2014 Tour de France, Stage 5: Ypres – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut: 156km

[veji11]

Bikes can't go through puddles? I'll have to remember that next time I'm about to do that myself, which in the UK is most days.

Man you know what I mean. I am as disappointed as everybody else, but you just can't make pros go through a cobbled sector at 35/40ks/h and suddenly hit a massive puddle. The rider will crash, the other coming thick and fast behind him will pile up, etc...

It is just not doable, sadly. I hate it when organisers get bullied by teams and DSs to cancel rideable stages, but when the conditions are not rideable, well they aren't. It is just the way it is. Let's just hope that some cobbled sectors stay rideable, that is all we can hope for.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

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Brian Nygaard ‏@nygaardbn · 28m

Today will be a mix of Glastonbury 2007 + Pamplona Bull Run + Bambi on Ice.

 

[Vino's Mum]

Bikes can't go through puddles? I'll have to remember that next time I'm about to do that myself, which in the UK is most days.

Whoa, a real hardman of the sport.

 

[Eclipse]

Koen de Kort ‏@koendekort 10m
I somehow have the feeling I'm about to be part of something epic and historical. A day I might never forget. Better make it a good memory!

Now that is the spirit.

 

[veji11]

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Brian Nygaard ‏@nygaardbn · 28m

Today will be a mix of Glastonbury 2007 + Pamplona Bull Run + Bambi on Ice.

That was funny !

 

[Jagartrott]

Sep Vanmarcke ✔ @sepvanmarcke

All sections should stay in!! @letour

 

[LaFlorecita]

some sad news:
the Inner Ring ‏@inrng 41 sec
Cobbled sectors 5 and 7 will not be used today reports @LaurentBruwier

Thank god. _O_

 

[Arredondo]

Still enough sections to give some beautiful racing.

 

[Ryongsyong]

puddles =/ flooded last time I checked

The photos we've seen =/ flooded last time I checked either but anyway, it is what it is. The old days are gone now. Not worth getting worked up about it.

 

[King Boonen]

Fu*k sake! It's a bloody race, not a sportive.

 

[l.Harm]

Sep _O_ That's what I wanna hear.


but well:

Luuc Eisenga ‏@EisengaL 8 min.
AIGCP has just been informed by the president of the jury that sections 5 & 7 have been cancelled.

 

[No_Balls]

Here we go.

Just wait until it all gets neutralized.

 

[murali]

what will the revised stage look like?

 

[Descender]

**** this ****

 

[trevim]

Sep Vanmarcke ✔ @sepvanmarcke

All sections should stay in!! @letour

I knew I love this guy. What a spirit! Everyone knows cobblestones are dangerous and well cycling is a dangerous sport. One thing is ice roads on the Dolomites but wet cobblestones? Come on... Now I'm just waiting for the riders to neutralise the other sector. I wonder who will do that this time? Cancellara probably doesn't care without Schlecks to pull around France, Millar isn't in the race. Maybe all the GC riders together, Sky-Saxo alliance wouldn't surprise me....

 

[Miburo]

That's sad news but i'm gonna stay positive. We still have 7 sections, let's hope they won't touch that.

So is the stage now shorter? Need more details

 

[Netserk]

I want blood.

Hear hear!

 

[Arredondo]

Meanwhile, at the first cobble section of La Gruson

 

[Arredondo]

 

[Der Effe]

Looks like just another day in the low lands :')

 

[infeXio]

It's going to be absolute carnage despite only having 7 sectors, me thinks

 

[Miburo]

Holy **** those strokes look terrible, this is gonna be a battlefield but thinking about it.

I think the riders will neutralize it

 

[Taxus4a]

That is supposed the easier one

 

[Arredondo]

Holy **** those strokes look terrible, this is gonna be a battlefield but thinking about it.

I think the riders will neutralize it

They will not, simple because Vanmarcke is there, and some teams who have really strong squads and want to profit from this stage

 

[trevim]

They should take the finish line to the other side of the Arenberg to make up for the removed sectors