Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**

[HF2300]

Cav giving it the full Abdoujaparov there. Can't see them taking it off him though. Etixx cocked it up again.

After a few years of highly organised leadout trains, this really seems to be the year of the opportunist. Don't know if Lotto Soudal and Ettixx are over-thinking things, but they're not getting those leadouts right.

 

[jarlrmai]

I see ITV have ended coverage again, it seems monster carp will not be kept waiting.

 

[coffeejo]

The Cycling News Tour Tracker app says that Pinot will also miss the Olympics.

 

[ManiaMuse]

why doesnt the lead out man just stay where he is and block Cav rather than peeling off dramatically

Because they are sprinting at 100% effort in the redzone towards a finish line that is about 250-300 metres from the actual finish line.

Once they conk out then they are suddenly going backwards relative to the rest of the sprinters and if they did what you suggested then they would be liable to taking out not only Cavendish but potentially everyone else behind them at the speeds they are going. Not a good way to make friends in the peloton!

Sometimes there isn't enough room to swing out because the finish isn't wide enough or there are multiple trains and they just stop pedaling and try to keep as straight a line as possible. But if there is room to easily get out of the way then they might as well do it.

 

[SWSteve]

Another win from Cav. Maybe le Fevre will suggest Kittel should have some track time to improve his sprint

 

[Mr Celine]

I see ITV have ended coverage again, it seems monster crap will not be kept waiting.

FTFY

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Horse family, birds with big beaks (without anyone mentioning Barbra Streisand, until I went and mentioned her...) and carp. What an education this stage has been.

 

[SWSteve]

I'm looking forward to the stage tomorrow to learn about some new fauna

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Ned Boulting has liked my #horsefamily tweet, so I am hopeful that tomorrow's stage commentary may include so updated facts - donkeys, tapirs, rhinos...and I also chucked in whales. Go me!! Listen out...

 

[rich p]

What an education this stage has been

Well, it's taught me a lesson...

© Ken Dodd

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well, it's taught me a lesson...

© Ken Dodd

I'd never clocked him as part of the horse genus before but those teeth, now you come to mention it.....

 

[brommers]

They keep on talking about Porte helping his old mucka Froome. What about Kittel leading out Cav - no one seems to talk about that.

 

[screenman]

They keep on talking about Porte helping his old mucka Froome. What about Kittel leading out Cav - no one seems to talk about that.

“And he now has the best lead-out in the world, which since the beginning of this Tour, has been Marcel Kittel,” Lefevere said.
Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...rk-cavendish-apart-261084#mySBfmWIX07TzEcV.99

 

[brommers]

Thanks

 

[rich p]

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.