2012 Tour de France: Stage 5: Rouen → Saint-Quentin (196.5km)

[gustienordic]

Sagan the big loser, today.
That was more his type of finish that Harmon made out.

Who was the Lampre rider to caused that crash? It seemed like the rider swung out and clipped the first rider to go down.

 

[c&cfan]

wow!!!! amazing sprint by cav!!!! da fack!

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Nope, it was about 50 meters before the 3km sign.

Yep, if they apply the letter of the law there are going to be some time losses here

 

[Marva32]

It looked like Farrar was close to the Argos Shimano rider, bu it looks like the Lampre rider moved over in front of Farrar and that's why he went down.

 

[Bala Verde]

A Garmin guy got squeezed in the front between a Lampre and Argos rider (?) who were forming a train? He fell, he sat, his bike, loose, flew to the right, and landed right in front of Sagan; he went down, with him a SaxoTinkoff guy. Behind them 2 rabos, one could avoid them, I think Kruiswijk slammed the breaks and just toppled over, what it looks like from the overhead shot.

 

[Frosty]

Letour.fr shows 120+ riders, including Farrar and co. at +0

Has changed now though? Only 91 riders classified when i pressed refresh just now.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Farrar looks like he's in pain there.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Farrar bleeding all over his bike.
His nightmare continues.

A Garmin guy got squeezed in the front between a Lampre and Argos rider (?) who were forming a train? He fell, he sat, his bike, loose, flew to the right, and landed right in front of Sagan; he went down, with him a SaxoTinkoff guy. Behind them 2 rabos, one could avoid them, I think Kruiswijk slammed the breaks and just toppled over, what it looks like from the overhead shot.

Exactly what I saw.

 

[mcassidy3]

Good win by Greipel, Cav didnt look like he was able to get off the saddle at the end but 4th or 5th gives him some decent points.

What happened to Sagan?

 

[Maxiton]

Well, that was exciting. The escapees almost made it. And then Greipel! Greipel the powerhouse beats the sh*t small sprinters!

 

[Fetisoff]

Has changed now though? Only 91 riders classified when i pressed refresh just now.

Yep, it did. And now it changed back, showing Lancaster in 121st as first rider to lose time
Shows Sagan 1minute+ down.

And WTF, Gilbert?

 

[LaFleur]

The riders who fell, got the same time as the winner.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Cavendish wasn't out of the saddle there at the end.

yeah he must be hurting from falling off yesterday

 

[Frosty]

Kruijswijck now showing at +1.37

 

[max_powers]

Tyler no teammates around at crash, Greipel was sideways,just avoided skidding Tyler, Sagan could not avoid Tyler's flyin bike, wow

 

[Fetisoff]

What happened to Sagan?

****ty bike handling skills

(This one's dedicated to the Liqui fans out here RE: stage 3)

 

[Rocksteady]

Seems like too many sprinters are in the mix. Push literally comes to shove and either someone backs down or crashes happen.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Well, that was exciting. The escapees almost made it. And then Greipel! Greipel the powerhouse beats the sh*t small sprinters!

yeup. Just watch the last 2 Kms is all anyone needs to do.

I'm a little surprised Farrar is not figuring into the sprints at all.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Who was the Lampre rider to caused that crash? It seemed like the rider swung out and clipped the first rider to go down.

Petacchi, I think. His colour bike. He was behind Hondo, in anycase.

 

[180mmCrank]

BH and Cav on the front too early. So Cav out of gas by the end. Nice for Sky to give Cav support but not really the polish in the lead out ...

All good.

Exciting Tour!

T

 

[William H]

cav was at the front with 1.5km to go... then 50th position. the opposite of the second stage.

EBH was at the front way too early, they probably got swamped.

(Really, they needed Wiggins to do a longer turn. Though I guess you can't expect your GC guy to empty themselves.)

 

[Arnout]

Time to scrap the 3km rule. It's not helping.

 

[Ragerod]

yeah he must be hurting from falling off yesterday

I think it's more a case of being spent because he had to open his sprint 100m earlier than Greipel and Goss. Shambles of a performance by Sky.

 

[Lexman]

Good win by Greipel, Cav didnt look like he was able to get off the saddle at the end but 4th or 5th gives him some decent points.

What happened to Sagan?

Sagan got down in the crash at about 3km from the finish, not sure if it was in the 3km limit or just outside

 

[sagard]

Well Goss went early and did better. Hope to see more of it.

Yep. If Goss would have waited, I think the Eusketel break rider wins. Might have been more fun, but nice work to the big guy.