2012 Tour de France: Stage 6: Épernay → Metz (207.5km)

[Marcus135]

I remember reading that OGRE said they would work for Cadel is the opportunity arose. Well, seems they've done that. Will cheer against this band of fools from now on.

As i said they where clearly thinking about Goss for the sprint, BMC had practically their whole team around Cadel so OGRE where not helping Cadel. Yes it might have been a **** move but they where not thinking about the GC.

 

[gthx_gthx_]

Flat Stages in the tour = Boring + Kill half of GC men...

So Nibali didn't loose time right ?

 

[c&cfan]

Am I the only one who thought Sagan only beat Greipel coz Greip is banged up? COZ THAT IS THE REASON.

who knowzzee... he's better cyclist at 22 than greipel will ever be.. and he can beat him in a flat out sprint, by a big margin (at 22)

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

new GC top ten:

1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) RadioShack-Nissan 29:22:36
2 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:00:07
3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Omega Pharma-QuickStep
4 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:10
5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha Team 0:00:13
6 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:17
7 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:18
8 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:19
9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) RadioShack-Nissan
10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) RadioShack-Nissan 0:00:22

 

[gustienordic]

This is the first week.

 

[Escarabajo]

Flat Stages in the tour = Boring + Kill half of GC men...

So Nibali didn't loose time right ?

Right.

10 char.

 

[Froome19]

I remember reading that OGRE said they would work for Cadel is the opportunity arose. Well, seems they've done that. Will cheer against this band of fools from now on.

Wht else would you liked them to have done?

They had not interests in the crash and they needed to catch the break.

 

[Fetisoff]

Am I the only one who thought Sagan only beat Greipel coz Greip is banged up? COZ THAT IS THE REASON.

Looked like Greipel was unsure if he was going to go for that sprint until he realized that Hendo was not going to win it, so he went around but obviously didn't have enough speed due to being banged up.

I have to give it to Sagan though, he does look like third fastest sprinter this tour though

 

[El Pistolero]

5th place at the Giro, already 3 stages at the Tour and Nibbles and Basso still in contention.
Predicting a fail is a LONG shot, impossibly long.

Basso is a fail. Nibali will leave so doesn't count. And I'm looking forward to your reaction when Sagan ****s up.

 

[Eshnar]

5th place at the Giro, already 3 stages at the Tour and Nibbles and Basso still in contention.
Predicting a fail is a LONG shot, impossibly long.

5th at the Giro for Liquigas is an enormous fail.

 

[gustienordic]

crashes happen, not necessarily caused by a single rider.

will be interesting how cadel vs. wiggo works out when all those climbers have nothing to lose anymore.

So many more attacks

 

[will10]

That is a freaking awesome sprint from Sagan.

 

[happychappy]

+1, it was obvious Greipel was in pain. He gave up 10m before the finish. Awful day.
Don't get too excited Sagan fans.

Goss is not the rider from last season anymore.

It was obvious he gave up because he knew he was getting smoked.

 

[Froome19]

Amazing yet interesting that none of the GC top 10 were affected by the crash...

 

[glassmoon]

Sagan reportedly used this bell to clear the path

 

[will10]

So Nibali survived, good.

 

[c&cfan]

Don't bother, he is one of those delusonal forum members who doesn't make sense most of the time.

of course not! merckx is considered the best...

sagan is better sprinter
climbs faster
more explosive
better TTer

good looks and awesome.

so he is better than merckx.

now go and eat a cookie.

 

[Frosty]

Coppel, Rui Costa in the lead group too

 

[taiwan]

Am I the only one who thought Sagan only beat Greipel coz Greip is banged up? COZ THAT IS THE REASON.

+10

ChArAcTeRs

 

[Kazistuta]

Lost time today of the top20 contenders:

Peraud, Gesink, Brajkovic, Valverde, Mollema, Schleck, Kruijswijk, (Vanendert), Taaramae, Pinot, Scarponi, Vande Velde & Hesjedal.

 

[Escarabajo]

As i said they where clearly thinking about Goss for the sprint, BMC had practically their whole team around Cadel so OGRE where not helping Cadel. Yes it might have been a **** move but they where not thinking about the GC.

We really don't know that for sure. They can for sure use that as an excuse but at the same time they can help their countrymen.

 

[Marcus135]

Amazing yet interesting that none of the GC top 10 were affected by the crash...

Cadel went from 7th so 6th so someone (dont know who) is gone.

 

[Dutchsmurf]

So many more attacks

This is the Tour. In all those years crashes have never lead to more attacks later. It just means lots of possible attacks are irrelevant already. Getting back 2+ minutes is just impossible.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Sami in with the peloton. Chin up. We still got a race here.

 

[argyllflyer]

Calton suggesting Sagan a candidate for yellow? Has he seen his mountain stages this year?