Tour de France *Spoilers*

[Pro Tour Punditry]

ITV calling it within.

Liggett and Sherwen? Or someone you can believe like Boardman or Imlach?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

ITV calling it within.

I think the on-screen distance had already hit 2.8km.

 

[HF2300]

Great win. Garmin are great at manufacturing wins from nothing by unexpected tactics. Kind of the opposite of Sky really.

And I thought that was going to be a dull sprint stage.

I'm not sure it was their tactics as luck, though they wouldn't have profited from the crash if they hadn't had a man out the front

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Provisional results show unchanged GC, so looks like within. Would have been a bit more juicy if not.

 

[Beebo]

It's not nice seeing the press photographers circle the crashed riders like a pack of vultures

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Chapeau to the honey badger, terrific stage win, the tactic worked perfect, with Slagter working the hill while Navardauskas waited in the wings to pounce. The disruption of the crash helped, as did the slick roads no doubt, but sometimes you have to make your own luck. Well done Garmin-Sharp.

 

[KennaughKickIt]

Right, that does it, I'm getting Eurosport for the next tour. Apparently Leopald Konig is German.

 

[HF2300]

Imlach started the coverage by talking about the beautiful countryside and telling us there were plenty of chateaus (chateaux?) to look at. Surely he realises Sherwen shouldn't be encouraged?

Bardet technical. Cracking TT but AG2R not having a lot of luck.

 

[laurence]

were the crowd booing valvpiti? could be because he is threatening a frenchie duo on the podium - although that is looking a bit unlikely now. allez!

 

[Crackle]

Heh. Valvpiti blows the podium.

 

[HF2300]

Great stage. Great work by the French. Great work by Valverde.

 

[smutchin]

Valverde deliberately threw it to win himself some friends in France...

Meanwhile, over in the news headlines, reports are coming in of porcine aviation sightings.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Brilliant result for Pinot. Even better that it's ValvPiti who misses out.

 

[Crackle]

Pinot looked like one of those nodding dogs you buy for the back of the car. If he just kept farking still, he'd save 5 secs a mile.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Just catching up on the sky player...

ffs