2015 Tour de France Stage 5: Arras-Amiens 189.5km

[Hugo Koblet]

Is there even a remote chance of something happening today?

 

[burning]

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Is there even a remote chance of something happening today?

I think there is a serious crosswind between 50 and 25km. They are riding into headwind at the moment.

 

[Koba80]

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http://letour-livetracking.dimensiondata.com/

It's working.

Quintana seems to be not in the lead group. Though I don't know if that can be trusted.

He had a bike change, so he probably has no way of tracking him

He's browsing the peloton in incognito mode. Like a ninja.

Haimar mark II?

 

[Warhawk]

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Is there even a remote chance of something happening today?

"Something" will definitely happen. Whether it's something interesting, I couldn't say.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Bouhanni out... Looks serious, he will be evacuated with an ambulance.

You can't evacuate a person, to evacuate a person means to give them an enema.

lol this is not solo english forum, give it a rest

I think you lads are mistaking someone taking an opportunity for an off colour joke with someone being a ***. The pedantry was just an excuse for his bum joke.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Is there even a remote chance of something happening today?

Its possible that quintana isn't able to return to the bunch after his 9th bike change

 

[BigMac]

On whose bike is Quintana? Tracker shows him being on third group.

 

[Ryongsyong]

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Bouhanni out... Looks serious, he will be evacuated with an ambulance.

You can't evacuate a person, to evacuate a person means to give them an enema.

lol this is not solo english forum, give it a rest

evacuate
ɪˈvakjʊeɪt
verb
1.
remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place.
"several families were evacuated from their homes"
synonyms: remove, clear, move out, shift, take away, turn out, expel, evict More
2.
technical
remove air, water, or other contents from (a container).
"when it springs a leak, evacuate the pond"


Let the pedant try again.

It doesn't matter if the "definition" makes it look like you can use it — in reality it is wrong to use it in that context, although you'd need to be a native speaker to know that.

Anyway, even then it doesn't work. There wasn't any danger where he was to be evacuated from.

 

[DBotero]

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On whose bike is Quintana? Tracker shows him being on third group.

Maybe Castroviejo.

 

[BeagRigh]

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Is there even a remote chance of something happening today?

I think there is a serious crosswind between 50 and 25km. They are riding into headwind at the moment.

Yep.

 

[argyllflyer]

Considering the regularity of bike changes, the transponders will need to move on to the riders surely as this technology develops. Shoe, helmet, radio etc?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

You know it's not been a very exciting stage when two thirds of all posts are about beating up Sky employees or whether or not Bouhanni had an enema.

 

[Eagle]

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On whose bike is Quintana? Tracker shows him being on third group.

He got a bike from the team car

 

[Carols]

Yep it's a bit of a snoozer so far. Hopefully some action soon

 

[burning]

Well, looks like they decided to make this race a rest day.

 

[Warhawk]

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Well, looks like they decided to make this race a rest day.

After the first four days I'm not sure I blame them.

 

[Vino's Mum]

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Yep it's a bit of a snoozer so far. Hopefully some action soon

If only Cipo was here, dressed as a zebra or something.

(Yawn)

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Well, looks like they decided to make this race a rest day.

A rest day is more entertaining than today's stage.

 

[spalco]

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Well, looks like they decided to make this race a rest day.

I was about to ask if they neutralised the race today; it doesn't even look like they are trying.

 

[Kwibus]

If there will be crosswinds closer to the line then there will definately be more action coming up.

It all depends on the possibilities the riders get.
Else it will be a dull sprint stage which it was designed for.

 

[franic]

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Yep it's a bit of a snoozer so far. Hopefully some action soon

If only Cipo was here, dressed as a zebra or something.

(Yawn)

Cipollini destroyed Zabel in Amiens in 1999

 

[jsem94]

FFS someone needs to try something.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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FFS someone needs to try something.

Cannondale gave it a rattle earlier on when there were some winds, but the road wasn't continuously exposed to a crosswind for long enough for anything to stick.

Bizarre that nobody has tried to establish a secondary break though.

 

[BigMac]

Lampre is disgraceful as a team, holy moly.

 

[perico]

Without a breakaway ahead and no contenders to push in the second group, can't say there is motivation. The GC guys are controlling the tempo since there is no "dangling carrot" for the sprinters to chase after at this point.