2014 Tour de France, Stage 6: Arras–Reim (194km)

[trevim]

Sagan's daily sprint for the green.
Kittel to try and stop him?

Nop Kittel doesn't care about it.

 

[JRanton]

Silin also abandons.

 

[Jagartrott]

This stage so far with 100% more DNFs than the cobbles stage

 

[purcell]

Time to eliminate dry flat roads from the Tour. Clearly too dangerous to allow a rider's whole GC ambition for the year to be determined by a stroke of bad luck on a dry flat road.

 

[Arredondo]

Looks like Sagan has crashed today if you look at his wounds

 

[Akuryo]

Renshaw takes it..Sagan second

Too bad this wasn't the final sprint. But one can hope, right?

 

[glassmoon]

what exactly was Renshaw trying to achieve?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

what exactly was Renshaw trying to achieve?

Testing the legs before the real sprint later.....

(Kittel almost fell off his bike laughing)

 

[Ramira]

Egor Silin (Katusha) also abandons.

It also means we've had more abandons in today's stage than yesterday, damn these dangerous tarmac roads!

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

This is the exposed section, but it looks like there's no wind. Disappointing.

 

[indianfanboy]

Sagan crashed hard his left wrist is bloody and swollen
Hope he is ok

 

[indianfanboy]

Too bad this wasn't the final sprint. But one can hope, right?

If Kittel crashes

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Sagan looks quite a bit banged up.

 

[Arredondo]

Big crash!

 

[indianfanboy]

Another crash

 

[Akuryo]

Big crash!

Again?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

They just turned into the crosswinds. Strung out.

 

[Casper96]

what exactly was Renshaw trying to achieve?

Let's not complain that someone tried to win points at a sprint point. Isn't that more fun for us than if Renshaw only focused on losing sprints at the end of stages? Do we think he really reduced his odds of winning the whole stage by that much by grabbing a few extra points?

 

[indianfanboy]

The pace is on

Taramae crashed

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Pretty big split.

 

[indianfanboy]

Who was the TS rider down Majka?

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I spoke too soon.

EDIT - No, I didn't.

 

[indianfanboy]

game over for the break

 

[Akuryo]

Who was forcing the split?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Madiot warned of echelons with 68k to go.