Tour de France 2018 **SPOILERS**

[deptfordmarmoset]

What happened to Nibali when he went down ?

The pictures didn't show it and the commentators didn't know but thought it involved motos at a pinch point behind the barricades. I'm watching the highlights now - perhaps they'll have found out what happened.

 

[Adam4868]

Not had much internet,but I read that something with a Moto with Nibali ? Saw some bloke trying to push Froome when he was chasing Bardet and also getting spat at ! If that's the best they can do I'd find some other sport to watch

 

[Crankarm]

He is the first British rider to win up the Alp but more amazingly they said on Eurosport that he is the first British rider to ever win a race stage whilst in yellow. Is that true?

I believe he is the first ever rider in yellow to win on the Alp. Well that's what they said earlier, but I might very well be wrong as my hearing isn't so good. If you watch the highlights on ITV4 now you will know cos they never it wrong . But what ever it is an absolutely fantastic result for GT, absolutely bloody fantastic. Congratulations to him. I hope the powers that be at Sky don't tell him to ease up and let Froome go in front which would be a shockingly bitter pill for him to swallow if indeed he did. But there is still a long way to go to Paris.

 

[Crankarm]

Not had much internet,but I read that something with a Moto with Nibali ? Saw some bloke trying to push Froome when he was chasing Bardet and also getting spat at ! If that's the best they can do I'd find some other sport to watch

It was a combination of road narrowing, bend, trees, spectators getting too close, flags and motorbikes. Geraint said he thought he rode over Nibali's rear wheel as he went down in front. It wasn't very pretty and iirc happened just before the barriers started. Really bad crowd control again from ASO again. Fortunately Nibali was ok. Some of these nutters who hit/slap hard the riders or try to block them should be fined or jailed. Like the spectator who looked like he tried to hit Froome hard on the back to knock him off. It shouldn't be hard to id them with all the footage being taken. Wait till the race gets high into the Pyrenees. The Spanish spectators are nutz.

 

[hoopdriver]

If you go by W

I think they are measuring for different start positions. Compare the Pantani times and they are all different. Plus I think your list is just the winners.

Could be. Looking over my post, I came off sounding rather abrupt. I didn’t mean to - I was writing in haste, being summoned to dinner! My apologies for sounding so brusque.

 

[Crankarm]

Pantani like all the others of that era was drugged up to his eyeballs. UPS and Lance Armstrong got a favourable mention at the bottom of the Alp as the team that started the trend of riding at the front full gas to tear the field apart to get up to the end of the straight leading up to first hairpin of the climb proper.

 

[Crackle]

Both lists are right then, if you're looking at individual and winning times.

 

[Beebo]

The pictures didn't show it and the commentators didn't know but thought it involved motos at a pinch point behind the barricades. I'm watching the highlights now - perhaps they'll have found out what happened.

There is a report that he hit a police motorbike.
Also more worryingly he may have fractured a vertebrae. He is undergoing X-ray.

 

[Crankarm]

There is a report that he hit a police motorbike.
Also more worryingly he may have fractured a vertebrae. He is undergoing X-ray.

Cracked vertebrae and out of tour which is rotten luck for him and not his fault.

 

[Crankarm]

It might just start to be sinking in for GT what he has just achieved. Fantastic result. The booing by the French on the finish line as he and Froome went by and at the presentation was shameful. Mind you Froome didn't have anything to say post race, so maybe Mrs F will now be speaking to Mrs T.

 

[Adam4868]

After all this time you don't really think anything bothers Froome,he'll take it in his stride,so will Thomas.Its a shame but that's the way it is.

 

[Tin Pot]

Someone took a swing a Froome on the way up too.

Thomas and Froome, it’s great drama - I’m not calling it, but I think Sky would be surprised if Thomas holds through. I just hope it doesn’t fark up the team strategy and let Dumoulin take it.

 

[roadrash]

didn't know about this yesterday..
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The Cycling Podcast‏Verified account @cycling_podcast 10h10 hours ago
Yesterday Edvald Boasson Hagen was stranded with a broken bike and no team car. Team Sky gave him a bike to finish the stage, for which he and Servais Knaven were fined. This morning Boasson Hagen came and found Knaven with €150 to cover the fine.

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[Beebo]

There are lots of silly rules in cycling. This appears to be one of the silliest.

EBH is an ex Sky rider.

didn't know about this yesterday..
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The Cycling Podcast‏Verified account @cycling_podcast 10h10 hours ago
Yesterday Edvald Boasson Hagen was stranded with a broken bike and no team car. Team Sky gave him a bike to finish the stage, for which he and Servais Knaven were fined. This morning Boasson Hagen came and found Knaven with €150 to cover the fine.

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84 replies . 560 retweets 2,730 likes

 

[Mike_P]

Barking rule - cannot ride another teams bike but can run uphill bikeless aka Froome last year