a couple of climbers in there so I suspect that will stay away.
A few pairings of strong man and climber (e.g. Greipel and De Gendt, Vanmarke and Lindeman.) Pauwels and the Tickler are an interesting combination.
It'll be close for them to stay away. Headwind I think and the peloton will be charging. Though the peloton (main GC grouping) is a much reduced one.
Error, or real ?
Froome looks to be in the big GC group.
Ta - would've been madness, even by his standards in this TdF. Tracker seems a bit weird; yellow not currently showing on it at all, though froome is now in the list of names for that biggish groupFroome looks to be in the big GC group.
now it's got him in a break with Tony Martin !
Ouch nasty fall in [s]cross wind climb[/s] just skidded out on a corner and brought others down, 2 sky down but up again, 1 very slowly on a replacement bike
Froome safely with 3 team mates
Rowe and Stannard apparently. Both back riding, Stannard went down hardest apparently.
Slippy corner? The OBE (Gerrans) and Sky rider (Stannard?) both seemed to go down independently at the same spot. Taken a bit of pace out of the chase.
^^^ yes thats what commentator said, slippery corner
Got the audio back on now 🙂 LeMond seems to think it was wind catching the wheel.
16k to go for the break. Getting excited!
Edit... Greipel attacks out of the group! Couldn't win a sprint stage so maybe he's decided to go for a hilly one 🙂 (more likely setting up a relay for De Gendt maybe?)
Griepel attacking up hill, Froome getting in a break away. What on earth is going on?
Quintana goes!
Pegged back. What else has he got?
Quinta really wants this, 2 digs so far.
Dan Martin off the back of the group 🙁
Navarro for me.
Dan Martin gone.
I reckon Froome will have an answer to anything Quintana can throw at him
Easily reigned in though .. Sky look strong
so strong
LeMond seems to think it was wind catching the wheel.
Dimension Data's telemetry suggested 55kmph crosswind.
Froooome
Quintana dropped 🙂
Ooof Quintana dropped!
Holy cow
That was a big dig.
Froome and Porte
Just like the old days..Porte and Froome.
Quintana can't hold any wheel.
Porte needs to do some work if he wants a podium.
Porte won't work, no way, he'll sit and get pulled up by the climb and on to the podium.
Well I cursed navarro. Keep my gob shut from here on in.
And Yates is off the front too... nice work
Froome running 🙁
Spectators took took him off
😯
WTF?!
DAFUQ!
What the hell is going on here?
On a borrowed bike
Surely they have to neutralise this?!
Threw that away back on a Sky bike
Disgraceful fan behaviour.
That is astonishing.
😯
