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

[Franklin]

Fair enough, except for the use of the word "pretending". Cut that off.

I'm with Hrotha. Nothing shocking there. Karpetz swirved.. maybe a pothole?

Intentional is a very long call.

 

[Moondance]

This is going to be close for Chouchou's yellow, another consequence of the idiot driver taking out two of the break's motors. Although Sanchez and Casar are probably good for the stage 1-2

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Peloton suck for letting this group stay away. Garmin fail.

 

[just some guy]

Hoogerland should be allowed to finish and get his mountains classification jersey regardless of time cuts. I hope he finishes. Those cuts look pretty bad, so I doubt he starts Tuesday.

and be given the most aggressive rider award

 

[Ibanez]

Paul Sherwen is an absolute POS.

what did he say?

 

[lilyprotector]

He must have pretty deep wounds from the barbed wire

did it have to be barbed wire of all things? i'm even more worried about the fact that he hit the wood post really hard. just horrible and so unnecessary.

 

[Publicus]

Fair enough, except for the use of the word "pretending". Cut that off.

It has to be. He doesn't turn his wheel and he's not impacted by a rider coming over from his right. He shoulders AC and continues on his line.

Now if you want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was practicing avoid some non-existent obstacle, be my guest, but it seems quite clear that the rider made an intentional and unnecessary move that resulted in Alberto Contador crashing.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Sherwen yapping about the viaduct. These Versus fossils should be Tour guides at their own museum.

 

[ggusta]

Uh, I think Karpets is going to get ejected for that. Wow

Bob tRoll will defend him. AC shouldn't be making them all so nervous. b!tch had it comin'

 

[Anonymous]

I'm with Hrotha. Nothing shocking there. Karpetz swirved.. maybe a pothole?

Intentional is a very long call.

Look again. He looks over then gives the shoulder/hip shove. Maybe they had been fighting for a wheel or something... but that looked intentional.

 

[ggusta]

What did he say?

Not . One . Word .

 

[funnytanlines]

flecha out the back as well

 

[Potomac]

I'm surprised more riders are not hit by race vehicles.

 

[sportzchick]

Should be the directors car, team/s cars of the break away, a medical car, ONE OFFICAL media car and THATS IT!

Look again. He looks over then gives the shoulder/hip shove. Maybe they had been fighting for a wheel or something... but that looked intentional.

anyone got decent footage of it - last one I saw didnt see much

 

[The Hitch]

Should have radioed back for Cancellara's opinion. Duh.

Classic Moose

Car of French tv.

As for Voeckler not wanting to win it, I don't want to see someone win who gets it because everyone else crashed(peloton crashed and Hoogie and Flecha now). That has nothing to do with him being French.

Voeckler did very well not to crash as Flecha went full force into Voeckler on his way down. He clearly had a heart stopping moment and you can see how well he does to stay on 2 wheels.

Ironically the last incident I remember involving similar crash proof abilities was Flecha himself in TDS 2010 where he magically missed that massive pileup where everyone around him ended up on the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKLN7l9xmQ

 

[Andy99]

Sherwen yapping about the viaduct. These Versus fossils should be Tour guides at their own museum.

Eurosport is where it's at.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Tommy v. pushing the break to have yellow?

 

[RdBiker]

flecha out the back as well

He went down pretty hard too so it's just all about surviving for him too

 

[Mellow Velo]

Flecha caught and makes his clear his feelings about tv cars in the process.
Now joins Johnny on the lonely solo ride.
The peloton get the collective pussies jersey for today's effort.

 

[VeloCity]

I'm with Hrotha. Nothing shocking there. Karpetz swirved.. maybe a pothole?

Intentional is a very long call.

no one behind him was swerving to miss anything. It was pretty blatant, imo.

 

[Potomac]

Not . One . Word .

omg ... he didn't say a word about a video that shows nothing

shocking

 

[meandmygitane]

As for Garmin-Cervelo taking responsibility for chasing the break.

"16:45:49 CEST
We would say off hand that Omega Pharma-Lotto has pulled the peloton along for the last hunded km or so."
From Cyclingnews live report.

 

[Anonymous]

Bob tRoll will defend him. AC shouldn't be making them all so nervous. b!tch had it comin'

It's a bit of a disgrace isn't it? If you didn't know Bob Roll was a professional cyclist you'd swear he was just an uninformed d-bag.

 

[kjetilraknerud]

Peloton suck for letting this group stay away. Garmin fail.

Difficult to control with so many riders behind, only so called GC riders + Thor. No Lithuanian turbo or Dave Z.

But yes, they failed today.

 

[ExRower]

Peloton suck for letting this group stay away. Garmin fail.

Garmin already stated their non-intent to keep yellow