2012 Tour de France: Stage 8: Belfort → Porrentruy (157.5km)

[Mellow Velo]

A Piti for Samu.
Olympics down the toilet, too.
Hitch will be pleased............

 

[Fight.The.Power]

I'm absolutely Gutted

 

[Fetisoff]

Wow. I don't think I can watch this tour anymore. Going for a ride.
Poor Samu...

 

[Frosty]

Poor Sammy

 

[mastersracer]

It breaks my heart to see a grown man cry. Poor Sanchez.

classy move of the women fan to reach in and steal his gloves...

 

[its like that]

Tour De crash continues

 

[c&cfan]

he is crying... poor guy get back soon samu!

 

[El Pistolero]

Wiggans will win this Tour by default. Can't we just skip this year? This is not worthy of a Tour anymore. Competition is weakest since I've seen in a long long time.

 

[Machu Picchu]

Everyone likes Sammy, but he was never a Tour favorite with this years course.

favourite maybe not but certainly someone who could animate the race, already too few of them

 

[SantiBotero]

Who is also in the Spanish Olympic Team? I think there is here some sort of a curse...

 

[Froome19]

Valverde now far back: 1:36 his luck isnt getting any better either

 

[T-Nielsen]

If anyone ever needed a collective hug its Sammy.

 

[Caruut]

It's not like he was challenging them yesterday though...

He would have been a spanner in the works, though. Put the pressure on, try and make something happen. So many guys who could at least throw their hat in the ring have gone out.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

So, which Frenchy will level the field and punch Evans, Nibali and Wiggins off their bikes, so we can have that out of the way? Any takers? Anyone?

 

[For The World]

classy move of the women fan to reach in and steal his gloves...

I did not even notice that. Ugh.

 

[The Joker]

More bleeding carrots.......Lloyd was right.

On behalf of all normal Australians, I apologise for this ridiculous comment.

 

[glassmoon]

i am starting to think even Cadel will crash out of this tour

 

[Froome19]

Wiggans will win this Tour by default. Can't we just skip this year? This is not worthy of a Tour anymore. Competition is weakest since I've seen in a long long time.

His strongest competitors are Froome and Evans and they are still in the race.

 

[zapata]

More bleeding carrots.......Lloyd was right.

Could you stop with that dumb s*it? Euskaltel doesn't crash any more than other teams.

 

[T-Nielsen]

How did he go down

 

[DominicDecoco]

It's not like he was challenging them yesterday though...

You know.. To make this Tour just a bit interesting we need guys that can exploit Wiggin's weaknesses. Descending. Plenty of stages where we could have seen Samu flying.

 

[El Pistolero]

His strongest competitors are Froome and Evans and they are still in the race.

A forty year old guy and a team-mate who was a nobody a year ago.

Great.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Valverde landed on Samu, so Samu went down first. Was that ominously orange bidon on the road the cause?

 

[greenedge better then some]

90km solo.. ouch...

 

[For The World]

How did he go down

I'm guessing either a spectator, or some trash on the road that he might have been trying to avoid? No one else apart from Valverde seemed to bothered by it.