Paris-Nice: Stage 3-Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nuits-Saint-Georges: 202 km

[Jamsque]

Magic Spanner sighting, naughty Movistar.

 

[Ferminal]

Canyon: In stealth black.
Go on Tommy my son. I was falling asleep.
This stage is terminal.

Mass boycott tomorrow in favour of the Tirreno TTT...

(Except for those still hanging for a Sagan win).

 

[Moondance]

Uggghhh... Apart from five minutes of, sort of, excitement this stage was horrid. Stage 1 and even stage 2 were more exciting.

 

[insideout leadout]

High hopes for Sagan but Goss and Haussler are still there. Sharp left turn with 300m to go...positioning will be crucial today.

 

[The Hitch]

So all climbs done with and no climbers breaking away.

Was there any action on the climbs?

 

[thirteen]

wake me up when something happens...

yawn.

 

[boomcie]

I'm not having much fun either. This is an agonizing stage. Good that Titi still wants to give it a try.

 

[spalco]

I really hope somebody spits into the sprinter teams' soup today, they don't deserve the win after boring me for two hours.

 

[superconfex]

the gas setting up sagan

 

[insideout leadout]

Kadri doing a Moinard to Voeckler? Remember last stage in Nice last year.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Uhhh ohhh
defect
sad for Chavanel

 

[Mellow Velo]

Don't know why Liquigas have shouldered all the chase so early.
Especially as none of the sprinters appear to have been dropped.

 

[spalco]

Kadri doing a Moinard to Voeckler? Remember last stage in Nice last year.

I'm afraid they need a train crossing between them and the peloton to be able to stay away today.

 

[Jamsque]

You guys expect too much of these stages. Cycling isn't exciting for 2 hours except on very rare occasions. It would be nice if every day was stage 7 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia but life isn't like that. This last half hour of racing has been plenty entertaining.

 

[Jamsque]

Garmin are working their asses off today, I wonder if they are trying to drop Henderson or De Gendt.

Eh I guess they are just chasing the break for Haussler.

 

[insideout leadout]

It's time to pick your random Sky rider ftw.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Go Chavanel - you can make it (back to the pack in time)

 

[boomcie]

It's time to pick your random Sky rider ftw.

I'll pick Haussler

 

[Francois the Postman]

Go Chavanel - you can make it (back to the pack in time)

Today's stage in a nutshell.

 

[Jamsque]

Thomas the Tank Engine is warming up his boiler, get ready.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Lets get ready to rumble.

Ok, I hope that young Russian wins today.

 

[Moondance]

This Katusha guy is doing an EPIC turn.

 

[The Hitch]

SAGAN DOWN Sagan down

 

[superconfex]

thomas is a train on his own

 

[euanli]

right hand turn at 200 metres or something