Tour de France Stage 4 – July 8th, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage → Lil **Unmasked Spoilers**

retalivity

In the absence of Darkglasses...
Stage 4, pretty flat, should be another day for the sprinters Kittel.

Andy Schleck is a DNS today, might as well stop watching now.

EDIT: Some mod can fix the title if its not too long, or add odds as I cannot check at work

death1234567

retalivity wrote: »

Andy Schleck is a DNS today, might as well stop watching now.

What happened to him? Huge blow to Trek to lose their Team leader *snigger*

manwithaplan

Didn't he get taken down by a spectator on Sunday? (Or was it yesterday)

lennymc

Juat after froome's crash one of the movistar riders came down in a separate incident. It looked like either his bars or stem just broke.

retalivity

manwithaplan wrote: »

Didn't he get taken down by a spectator on Sunday? (Or was it yesterday)

Yeah, that was yesterday.

Chips Lovell

"That's the story of my life,
That's the story of my life,
The story of my life"

Darkglasses

Not a good start for Froomey, crash shortly after kilometre zero. Injured hip, wrist and elbow, but he has ridden past the doctor's car and rejoined the peloton. Mollema also went down. Doesn't bode well for the cobbles tomorrow.

neris

what happened to froome just turned on eurosport n hes been patched up

Darkglasses

Has reported to the medical car now

Darkglasses

Here's the Froome crash - http://gfycat.com/InnocentBewitchedKiwi

quozl

Man there was no avoiding that. I really hope he's OK. Him & Contador can't get injured!

The sprints are already significantly duller without a plausible challenger to Kittel.

buffalo

Darkglasses wrote: »

Here's the Froome crash - http://gfycat.com/InnocentBewitchedKiwi

So quick!

Looks like the Astana guy gets out of the saddle, which would mean his bike went backwards a fraction. The lad behind swerves to avoid a touch of wheels, bounces off Froome, who then makes contact with the rider to his right and goes down.

on_the_nickel

buffalo wrote: »

So quick!

Looks like the Astana guy gets out of the saddle, which would mean his bike went backwards a fraction. The lad behind swerves to avoid a touch of wheels, bounces off Froome, who then makes contact with the rider to his right and goes down.

Froome needs to eat more cake.

pelevin

Nasty heavy looking fall though he was up soon enough.

retalivity

what was he doing there, only seems to be one teammate around him?

For a man who is always at or very near the front and surrounded by sky, he was well out of position.

seany15

lennymc wrote: »

Juat after froome's crash one of the movistar riders came down in a separate incident. It looked like either his bars or stem just broke.

seen that too. Looked real nasty. Somebody's getting sacked later!!

Brian?

Darkglasses wrote: »

Here's the Froome crash - http://gfycat.com/InnocentBewitchedKiwi

Amazing that no one else went down with him.

Darkglasses

A number of posts deleted - The rule on this forum has not changed regarding doping speculation. You may not suggest that somebody has broken rules until it has been proven in the public domain. No matter how you phrase it.

neris

wonder how long the commentators spend between the tours looking for stupid facts about trivial things to fill airtime on the stages. some amount of waffling about a drink in the north of england

death1234567

neris wrote: »

wonder how long the commentators spend between the tours looking for stupid facts about trivial things to fill airtime on the stages. some amount of waffling about a drink in the north of england

To be fair cycling is surely the hardest sport to commentate on. On a sprint stage pretty much nothing happens for 4 hours. Breakaway goes away, has no chance of staying away and then only in the final 10K does it get exciting.

gordongekko

Same tactics as yesterday. Why the he'll are lotto doing the chasing. The should force kittel's team to do the work.

godtabh

No one is looking at you.

REBELSAFC

Why isn't Kittel challenging for points at the intermediate sprints? He would be in the green jersey if he challenged them with Sagan.

Chips Lovell

He's probably calculated that he won't be in Green in Paris, because Sagan is a more versatile rider, who can pick up points where he can't. He's thus saving his energy to focus on stage wins.

retalivity

he hadn't a hope today with the hill up to it. probably made the calulayshun that sagan will pick up enough intermediate points in the bumpier stages, along with the placings on the sprinter stages to get the green jersey, so why bother?

godtabh

was there a few slaps there?

Also what happened to Cav?

Darkglasses

godtabh wrote: »

was there a few slaps there?

Also what happened to Cav?

