Carnage!

Jesus that was a brutal one,hope his neck it ok,jeez.

Looks bad, neck brace going on is not good, hope Martin gets back

They keep saying it’s dry, but that looks like plenty of damp in some of the corners.

Richie Porte a liability on the descents.

That was horrible. .

really DTF? Usual shite from a troll

Looks like he just ran out of road

**** sake, reminds me of the descent of the olympics this, its so risky with everyone racing, just dangerous especially with patchy wet roads, hate seeing this

hitting dan martin might have saved porte’s life there, used him as a crash barrier and surely took out the blunt force of hitting the rocks 👿

not the place/time for your [ usually excellent]trolling

Not a good spot to get Richie away in a helicopter, good luck to him.

That was horrible. .

really DTF? Usual shite from a troll

Looks like he just ran out of road

Keep your hair on!

It’s been said before, the last few races he’s done he’s looked dodge. Hopefully he’s not hurt himself too badly (although it just showed him getting carried off on a stretcher…..)

Never good for anyone to have a crash but that looked particularly bad for Porte. Hope it’s nothing to bad.

Martin looks like he’s found some good company about a minute down.

Hope Porte is ok that looked shocking and second the big bits of damp observation.

well having watched it a few times looks more like he got tight and slid a little or lost traction
https://www.facebook.com/SBSCyclingCentral/videos/10155436571838427/
Hope he is OK, saw him sat up before the medics arrives so hopefully a lot of precautions. A real shame for the race as he did look equal to Froome there and such a nice bloke, I would think Froome’s first question on the finish is where and how his good mate is.
We just lost 2 great riders from the tour today.

Looks like they have given it to WB, sucha great lunge to finish like that. Dan Martin for the podium?

Or not…

what a day
Best wishes to Porte

What a stage! 😯

Uran then…. another close finish

That was exciting! Photo finish!

Incredible stage!

Gutted for WB, who’s getting the job of hoofing him out of the winners chair?

Gutted for WB, who’s getting the job of hoofing him out of the winners chair?

The really shouldn’t have done that until they were sure. Poor guy.

Froome doesn’t need a team when everyone else rides for him. 😉

That was an epic stage!

Richie Portes crash was proper nasty though. Hope he didn’t do himself too much damage.

Some good racing this weekend..

So froome going to get a sagan type penalty for pushing Aru?

No

So froome going to get a sagan type penalty for pushing Aru?

Clutching at straws. Given what happened earlier he could have punched Aru in the head and (justifiably) got away with it.

Of course he won’t get a penalty but it looked pretty deliberate
https://mobile.twitter.com/lionelbirnie/status/884058385246801923/video/1

Lemond seemed to think Aru did nothing wrong…

So updates say Porte is conscious, speaking and remembers it all, some good news there

Now that was a fantastic race.

Waiting to see the highlights and comments after that race and ITV4 have just had 4 minutes of the programme between the adverts, that is taking the mick. We saw the standings and a slow mo of the Porte crash and then it was back to another break!

Free to air, online with no ads here though it is now 1:30am

That’s because (I think) they wanted to show everything from the business end of the last climb to the finish uninterrupted.

and when the footage of Froome on the phone on the trainer came up this is what he was typing

Chris Froome
4 mins ·
Relieved to finish safely but thoughts are with everyone that crashed today, especially @GeraintThomas86 & @richie_porte

The BBC are reporting BMC as saying that Porte is ok.

Demare has 30km to do in forty minutes to not get cut, likely going to take half of fdj out with him

epicsteve – Member
The BBC are reporting BMC as saying that Porte is ok.

I’m going for “ok” meaning “not dead” especially given that BMC were still trying to find out where he was not long ago!

Demare has 30km to do in forty minutes to not get cut,

Blimey! What happened to him?