2014 Tour De France stage 1: Leeds › Harrogate (190.5km)

[alspacka]

Gutted for Cav, chance of a lifetime to wear yellow gone in a second. Majorly sucks for him. Really hope nothing broken.

Gutted for him too but looked 100% his fault to me.

 

[Devilen]

felt worse about Dan Martin in the Giro

 

[Bushman]

Gerrans, uhm no.

Cav did.

Dont think so. Cav was the one pushing, but i dont believe a "true" sprinter would have crashes in Gerrans position.

 

[Rollthedice]

Cav took down a few guys and ended his tour. What an idiot.

 

[spalco]

cavendish deserves every bit of pain, what a jer.

You misspelled... Hopefully out of the Tour and season... Couldn't happen to nicer guy One a-hole less in the race.

Quoted just for record.

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

Froome the legend in 6th, boy is he peaking just right.

You will eat those words in a matter of weeks.....in fact, I look forward to rubbing in yah face -

 

[Sciocco]

Great result!

Tears from Eurosport guys already started, will be best part of this tour to hear them crying everyday.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

You misspelled... Hopefully out of the Tour and season... Couldn't happen to nicer guy One a-hole less in the race.

I absolutly can't stand Cavendish, but I wish injuries on no one.
It's his own fault, so I don't feel sorry for him.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Worst possible ending to a nice first stage.

Unfortunately it's nigh on impossible to avoid crashes on a flat first stage of a race with so much riding on it. Everybody still has something to protect and unless they put the finish on absolutely featureless motorway-width roads there will always be too many riders for the space needed. All the big guns are trying to be up near the front, all the sprinters have full support teams, and really, the only time they've managed to avoid crashes was the puncheur finish in Plumelec in 2008 - but even that isn't a solution since crashes made a mess of the Mont-des-Alouettes stage in 2011.

 

[orangerider]

Froome perhaps looking for both yellow AND green ?

 

[willbick]

Navadouskas wudda been a good each way bet!

 

[Broth3r]

He may get yellow tomorrow.

Yeah, he probably will, but it's one day we'll have to watch the yellow drop without a fight. Never a good thing.

 

[the asian]

Cav's fault.

He leaned on Gerrans' shoulder.

But still pretty awful to come down on your home turf.

I had him as the stage winner.

Looks like a bad year for the Brits in sports though.

 

[Arnout]

This is great for Kwiatkowski by the way

And for Terpstra, Martin etc. Some good attacking riders that will get released.

 

[BYOP88]

Excellent ending to a rather dull stage. ABC!!!

 

[sultanofhyd]

Rojas P8 go go go!

 

[clydesdale]

It was all Cav's fault

That's how I saw it. Gerrans in front, Cav leans in trying to pass and crashed. Phil and Paul are looking for someone else to blame though.

 

[Potomac]

Froome perhaps looking for both yellow AND green ?

Or maybe just had the good luck to be way to the left side of the road when the crash happened and did have to slow down?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Why aren't the times neutralised?

 

[deValtos]

Jens was amazing & so were the fans, never seen anything like it before.

Last 50km's kinda sucked though and the crash ruined the sprint ...

 

[leftover pie]

Was really hoping to see that sprint go down without the crash, kittel v cavendish v griepel v sagan and with everyone else, would have been amazing.

That was nasty.

 

[MatParker117]

Cav took down a few guys and ended his tour. What an idiot.

I don't think Gerrans should of been there, that lean from Cav was pure instinct.

 

[jaylew]

Kittel is a beast. That was impressive. Cav and Gerrans were leaning on each other and it looked like Cav got squeezed when Coquard came up on his left

 

[saganftw]

this was like the fourth time cavendish crashed in sprint in GT,probably time for some meme

 

[Broth3r]

Watching the replay again, how the hell did Coquard manage to get out of there alive?