Paris - Nice: STAGE 1 - Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines --> Contres: 201.5 km

[Anonymous]

This is not Contador's day.

 

[Publicus]

Negligible?! The leads only about 20 secs

He just had a bike change.

 

[Moondance]

The entire complexion of this race has changed. AC now only as a negligible chance of winning at this point, when it looked like he was in the drivers seat yesterday. You have to love this race.

Meh... The gap isn't huge. It's not 30 secs. 15 at most.

He should be able to recover that at some point.

 

[krebs303]

bertie down and up with teamates bike

 

[afpm90]

Contador is already at the peloton. The bike change was fast.

 

[Jamsque]

And the Rabo team car just saved Contador's race. Not the most tactically savvy move by the driver there.

 

[Moondance]

Okay.... Now THAT is unfortunate.

there goes the GC.

EDIT: Back already.... Good job AC

 

[luckyboy]

He just had a bike change.

My feed must be a bit behind then.


Anyway it was under 3km I think?

 

[Publicus]

Just saying that this course doesn't have spots for big time gains and Valverde and Lulu can climb. So can Kreuzinger. It will be tough to regain the time.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Other guy was Haussler, didn't even notice that.


GO IVANOV!

/and now Martin on his 59x11

 

[ak-zaaf]

Bole or Henderson. Pretty close.

I think Bole, so it's prolly Henderson.

 

[luckyboy]

Bole it looked like

Aw, Henderson

 

[Mellow Velo]

Sky win with GH? 17" to the gang. Confirmed GH takes it.

 

[Publicus]

Seventeen seconds isn't too bad.

Nice win for Team Sky! And thank you Caisse for animating what was otherwise going to be a boring stage.

 

[afpm90]

Close between Grega Bole and Henderson. I think the winner was Bole.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Henderson it is.

 

[Jamsque]

From the overhead it looks like Hendy might have got it!

[edit] He claimed it after the line

 

[Ferminal]

Great stage.

Nice slow motion sprint, well done Henderson/Sky.

 

[Big GMaC]

Other guy was Haussler, didn't even notice that.


GO IVANOV!

/and now Martin on his 59x11

Does he actually run 59x11?

 

[Delicato]

Where's Dim?

 

[theyoungest]

And the Rabo team car just saved Contador's race. Not the most tactically savvy move by the driver there.

That's just common decency. Has nothing to do with tactics. Watch more races, I'd say.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Does he actually run 59x11?

No. But it certainly looks like it

 

[Anonymous]

Where's Dim?

Here...

was off ripping the live stream

 

[Delicato]

Were there any Radioshack guys in the first group?

 

[Moondance]

Nice job by Henderson, this should get him pretty close to the yellow, but Boom will hold on. Who was the other Sky guy in the front group, he did a good job too?