Stage 10 **SPOILER**

[alecstilleyedye]

i reckon team colombia hsc will let the breakaway mop up all the sprint points before they decide to reel them in.

 

[yello]

They're passing through my neck of the woods now.

I reckon you're right alecs... makes sense.

Edit: it's odd seeing the roads you know well on the tele!

 

[Haitch]

Milram team leader Gerrie van Gerwen has just said on Dutch radio that the race is being kept "deliberately dull" because the riders can't listen to their MP3s.

 

[johnnyh]

Hahaha the snails, so funny

 

[RabbitFood]

Did you see one of the lead riders in the break away stop and smooth his missis great fun

 

[yello]

Hahaha the snails, so funny

I was hoping they wouldn't get splatted!

 

[yello]

A bit of local knowledge; the next bit of road (to Le Chatre) is incredibly boring! A long straight roller coaster of a road... I avoid it like the plague because it's usually quite busy with trucks, etc but more that it's just thoroughly unpleasant and tedious to ride.

The town they've just gone through, Crevant, has a potato fair every year. I've never been. It sadly always seems to clash with a prior engagement....

 

[johnnyh]

I was hoping they wouldn't get splatted!

haha was the most tense part of the day!

 

[yello]

Breakaway at 1'42" with 45km to go... no way will they stay away.

 

[yello]

The DS of AG2R just interviewed, teams were on a go slow as a protest but they will be sprinting. Talk of allowing only 2 riders to have radios for the next 'radioless' stage. If that's so, who'll be the lucky recipients in Astana!

Still, nice to know there's a reason for such a dull stage!!

 

[dtp]

Surely Ignatiev is going to get slammed after todays performance?

 

[yello]

No, he's hardly contributing is he?

 

[dtp]

I meant by the rest of the break away.

unless you're taking the piss & i'm being thick, in which case, ha!

 

[yello]

Yes, I know what you meant! He's not contributing to the breakaway.

 

[dtp]

*Sigh* Need to increase my sarcasm spotting skills...

Even though it never looked like it would be particularly effective I'd be pretty angry if I was in the front bunch.