**Stage One** - Dusseldorf > Dusseldorf - Tour de France 2017 *SPOILERS*

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Porte looks lean this year.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    EBH puts in a decent time off camera sounds like 8 secs down.

    Edit: not finished yet.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Have to think Kristoff probably cycled an extra 200m with that shocking style.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Have to think Kristoff probably cycled an extra 200m with that shocking style.

    I was wondering what the bike had done to upset him - he was wrenching it all over the place.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Porte intermediate time: 23rd....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    edited July 2017
    Valverde down baaaaaaad.


    Also not getting up.

    Bad for him and the geezer behind him.
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Vlaverde doww and not up quickly - hit barriers very hard. Looks as if he is out
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Valverde big crash. Looks like a DNF
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Señor Hairplugs is down.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Valverde out of the race?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Ouch, that looks like Valverde out
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Get him outa the way! Riders inbound!
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    That looked really bad - slid into the barriers with the feet of the barriers ramming straight into his chest/abdomen.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Radio Tour saying Valverde in an ambulance.
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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    edited July 2017
    Nobbers pulling on Valverde's limbs, literally dragging him of the road while he's laying there badly injured.
    Apparently clearing the road is more important than proper medical care
    "The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Ouch, that looks like Valverde out

    Piti.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Roglic on course - any seen any times?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    For someone supposedly riding for someone else, that was crazy speed into that corner.
    Quintana is screwed on day one.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Crap time for Porte.
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Richie Porte 16:51
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Fell asleep on page 5, woke to see Señor Hairplugs crash, missed the French exchange student and G smashing it, but I get the impression everyone missed G smash it. As with Kiry, fitting for a domestique to wear the yellow jumper.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Lick your lips Froome; now's the chance to mentally crush him. You and 4 teammates on a faster time.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Oh Mollema.

    Oh oh oh dear.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Porte barely beating bardet. Poor.

    Fwiw, porte and valverde were spearheadngy my fantasy team.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    The_Boy wrote:
    Porte barely beating bardet. Poor.

    Fwiw, porte and valverde were spearheadngy my fantasy team.

    Savage.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Porte looked like survival was very much the aim of today. Not necessarily a bad one, either.

    Sky having so many riders up the ranking sends a message, but Porte himself can rationalise whatever happens with Froome as Porte having taken it conservatively rather than Froome being any better.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • john1967
    john1967 Posts: 366
    why no crash barriers on those dangerous corners.Utterly ridiculous.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Meanwhile Fabio Aru prepares to start:

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    GC-Types so far

    Pinot 16:53
    Yates 16:45
    Fuglsang 16:58
    Bardet 16:55
    Thomas 16:04
    Uran 17:07
    Porte 16:51
    Chaves 17:17
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Journos suggesting Thomas last of the riders to have rain respite.
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