Tour de France 2011 Stage 9: Issoire - Saint-Flour 208 km

[cineteq]

Klöden said that Popowich(sp?) started the race t oday with a small fever. The Schack really having a bad tour, also klöden reported as having hit the tarmack in the big crash, but seemingly ok (?)

Kloedi was in that big crash
http://www.steephill.tv/players/720...&dashboard=tour-de-france&id=43702039&yr=2011

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Apparently Contador really isn't very respected in the peloton...

He's too nice. He needs to slap people around a bit.

 

[euanli]

His 'net searching skills are more interesting than anything else since the big crash.

it was posted by dutch site NOS. a dutch cycling fan posted about it. I recorded sky+ of it and posted it online. others retweeted.

 

[ggusta]

it is not about the audience avg IQ, with Versus what you must understand is the commentators' IQ is on part with a "juvenile/senile" category of their own

They are morons/senile. That is obvious, regardless of the observers IQ, but they assume that anyone watching must be some 'America Right or Wrong' knuckle dragging fool. I really do not think Phil's knowledge of what is going on is all that different from our own, gaffe's faux pas and mal aprops aside. Paul and Bob are the juvenile and senile ones. ....and lo and behold as I am typing, Bob is blaming the whole tour's problems on Contador, what an absolute @ss.

 

[Maxiton]

His 'net searching skills are more interesting than anything else since the big crash.

Definitely

He's too nice. He needs to slap people around a bit.

Maybe he should do a little flicking of his own.

 

[Publicus]

Jesus Versus is blaming Contador for the nervousness of the peloton.

 

[ggusta]

it was posted by dutch site NOS. a dutch cycling fan posted about it. I recorded sky+ of it and posted it online. others retweeted.

How foolish of me to have missed that.

 

[valentius borealis]

The gap has been steady for a while now and has dropped outside Sherwin's Law.

 

[PedalCastro]

for a man whose education finished at the age of 14 he's not doing bad for himself.

Exactly and he speaks better French than English, which is hardly surprising!

 

[ggusta]

Jesus Versus is blaming Contador for the nervousness of the peloton.

Bob ate his wheaties this morning

 

[Publicus]

link to the video:
http://hub.velocentric.com/karpets-pushes-contador-from-peloton-video

I can't see anything.

He corrected his link:

http://hub.velocentric.com/karpets-pushes-contador-from-peloton-video

 

[RdBiker]

Jesus Versus is blaming Contador for the nervousness of the peloton.

What did he do know You can blame many things on Contador but I don't think that's one

 

[Ramira]

I'm quite torn right now. Half of me wants Voeckler to stay away and win while the other half hopes Gilbert wins for VDB2 and Omega Pharma.

 

[Maxiton]

link to the video:
http://hub.velocentric.com/karpets-pushes-contador-from-peloton-video

I can't see anything.

Just watched it again, and really see it well. I really hope Karpets is ejected, and sanctioned severely. This video needs to be sent to Saxo/ASO/UCI.

 

[Benotti69]

Exactly and he speaks better French than English, which is hardly surprising!

can communicate in french, spanish, Flemish, a smattering of italian and a tiny bit of english, but is fluent in irish

 

[Jamsque]

I want to hear Karpets' side of the story, but I can't imagine he will be on the start like on Tuesday. Just crazy.

 

[ggusta]

He corrected his link:

http://hub.velocentric.com/karpets-pushes-contador-from-peloton-video

It seems AC's teammate looked over his shoulder, saw AC go down and kept going...???

 

[RdBiker]

Why is BMC doing all this work? Are they (again) trying to drop Thor?

 

[hrotha]

He corrected his link:

http://hub.velocentric.com/karpets-pushes-contador-from-peloton-video

Honestly I don't see any incriminating evidence there. You'd expect the other riders around them to do something if they thought Karpets had done anything wrong on purpose.

 

[El Pistolero]

I hate breakaways, they really ruin races all the time. No team besides OPL wants to chase, so they'll stay away.

 

[Spare Tyre]

can communicate in french, spanish, Flemish, a smattering of italian and a tiny bit of english, but is fluent in irish

What about Dutch?

 

[screaming fist]

After watching it again - I agree Karpets is moving toward Contador before Contador pops out, but we can't see if it's been an attack or if Karpets just makes a mistake or something like that.

 

[Carl0880]

Hell at the rate with all these crashes with favorites, maybe Gilbert might can get a Tour Top 10 at this rate, sicne they need a team leader for GC with VDB out.

:::I am being sarcastic, but at the rate this tour is going, this might become scary possible::::

 

[Publicus]

What did he do know You can blame many things on Contador but I don't think that's one

Apparently because he lost time on Stage 1, everyone is now struggling to position themselves to avoid crashes. Ipso facto it's Contador's fault that he lost time on Stage 1.

Just stoopid.

 

[sultanofhyd]

Honestly I don't see any incriminating evidence there. You'd expect the other riders around them to do something if they thought Karpets had done anything wrong on purpose.

Do you expect them to go and slap Karpets?