Tour de France Stage 3: Olonne-sur-Mer - Redon (198 km)

[Parrulo]

Farrar riding...

Is Garmin trying to make echelons?

i think they are

even farrar and hushovd are pushing

 

[Benotti69]

nice of the commisars car to protect Karpets from the wind

 

[Publicus]

Leopard Trek is on the front. Saxo better get there sh*t together

 

[Ferminal]

Bunch looks crazy at the moment.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

"Leopard Trek are very clever master tacticians." - Paul Sherwen.

LOL.

 

[Anonymous]

That was a close call for some. lucky.

 

[Parrulo]

nice timed mechanical for karpets

 

[Maxiton]

Their mistake. Now Basso's going to win the Tour.

He has to come in second to fulfill my prediction.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Peloton calms down again. The wind is not strong enough to create great differences

 

[Benotti69]

no team mates waiting for Karpets! Why is he not the team leader?

 

[Maxiton]

"Leopard Trek are very clever master tacticians." - Paul Sherwen.

LOL.

Double-LOL.

 

[Anonymous]

Their mistake. Now Basso's going to win the Tour.

haha, paisan would need a hell of a lot more luck to win.

 

[Maxiton]

Karpets is farked. No helpers.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Katusha is not really a unit is it

 

[Finn84]

Karpets 50 seconds from the peloton.

 

[Frosty]

Karpets 50 seconds from the peloton.

Just him or are there others?

 

[Maxiton]

Katusha is not really a unit is it

Apparently not.

And they're supposed to be an all-Russian team this year.

 

[Publicus]

Just him or are there others?

Just him. Not sure what the heck Katusha are doing

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Casar and Pauriol dropped as well.

 

[craig1985]

Sandy Casar WTF?

 

[Carl0880]

They are advertising him as a Top 10 GC man, and Katusha won't send back a single rider to help him, ::scratches his head::

 

[hrotha]

Just him. Not sure what the heck Katusha are doing

Tchmil said this was Karpets's last chance. Maybe he really, really wants him to fail hard.

 

[Finn84]

Karpets catched a small group ahead. Casar and da Costa were in it.

 

[Frosty]

Looking at this

http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/LIVE/us/300/journal_etape.html

Karpets crashed before the bridge. They have Gally for the sprint but would have thought they would send someone back to help him?

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Smart riding by Karpets. Looks like he'll be able to catch back on.