luckyboy said:
Just watched the end again. The accident happened at 9.4km out. By the time we all realised AC was in that group (about 6km out) he only had 2 riders with him - Porte and Navarro I think. Navarro was on the front with 2 Euskaltels until around 4km out, and Porte must've fallen back on the early part of the climb.
Weren't exactly sitting back.
Yeah that was also what i saw from the tv pictures.
for the most time it was offcourse the SBS riders there was pushing the pace to close the gap and it was first in the last 4km that euskatel also took the lead.
And not easy to gain on a peloton 10km before stage-end with almost all the teams with there captain and on the first day..
The main thing that I wondered about was SBS attitude the last few km when they got contact with andy shlecks group who offcourse just was rolling the last part on to finish, because of -3km rule.
Here should SBS have taken the lead and set the pace..
but actually a strange situation, when you think about it, there are in the same group, but for andy its all about to waiste time the last km to finish and the oppesit for contador..