Tour de France 2015 Stage 5 Arras - Amiens *contains unmasked spoilers*

Darkglasses

Not entirely flat, and showers are forecasted but tomorrow may be the first day the sprinters' teams have it their own way. Should be a straight up fight between Cavendish, Bouhanni and Greipel, although Kristoff, Sagan, Degenkolb and of course Sam Bennett will be fancying their chances to feature well.

Oddschecker: Cavendish 5/4, Greipel 4/1, Kristoff 6/1, Sagan 7/1, Bouhanni 7/1, Degenkolb 14/1, Bennett 40/1

Pudsy33

Sam Bennett has beaten both Bouhanni and Degenkolb this year. I hope he gets a good leadout.

KingBrian2

John Degenkolb

Only just started to watch the Tour. Shall be keeping an eye on this Tour.

Pudsy33

KingBrian2 wrote: »

Only just started to watch the Tour. Shall be keeping an eye on this Tour.

If your first taste of bike racing has been the last few days then you've had a great introduction.

dastardly00

I might actually get some work done this afternoon....

ZiabR

Andre Greipel

I think Cav will be really pushing for his first stage win today.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

dastardly00 wrote: »

I might actually get some work done this afternoon....

Don;t bet on that as there could be cross winds and echleons

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Jered Gruber ‏@jeredgruber 3m3 minutes ago
No rest for the weary: the wind is battering everything in its way right now. Looks like a crosswind for most of the day. #TDF2015

REBELSAFC

Bryan Coquard

The one big plus for Sam this morning is he is after an easier day on the cobbles than most of his competitors. Cav, Bouhanni and Degenkolb were all involved near the end yesterday while Sam was chugging along in the gruppetto. Hopefully he will benefit from that today

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Like this from the Cycling Podcast , KIlometre 0 on domestiques ( 3rd one down). Nice story by Matt White on ice cream. And an indication from Andrew McQuiad on wages.

Just in case anyone hasn't heard it

http://thecyclingpodcast.com/podcast/kilometre-0

n-dawg

Andre Greipel

Looks like there could be cross winds...

Forecast is for gusting up to 50 km/hr and there isn't much in this area to shelter the riders.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

As expected cross winds causing splits already

Bouhanni crashed and in ambulance

Pudsy33

Dan Martin out the back already allegedly. He said in his column today he was planning on taking today handy and having a cut tomorrow.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Another crash and Garmin Cannondale involved

Talib Fiasco

Alexander Kristoff

I think Astana and Saxo might try and put some time into Froome et al.


Cofidis crash looks bad. Bouhanni goosed

Arrow in the Knee

Bryan Coquard

Wish I had EuroSport.

Will have to wait for TG4 and ITV4.

I hope it gets hectic today.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

Wish I had EuroSport.

Will have to wait for TG4 and ITV4.

I hope it gets hectic today.

Get the Eurosport app for £3.99 and you can watch it on laptop, iphone or tablet ??

godtabh

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

I think Astana and Saxo might try and put some time into Froome et al.


Cofidis crash looks bad. Bouhanni goosed

What happened?

skerry

MPFG wrote: »

Get the Eurosport app for £3.99 and you can watch it on laptop, iphone or tablet ??

You know what time the highlights go up on the app at? Got it last year for the Giro and ended up being a complete waste cos the highlights weren't aired until atfer 11pm

Talib Fiasco

Alexander Kristoff

godtabh wrote: »

What happened?

Bouhanni and a good few of his team mates just crashed and were sent flying into a ditch. Bouhanni abandons with a suspected broken wrist.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Another crash with Nico , Greipel & Mollema

ludermor

MPFG wrote: »

Get the Eurosport app for £3.99 and you can watch it on laptop, iphone or tablet ??

Im watching on the ITV Player app ( i am based in London , not sure if it is available in Ireland?)

average_runner

John Degenkolb

MPFG wrote: »

Another crash with Nico , Greipel & Mollema

Bad crash?

ford2600

ludermor wrote: »

Im watching on the ITV Player app ( i am based in London , not sure if it is available in Ireland?)

It does if your tablet/laptop pretends it is in UK...

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

average_runner wrote: »

Bad crash?

They are up and riding again

Need to go to Eurosport website for questions on the app
But I think they have numerous highlight programs at various times

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Bloody hell ..Europcar now down

But up again

Talib Fiasco

Alexander Kristoff

Tommy V is a champ :pac:

ThisRegard

They're like skittles today.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Yet another crash with Coquard for the second time. Pinot , Majka,and Farrar also down but all up again

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Europcar, FDJ & Cofidis are having a very poor Tour so far

dragratchet

anyone elses eurosport feed glitching?

edit -phew, working again

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

You can see Tinkoff Saxo are itching to get going in the crosswinds

isitraining

Andre Greipel

I know they're not to everyone's taste but I'm really enjoying JA Fletcha's fashion inserts! :P

godtabh

Dan Martin down again?

ThisRegard

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Dan Martin out the back already allegedly. He said in his column today he was planning on taking today handy and having a cut tomorrow.

Just mentioned that he had crashed at some point.

68 lost souls

Reading the live feed on letour.com just isnt the same... wish I could watch today, sounds like an eventful afternoon so far.

Pudsy33

godtabh wrote: »

Dan Martin down again?

Earlier on I think. He's back in

dragratchet

68 lost souls wrote: »

Reading the live feed on letour.com just isnt the same... wish I could watch today, sounds like an eventful afternoon so far.

apart from the odd crash, its not been great tbh. flat & wet.

godtabh

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Earlier on I think. He's back in

SP just mentioned it there. Thought it happened again

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Splits again

Garmin of all people starting it

Esroh

Sam hanging at back of group 2

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

No I think maybe that was Gamin in the 2nd group trying to get back

SKY at front of front group

ThisRegard

Even the French gardai are falling.

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Now the motorbikes are going down

But all is still well as they got up again

MPFG

Bryan Coquard

Cavandish off the front with a puncture

But all is well as he is being lead back in

(By his team riding behind cars)

Pudsy33

Tracker up and running. Dan in front group.

http://letour-livetracking.dimensiondata.com/?utm_source=LivetrackingSite&utm_medium=LeTourData&utm_campaign=TDF2015

Gallant_JJ

Bennett in Group 2, pity.

letape

Andre Greipel

Not watching today - is there long left?

check_six

letape wrote: »

Not watching today - is there long left?

45km to go

dastardly00

32km to go and the peloton are taking things fairly easy. Sky, Movistar, Etix, Astana, and BMC are all spread out across the width of the road.

Darkglasses

Bryan Coquard

Chance of the Bennett group catching up then?