Stage 5 - Le Cap d'Agde > Perpignan SPOILER

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Interesting finish. Hutarovich and Geslin are quick finishers and should work together. But Voeckler's always good value, Igantiev is bound to try something and Sapa's a bit of a hard man.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Staying away unless they start playing lots of games
  • Eurostar
    Eurostar Posts: 1,806
    Break is screwed now. Should have stayed together.
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    <h6>What\'s the point of going out? We\'re just going to end up back here anyway</h6>
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    we'll get to see if mr Cavendish is interested in the green jersey now - ie will he sprint for minor points?
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Looks like the break away riders will stay clear.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Headwind to the finish, if they play around the lead will melt.
  • Eurostar
    Eurostar Posts: 1,806
    What's wrong with the sprinters' teams? Still knackered from the TTT?
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    <h6>What\'s the point of going out? We\'re just going to end up back here anyway</h6>
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Go Voeckler!!
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    edited July 2009
    Cervelo had to go hard for Sastre, rabobank for Menchov/Gesink (and a few are back with Gesink). Boonen had a long chase too. Garmin had a hard day yesterday. Columbia may well be tired from the last few days.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Brilliant ride!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited July 2009
    Cav 3rd?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited July 2009
    VOECKLER

    SO pleased for him. A superb rider always entertaining. His first stage win as well.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    That was great!
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Pure panache. He was the one that launched the break and then attacks for a solo win.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Probably the most popular victory of the Tour so far I'd guess too....
  • Eurostar
    Eurostar Posts: 1,806
    Can't wait to hear what Cav's got to say. The boy wuz robbed.
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    <h6>What\'s the point of going out? We\'re just going to end up back here anyway</h6>
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Give me a win like that over a sprint any day of the week
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • sportbilly1976
    sportbilly1976 Posts: 524
    so nil points for Cav today then?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Great win for Voeckler. I'm no big fan of his camera-hugging in the mountain stages, but his attacks on the flats are admirable and this is a great award. I feel a bit sorry for Albert Timmer getting overtaken in the last 100 m; he deserved to get in second for his strong chase.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Cav third, so plenty of Green points, plus all important PTP ones too!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Cav was third so he will pick up a bunch of points.

    Amazing how much time the bunch picked up in the last 5k, although I guess against one man and the others who had given up, maybe it isn't so crazy...
    Contador is the Greatest
  • sportbilly1976
    sportbilly1976 Posts: 524
    Kleber - cheers - french eurosport still at least a min behind!!

    PTP?
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Well done Voeckler :D

    Cavendish wont be happy about not winning but his rivals in the green jersey did poorly. Hushovd took 10th while Freire finished in 9th. Farrar came one place behind Cav again.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    A great ride by Voeckler today. He played it best after Ignatiev started the attacks, which you knew he would, and timed his move to perfection. Chapeau.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Gesink 9.5mins back
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    sportbilly1976 wrote:
    so nil points for Cav today then?

    Third place gets Cav 26 points.

    http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/5 ... index.html

    (click on stage standing followed by points)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kléber wrote:
    Cav third, so plenty of Green points, plus all important PTP ones too!

    might as well be zero since everyone picked him

    commissars neutralised the stage for PTP purposes
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    andyp wrote:
    A great ride by Voeckler today. He played it best after Ignatiev started the attacks, which you knew he would, and timed his move to perfection. Chapeau.

    ignatiev went too early again ...nearly ruined it for everyone in the break.. again
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • sportbilly1976
    sportbilly1976 Posts: 524
    what are PTP points, and why was the stage neutralised?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    mididoctors wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    Cav third, so plenty of Green points, plus all important PTP ones too!

    might as well be zero since everyone picked him

    commissars neutralised the stage for PTP purposes

    Not quite... just the 51 out of 61 predictions, with 7 non-starters :shock:

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