Tour de France stage 15 *spoiler*

donrhummy

Schleck just lost the tour.

moray_gub

Rokkala wrote:

Only true Champions attack when someones chain falls off.

afx237vi

donrhummy wrote:

Schleck just lost the tour.

That's some mighty fine summing up, don.

pb21

I hope contador gets a bad reception if he takes the jersey. I would boo if I was there.

moray_gub

Cheesyman99 wrote:

I've just got back home, can someone quickly sum it up so far?

Voeckler on his way to stage win Andy dropped a chain while attacking and Bertie saw this and took advantage of it and looks like he will take 30 secs of him

Doobz

if you look at the replay.. AC attacks but then lets others take it up @ the front and then its down to racing again.. Maybe he said to the others.. hey lets wait up but they said "no feck off" and bertie cant just let them ride off

donrhummy

Cheesyman99 wrote:

I've just got back home, can someone quickly sum it up so far?

Andy Schleck attacked Contador and after he got a 3 meter gap, his chain fell off. Contador saw it and with Menchov/Sanchez attacked Andy. Andy took 12 seconds to get the chain back on, rode like a madman to the top of the mountain but couldn't pull them back and now the gap on the descent has gone from 15 seconds to 30.

blazing_saddles

Don't see Menchov and Sanchez sitting up, either. Contador was responding to Schleck's attack.
In order to sit up, all 3 would have to agree.
Otherwise, Contador would be giving time to the 2 men directly behind him in the GC.

A difficult race situation, he may regret, later.

RichN95.

Cheesyman99 wrote:

I've just got back home, can someone quickly sum it up so far?

Nothing happens and everyone complains that they're not racing.

Then something happens and everyone complains that they've started racing.

AidanR

pb21 wrote:

I hope contador gets a bad reception if he takes the jersey. I would boo if I was there.

+1

donrhummy

afx237vi wrote:

donrhummy wrote:

Schleck just lost the tour.

That's some mighty fine summing up, don.

LOL. Why waste words, right?

BikingBernie

RichN95 wrote:

Why shouldn't they attack? Dropping a chain is nobody's fault but Schleck's. It's not bad luck, it's bad gear shifting.

Or his crappy Sram equipment letting him down at a vital moment!

moray_gub

RichN95 wrote:

Cheesyman99 wrote:

I've just got back home, can someone quickly sum it up so far?

Nothing happens and everyone complains that they're not racing.

Then something happens and everyone complains that they've started racing.

so very true

camerone

i am going to sit on the fence.
cheating piece of scum. utter utter scum.
i guess he will sleep easy its not as if his career is based on anything other than cheating
tour over.

afx237vi

RichN95 wrote:

Cheesyman99 wrote:

I've just got back home, can someone quickly sum it up so far?

Nothing happens and everyone complains that they're not racing.

Then something happens and everyone complains that they've started racing.

Well at least it gives us something to talk about. For the next 15 pages.

samiam

Robbie Hunter @ twitter:

"From a person who rides in the peleton..Contador should have waited,had he waited everybody would have waited..my opinion this was not cool!"

http://twitter.com/RobbieHunter

Gazzaputt

Where's frenchfighter to tell us how gallant and upstanding Bernie really is?

moray_gub

afx237vi wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Cheesyman99 wrote:

I've just got back home, can someone quickly sum it up so far?

Nothing happens and everyone complains that they're not racing.

Then something happens and everyone complains that they've started racing.

Well at least it gives us something to talk about. For the next 15 pages.

If ever Andy missed his brother it was today

afx237vi

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Don't see Menchov and Sanchez sitting up, either. Contador was responding to Schleck's attack.
In order to sit up, all 3 would have to agree.
Otherwise, Contador would be giving time to the 2 men directly behind him in the GC.

A difficult race situation, he may regret, later.

He didn't seem overly concerned about that yesterday.

chriskempton

Tommy should have kept his shades off!

verylonglegs

I felt Voekler didn't quite milk that enough...

donrhummy

I really was hoping for a real TDF battle till the TT but I don't see how Andy can get 2 min ahead by the TT stage.

moray_gub

Gazzaputt wrote:

Where's frenchfighter to tell us how gallant and upstanding Bernie really is?

been strangely asbent this last few days

timoid.

Tommy V is so money.

Great win for a top bloke.

pb21

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Don't see Menchov and Sanchez sitting up, either. Contador was responding to Schleck's attack.
In order to sit up, all 3 would have to agree.
Otherwise, Contador would be giving time to the 2 men directly behind him in the GC.

A difficult race situation, he may regret, later.

Contador could have just sat on.

deal

is that 'Dirk Hoffman Motorhomes' sign being waved from the crowd at every finish?

RichN95.

Dirk Hoffman's a long way from home today. The benefits of a quality motorhome, I suppose.

andyp

Who was the AG2R rider who baulked Sanchez in the final corner. He's enraged half the PTP peleton! :evil:

gabriel959

Gazzaputt wrote:

Where's frenchfighter to tell us how gallant and upstanding Bernie really is?

In france watching the tour.

donrhummy

Wow, Sherwen and Ligget actually disagree on something. Sherwen thinks Contador should've waited, Ligget thinks he should have attacked.