Blimey! All change, all change!
The P-N may actually suit GT though and it will be interesting to see how Wiggo and Porte go together in the T-A.
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The P-N may actually suit GT though and it will be interesting to see how Wiggo and Porte go together in the T-A.
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<rumour-monger> Maybe it's a plan. Maybe it's been Wiggo-Porte for the Tour all this time and we have been duped; Froome has an "injury"...
I bet the rumour mill in the Clinic is going into overdrive!
smutchin
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G as team leader!
I've just had a little moment in my trousers.
I've just had a little moment in my trousers.
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thom
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Interesting to see how keen Sky are to move riders around rosters in order to accumulate World Tour points.
While Porte looks set to be GC lead, the message is that Wiggo makes up in the two TTs for something that Porte cannot cover for Froome.
Or maybe that is reading too much into it - just odd Wiggo wasn't in the team that did include Froome but is now Froome dropped out.
While Porte looks set to be GC lead, the message is that Wiggo makes up in the two TTs for something that Porte cannot cover for Froome.
Or maybe that is reading too much into it - just odd Wiggo wasn't in the team that did include Froome but is now Froome dropped out.
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Great win for Bouhanni today, looked like some right argy-bargy at the last, but glad he crossed the line first after a disappointing tour last year. Plus, of course, he'd been involved in a crash.
For the GC it looks as if some aspiring favourites are now on the back-foot.
For the GC it looks as if some aspiring favourites are now on the back-foot.
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Great finish. Look at the overall, though. Thomas is serious about winning this.
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Just saw some highlights - looks like in the extended run in there were some narrow roads and there was a crash caused by the riders being very tightly bunched at the front. It split the peloton and Romain Bardet was one of the losers. Also explains why EBH, Thor and some other sprinters weren't involved at the end.
Apparently Andy Schleck doesn't watch the cycling in Flanders...
he has the "honour" to be the first one to get a fine 200 Suisse Francs for breaking the above UCI-rule. He went straight through some fences where the riders needed to go left and right (and it wan't even in the first loop of the stage). The could have disqualified him as well, but I guess since he is already 2 minutes down in the GC after 1 flat stage, even the UCI realizes Andy still isn't much of a threat to the GC
Indeed, after the fall the peloton was broken up in about 4 pieces. The first group waited a bit, so that 1 group could get back
(I believe Costa was actually signaling Giant to take it a bit slow so that this could happen)
however the other 2 groups (who joined each other) couldn't make it back anymore with the speed ramping up for the sprint
I guess this effectively makes Betancurt the appointed leader for Ag2r (Bardet losing time), Stetina for BMC (Cummings losing time and Tejay dropping out), Ion Izaguirre for Movistar (Gadret losing time - even faster than I had expected-), Simon Yates? for Orica (Gerrans and Albasini losing time) and Bob Jungels for Trek (both Schleck lost time)
smutchin
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It really is about time he won a proper big race. I've always thought he had the potential, as I may have mentioned once or twice before.
Suffice to say, I would be over the moon if he did.
smutchin
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Oh the irony of him wearing a " one " on his back
