Criterium du Dauphine stage 4 **Spoiler*

kleinstroker
kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
edited June 2016 in Pro race
Tain l’Hermitage – Belley 176km

here we go again, sprinters stage so lets hope they don't screw up like yesterday by squabbling

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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,649
    I've got a feeling Steve Cummings will try something today
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Bouhanni's helmet should have a glove on it - he will want one another today - Nacer hungry
  • effillo
    effillo Posts: 257
    If I am reading that right then the last km looks a little tech. All about where you are on the final roundabout - be an interesting battle to get there first.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    not sure it will be that interesting. tomorrow should be interesting though :)
  • effillo
    effillo Posts: 257
    By interesting I mean the final 90 secs will be be infinitely more so than the preceding few hours.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    A total no pace day.
    60kms left and everyone is on holiday.
    Kirby: Tommy Voeckler is carrying winter flab.
    Yes, the guy who recently won the T de Yorkshire is overweight. :roll:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    A total no pace day.
    60kms left and everyone is on holiday.
    Kirby: Tommy Voeckler is carrying winter flab.
    Yes, the guy who recently won the T de Yorkshire is overweight. :roll:


    Must have stopped off at bettys to celebrate then. :)
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Go on, Eddie.

    15 replays and neither of the commentators notice the big gaps that opened with the GC guys.
  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    well I never

    Edvald won a race :o
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    I think they noticed them but prob assumed they wouldn't count due to the crash.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Froome gained 9" on Contador and Porte. Now 2nd.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Initial results showing time gaps, Froome 2nd. Now official.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    how?
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Because he sprinted at the end and came in with the lead group. Others 9 seconds back.

    Froome does it regularly for this very reason.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Cheers. Pretty slack of the others. Imagine he had been 1-2s back on Contador and he'd let that one go....?
  • tim000
    tim000 Posts: 718
    froome seems to have a knack of being up at the front on sprint stages and nicking a few second here and there.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    A total no pace day.
    60kms left and everyone is on holiday.
    Kirby: Tommy Voeckler is carrying winter flab.
    Yes, the guy who recently won the T de Yorkshire is overweight. :roll:

    He was doing a good impression of a weekend warrior to be fair, I was thinking he looked chunky just before Carlton made the comment.

    After that I fell asleep again - that's two from two in the stages I've watched this week but I even missed the sprint this time! :oops:
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Froome made the required effort, Contador and co didn't. Result: 9 seconds given away.
    Amateurs. :P
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    I see Bertie is complaining that the split was caused by a crash in the last 3km. Complaining that rules are not being applied properly. Made me titter, that did. Cough, cough hand slings cough.
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    God he's such a weaselly little creature.

    They should give neutralise the times from today and then penalise him retrospectively for the blatant handsling and see how he likes being even further down.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Guys! Rules don't apply to Bertie! Gah!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    ddraver wrote:
    Guys! Rules don't apply to Bertie! Gah!

    Silly me. :oops:
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,935
    The crash that involved only 2 riders!
    Pathetic Bertie. You can't be arsed in the final 500m unlike your min rival. Reap what you didn't sow.
  • durhamwasp
    durhamwasp Posts: 1,247
    Bertie, never stops does he?

    commisaires gave him a favour yesterday, nobody complains, then today he blames a crash on him losing time when he obviously didn't, and has a go at the same commissaires!

    Wasn't he next to Froome at the crash point? And dropped off about 1km after the crash?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    He should have made contact with someone or something and done a footballer style dive. He'd have been OK then.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,158
    Pross wrote:
    He should have made contact with someone or something and done a footballer style dive. He'd have been OK then.
    Ah, but you have to do that before you know there's a split.

    It's track cycling where you can take a dive if you get a bad start like that German* did in the Olympics


    (*German riding for Britain)
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Jesus some people need to get a grip.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,234
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    Jesus some people need to get a grip.
    Like Hand-Sling Bertie and The Lemoncellos?

    Im sure the Son of God would appreciate any big-up from The Chosen One - even if it does involve genuflecting just after doing the pistol thing where he murders the on-lookers.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    *chuckle'

    I think it was yesterday Bertie got a grip
  • EnacheV
    EnacheV Posts: 235
    On stage 3 Contador avoided 4 seconds but you can't be lazy every day.

    Also didn't know Contador is whiny bitch, Schleck type.

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