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

[Eagle]

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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.

They have a headwind now and the GC teams are going to keep a high tempo for position

 

[etymology]

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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.

“To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

 

[TMP402]

Is the BMC yellow helmets thing optional? Because it would look awful on some teams, eg Astana, Lampre, Movistar...

 

[perico]

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Is the BMC yellow helmets thing optional? Because it would look awful on some teams, eg Astana, Lampre, Movistar...

Best team classification.

 

[BigMac]

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Is the BMC yellow helmets thing optional? Because it would look awful on some teams, eg Astana, Lampre, Movistar...

It's optional, yes. Movistar actually wore it in 2013 during the last part of the first week and sort of looked nice.

 

[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.

They have a headwind now and the GC teams are going to keep a high tempo for position

Sure, but there's a hell of a lot of riders in the peloton with nothing better to be doing than grabbing some tv time and a one in a thousand chance of a stage win.

 

[SafeBet]

They can't have headwind all the time.
Either they have it now or in the final 25km.

 

[sir fly]

So Fouilloy is the place....

 

[ILovecycling]

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They can't have headwind all the time.
Either they have it now or in the final 25km.

in the final 25 I think now its the crosswind part

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Hang on, is that second group a casualty of the winds earlier on, when Cannondale and then BMC hit the front for a while? Who is in it?

 

[TMP402]

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Hang on, is that second group a casualty of the winds earlier on, when Cannondale and then BMC hit the front for a while? Who is in it?

Majka, Porte, Kennaugh

 

[Sasquatch]

Someone please make a stage 6 thread. This is boring.

 

[ggusta]

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They can't have headwind all the time.
Either they have it now or in the final 25km.

My rides have headwind all the time.

 

[ILovecycling]

Someone please make a stage 6 thread. This is boring.

go ahead, at least you'll post it properly

 

[MatParker117]

Truce called apparently

 

[Sasquatch]

Someone please make a stage 6 thread. This is boring.

go ahead, at least you'll post it properly

lol

I couldn't be ***.

 

[sir fly]

An Allied story...™

Anyone interested in the copyright?

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

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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.

Someone has been watching season 5 of the wire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d82ndui_s

 

[Dog]

The ad breaks are more interesting than the race so far...

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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They can't have headwind all the time.
Either they have it now or in the final 25km.

My rides have headwind all the time.

Same here...
ranging from strong to super-strong and more

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

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Hang on, is that second group a casualty of the winds earlier on, when Cannondale and then BMC hit the front for a while? Who is in it?

Kelderman. Porte. No one important.

 

[staubsauger]

RAI already showing Giro highlights instead!?

 

[ggusta]

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They can't have headwind all the time.
Either they have it now or in the final 25km.

My rides have headwind all the time.

Same here...
ranging from strong to super-strong and more

weird thing is we pass each other headed in opposite directions....

 

[infeXio]

This is fun.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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Hang on, is that second group a casualty of the winds earlier on, when Cannondale and then BMC hit the front for a while? Who is in it?

No one important.

I guess ILove, Sasquatch, me, and many more others would say otherwise.