TDF Stage 7 **SPOILERS**

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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Doobz wrote:
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    Hehheh. Replicating the pose on his first win :)
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  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Quick question:

    If 4 gold medials at an Olympics is worth and Knighthood, how many TDF stages does it take?

    Not suggesting it's anywhere near yet, but Cav has to be on the cards at some point down the road.
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Just realised this is what I said at the start of the stage:
    I think this is likely to be the most 'routine' stage of the Tour this year. Hope I'm wrong but that's the way it's looking.

    I'll be keeping quiet from now on. :(
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Horner off to hospital

    Shack soigneur said Horner hit his head v. hard in crash, was totally out of it at finish. Off to hospital.
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  • 58585
    58585 Posts: 207
    RichN95 wrote:
    Let's look on the bright side from a British point of view..
    The bright side for a Brit? To be honest I grew up when the british interest never outlasted the prologue. We're now in the middle of the reign of a brit who may well go on to win the most tour stages ever, we've got a British pro team and Rritish riders who can win protour stage races.
    Things are good even if there is no tour win this year...
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Even if he'd not been injured Wiggo would have lost 3 minutes, so either way that crash was going to cost him the great position he was in.
    Such a shame for him, I really hope he finds that form again for next year.
    Well, I'm putting my full support behind Cadel now.
  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    good point about the three minutes i suppose. has to be Cadel for me too but think it will revert to a replay of last year with Andy Pandy and Bertie.

    if Cadel could take second he might be in with a shot after the hearing
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
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    mmm podium girls!!
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  • RowCycle
    RowCycle Posts: 367
    edited July 2011
    Think I'm actually going to be following Contador now Wiggo is out.

    Or may be one of the lotto guys
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Ryder and Mollema in the 2nd group. No luck again for those two. Shame for Horner, hardcore that he rolled in though.
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    When I saw the crash, the first thing I thought of was Sean Kelly 1987. That day, the crash happened on an unremarkable straight stretch of road and when the riders untangled, the great man holding his broken shoulder (and remarkably crying).

    Was wating to see likewise this time and it was Wiggins that emerged, but with out the tears. Feel very sorry for him.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    Doobz wrote:
    Sorry to say but I doubt wiggo would have made podium anyways..
    What an irrelevent post, the guy just crashed out with collarbone break and with your infinate foresight say you doubt he would have made podium.
    So then maybe now you will say who is going to win as you were so sure Wiggins would not podium.
    Personally I think his form was very good and had a very good chance to podium but unfortunately wewill never know who was right.
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Doobz wrote:
    Sorry to say but I doubt wiggo would have made podium anyways..
    What an irrelevent post, the guy just crashed out with collarbone break and with your infinate foresight say you doubt he would have made podium.
    So then maybe now you will say who is going to win as you were so sure Wiggins would not podium.
    Personally I think his form was very good and had a very good chance to podium but unfortunately wewill never know who was right.

    okay, thanks for your post
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  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    I read in Cycling Weekly that no one in the last 5 years (I think) who has won the Dauphine came even in the Top 5 on GC at the Tour. What do they know anyhow?? :? F***ing statistics!

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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Another thought is that Wiggins crashing out has surely destroyed any chance of team GB having a full 9 riders at the worlds?
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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Gutted. Thought Wiggins was a certain top 10 and possible top 5.

    Was keeping up with this by following this thread. Any reason why Sky made all their riders wait?
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,671
    Hopefully this is all a massive wind up and Wiggins isn't injured and out after all and when i watch the highlights everything will be fine.

    You had me going there for a while, you jokers you :lol:
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  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    Oh and eurosport did not even have the whole race on the finish was not there, again!! I watched the recorded live coverage and last 5 km was missing :D
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Oh and eurosport did not even have the whole race on the finish was not there, again!! I watched the recorded live coverage and last 5 km was missing :D

    If recording live on Eurosport I always record the program after it as well as had this happen too many times!

    To be fair to Eursoport, the race was well behind schedule today due to headwind and/or the bunch taking it easy. They were much slower than the slowest predicted time.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Another thought is that Wiggins crashing out has surely destroyed any chance of team GB having a full 9 riders at the worlds?

    No, we're still looking Ok on that.

    Currently positions 7-13 are

    7.USA 382
    8. Switzerland 358
    9. UK 346
    10. France 325
    11. Kazakhstan 224
    12. Denmark 206
    13. Luxembourg 202

    UK have already picked up 44 points in this Tour. Switzerland are unlikely to get many (20 in the TT), Luxembourg will expect to get lots. Kazakhstan will get a few, but not a huge amount.

    Then there's France. There problem is that only riders on Pro Tour teams count - so basically AG2R, Chavanel and Pineau.

    However, top 10 only guarantees 6 riders. To get full 9 you have to have 9 riders with at least 1 point. UK have 5.
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  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    I have done record series as I work away often so cannot record every programme following cycling though if I am home I do this
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,600
    smithy21 wrote:
    Any reason why Sky made all their riders wait?

    according to harmonn uran was down as well so hardly worth the risk of everyone else riding off. sky were clearly all in it for wiggins which was good to see
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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    B0ll0cks.

    Just finished watching the highlights, B0ll0cks.

    :(
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    smithy21 wrote:
    Gutted. Thought Wiggins was a certain top 10 and possible top 5.

    Was keeping up with this by following this thread. Any reason why Sky made all their riders wait?

    If Wiggins had got back up then they might have needed everyone to do a TTT to get back on or to limit the losses. From what G Thomas said he, Ben Swift and someone else (Zandio?) were ahead of the crash and slowed to wait. I suppose you could argue that one of the sprinters should have been left up front to cover both bases but it just shows what a high value they were putting on Wiggins GC prospects.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    it is a shame... he was really up for it and all
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I have to say, ITV excelled themselves with their highlights package tonight.

    The in-car footage used to help tell the story, interviews with all the right people, and all edited together really fast (as it was later finish today).

    Chapeau ITV.
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  • Hinzy9
    Hinzy9 Posts: 72
    Whatever they gave him in that hospital... I want some! :P :shock:
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Sonny73 wrote:
    Even if he'd not been injured Wiggo would have lost 3 minutes, so either way that crash was going to cost him the great position he was in.
    Such a shame for him, I really hope he finds that form again for next year.
    Well, I'm putting my full support behind Cadel now.

    Well no, if he'd have been Ok they'd have all hopped on the new bikes and got going straight away. They lost so much time as they were all waiting to see if he was OK or not...

    At least the hardcore Drugs they ve given him in th hospital seemed to be numbing the blow

    Gutted!! :(

    To make matters worse I left my phone connected to the Budget car rental answerphone in the UK for HALF A F**KING HOUR while I was distracted resulting, no doubt, in a massive pone bill to add insult to injury!!! Seriously i left two messages and the f**kers have nt called me back - just let me wait until one of you is free!!! Not a good night so far :(
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  • rude-dog
    rude-dog Posts: 67
    what a shame especially after such a cracking day for team sky yesterday... oh, the ups and downs of cycling hey!?

    so back to evans it is

    how longs a collar bone take to fix? im already thinking of spain