Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**

[rich p]

He's back on now but at what effort

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

No, you're not wrong - I thought the same, and I find it somehow deeply unpleasant. Drunken pillocks doing it is bad enough, but when it's children, often quite young ones at that, screaming in the face of an adult, no. What the hell are the parents doing allowing it? They clearly can't control their children, or they are condoning it - and this is post Ventoux events, it's not like they don't know what can happen.

A couple of days ago, a skinny kid was running alongside a rider for a good 100 metres - thankfully, another spectator in a AG2R top yanked him to one side - I've wondered since if the kid's father went lumbering up the hill, saying 'Oi, get yer 'ands off our lad or al batter yer...'...

Some little snot made a fake 'lunge' at Froome yesterday, with fists clenched - he must have been all of 11 or 12 at the most.

Just saw a boy of about 12 running along with a Slovakian flag (presumably for Sagan) a few minutes ago.

Anyway, just as long as they don't get in the way and all that.....

 

[HF2300]

Like every live feed and twitter feed.

I knew millions of people wouldn't be able to resist.

 

[rich p]

Daryl Impey, the doping git, has put in a big stint

 

[coffeejo]

Apparently there's been another crash. Apparently.

 

[coffeejo]

Apparently there's been another crash. Apparently.

Mollema!

 

[coffeejo]

Another crash. Navarro looks pretty beaten up.

 

[coffeejo]

Froome's down!

 

[coffeejo]

Froome's down!

And Nibali with him.

 

[Crackle]

Fresh tarmac.

Bardet off the front

Froome down

 

[rich p]

Blimey

 

[coffeejo]

Froome's on a borrowed bike and back with the sky train.

 

[Buddfox]

Although hindsight is a wonderful thing, I think this demonstrates why sometimes you need to be bold. There was a point on the previous climb where Froome was right at the back of the group and not with his team, and Millar and Boulting debated whether it was a moment to attack. Someone might have done, got a gap which might not have been a priority to chase down, but would now be out front and able to take advantage of the conditions. Who knows what happens from here, but it would be great to see an attack somewhere other than the last climb.

 

[coffeejo]

Nibali did the splits.

 

[coffeejo]

Although hindsight is a wonderful thing, I think this demonstrates why sometimes you need to be bold. There was a point on the previous climb where Froome was right at the back of the group and not with his team, and Millar and Boulting debated whether it was a moment to attack. Someone might have done, got a gap which might not have been a priority to chase down, but would now be out front and able to take advantage of the conditions. Who knows what happens from here, but it would be great to see an attack somewhere other than the last climb.

That's what happened just now. Bardet attacked, Froome and Nibali chased and both went down in the wet.