I wonder how much the audience laughing at her, came as a surprise to her after spending the election trail at stage managed events full of the party faithful

Agree with those saying she’ll be gone, she might win but she won’t be the Prime Minister who completes the EU negotiations, just the one who wasted £100m, several months of time when she could of been working on a deal and made the UK government look incompetent

Yeh, I have no idea how she thinks she is selling strong and stable

Blowhard, ouch, audience like that, her not so much

Spanish rider would still be in full winter kit surely

blimey

2s!

2seconds/km is what people keep quoting Dumopoo will put into NQ

Yeh the physio made it clear to me that rest won’t cure it, I was tole to rest if its bad but after 2 -3 weeks rest the inflammation will of stabilised and only a strength and conditioning regime will bring it back to health. He showed me a picture like the below, that is the collagen fibres in a patella with tendonitis on the left and how it should be on the right, apparently the progressive overload from a squat program brings it back to looking like the healthy one but with just rest it would stay like the left

Wow – wonder who they’ve promised him as domestiques

Looking to resign Wilco Kelderman, Laurens ten Dam and Sam Oomen. Maybe pick up some Quickstep riders as well if they don’t find a sponsor

Think he came in to ride himself into shape for the tour

TD would be much better positioned with a strong team

Should be good tomorrow, TD has looked on empty at the end of the last two stages, so will see how he recovers for tomorrow

Up to 20!

Zakarin would rather have a stage win despite killing his team today

this is amazing

Not for lack of Pinot trying

Spoke to soon!

I dont get Quintana

but surely it’s not a loss If you were to buy £500k of stock.

No but it doesn’t help when they have 2,000 Hoy-Vulpine tshirts in the warehouse they have bought that contractually they arent allowed to sell

Got this in both knees, been doing rehab for seven weeks which includes cycling every other day on the turbo but its really light and looks like its going to take months to fully get over. (Most things I have read say 3-6 months plus the time you trained through it). I pushed through for a good six weeks before deciding I should do something about it, as a consequnce have had to drop out of LEL, cycling trip to italy and several events this summer.

also read the Martin Koban stuff, most of it is summarised in this:
Patella rehab infographic

Physio has me doing lots of limited range squats, started with body weight, just introduced weighted, lots of rolling my quads with a massage stick, cycling every other day and some hamstring and glute activation activities.

He blames it on poor cleat set up and over active quads. Also has got me to start using knee savers/ pedal extenders to allow a more natural foot position on the bike. The other major factor was rapidly ramping up my training and physio has made clear that training through winter is a must if I expect to be able to train hard in spring so that the tendon maintains condition.

Watched this last night and is similar to what I have been given to do, everything I have read says to do and shows rehab does work. Think he probably got over it quicker due to his fitness and youth.

Yeh Katusha blowing it up and nice the battle for white jersey is being played out as well

Fallon is insufferable

Nibs lack of attack to bring Pinot back was odd, weirdly, Nibs strikes me as the kind of man who would rather help NQ beat TD than be on the podium himself

French commentators saying dumolin was never off the bike and just lingering at the back amongst the cars for too long

I obviously missed the memo that yougov now report what May and the media want in the polls

Most of these guys love it
LFGSS Forum – Whos on Huel?

Second feel good stage win in a row

I don’t get Movistar and NQ, they are so timid tactically, is NQ unable to pull the trigger or the DS terrible at planning?

Nice result today, feel good moment seeing Rolland get a win and how much it meant to the whole team

lol at NQ almost throwing himself off his bike with his bottle

30 minutes of sweaty turbo rehabbing patella tendonopthy, seven weeks since last having a proper ride

People bashing Quintana but it was Zakarin who attacked and then Bahrain Merida, it didn’t leave Movistar much choice, they couldnt let Zakarin and Nibali with Pelizzotti ride off and Tom’s dump was a little tactical surely, sat on the back for 45mins up to the climb and just as they hit the climb he jumped off

Only if Movistar can get Amador away. After that, all the riders are 40 minutes down other than Pellizotti who’s 25. Sunweb can let them go and other teams will start to get nervous about their top 10 places if there are a couple of other guys from the top 20 there.

Nah, recon they’ll keep Anacona and Amador back to help him on the climbs and then to bridge to the others up the road, all depends what NQ has to offer though, the altitude should be in his favour if he is feeling strong though

Am expecting to see Bahrain Merida and Movistar giving it full gas with guys in the break, Sunweb will be in for a hard day

Yeh I have never got the Marie Kondo thing of looking at an object and if it fills you with joy keep it, if it doesnt get rid of it. A pair of nail clippers is never going to fill me with joy but I don’t want to be without them.

Pretty horrified by the proximity of the TV bikes on that final descent though

Yeh I don’t understand why they feel the need to be so close. There was a moment where Rolland was waving at the camera to give him room, then they cut to the helicopter and the motorbike was less than a wheels length from the group descending, madness

Quickstep turning thier season around

As had been said, check out Spa cycles, they have a bunch of options

Thanks all – I’ve booked Dinas. I’m unreasonably excited!

It’s a nice place, we only planned to stay a couple of days and planned to move on to Northern Snowdonia but landed up staying all week

Yeh the last week is brilliant. set up to be a great bit of bike racing