Wasn't much in it, I think Navardauskas tried to push the Europcar lead out man and then Reza (second wheel) slapped his arm

godtabh

big finish

3102derek

Who won, can see the stream - stuck in work

Darkglasses

Kittel, Kristoff, Demare

Peter T

3102derek wrote: »

Who won, can see the stream - stuck in work

kittel

godtabh

kittel

gordongekko

3102derek wrote: »

Who won, can see the stream - stuck in work

Kittel of course

REBELSAFC

Close!!!

Darkglasses

MPFG

I thought on Eurosport app that you could see stages of the Tour if you missed them..under the heading videos...for a limited few days

Was the case at the Giro...but I can't find them now

I know they are repeated on TV but the schedule is a bit mad or unsuitable

Anyone have an idea about this ???

Darkglasses

MPFG wrote: »

I thought on Eurosport app that you could see stages of the Tour if you missed them..under the heading videos...for a limited few days

Was the case at the Giro...but I can't find them now

I know they are repeated on TV but the schedule is a bit mad or unsuitable

Anyone have an idea about this ???

They tweeted me yesterday, nope they won't be giving us any videos on demand of the stages due to problem with rights.

MPFG

Darkglasses wrote: »

They tweeted me yesterday, nope they won't be giving us any videos on demand of the stages due to problem with rights.

Thanks fro answering

Bummer ......ASO have the market closed up ....what do they do with all the money ???? certainly don't give it as prize money

godtabh

MPFG wrote: »

Thanks fro answering

Bummer ......ASO have the market closed up ....what do they do with all the money ???? certainly don't give it as prize money

Stuff it under their mattress

Darkglasses

Adam Hansen is out

MPFG

Darkglasses wrote: »

Adam Hansen is out

What ...I know Hendeson is out but Hansen ????

Darkglasses

MPFG wrote: »

What ...I know Hendeson is out but Hansen ????

Ah, I just mis-read Greipel's tweet, never mind.

neris

any of the other teams do anything similar to Oricas "backstage pass" on youtube? Or any good TDF channels on youtube to watch for news etc of days racing?

Darkglasses

neris wrote: »

any of the other teams do anything similar to Oricas "backstage pass" on youtube? Or any good TDF channels on youtube to watch for news etc of days racing?

Giant Shimano's channel is ok, not as good as OGE but they occasionally come up with the goods. Sky produce a lot of videos but most of it is fluff. Saxo's videos last year were brilliant. Jesper Riis, Bjarne's son, produced them. Doesn't seem to be doing it this year though. They still do the odd one but not always in English. Ditto Astana. BMC make occasional good ones but they're rare and often quite short.

Cosmo Catalano makes great news videos, but they're more like weekly than daily. GCN obviously great, velonews, cycling news, etc. etc.

Nicolas Roche's channel occasional uploads a video, and it's worth watching his older ones. NicolasRoche1984 is his channel

OPQS, Shimano race TV, CyclingHubTDF, CyclingHubPT, UHC pro cycling

neris

Darkglasses wrote: »

Giant Shimano's channel is ok, not as good as OGE but they occasionally come up with the goods. Sky produce a lot of videos but most of it is fluff. Saxo's videos last year were brilliant. Jesper Riis, Bjarne's son, produced them. Doesn't seem to be doing it this year though. They still do the odd one but not always in English. Ditto Astana. BMC make occasional good ones but they're rare and often quite short.

Cosmo Catalano makes great news videos, but they're more like weekly than daily. GCN obviously great, velonews, cycling news, etc. etc.

Nicolas Roche's channel occasional uploads a video, and it's worth watching his older ones. NicolasRoche1984 is his channel

OPQS, Shimano race TV, CyclingHubTDF, CyclingHubPT, UHC pro cycling

cheers will have a look at them and see.

GCN have 2 vids up for your stage 5 preview

Darkglasses

neris wrote: »

cheers will have a look at them and see.

GCN have 2 vids up for your stage 5 preview

Yes indeed! Great videos they were too!

buffalo

Leave Kittel alone! oh, no selfies, never mind.

buffalo

MPFG wrote: »

What ...I know Hendeson is out but Hansen ????

Jebus... Henderson:

“I can’t express how upset I am right now. Nothing to say but my knee exploded and I had to hold it together till I could get to the Ambulance. At the TDF clinic they didn’t have the correct equipment to drain and stitch so Im off for surgery now. Will know more tomorrow re resuming training. Was a dirty disgusting looking wound. I now know what a kneecap looks like minus skin. Thanks to everyone for your kind words. I’m pretty emotional right now but I will try remain positive.”