2013 Tour de France, Stage 5: Cagnes-sur-Mer→Marseille (229 Km)

[Taxus4a]

I seems nobody important is hurt today, the only one a little afected is JVdB.

Difficult route for Cavendish, but headwind helps his options. Very well EBH.

 

[arvc40]

There's already a mountains jersey for people who like climbing and can happily be nowhere near the front on sprint days.

The overall winner needs to be at the front all the time.

I know, ill just carry on with my fingers crossed x

 

[BigC24]

Cav was due! Good to see him get over his illness and put a win on the board. Now we are just waiting for Sagan...

 

[Pulpstar]

Wind forecast is 16 km/hr from the north-northwest. First half of the stage is northwest, but from Beaucaire it is heading south-west so it will probably be a crosswind at that point. Any smart GC team should look to be very near the front from Beaucaire.

 

[Rocksteady]

Darn, 10 minutes for VDV, could still end up in the top 20, but was hoping for another good ride, lets hope he is fit to do some work for others in the mountains.

 

[Carols]

Any news on VDB2?

 

[Aditya]

Both Vande Velde and Miller finished 10 mins behind the pack

 

[The Principal Sheep]

Zubeldia fractured metacarpal bone in left hand, will decide in morning whether to continue.

 

[RocketScientist]

Is there any better camera angle of the last crash?
I've made few screenshots

 

[RocketScientist]

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Any news on VDB2?

Van den Broeck valt

In de laatste rechte lijn was er in volle spurt nog een valpartij. Jurgen Van den Broeck was een van de slachtoffers. De klassementsrijder van Lotto-Belisol zou aan het ergste ontsnapt zijn.

Dat was toch de eerste diagnose van Lotto-Belisol-ploegdokter Jan Mathieu: "Op het eerste zicht heeft hij schaafwonden opgelopen op zijn beide knieën. Hij heeft pijn, maar ik denk dat alles nog zal meevallen."

Van den Broeck crashes

In the final straight there was another crash in full sprint. Jurgen Van den Broeck was one of the victims. The GC rider from Lotto-Belisol appears to have have been lucky all things considered.

Or at least that was the first diagnoses of team doctort Jan Matthieu:
"At first sight he seems to suffer from fleshwounds on both knees. He's in pain but i think it won't be that bad."

 

[richard_91]

Jurgen Van den Broeck was found on the ground, but the wounds are superficial.

http://www.rtbf.be/sport/cyclisme/t...ivez-la-5eme-etape-du-tour-en-live?id=8024803

doesnt look to bad

 

[wansteadimp]

That makes it look like two accidents - the Sky rider against the barriers on the extreme right and the Lotto(?) rider in the middle of the pack. They look completely unconnected.

 

[Leonardus]

Looks like VDB2 caused the crash himself. Bit strange, those guys were already freewheeling to the line and seems like there was enough space.

 

[jsem94]

Wind forecast is 16 km/hr from the north-northwest. First half of the stage is northwest, but from Beaucaire it is heading south-west so it will probably be a crosswind at that point. Any smart GC team should look to be very near the front from Beaucaire.

16km/hr... that's 4.444m/s. That's not a lot of wind, hardly enough to create any substantial echelons.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Who was the SkyBorg ?

I saw Froome and Porte got through safely.

 

[JRanton]

Who was the SkyBorg ?

I saw Froome and Porte got through safely.

Kiri, but he didn't go down.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Thanks.


(10 char)

 

[ElChingon]

Did the Sky rider on the right hear foot steps? Why would anyone stop like that? No crashes on the right till he stopped.

 

[myrideissteelerthanyours]

I've made few screenshots

dat leadout

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Did the Sky rider on the right hear foot steps? Why would anyone stop like that? No crashes on the right till he stopped.

He ran into the FDJ rider's bike. In the first shot the FDJ rider is already on the floor in the centre of the road (obscured - the OPQ rider is looking back at him) and you can just see the handlebars of his stricken bike near the barrier

 

[el_angliru]

Wind forecast is 16 km/hr from the north-northwest. First half of the stage is northwest, but from Beaucaire it is heading south-west so it will probably be a crosswind at that point. Any smart GC team should look to be very near the front from Beaucaire.

On Danish tv they said 16 m/s (or even more). That's something completely different!

In today's broadcast on Danish TV, Michael Rasmussen stressed that they rode this stage or one almost identical in 2007. Astana were hammering away in the crosswinds and only 80 riders were able to stay with the peloton that day. Everyone else lost more than 3 minutes (including Moreau, who was one of the main GC contenders having just won the Dauphine). It was only because Menchov understood Russian that Rabobank was prepared for Astana's move!

 

[RocketScientist]

Did the Sky rider on the right hear foot steps? Why would anyone stop like that? No crashes on the right till he stopped.

I reviewed the crash few more times. And crash actually happened before! This guy went down first.

Then LTB rider. The Sky rider close to the right got bike from the guy who crashed first underneath his bike ... confusing!

 

[ToreBear]

Is there any better camera angle of the last crash?
I've made few screenshots

You missed the causal event. The opq guy is looking around because he heard something. So you have to take screen shots earlier to understand it.

What I saw was something involving a guy from Fdj, he went over sideways. You caught the Lotto guy breaking hard to avoid the guy lying in front of him. The mash up on the right with the sky rider managing to stay up right is the result of the fdj riders bike flying over to the other side and creating a road block.

I'm impressed he managed to stay on his feet.


Very happy with EBH. I think his day job ends when Froome is over the 3km line, so it's impressive to manage 2nd.

Though I'm a bit unhappy with Cav. He is a terrible lead out man. He accelerates too fast, and EBH can hardly stay in his slipstream, never mind pass by him.


edit: Too slow...

 

[roundabout]

That was Bouhanni.

Can't stop being dangerous in a sprint.