Tour de France Stage 4 Le Touquet-Lille *Spoilers*

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    I really doubt that any rider wants to clip a spectator - it must have been unavoidable.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    tom3 wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    tom3 wrote:
    2. the sky rider actually meant to hit the spectator to teach him a lesson. If you watch the replays the sky rider does not alter his course to dodge the idiot spectator he actually drops his shoulder and makes sure he hits him (may even drift right).
    Rubbish, plain and simple. Watch the video again please.

    Just calling it how I saw it. That's all.
    So the fact that Lopez had a line of teammates to his left preventing him from moving that way didn't occur to you? Or that he might understandably have assumed the spectator would see him coming and take a couple of steps back? Or more importantly, that his "dropping the shoulder" was actually an attempt to twist his body away from the impact as much as he could? If he wanted to produce the biggest impact that's the last thing he would have done.

    I don't believe a rider would deliberately do something as risky and stupid as hitting a spectator like that to "teach them a lesson". You simply can't predict what the result would be - he could just as easily have bounced a little further left and taken out himself and half the Sky team. Not worth it. If you want to teach people a lesson then I think following the example of Navardauskas is the obvious thing to do.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    josame wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    TMR wrote:
    RideOnTime wrote:
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    Very pretty.

    If you imagine a hotter version of that in Rapha kit and POC headwear, she's the one I met yesterday

    'That' ? what is she a bike?

    Her name is Emilia.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Voekler's off already. Nobody watching by the side of the road - France must have almost full employment.....
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    edited July 2014
    Froome on the deck already on his poorly wrist... :roll:

    Ripped shorts and some skin missing off his thigh. Looks like a rider slipped across in front of him and touched his front wheel.
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  • woody1545
    woody1545 Posts: 322
    He falls off more than G these days!
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Looks like his hip took a nasty hit.
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    edited July 2014
    Above The Cows wrote:

    Her name is Emilia.

    Yep nicer ring to it than 'That'
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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Bad wrist on cobbles would not be good.
  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Not sure who it was but looked like somebody cut across him.
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    France need to step it up.
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  • ddraver
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    Above The Cows wrote:
    Her name is Emilia.

    It is, I know fair point. I may be a little too dreamy
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Tomorrow is going to be carnage..
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    Big hit on his recent, Dauphine injury.
    Could well be a decisive moment in this Tour.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    If you're going to hit something it is better to lean into it so that when you hit the balance/centre of gravity goes as much back to centre as possible. You don't lean away from it as otherwise if you clip it you'll carry on going in the direction of the lean.

    Anyway someone just took Froome out.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • narbs
    narbs Posts: 593
    Macaloon wrote:
    We may also enjoy some GC jostling in the final for the optimum cobble convoy slots.

    How is it worked out?

    Top rider on GC or team classification?
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    According to Sean Froome keeps going down...
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Above The Cows wrote:
    If you're going to hit something it is better to lean into it so that when you hit the balance/centre of gravity goes as much back to centre as possible. You don't lean away from it as otherwise if you clip it you'll carry on going in the direction of the lean.

    Anyway someone just took Froome out.

    On a date? If so it was DDraver, he's hot for the female form in Sky/Rapha kit at the moment.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    If you're going to hit something it is better to lean into it so that when you hit the balance/centre of gravity goes as much back to centre as possible. You don't lean away from it as otherwise if you clip it you'll carry on going in the direction of the lean.

    Anyway someone just took Froome out.

    On a date? If so it was DDraver, he's hot for the female form in Sky/Rapha kit at the moment.

    :D
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Apparently Mollema was also involved in the same crash.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Feel sorry for the Cofidis bloke up the road with Tommy Voeckler - can you imagine the nagging he'll be getting...
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Oh FFS! Are we going to get 3 weeks of crap then?

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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    FJS wrote:
    Apparently Mollema was also involved in the same crash.

    He was. Izagirre too. Both looked fine.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Looks to be nothing more than a bit of road rash. Should be fine and dandy, no?
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Peloton waiting for Froome. Kirby thinks he looks a bit the worse for wear...
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited July 2014
    narbs wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    We may also enjoy some GC jostling in the final for the optimum cobble convoy slots.

    How is it worked out?

    Top rider on GC or team classification?

    Pretty sure it's GC.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    P!ss poor "crowds"...
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Froome always crashes in the early days of a GT just to get it out of the way
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    Oh FFS! Are we going to get 3 weeks of crap then?

    Chapeau to the others for waiting

    What crap?
    Correlation is not causation.

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