Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

[Va Va Froome]

Bagpipes

That was quality!

Best bit of the sideshow so far (apart from the guy dressed as a water bottle yesterday!!

 

[the_craig]

Seen reports on Twitter that Tinkoff-Saxo DS Sean Yates has been banned after a bidon was lobbed at the TV biker today.

 

[coffeejo]

The feature re:Jalabert is on ITV4 now.

 

[Louch]

Did I say anything about sky, brailsford or froome?
I was just pointing out that yesterday's stage might just have been arranged to let the first ever African team in the TDF get a little victory on an important day for Africans without affecting the overall race. Thereby increasing the interest in cycling on that continent in an attempt to grow the sport there.
That's all I was saying.

apolgies then, thought you where on about froome and co not the result yesterday

 

[Dogtrousers]

Seen reports on Twitter that Tinkoff-Saxo DS Sean Yates has been banned after a bidon was lobbed at the TV biker today.

One day ban, if my rather rubbish French is correct
http://www.cyclingpro.net/velopro/road/sean-yates-mis-hors-course-une-journee

 

[Supersuperleeds]

One day ban, if my rather rubbish French is correct
http://www.cyclingpro.net/velopro/road/sean-yates-mis-hors-course-une-journee

Google translate

"Sean Yates disqualified day

The scene does not go unnoticed since it concerned a France Television camera. While Sean Yates and a mechanic of Saxo-Tinkoff formation dépannaient Peter Sagan and gave him a new bike, the mechanic decided to take a can to throw the cameraman to stop the bike. The Slovak explained on arrival that the motorcycle had repeatedly gen team car.

If the action was right laugh boss Oleg Tinkoff team, jury commissioners did not laugh on his side, inflicting an exclusion for the day sports director Sean Yates, who is responsible for the actions occupants of his car. In the statement, the jury explained that it was excluded for "serious behavior towards the motorcycle television."

After the history of the seat belt on Davide Bramati (Etixx-Quick Step) is the second temporary exclusion for a sports manager in the Tour."

I think I understood it better in French

 

[coffeejo]

I've just rewatched it and still don't understand what the motorcyclist did wrong.

 

[the_craig]

It was a good bloody shot!

 

[martint235]

I've just rewatched it and still don't understand what the motorcyclist did wrong.

It was either before the event or it was just one of those "I have a plastic bottle that I'll just lob over there for a laugh" moments

 

[coffeejo]

It was either before the event or it was just one of those "I have a plastic bottle that I'll just lob over there for a laugh" moments

I'll stop puzzling it over then.

 

[toeknee]

The motorcyclist stopped along side Sagan, thus preventing the team car from assisting him.

 

[tommaguzzi]

I can't see how you would rchestrate that!

OK then imagine you are Christian Prudhomme and you have just invited the first ever African team to the tdf.
You have done this to try and get cycling going in Africa because its a whole new market and you know African athletes have a long history of being exceptional at endurance sports.
The last thing you want is for this first african team to be blown away so you need to give them a few crumbs keep the african public watching interested.
So in the first week you make sure one of them takes the polka dot for a few minor climbs and gets on the podium. Great publicity but no effect on the real contest for the polka dot.
You already know its nelson mandella day during the second week so you design a transition stage where a break will most likely succeed, but just to be sure the sprint teams don't get involved you put a 3km 10℅ climb just before the end.
Tip everone a wink about what is going to happen then hope the African team rider can hang on, when he doesn't of course you have to tell the 2 in front to stop and have a row so he can get by for the win.
Brown envelopes all round and great P.R. which will hopefully get the Africans cycling.

Stranger things have happened on the TDF.

 

[coffeejo]

As Chris Boardman just said, bring us facts instead of insinuations.

 

[wam68]

Is this Team Sky getting all "Godfather" with the press?
Spanish reporter Sergi López-Egea found a goat in his room this morning...

I nearly peed ma pants reading that. Funniest thing today. Top Man

 

[Arrowfoot]

As Chris Boardman just said, bring us facts instead of insinuations.

Boardman kept repeating the word "fact" mantra ad nausesm. There was also no "facts" during Armstrong's years of cycling. I felt that Boardman should have defended Froome better rather than keeping repeating the word "fact". He could have have said Froome has offered a full suite of physiological test for instance.