Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**

[coffeejo]

Understatement of the century by Millar, describing the cold fear that grips your heart and threatens to loosen your bowels when you think your approach to a corner on a descent is too fast as "the yips".

 

[HF2300]

It's in a local park so I think it will be Likely Lad style result avoidance till I get home later.

Good data plan?

 

[coffeejo]

You've not met my daughter, have you Jo...

 

[HF2300]

Nibali group's taken 30 seconds + off the yellow jersey group already.

 

[coffeejo]

Nibali group's taken 30 seconds + off the yellow jersey group already.

Froome, Sagan and Yates set off to chase them down but didn't stay out for long.

 

[smutchin]

Lead out trains are all well and good...
...Cav's at HTC and Cipo's at Saeco for instance but it's much more fun for the spectators to see Cav winning by craft. Robbie MacEwan was always good value for this style too.

There's something quite majestic about seeing a perfectly coordinated leadout train in full flight though - 2009 when Cav and Renshaw got the 1-2 on the Champs-Elysees was pure poetry.

I think yesterday's stage demonstrates just how hard it is to get it right - when Etixx hit the front with five riders in formation and less than 2km to go, they should have had the race sewn up but Vermote is no Bernie Eisel. And Tony Martin clearly isn't the force he once was.

I just like seeing Cav win however he goes about it, tbh.

 

[smutchin]

ValvPiti didn't look too happy though did he!!!!!

Boo-hoo. Poor Alejandro.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

A refuge for leopards?

 

[rich p]

A refuge for leopards?

Well spotted...
p.s. WTF are you on about?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Well spotted...
p.s. WTF are you on about?

I wasn't paying attention, Ned mentioned a refuge for leopards and something to do with monks (probably); the entire population of France seems to have been monks at some point in time.

 

[Louch]

Lepers , or as we know them up here Conservative MP's

 

[Crackle]

I wasn't paying attention, Ned mentioned a refuge for leopards and something to do with monks (probably); the entire population of France seems to have been monks at some point in time.

Send Ned a tweet about Saint Damien saving all the Leopards in France.

 

[coffeejo]

Leprosy surely has to be one of the most misunderstood diseases in human history.

 

[Crackle]

I do like the people Ned (nearly) interviews during the stage, really informative stuff.

 

[Louch]

Tell us more while the race is quiet