2011 Tour de France, Stage 10: Aurillac - Carmaux, 158 km

[TeoSheva]

depends how much is left!

nice two

 

[Boardslide]

Obviously no-one is going to see the intermediate sprint on LIVE TV.

Bag of crap !

British Eurosport were due to start transmission at 12.45

 

[The Barb]

Didn't he say "we'll try and get in the break" or something like that? I assumed he meant somebody from Team Sky, not necessarily himself.

Yeah, I just figured for a stage like this he'd be the logical candidate (almost by process of elimination amongst the other Sky riders).

 

[AussieGoddess]

crash - cance, leukemans and gesink and Leipheimer

 

[just some guy]

5 trying for the break with others attempting to join

Crash Gesink Fabian and LL

 

[The Barb]

Gesink down .... Jesus H Christ.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Boardslide - yeh thanks - I realise that now - still thought it was 9am or something - duh

 

[Bala Verde]

New rules in effect today:

-cars that want to follow the race must have a 2 minute gap (depending on the nature of the road)
-only 8 vehicles (4 from organization 4 from media) will be allowed behind breakaway
-Media cars must have at least 2 journos with accreditation
-Vehicles must overtake a breakaway one-by-one after the instruction from race director and must do so safely

Not respecting the rules will lead to sanctions.

 

[taiwan]

Gesink, Leipheimer and Cancellara involved in a crash.

 

[MartinGT]

We're looking at the climbs. Their size, their gradient and their proximity to the finish line.

Most sprinters are fairly poor climbers (Cav being the worst). You have to judge how much time they will lose on climbs and whether they will have a chance to catch up.

Today, the last climb is quite small, not very steep and 15km from the finish, so Cav (and the other bad climbers) shouldn't have too much trouble being in the bunch for the finish (in my opinion, others will think differently)

Thanks for that

 

[just some guy]

Crash Gesink Fabian and LL

Up again and riding

 

[ak-zaaf]

Any word on how serious the crash is?

 

[sultanofhyd]

Any word on how serious the crash is?

Not so serious, all are up and riding.

 

[dlwssonic]

I feel sorry for those gesink fans

 

[Cimber]

leukemans and Leipheimer were also in the crash. All are up on their bikes again. Now, no more crashes pls.

EDIT: Galland is not up yet

 

[just some guy]

So we have 6 riders 7 seconds back to another 5 and 18 seconds to the group speed 51 km/h

 

[AussieGoddess]

apparantly JA flecha was also involved in crash - but is also back with peleton

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Why is it necessary to have media cars travelling within the peleton? Is it only because they pay well?

 

[sultanofhyd]

I'm almost wishing Cancellara neutralizes the stage to stop the ****ing crashfest.

 

[just some guy]

So we have 6 riders 7 seconds back to another 5 and 18 seconds to the group speed 51 km/h

Group has caught the 5 1 has counter attacked and heading towards the break

 

[Kwibus]

I feel sorry for those gesink fans

Hehe, well you get used to it after a while

 

[dlwssonic]

remy di gregorio in the break. I think he should go for a more mountainous stage.

 

[Tuarts]

According to the SRM data, El Fares is about 300m ahead of the peloton

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

oh gawd.

was his crash bad?

 

[just some guy]

oh gawd.

was his crash bad?

They have not said but he up and riding if that helps