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  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Eurostar wrote:
    So what now for Wiggo? Will he be team leader?

    Don't reckon so... VdV was on the back of that little group.

    and wiggins was on the front and pulling hard
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Did anyone else notice Contador's smile after he blew everyone away and was halfway to the finish? Awesome.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Great to see Wiggins riding so strongly at the end too.
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    So that answers the questions about the Astana leader, I guess.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Contador has this sorted now. Race is for second.

    Hope Wiggins can keep this up for a good GC...

    I think he could finish top 10-15.

    Remember a few years ago; the atypical Brad Wiggins, Brad McGee was being touted as a top 10 TdF rider (after coming 8th in Giro). Granted Giro different kettle of fish - but I think it is possible.
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    contador didnt really gain a massive time advantage though did he.... lloked good and i suspect galvanised his leadership in the team , but no great timegain
  • GemmaAtkinson1
    GemmaAtkinson1 Posts: 161
    wow what an exciting finish!!!
    wiggins ride was sublime, so chuffed for him.

    but loving contadors acceleration too... did just enough to get over armstrong. its one hell of a tour already for the 1st week :-)
  • davidmiller
    davidmiller Posts: 320
    I'm not sure there ever was a question apart from in LA's mind. I'm a big fan of his, but I question whether he ever had the raw talent of Bertie.

    Go Bradley!!

    DM
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    I bet nocentini will wear yellow bibs so he wont have to wear that sh*t ugly brown pair
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  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Forget Contador.

    The face favourite is Cadel (well according to Aussie TV commentators anyway).

    "He can get back 2 minutes on the ITT"

    Quick, get your money on him!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    FJS wrote:
    Surprise of the day: Kreuziger losing a minute on the Evans-group

    dam i hoping more from him
    "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
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Cancellara finished well down in the end. The days defending yellow cant have helped. He finished 5:50 behind Contador.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    emadden wrote:
    I bet nocentini will wear yellow bibs so he wont have to wear that sh*t ugly brown pair

    That was his motivation in the closing kms.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    phreak wrote:
    Great to see Wiggins riding so strongly at the end too.

    one of the strongest riders on the day....
    "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
    Cancellara strolls in 9'15" back...
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    mididoctors wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Surprise of the day: Kreuziger losing a minute on the Evans-group

    dam i hoping more from him

    yeah... im hoping it was just a bad first day... but with a tour like this year's where there are so few opportunities to make big gaps in the mountains, this is bad for him
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  • davidmiller
    davidmiller Posts: 320
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Cancellara finished well down in the end. The days defending yellow cant have helped. He finished 5:50 behind Contador.

    Shame. I like Fabien - he's a great guy. Wish I could feel the same about a certain aussie!

    DM
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Nibali was also a disappointment being 10 seconds down on the Evans group. Menchov seems to be refinding some form having finished with the Evans group
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Nocentini looks like a Hawthorn AFL footballer!
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    DavidMiller wrote:
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Cancellara finished well down in the end. The days defending yellow cant have helped. He finished 5:50 behind Contador.

    Shame. I like Fabien - he's a great guy. Wish I could feel the same about a certain aussie!

    DM

    Who is that D Miller?
  • Rhods
    Rhods Posts: 400
    Did Sastre make it in with the Evans group? He seems not to have been mentioned a great deal today.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    edited July 2009
    Rhods wrote:
    Did Sastre make it in with the Evans group? He seems not to have been mentioned a great deal today.

    Yes. Results are here

    http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/7 ... index.html

    The Columbia rider in that group was Tony Martin.
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,091
    SpaceJunk wrote:
    DavidMiller wrote:
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Cancellara finished well down in the end. The days defending yellow cant have helped. He finished 5:50 behind Contador.

    Shame. I like Fabien - he's a great guy. Wish I could feel the same about a certain aussie!

    DM

    Who is that D Miller?

    Ricky Ponting? :wink:
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Wow, i guess that sort of fat percentage is how you keep your weight down :shock:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 145112.stm
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Did anyone see while Lance was being interviewed, in the back one of the bodyguards grabbed the face/jaw of a reporter and pushed his face back hard!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Well, that was a real attack fest, wasn't it?
    Lance tries to resume normal, bore them into submission service, but Berto has other ideas.
    If it takes Evans to liven up a mountain stage, it must be utter cr*p.

    The GC already looks depressingly cut and dried.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Wow, i guess that sort of fat percentage is how you keep your weight down :shock:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 145112.stm

    Tut tut! What will his sponsors think of that?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The Feillu family is impressive, yellow jersey last year and now a stage win and the KoM.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Timoid. wrote:
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Wow, i guess that sort of fat percentage is how you keep your weight down :shock:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 145112.stm

    Tut tut! What will his sponsors think of that?

    He looks like Frank Schleck circa 2006 on Alpe D'Huez (admittedly if Schleck had been on the party pies for a few weeks prior).
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Kléber wrote:
    The Feillu family is impressive, yellow jersey last year and now a stage win and the KoM.

    The NapoleonD family isn't :(

    A copper, a nurse and some noisy kids.

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