Anyone watching todays stage? Looked like it was going to be another sprint but I see from the updates that Contador has attacked on the flat and he has distanced Froome. Valverde seems to be further back still.
Valverde 5 minutes behind on the road in a group with Kittel. Sagan, Mollema, Contodor, Kreuzinger, ten Dam, Nicolas Roche and Cavendish are in a group leading the race, Froome’s group are 44 seconds behind, fascinating stage.
10k to go and the Contodor group have a 40 second advantage over the Froome group. Lotto are helping Sky try and chase it down. Valverde’s group have given up and are over 6 minutes down.
Any chance of Lotto sitting up for the final 10km leaving Froome to do all the work himself?
1min now, with 5km to go.
Some amount of work being done by breakaway.
Valverde fucked… what actually happened?
Less than 2k left now and the gap growing all the time, 1’05" at the moment, the chase is very disjointed with AG2R leading it, Sky are running out of men and Froome only has two men with him.
[quote=“His Holiness Da Dalai Lama, post: 800710, member: 1503”]1min now, with 5km to go.
Some amount of work being done by breakaway.
Valverde fucked… what actually happened?[/quote]
Kittel was caught behind a split in the crosswinds, so Omega Pharma Quick Step had the hammer down to drop him, then Valverde punctured, and instead of swapping bikes he chose to change his rear wheel which took about 35s, but Belkin spotted this and decided to drive it even harder so he was never going to make it back on.
Cavendish takes the stage easily, the Froome group roll in 1’08" behind
Can’t wait to see the highlights later
Dan Martin back into the top 10:clap:
Just looking at cavendish being interviewed on rte and he looks er euphoric if you get my drift
He was talking like someone after dropping a serious amount of coke.
i dunno, looked like russell brand off his bin on pills except a bit smilier
The French to go Ballistic on Bastille day Coppell 300/1, Taaramae 150/1 and Jeannesson 200/1
Rolland maybe. Pineau has no form this year.
Paul Kimmage asking some big questions about Chris Froome in today’s Sindo.
Going on that performance today I can see why.
Take Froome out of the race and it would be really interesting. The guy is juiced up to the eyeballs, no doubt. That was a phenomenal ride up Ventoux, will be interesting to see how it ranks on the all time list.
He’s going faster than Armstrong did apparently.
Froome went up Ventoux 2 seconds slower than Lance did in 2002 