TdF 2016 stage 5 **spoilers**

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  • keydon
    keydon Posts: 144
    Why is there no commentary on Eurosport?


    Nothing but cheering and street noise!!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    keydon wrote:
    Why is there no commentary on Eurosport?


    Nothing but cheering and street noise!!

    Is this a bad thing?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,878
    I don't think I've been following closely enough, but this stage is weird. What's Majka doing? Reducing his 17 min deficit with a 3rd place finish on the stage?
  • keydon
    keydon Posts: 144
    Above The Cows wrote:
    keydon wrote:
    Why is there no commentary on Eurosport?


    Nothing but cheering and street noise!!

    Is this a bad thing?

    Bit like sex with an elephant, have not experienced it beef oar.
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Kirby still there (sadly). If you're on Eurosport Player you're watching one of the raw feed channels not Eurosport 1 which has commentary.
  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Definitely didn't have big Greg on the cards for today.. really impressive.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    keydon wrote:
    Why is there no commentary on Eurosport?


    Nothing but cheering and street noise!!

    You're watching the raw feed
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,878
    Lead back over 6 mins, so presumably the peloton have knocked off the chase.
  • keydon
    keydon Posts: 144
    The_Boy wrote:
    keydon wrote:
    Why is there no commentary on Eurosport?


    Nothing but cheering and street noise!!

    You're watching the raw feed


    Thanks. I had no idea such a thing existed.

    Back to my first love, the elephant!!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    A rash of rider twitter outrage and angst tonight I fear.
    That final descent is nuts.

    GVA walks it.
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  • mamil314
    mamil314 Posts: 1,103
    GVA looks as muscular as any other sprinter ( still huffing on the other side of mountains ) and can climb like that!
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,878
    Bit of GC action. Contador struggling.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Bertie distanced just before the descent.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    De Gendt's dinner;

    701-Garlic-Sausage-Swojska_Beauty-498x283.jpg
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,878
    Majka comes in third. I'm sure he's achieved something.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Majka comes in third. I'm sure he's achieved something.

    He got to show off his red shoes.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,878
    Contador losing 20s or so.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Majka comes in third. I'm sure he's achieved something.

    He looked really miffed with the bottom rung.
    Meanwhile his team leader finished about a minute behind him, but shipped 20 seconds or so.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,878
    GvA in the yellow by 5m11s.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    Nibali lost about 8 minutes to the GC guys. Landa too. So neither are plan Bs
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  • alan_sherman
    alan_sherman Posts: 1,157
    Was this 'allowed' as a play to get Valverde knackered as he defends his lead? Possibly wasn't supposed to have quite such a lead though I'd have thought!
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    alan sherman wrote:
    Was this 'allowed' as a play to get Valverde knackered as he defends his lead? Possibly wasn't supposed to have quite such a lead though I'd have thought!
    Valverde has a lead of 4 seconds over Froome...
  • effillo
    effillo Posts: 257
    Graeme_S wrote:
    alan sherman wrote:
    Was this 'allowed' as a play to get Valverde knackered as he defends his lead? Possibly wasn't supposed to have quite such a lead though I'd have thought!
    Valverde has a lead of 4 seconds over Froome...

    Yeah, think they only meant to give him 2 seconds.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Tinkoff DS Sean Yates: "We had a few balls to juggle today, and we dropped them all".
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  • alan_sherman
    alan_sherman Posts: 1,157
    Sorry - I though Valverde was up the road with GVA. As you were
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Kelderman feels that the front group was never really going that hard and none of the big men would have felt any problems.

    Dumolin isn't as good as he would have hoped so he threw the GC towel in and figured he'd be better off to losing a bunch of time.
    _
  • mamil314
    mamil314 Posts: 1,103
    RichN95 wrote:
    Nibali lost about 8 minutes to the GC guys. Landa too. So neither are plan Bs

    Which is sad news. I really hoped Sky finally got a real plan B guy for when Froome crashes out, instead of Thomas
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Nibali 'not playing out today'
  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    It must be hard for Nibali riding up a mountain sucking his thumb. What a tosser.
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Tinkoff DS Sean Yates: "We had a few balls to juggle today, and we dropped them all".

    That's two kicks in the nuts Kreuzinger has given AC. He pushed on the front the other day for Sagan when someone else would pull and spat his Leader out of the back and today Kreuzinger sat in the front group with his finger up his butt. Rafal Majka was still chasing a lost cause and didn't sit up for his Leader too; just came in, in front of the main bunch. What a cock up. Can't believe there's not a ding dong going on as they're seemingly riding against each other. :shock:
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