Paris Nice - Stage 7 - Brignoles → Biot - Sophia Antipolis - 216km

[Libertine Seguros]

Real mess for Movistar. Really worked, let the break go, then Tondó worked way too hard from the wrong position in the last kilometre, lets everybody else take his wheel, leave him for dead, then falls at the line.

Once again, never trust Movistar to lead a chase.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Wiggins up to 2nd if Harmon's identifications were correct.


EDIT -

Of course, now we have the official results, it seems Dave mis-identified both parties involved...

 

[Tuarts]

Well done to Di Gregorio, those wet roads causing a lot of mayhem. Be interesting to see if anyone lost time on the GC

 

[thirteen]

I hope Kiserlovski is alright, that looks serious.

i know... if anyone gets news, please post it in this thread.

 

[Cobblestoned]

That was some good crash-timing by Tondo.

Congrats Remy !

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Deserved win for di Gregorio. He's been interesting to follow in this race.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Amazing final couple of K's.
Kloden behind Wiggins, but Taaramae in front?

Gorgeous di Gregorio.
Tondo tantrum.

Kiserlovski............we can only hope it's not as bad as it looks. it sounded awful.

 

[zapata]

Very nice win by Di Gregorio! Nice to see him deliver after his move to Astana.

And Samu Sanchez for another second place... 32nd of his career now.

Yes, I'm a bit ambivalent. Great to see Di Gregorio hold them off, but I would really like to see Sanchez win again.

 

[Tuarts]

How was that near crash though - his heart must have nearly come out his mouth! Excellence save.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Kiserlovski's crash reminded me of Fuglsang in the '09 Vuelta, but looked worse.

 

[Arnout]

Amazing final couple of K's.
Kloden behind Wiggins, but Taaramae in front?

Gorgeous di Gregorio.
Tondo tantrum.

Kiserlovski............we can only hope it's not as bad as it looks. it sounded awful.

As far as I could work out he moved all his bodyparts, including arms and legs. That's a good sign.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Qui ose gagne

Qui ose gagne - chapeau RdG

 

[Cobblestoned]

Deserved win for di Gregorio. He's been interesting to follow in this race.

He is really happy and still full of adrenaline !

Nice to see.

 

[mulletCobra]

Sean Kelly doesn't speak french. He barely speaks english. *mumblecore*

 

[The Sheep]

Lulu @ 6 minutes

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

As far as I could work out he moved all his bodyparts, including arms and legs. That's a good sign.

By the sounds of it TVG could well be worse, we just haven't seen pictures.


Kis looked like he came off and rolled under, it's quite difficult to end up underneath a parked van after hitting it at speed.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Had another look.
Kiserlovski's face was a mask of blood. He was making a terrible sound.

 

[woodburn]

Kloeden actually gained two seconds on Wigans.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Harmon wrong Kloden takes 2 seconds from Wiggins.

 

[superconfex]

Kloden finished in front of Wiggins

 

[Tuarts]

1. Remy Di Gregorio (France) Astana
2. Samuel Sanchez (Spain) Euskaltel
3. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia) Team Sky
4. Andreas Kloeden (Germany) RadioShack
5. Tony Martin (Gemrany) HTC-Highroad.

No other updates yet...

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Harmon wrong Kloden takes 2 seconds from Wiggins.

Yup, and rather impressively he was wrong by guessing both of them incorrectly, rather than 1 or the other.

 

[Kwibus]

Well this stage ended up to be quite interesting afterall. Didn't there were some final laps that went up and down all the time.

Great win by Di Gregorio. Very very nice!

GC wise nothing special happening. The only special stuff that happened were people hitting into walls or ending up below a car

 

[hfer07]

Very well deserved victory for Di Gregorio- that was a hell of a ride.
...and T Martin taking no sh!t from Tondo & Movistar

 

[Granville57]

I still can't believe Remy stayed upright after skating across the paint!
I remember seeing Contador almost kiss the side of rock wall once, but that was a ridiculous save! He earned his win with that one.
Wow.