2015 Tour de France Stage 6: Abbeville-Le Havre 191.5km

[TMP402]

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Reading between the lines on spanish media it kind of looks like there was a second crash between Valverde and Froome...

Sky twitter doesn't say anything about a second crash

Yeah I was confused by Valverde saying Froome caused a crash, and also that Froome then finished behind Nibali.

 

[TMP402]

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[quote="LaFlorecita

I am angry because Froome took advantage of the situation, that's all. He's making me hate him more and more each day.[/quote]

I forget, what advantage did he gain again? From the replay it looked like he would gain time.

 

[wirral]

Nibali and Piti successfully mindgaming Froome.

 

[Rollthedice]

Froome has a minor graze to the knee. From what? Another crash?

 

[PremierAndrew]

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LaFlorecita with some decent trolling, although a bit obvious.

Don't think it's trolling tbh. He's just blinded by his love for his idol

I am not blinded, and neither am I a guy.

I am angry because Froome took advantage of the situation, that's all. He's making me hate him more and more each day.

Mb

But really, how much did he gain from that? AC could have done the same. Do you seriously think Contador wouldn't have lost time today if the crash hadn't effectively neutralised the stage as far as GC is concerned

 

[bajbar]

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LaFlorecita with some decent trolling, although a bit obvious.

Don't think it's trolling tbh. He's just blinded by his love for his idol

I am not blinded, and neither am I a guy.

I am angry because Froome took advantage of the situation, that's all. He's making me hate him more and more each day.

Well, I don't like Froome either, but how could you say he took advantage. He almost fell down, but then he must have realised that they will all get the same time o he soft pedaled to the finish (unlike Quintana who got up and really pushed for the line, for no reason)

 

[perico]

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Apperently Froomie went straight in the Astana bus after the stage, and Brailsford went straight to Vino.

Sounds like someone is mad

Maybe froomes gps got scrambled.

LOL

 

[TMP402]

Martin told the media a Europcar rider touched his back wheel.

 

[jmdirt]

There was a 'hitch' in Martin's pedal stroke just before he went right. Something must have happened to his wheel, chain, derailer, or something.

Congrats to ZS!

 

[SeriousSam]

So. It looks like the cycling is the team sport afterall . No chance for Sagan to win any stage unless it is uphill sprint but only 100 - 200 long .

Unfortunatelly in cycling second place is not good enough. He wouldn´t have won anyway even if he folowed the Stybar wheel and he knew it.

The boy needs somebody from team to help him in the situation like this. Otherway he will be always the Mr. Second.

Joining the team of a big name GC rider was never going to get him great team support. But he knew that and went there anyway, and why not when you get 4m/year and can live the high life in Monaco.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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LaFlorecita with some decent trolling, although a bit obvious.

Don't think it's trolling tbh. He's just blinded by his love for his idol

I am not blinded, and neither am I a guy.

I am angry because Froome took advantage of the situation, that's all. He's making me hate him more and more each day.

Sure Froome took advantage of the situation, but I think everyone would do that in a situation like that. Knowing that even the slightest disturbance from the crash (and it really was that!!) would likely grant him s.t. with the others, he was probably instructed to go easy. Contador, Nibali and Quintana would all do the same

 

[Dog]

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Froome has a minor graze to the knee. From what? Another crash?

From Nibali crashing into the side of him I expect.

 

[djpbaltimore]

Is it on the left one? Scraped by Nibali on the way down?

 

[Stelvio]

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Valverde blamed Froome for the crash, Froome and Rowe went to Astana team bus and spoke for two minutes. Evidently Valverde has lost his mind.

If Valverde thought Froome caused the crash, shouldn't Froome go to the Movistar bus?

 

[Kwibus]

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LaFlorecita with some decent trolling, although a bit obvious.

Don't think it's trolling tbh. He's just blinded by his love for his idol

I am not blinded, and neither am I a guy.

I am angry because Froome took advantage of the situation, that's all. He's making me hate him more and more each day.

Hating a cyclist is allready something I don't understand.
Making something big out of pretty much nothing because you cleary can't see clear and your obviously extremely biased toward a certain rider and extremely against a rider(Froome.). If you hate a rider over something ridiculous as this you should look in the mirror and ask yourself what the f*ck your doing.

Stop wasting your energy with hating a cyclist. Hate on murderers and rapists. They actually deserve it.

 

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https://twitter.com/vincenzonibali/status/619183595794657284

 

[SeriousSam]

Masks are going to come off this Tour.

 

[cantpedal]

Brilliant win for Styby but gutted for Tony

And Alberto gets time on Froome but won't get it because of the crash

You're joking right? Contador was behind froome and nibali when the crash happened, you want to gain time cause of a crash?

Great victory stybar and poor tony, his tour is over

I'm angry because Froome obviously got past the crash, but then took advantage of the situation and took it easy because he knew he would get the same time anyway. Contador was way behind Froome but somehow finished in front of him. Maybe I didn't see it correctly but it seems to me like Contador took time on Froome after the crash had happened and after they both had gotten past the crash.

a good comedian lets a bad joke go he doesn't follow it up with a worse version of the same joke.

 

[TMP402]

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Valverde blamed Froome for the crash, Froome and Rowe went to Astana team bus and spoke for two minutes. Evidently Valverde has lost his mind.

If Valverde thought Froome caused the crash, shouldn't Froome go to the Movistar bus?

Clearly he cares more about Nibali's opinion than Valverde's

 

[carton]

Absolutely loved how Sagan gave the middle finger to his group of leeches and sat up, effectively gifting the stage to Stybar. A clear statement to everyone who tries to wheelsuck him to victory in the future.
Most ridiculous thing was how others still waited and waited several seconds after Sagan had sat up and Stybar was still in touching distance... only to get beaten by Sagan in the sprint for second.
Its stupid to blame Sagan for anything today, he and Stybar were the only ones from the lead group who took definitive action in the finale.

QFT. How people think someone can possibly win a sprint against the fastest men in the world after leading them out for 500m is beyond me.

 

[oldcrank]

Just watching the replay on a mobile device.
Who was the Sky rider to the right of Nibali that
was bumped, but managed to stay upright? Was
that the Top Dawg?

 

[ggusta]

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Valverde blamed Froome for the crash, Froome and Rowe went to Astana team bus and spoke for two minutes. Evidently Valverde has lost his mind.

If Valverde thought Froome caused the crash, shouldn't Froome go to the Movistar bus?

Valverde Froome Rowe and Nibali furiously poring over the nascar post-race confrontation rulebook..... "What the heck, this isn't English, or American English for that matter, wtf....? and why are their rv's so much nicer ?"

 

[staubsauger]

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LaFlorecita with some decent trolling, although a bit obvious.

Don't think it's trolling tbh. He's just blinded by his love for his idol

I am not blinded, and neither am I a guy.

I am angry because Froome took advantage of the situation, that's all. He's making me hate him more and more each day.

Come on, hate is a feeling that should exclusively be reserved for guys like Lance Armstrong!

 

[shalgo]

Perhaps Valverde momentarily forgot that Froome was no longer in yellow, and therefore blamed him for the crash?

It is also a bit strange that Froome crossed the line a minute after Nibali, who was on the ground for a long time. What happened to Froome? Not that I think he shouldn't get the same time, but it is strange that he took so long to cross the line. He only got to the line a minute before Tony Martin, who was on the ground forever and was crawling towards the finish after that with his injured collarbone/arm.

 

[TMP402]

Just watching the replay on a mobile device.
Who was the Sky rider to the right of Nibali that
was bumped, but managed to stay upright? Was
that the Top Dawg?

Yes