Le Tour - Stage 4 - ***SPOILER***

[ComedyPilot]

Cancellara in Yellow!!!

 

[dodgy]

Dont apologies - I'm proud of you!

 

[kennykool]

So close for Lance

 

[garrilla]

LA only in 2nd. Cancellara keeps the Maillot jaune

 

[biking_fox]

TdF newsflashes have LA in Yellow, his 84th of his career! But it's very very close. Maybe 10ths of second!

Mountains tomorrow? Surely LA will stretch gain time there?

 

[RabbitFood]

what another amazing stage Cancellara still in yellow

 

[dellzeqq]

from the TdF site


17:30 - Fraction Of A Second To Decide Lead

The Astana team is 40" ahead of Saxo Bank. That’s the time that Armstrong had to make up to take the yellow jersey. We await confirmation on who is in the yellow jersey but whoever it is, it’s going to be a fraction of a second...

17:29 - Astana Win By 17"!

The Astana team has won the fourth stage. This is a double triumph as Lance is about to receive his 84th yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

 

[rich p]

TdF newsflashes have LA in Yellow, his 84th of his career! But it's very very close. Maybe 10ths of second!

Mountains tomorrow? Surely LA will stretch gain time there?

Flat tomorrow.

 

[dellzeqq]

TdF now has Cancellara in yellow, Astana second, third, fourth, fifth, Wiggers in sixth

 

[biking_fox]

Bad day for Evans - 2'59 down. That's a long way to come back from this early in the tour, Sastre in the same trouble at 2'44 and Schleck at 1'41 really looks like it's between LA and Conti - unless Cancerella can hold on through the bumpy bits? Does he really have a chance?

 

[CotterPin]

Wow - I need a sit down after all that.

Mind you, shame about Garmin. They seem to be turning into a team of Poulidors - just never quite making it. Which is why I like 'em so much

 

[Skip Madness]

looks like it's between LA and Conti - unless Cancerella can hold on through the bumpy bits? Does he really have a chance?

No.

 

[maurice]

And who said Lance's return wasn't good for the tour?!

Awesome stuff, gripping!

 

[dellzeqq]

Bad day for Evans - 2'59 down. That's a long way to come back from this early in the tour, Sastre in the same trouble at 2'44 and Schleck at 1'41 really looks like it's between LA and Conti - unless Cancerella can hold on through the bumpy bits? Does he really have a chance?

I think that's a little premature.

 

[simon_brooke]

it's yellow for armstrong almost certainly…

Now Astana know whats needed. LA prob in yellow. Who would have thunk it
The Tour just got interesting

LA in yellow by 1 sec at 3rd split.

Ha! How does crow taste?

Bad day for Evans - 2'59 down. That's a long way to come back from this early in the tour, Sastre in the same trouble at 2'44 and Schleck at 1'41 really looks like it's between LA and Conti - unless Cancerella can hold on through the bumpy bits? Does he really have a chance?

Yes. He was first in the Tour of Switzerland this year, and towed the whole peloton over the Galibier on Stage 17 last year. He's a big man and doesn't have a lot of acceleration in the mountains, but he can climb. He's also lost a fair bit of weight this year. Furthermore, if the team decide to make him their leader, they are one hell of a team - as they showed today.

I'm not saying he will do it - I think probably not - but it's not an outside chance.