Eneco Tour - 8th to 14th August

[maltiv]

Or really smart by BMC and Sky to let one favourite take himself out of overall contention on the first stage.

Well in P-n he stayed away with like 1 minute on the peloton with 30k to go...

 

[Fetisoff]

Big crash... Tchopp and a Movistar hurt

 

[just some guy]

crash BMC -Astana and few others

EDIT movistar

 

[Fetisoff]

Francisco Perez is the Movistar guy who's hurt bad.


P.S. By bad I meant, conscious, but taken on a stretcher, probably concussion kinda bad, not real real bad

 

[maltiv]

Head injury, hope he is ok

 

[jens_attacks]

damn crashes

 

[Mellow Velo]

Big crash... Tchopp and a Movistar hurt

Perez. Looks to be out.
Tshopp limps back into the game.
Valentin Iglinskiy was the Astana man on the deck.

 

[maltiv]

I'm so glad they have helmets...

 

[Fetisoff]

Perez. Looks to be out.
Tshopp limps back into the game.
Valentin Iglinskiy was the Astana man on the deck.

Did Tchopp and Iglinsky actually go back riding? I saw Tchopp limping around standing next to Perez, and Iglinsky on the far side just standing, maybe waiting for a new bike?
Then I had to take a phone call and missed what happened afterwards

 

[Fetisoff]

Those caught up in the crash chasing back. Greipel among them

 

[cineteq]

Or really smart by BMC and Sky to let one favourite take himself out of overall contention on the first stage.

In any case, hats off to De Gendt for trying, since otherwise he'd have close-to-zero chance to win the tour with sprint time bonuses and the remaining ITT.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Another bad crash.
Seb Minard Ag2r and Dan Sesma EE.
Minard looks to be shoulder and out.
Coming out of a roundabout.

 

[Fetisoff]

Another one
Sesma from Euskaltel getting back on his bike, Minard from Ag2R is hurt.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Narrow finishing straight..............and it's raining.

 

[Gloin22]

Narrow finishing straight..............and it's raining.

Eddy will like it then

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Does anyone believe De Gendt can hold on ? He's shown some great stuff in PN and was great at the end of le Tour. But has he been able to retain that form ? :/

 

[hrotha]

Perez. Looks to be out.
Tshopp limps back into the game.
Valentin Iglinskiy was the Astana man on the deck.

Took me a while to figure out who you're referring to.

With this kind of super common surnames (basically every surname that ends in -ez), the surname on its own is almost meaningless. We have to say the name too, hence Fran Pérez, otherwise it doesn't ring a bell for a Spaniard.

 

[afpm90]

Ugly crash for Allan Davis.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Allan Davies next to kiss the tarmac. A bit of sloppy riding.

 

[just some guy]

Davis looked liked like a guy who doesn´t care anymore.

1.53 time is coming down fastish

 

[boomcie]

Does anyone believe De Gendt can hold on ? He's shown some great stuff in PN and was great at the end of le Tour. But has he been able to retain that form ? :/

There's always a possibility, especially with De Gendt. But it will depend more one the peloton than on De Gendt himself. Maybe the rain can be of service to him and his friends.

Davis looked liked like a guy who doesn´t care anymore.

1.53 time is coming down fastish

Yeah, that looks bad.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

1 min 18 kms to go

still possible but I doubt it

 

[Anonymous]

Well, guess we all know who Gilbert is signing for for next season then.

 

[afpm90]

Julien Fouchard attacks and goes solo.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Gilbert working for BMC