Tour de France - Stage 16 [Warning: Contains Spoilers]

Chips Lovell

Roche in the break, one climb to go.

Knock yourselves out.

alibabba

Fair play to him
He is flying that shamrock on his back high with his tour performance

alibabba

53km - The second intermediate sprint was in Pre Saint-Didier at kilometer 106 was won by Ireland's Nicolas Roche from Vogondy and Verdugo. Now it is time for the final climb of the day.

sy

el tonto wrote: »

Knock yourselves out.

Here in France in local Tabac drinking Pelforth Blonde , Cmon the paddies, will knock myself out if he wins!

Captain Havoc

alibabba wrote: »

53km - The second intermediate sprint was in Pre Saint-Didier at kilometer 106 was won by Ireland's Nicolas Roche from Vogondy and Verdugo. Now it is time for the final climb of the day.

Ah, I was in the jacks.

Lumen

Anyone got an interactive tracker? The one at tdf.sbs.com.au seems to be broken.

Captain Havoc

http://gaps.letour.fr/fr.html

jacko

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/livematch/281274.html

petethedrummer

BBC Radio 5 Live

alibabba

and the attacks begin ...

petethedrummer

F*** me Wiggins effectively 2nd on GC.

Captain Havoc

petethedrummer wrote: »

F*** me Wiggins effectively 2nd on GC.

You gotta love him!!!!!

lukester

Just heard a loud snap there as Armstrong's legs broke.

alibabba

even the live tracker cant keep up with them

Mint Sauce

TG4



only real coverage i have seen so far this year, dont know many of the riders, even less about the teams, but am just asonished at the skill and the speed, fair play to roach, glad to see him doing so well, those hills are fecking steep

alibabba

lukester wrote: »

Just heard a loud snap there as Armstrong's legs broke.

ya ... i heard it too, thought it was thunder outside first

damoz

Not yet it smees... life in the old dog yet.

warrfla

jaysus that idiot nearly knocked moynard off - clown

alibabba

mind games ?

Mint Sauce

seen that, wot a muppet, i can understand spectators getting excited, but running infront of a chasing cyclist...

sy

You have to be impressed with the texan. Awesome

alibabba

where is roche ?

one min he is ahead of the GC boys, now it looks like he is behind them ?

Trojan

Schlecks gave it all. Have they got anything left to try? Nearing the top now, not much time left to attack.

Armstrong was superb there.

warrfla

roche back in the main bunch - 3 mins behind

alibabba

god the main guys must have pressed the accel button for sure

Captain Havoc

alibabba wrote: »

where is roche ?

one min he is ahead of the GC boys, now it looks like he is behind them ?

Just asked myself the same question, couldn't see him on the interactive in any of the break aways so I'm assuming he's in the main peloton

Liamo08

sy wrote: »

You have to be impressed with the texan. Awesome

Was just about to sat the same thing very impressive.

kenmc

warrfla wrote: »

jaysus that idiot nearly knocked moynard off - clown

Aye. can anyone explain why some retards insist on running beside the cyclists, usually coming close to knocking them down - contador struck out at one or 2 on sunday when he was on his epic climb to the finish? I always thought it was a spectator sport, not one with an audience participation module.

Trojan

alibabba wrote: »

where is roche ?

one min he is ahead of the GC boys, now it looks like he is behind them ?

Peloton according to the trackers.

Voigt crashed

Captain Havoc

kenmc wrote: »

Aye. can anyone explain why some retards insist on running beside the cyclists, usually coming close to knocking them down - contador struck out at one or 2 on sunday when he was on his epic climb to the finish? I always thought it was a spectator sport, not one with an audience participation module.

Those kids will be idiots of their village after making a tits of themselves on worldwide television.

Trojan

**** that looked nasty, nasty, nasty

warrfla

Trojan wrote: »

Voigt crashed

jaysus that looked sore!!!

Mint Sauce

yikes!!!!!

DirkVoodoo

Nasty from Jens, not sure exactly what he did there. Did he lose his front wheel?

Caroline_ie

hope jens is ok ... I bet he tasted ze blood in heez mouz this time

kenmc

voight down looks sore.
another crash on the race radio! marchante

warrfla

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Nasty from Jens, not sure exactly what he did there. Did he lose his front wheel?

hit a bump or hole at speed and lost the front wheel

warrfla

roche on the chase 18 seconds down

Pherekydes

warrfla wrote: »

roche back in the main bunch - 3 mins behind

Looks like Roche is in a 4-man group between the leaders and Contador's group.

Wasn't that a savage fall for Voigt?

DirkVoodoo

Nasty! It looked like there was a good deal of grit or sand at the beginning of the descent, I thought they normally had a rigorous street cleaning before each stage, or is that just in the towns?

Trojan

He was sliding rather than rolling which makes it a lot worse.

Roche was not in the peloton, he's in the first group of chasers. He's not far off joining the leaders.

petethedrummer

Roche is in a group with 3 others, 20 seconds behind the two leaders on the descent. Not back in peloton.

Liamo08

petethedrummer wrote: »

Roche is in a group with 3 others, 20 seconds behind the two leaders on the descent. Not back in peloton.

Great chance for Roche if he can get across that gap.

superrdave

and oddly he is the favourite to win the stage on betfair atm...

warrfla

gap to roche group down to 12 seconds

kenmc

bloody tg4 need to pay their subscription again for the webfeed. grrrrrr

edit: phew! someone got the credit card out.

warrfla

http://tvsport.ucoz.com/1011flash.html

try this

kenmc

ta thats a better feed. AND it's in sync!

ednwireland

looks like another non day for gc (what a suprise) might get a t shirt "worst tour route ever"

(dont get me wrong i like watching the racing but its like watching 3 weeks of one day races)

Captain Havoc

Some effort out of Roche, Allez, Allez, Allez Nicolas

superrdave

ednwireland wrote: »

looks like another non day for gc (what a suprise) might get a t shirt "worst tour route ever"

(dont get me wrong i like watching the racing but its like watching 3 weeks of one day races)

wait a second.... thursday is a time trial and saturday is a monstrous mountain stage.... there is still time for plenty of drama and major moves in the GC