TDF Stage 10-Mulhouse-La Planche des Belles Filles *spoiler*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    tsincognito wrote:
    Both TeeJay and Chris Horner on NBC saying they saw Contador crash on the descent. They said the descent was slow and controlled and didn't see him taking any risks. Both were surprised by the news that he abandoned, with Horner saying that the Tour is basically over.

    Yeah I think he was going 80 km/h and hit something, a hole or an object. Total bad fortune.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    @friebos 7m

    Contador's second bike WAS broken because it had fallen off the Tinkoff team car early in stage, BUT he never used it.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    RichN95 wrote:
    AG2R take over the lead in the team competition

    This means a lot to them.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    RichN95 wrote:
    Talansky lost ten minutes.

    Very poor.

    @taylorphinney 2m
    Gonna call this now. @andrewtalansky will get his first #tdf stage win in the coming weeks. Pitbull will bounce back with a vengeance.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    davidof wrote:
    rozzer32 wrote:

    He hasn't though has he, they pulled out injured. If he dropped them on the climbs and rode away then fair play, but he hasn't.

    If all you judge winning on is climbs then organise a series of hill climbs. It is a tour though isn't it. Contador couldn't ride the cobbles or bad road surfaces, Froomster can't ride in a bunch.

    This runs the risk of getting as boring as the armchair scientists measuring climb times on their Swatch watches.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Sagan pulling a no-handed wheely. He's such a t1t, in a good way.
  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    Update on Contador's crash.

    It looks like all the nonsense about broken bikes having falling off cars and so forth was just panic damage management. French TV has just shown a clip where Contador's bike, which was indeed broken in half, was being rapidly stuffed into the back of a team car by a mechanic (in two halves if fitted nicely...) and put out of sight faster than Niabli attacked!
    "an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.
  • tsincognito
    tsincognito Posts: 12
    edited July 2014
    NBC just reported that Alberto Contador has a broken tibia and will need surgery. Damn, tough loss.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Most importantly has CHENG crossed the line yet?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Abandon Thread!

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    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    Update on Contador's crash.

    It looks like all the nonsense about broken bikes having falling off cars and so forth was just panic damage management. French TV has just shown a clip where Contador's bike, which was indeed broken in half, was being rapidly stuffed into the back of a team car by a mechanic (in two halves if fitted nicely...) and put out of sight faster than Niabli attacked!

    If so, then that video will go viral anyway.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Most importantly has CHENG crossed the line yet?

    I don't think so.....It's way past my bedtime but I'm waiting up for him....
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95 wrote:
    Abandon Thread!

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    You're just angling for post of the tour. :wink:
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Most importantly has CHENG crossed the line yet?

    I don't think so.....It's way past my bedtime but I'm waiting up for him....

    Are we the only ones who care Steve?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    tsincognito wrote:
    NBC just reported that Alberto Contador has a broken tibia and will need surgery. Damn, tough loss.

    Yeah lots of people reporting this also now.

    Must have been very painful time riding on that.

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    Contador is the Greatest
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well bike doping makes a change from regular doping I suppose.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Above The Cows wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Abandon Thread!

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    You're just angling for post of the tour. :wink:

    I went to all the effort of:
    mfin wrote:
    Is there likely to be any footage of the incident? Maybe someone will have it on camera and get £250 by sending it in to 'You've been Framed' :):):)

    ...and get trumped by another abandon thread vid :(
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Most importantly has CHENG crossed the line yet?

    I don't think so.....It's way past my bedtime but I'm waiting up for him....

    Are we the only ones who care Steve?

    I fear that might be the case.... :(
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Once again Fat Face Fugslang says something stupid.

    @MikeKaltoft 12m
    Fuglsang: "Contador took a lot of risks on a descent that had bad tarmac and was wet. He was riding 10-15 km/h faster than me"

    WTF does Contador need to take risks 100km out :roll:
    Contador is the Greatest
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    mfin wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Abandon Thread!

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    You're just angling for post of the tour. :wink:

    I went to all the effort of:
    mfin wrote:
    Is there likely to be any footage of the incident? Maybe someone will have it on camera and get £250 by sending it in to 'You've been Framed' :):):)

    ...and get trumped by another abandon thread vid :(

    I admit to having a chuckle at your post mfin. I'm adding it to the Post of the Tour thread now.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I admit to having a chuckle at your post mfin. I'm adding it to the Post of the Tour thread now.

    Only joking, it was an obvious pun really.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Cheng is in. +32.29. 176th - he beat Simon Yates.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Most importantly has CHENG crossed the line yet?

    I don't think so.....It's way past my bedtime but I'm waiting up for him....

    Are we the only ones who care Steve?

    I fear that might be the case.... :(

    Well in that case!

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    How long does a fractured tibia mean Contador will be off the bike for? Vuelta starts end of August.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Coach H
    Coach H Posts: 1,092
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    At least he has a good chance of winning the Butlins Knobbly Knee Contest during his rehab
    Coach H. (Dont ask me for training advice - 'It's not about the bike')
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    RichN95 wrote:
    Abandon Thread!

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    Bale of hay + grass + spectator = soft landing. Good to see Scarponi uninjured.

    DD.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    mfin wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I admit to having a chuckle at your post mfin. I'm adding it to the Post of the Tour thread now.

    Only joking, it was an obvious pun really.

    Tough, I've added it.
    RichN95 wrote:
    Cheng is in. +32.29. 176th - he beat Simon Yates.

    Yay!

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Once again Fat Face Fugslang says something stupid.

    @MikeKaltoft 12m
    Fuglsang: "Contador took a lot of risks on a descent that had bad tarmac and was wet. He was riding 10-15 km/h faster than me"

    WTF does Contador need to take risks 100km out :roll:

    Perhaps the 'bad tarmac' he was referring to was Contador's Specialized tarmac. :wink:
    "an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited July 2014
    The point about the bad road seems to be shared as someone else mentioned he went into a pothole, but someone else says he wasn't going too fast (Horner?)
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Cheng makes the cut!!!!
    He came in 32'29" down, beating Simon Yates by 10 seconds.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again -


    GO CHENG!
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs

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