Farrar Out

[SirLes]

Shame.

He'd done well to get this far though

 

[hrotha]

I found this quite surprising, as it looked like he was improving. I don't think you can contest sprints if you're so terrible you need to quit the next day before the fun even starts. Did he have any new problems aside from his elbow?

 

[scribe]

Impressive effort altogether.

 

[MacRoadie]

I found this quite surprising, as it looked like he was improving. I don't think you can contest sprints if you're so terrible you need to quit the next day before the fun even starts. Did he have any new problems aside from his elbow?

According to the CN article:

White explained that, while Farrar could overcome the pain to sprint, he paid for the effort the following day. "Sprints are easier for Tyler to get through because the adrenaline in that situation helps mask the pain.

"Today was the hardest day of the race so far and the kind of climbing and descending these guys did is incredibly painful for an injury like Tyler's. Having to brake on the descents is probably the most painful thing to do with a broken wrist.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/farrar-out-of-tour-de-france

 

[hrotha]

Yeah, I just read that and it looks like the fun had definitely started already. Seeing him sprinting with the best I assumed his wrist would be in a better condition, but I guess this kind of stage is the worst for a wrist injury. My bad.

 

[Publicus]

Surprised he gutted it out this long.

 

[Fourier]

Garmin is taking a beating, too bad for Tyler. Maybe Ryder can scrape something up to ease the pain.

 

[ericthesportsman6]

Too bad. Still waiting on that Tour stage win.

 

[Roadrage]

It's sad to see him go, especially with Cavendish losing his best leadout man. Still, he's done well to hang in as long as he has.

 

[TahoeNL]

me thinks he knows he's not going to come over the top in this years Tour...

 

[tiger 10]

From Stage 4 of Cadel's Tour Diary (http://www.cadelevans.com.au/cadelsdiary.aspx)

"In the final, the sprinters had their day through the round about riddled run in, with 'Peta' coming up with the impressive goods again. Nice to see reliable lead out guy Julian Dean making use of his chance and finishing second. He is normally committed to Tyler (Farrar's) interests. My hard man award of the Tour start goes to him - because of his wrist injury, he rode all of yesterday, one handed!"

I'm surprised he could stick with it so long. Talk about tough.