Tour de France Stage 7 *spoiler*

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Think Wiggo was actually quite restrained there.
  • zammmmo
    zammmmo Posts: 315
    afx237vi wrote:
    Think Wiggo was actually quite restrained there.
    +1
    Don't think there was any real malice there, more that he was just caught unawares and a bit shaken up.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Touch my dog I slit your.... Oh.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Anyone else think BMC looked like the whole first week shepherding was a lot less effort for them than for sky? They've looked much more compact and better organised. Wiggins has been left alone a couple times this week. Not Evans.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Why didn't Cav contest the Intermediate? Given up?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited July 2012
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Anyone else think BMC looked like the whole first week shepherding was a lot less effort for them than for sky? They've looked much more compact and better organised. Wiggins has been left alone a couple times this week. Not Evans.

    Yeah, but Sky won a stage with Cavendish and had a second and a third with EBH. And they were a man short.

    The whole team at the front thing is a particular Evans thing. Two years ago Contador and Schleck's domestiques would drop off the back of the peloton in the last 10km to save energy.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Why didn't Cav contest the Intermediate? Given up?
    Tired.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Tired.

    From what?
  • 2oldnslow
    2oldnslow Posts: 313
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Why didn't Cav contest the Intermediate? Given up?
    Tired.

    or just perhaps working for the team is a priority.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Anyone else think BMC looked like the whole first week shepherding was a lot less effort for them than for sky? They've looked much more compact and better organised. Wiggins has been left alone a couple times this week. Not Evans.


    They look far more Savvy. Definitley an air of better organisation. No song or dance, no fuss, no sprinter distraction they are just getting on with the job.
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  • tremayne
    tremayne Posts: 378
    Let's be realistic here.

    1. He's got cleats on and has a bike between his legs. No way can he get out of the way without ended up othe floor.

    2. He's just ridden cock knows how many miles. Avoiding all sorts of carnage.

    3. All he does is push the camaraderie away from him.

    Bit sweary afterwards. Not such a big issue. The modfather called it right in my opinion. That cameraman was being a c unt.
  • tremayne
    tremayne Posts: 378
    Oops! Wrong thread - and I genuinely have no idea how it happened!! Soz.

    Above in connection to other thread re wiggo supposedly getting out of order with a camera chap.
  • cristoff
    cristoff Posts: 229
    That was my question on Menchov that got read out on eurosport. :-)

    Carlton said I clearly knew my onions! I'm happy with that!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    I do like Alsace....

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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    looked to me like it was a toss up between decapitation or push the camera out of the way. Bit of a no brainer really. Cameraman was a tosser for trying to film and run sideways without any consideration or observation in the path of oncoming cyclists.
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  • zammmmo
    zammmmo Posts: 315
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Tired.

    From what?
    Bottle-carrying for the rest of the team? In spite of or because of?
  • zammmmo
    zammmmo Posts: 315
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    looked to me like it was a toss up between decapitation or push the camera out of the way. Bit of a no brainer really. Cameraman was a tosser for trying to film and run sideways without any consideration or observation in the path of oncoming cyclists.
    Probably under pressure to get the right footage...let's just say like alot of people...poor spatial awareness :)
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    He's having to do more work to contest the sprints than he's used to, plus the batterings from crashes, and day after day it's taking its toll.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    just give him an elbow in the head - full marks !
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    DZ very active yesterday and today. Trying to exorcise a few demons?
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    P&P have given up trying to pronounce Morkov's name correctly.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Farrar and Verdugo will do well to finish today. Farrar's been dangling off the back for ages.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    afx237vi wrote:
    Farrar and Verdugo will do well to finish today. Farrar's been dangling off the back for ages.

    He did a long bottle grab then let the car have it back. He looks as sick as a dog. Can't see much job satisfaction in that lad today.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Don't you just wish there was a bulldozer waiting, Italian Job stylee, for Tour de Francis as he enters that tunnel?
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  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Don't you just wish there was a bulldozer waiting, Italian Job stylee, for Tour de Francis as he enters that tunnel?
    not a fan of Farrar then? but who is, apart from Tyler and his Mum?
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Non plussed about Farrar. A few years ago he was bigged up as a sprinter who would challenge Cavendish's superiority but it came to nothing. His attempt to get into fight club the other day was truly embarassing to watch.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    ILM Zero7 wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Don't you just wish there was a bulldozer waiting, Italian Job stylee, for Tour de Francis as he enters that tunnel?
    not a fan of Farrar then? but who is, apart from Tyler and his Mum?

    Think YP is referring to the ITV 4 adverts, but anyway, I like Farrar!

    Dave Zabriskie and Millar both been on the front... perhaps Dan Martin fancies his chances today.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,907
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Why didn't Cav contest the Intermediate? Given up?

    Sulking after yesterday perhaps? I would be.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Helmets look huge on Millar's head for some reason. That is all.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    emadden wrote:
    Helmets look huge on Millar's head for some reason. That is all.

    That's because he wears a bigger heavier helemt as part of his penance.
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