Giro d'Italia / Tour de France

[Paddingtonwolf]

I'm not convinced Cancellara is going to be able to make it to the finish. He looks in a lot of pain.

 

[Knockout Ned]

Cobbles tomorrow!

 

[thehistorymakers]

Ouchhh!!!!

 

[Knockout Ned]

Ten Dam back in.

I don't normally follow it on ITV, how does Ligget get this gig?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

He was obviously fronting the channel four coverage for years. I don't mind him too much. Jens Voight is proving quite a good pundit this year.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Cancellara dropped. I reckon Tony Martin will be in yellow tonight and frome will be up to eighth.

 

[Knockout Ned]

Degenkolb for the stage?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Up the mur? That is fucking steep for degenkolb. Sagan could be in green with a win as griepel has been dropped. Fancy him to try. I think one of the big four might go for it to get the time bonus. Maybe Nibali.

 

[Knockout Ned]

I like a long shot, he seems to be turning himself into a classics guy...

Or Kwiatkowski?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Kwiatkowski is a nice shot. The fact that sky and saxo are pulling the bunch along makes me think froome and contador are going to go for it.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Rodriguez from froome then.

 

[Knockout Ned]

Great finish from Rodriguez, forgot about the little fella!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Nice gain for froome on the favourites today. He looks pretty imposing. Edit - more than nice! Froome in yellow by one second.

 

[Knockout Ned]

Bit early to be in yellow but can't be bad!

Nibali was at 11 seconds and I counted about 15 to Bertie. Missed Quintana though?

 

[So Long Architect]

Just seen that crash - ouch!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It really was a bad one.

Quintana now 1'56" down. Nibali at 1'38". Contador at 36".

Decent gaps those. As I expected Teejay VG is right in this.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Despite the crash, the first three days have been superb. Just hope everyone can get through the cobbles tomorrow and then we can start enjoying the real race.

 

[Knockout Ned]

Just heard Cancellara is out, more broken bones in his back?

Edit: confirmed - http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/can...fter-fracturing-vertebrae-in-high-speed-crash

Real shame if that turns out to be his final Tour...

 

[Pompey Wolf]

Great finish on the Mur today, Froome looked very good but a long way to go yet and he's got to get through tomorrow for starters! In terms of commentary I don't know which is a lesser of 2 evils between Ligget and Sherwen on ITV and Kirby and Kelly on Eurosport. Ligget is confused all the time and Sherwen talks as if the audience has never watched cycling before but Kelly is terrible to listen to and Kirby is just a total prick! Wish ITV used Ned and Dave Millar like they did for the Dauphine, they were great.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/oth...tarmac-told-me-it-was-a-big-one-31356857.html