2012 Tour de France: Stage 4: Abbeville → Rouen (214.5km)

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Eisel bloodied but unbowed.
Garmin's woes continue.
Robbie Hunter, heck of a crash.
Somersaulted up the road.

Tick Bobby G as being safe, then.:)
 
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Mellow Velo said:
Not being argumentative, again over this, but once again you are displaying joy over a very nasty accident.
You see what you want to see. On the other hand, I'd like to hear your definition of 'joy'.
 
GC after stage 4:
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) RadioShack-Nissan 20:04:02
2 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:00:07
3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Omega Pharma-Quickstep 0:00:07
4 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:10
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling 0:00:11
6 Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha Team 0:00:13
7 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:17
8 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:18
9 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin - Sharp 0:00:18
10 Andreas Klöden (Ger) RadioShack-Nissan 0:00:19
 
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Think I saw Renshaw fall badly, I heard also Wiggins falled.

Gilbert said in an interview always the same guys take irresponsible risks and cause the crashes.
 
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FabulousCandelabra said:
But can you really be that happy about winning when you didn't beat Cav..

He's just won a Tour stage. He can be as happy as he likes. It's not up to him who he has to beat at the end.
 
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Waterloo Sunrise said:
Monday Cav finished 1st, Sagan 6th.

Today Cav crashed, so Sagan finished 5th.

He's found his level anyway.
Yup, it's called Green level. ;)
 
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Who'd choose to be a sprinter, so many random, unavoidable crashes.

At least with the HTC train we had far fewer prangs.
 
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Cavendish seems to do well at not getting badly injured in these crashes (touches every bit of wood around).
 
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Waterloo Sunrise said:
Monday Cav finished 1st, Sagan 6th.

Today Cav crashed, so Sagan finished 5th.

He's found his level anyway.

That's a bit of an unfair way to spin it when you are talking about a 22 year old. He's faster than anyone else in the peloton was at that age. Even Cavendish was happy to pick up a couple of top 10s when he was 22 and in his first Tour. And Cavendish sure as hell wasn't winning tougher stages at the same time.

Sagan is not right now as fast on a completely flat sprint as the very best. But he's close and he's still improving. If any other 22 year old got a fifth and a sixth on his first two flat Tour stages he'd be hyped as the next coming of Cavendish.
 
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cineteq said:
You see what you want to see. On the other hand, I'd like to hear your definition of 'joy'.

The first hour of today's Tour of Austria was pretty joyous.

Just giving you a friendly reminder that LOLing at riders potentially getting hurt in a crash can get the mods on your back, nothing more.

Take it, or as I suspect, leave it.