2014 Tour de France, Stage 10: Mulhouse > La Planche des Belles Filles 161.5 Km

[GroupDK]

No frame crash, was a bike on the roof Falling Down with Roche crash.

 

[TANK91]

Wow Paul just said a rumour a bike fell on Contador when they were changing for Roche.

 

[kurtinsc]

Also Porter is SKY . IN recent years they have daring success in the Tour success at the same time Garmin is famous for their poor tactics and LUCK.

Daring?

Sky's tactics were:

Control stages and win in the ITT's (Wiggins).

and

Have the best rider in the field (Froome).

That's well enough if you have the best ITT rider in the field or the best climber in the field who's a top 5 ITT guy... but Porte is neither of those things.

When Armstrong stopped riding the first time, it's not like those guys who drove him up the mountains for his wins all of a sudden finished in the top 10. Their best rider finished 37 minutes down the following year with mainly the same team (sans Armstrong).

I feel like Porte gets way too much credit.

 

[jaylew]

Can't understand all the expectation about Horner. Wasn't he nearly killed when struck by a car in April?

I don't know if it's expectation so much as possibility. After all, he's at least shown he can outclimb Nibs when he's going well.

Ha ha! So funny and so true,Alejandro is a master at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Somehow he's still the winningest non-sprinter in the peloton and has been for years.

 

[trevim]

Froome being classy on twitter. Looks like he will be doing La Vuelta

They should talk it over a coffee, they both have time now

 

[Lupi33]

thats the other silver lining from big favourites going out

the subsequent GT benefits

 

[maxmartin]

SKY at the front!!!!

 

[pigoonse]

Just had a chance to read the news:
Very sad for the tour with Contador to go out.

 

[Pulpstar]

Tony Martin, what an absolute beast of a rider.

 

[trevim]

Is it outrageous to hope Frank Schleck finishes top5? He has punctured/crashed in almost every single meaningful stage this year, starting with Oman. I hope he does better today...

 

[DonMI6]

Sorry to be a conspiracy theorist, but didn't Sherwen earlier say there was a 70 metre skidmark where Alberto crashed?

 

[Publicus]

Wow Paul just said a rumour a bike fell on Contador when they were changing for Roche.

That's not what they said at all. They were saying the rumor about his frame splitting in two was incorrect. That the frame fell off the car (and split) when they were changing Roche's wheel.

 

[maxmartin]

Tony Gallopom still there!

 

[Lupi33]

Sorry to be a conspiracy theorist, but didn't Sherwen earlier say there was a 70 metre skidmark where Alberto crashed?

he did say that

dont see how its a conspiracy though

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Gallopin to the front.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Cancellara up at the front of the peloton riding for Frank Schleck!
Everyone fancies their chances now.

 

[GroupDK]

seems it was a backup bike on the car-roof that has fallen, and broke its frame, not Contadors..

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Pappy and Costa at the front as well.

 

[Fzotrlool]

Kwaitkowski = camper?

 

[kurtinsc]

I think Kwiatkowski needs to go on this climb if he wants to have a significant time advantage at the finish.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

John MacLeary ‏@JohnMacLeary · 5m
Tinkoff-Saxo DS: “According to some rumours, his [Contador's] bike has been broken but that's not the case.”

 

[Lupi33]

seems it was a backup bike on the car-roof that has fallen, and broke its frame, not Contadors..

it didnt fall on Contador?

 

[djpbaltimore]

We'll see how exciting the rest of the tour will be after the MTF. Will Nibali stamp his authority or will he finally show some fragility?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kwaitkowski = camper?

Yeah, boring LMG camper with target finder as scope.

Oh wait this aint cod

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Kwiat finally gets bored of staring at Tony's ***.