Tour de France Stage 4: Lorient - Mur de Bretagne - 172.5 km

[Jamsque]

is there the 3km rule today or not ?

No. Characters.

 

[sportzchick]

Ha ha. Voigt on Norwegian TV2. "Hincapie calls me a rookie with cheek in tongue, since I only have 14 starts in TDF". Hincapie has 16. Voight think they both are borderline insane

what do you mean boarderline????

 

[valentius borealis]

is there the 3km rule today or not ?

no 3km rule today

 

[sportzchick]

lol 'lumpy stages'

 

[thirteen]

what do you mean boarderline????

exactly!

10c

 

[Publicus]

is there the 3km rule today or not ?

No, but let's wait and see who ends up on the tarmac and when. Cancellara reserves the right to neutralize the stage if necessary.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Kelly not very impressed with the Schleck's as tactical riders. He implied fairly strongly that he doesn't think they are the sharpest needles in the sewing kit.

 

[Jamsque]

Cav lost ten points thanks to the relegation at the intermediate sprint yesterday, he is now 31 behind Farrar.

 

[sportzchick]

No, but let's wait and see who ends up on the tarmac and when. Cancellara reserves the right to neutralize the stage if necessary.

its too hilly to neutralize isnt it???

 

[thrawn]

its too hilly to neutralize isnt it???

It was a hilly stage last year too.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

its too hilly to neutralize isnt it???

Not if all the other riders are big enough suckers to slowly peddle in together at Cancellara's request!

 

[sportzchick]

It was a hilly stage last year too.

ahhh ok ta

 

[sportzchick]

ive lost coverage over this end of the world

 

[just some guy]

ive lost coverage over this end of the world

http://www.fromsportcom.com/v-2/10/16/v-301618.html

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Kelly in pretty blunt form today. From the Schlecks as dimwits to the commissaires as jobsworths who are trying to kill sprinting.

 

[spalco]

someone asked if Harmen was drunk maybe -

He suddenly seems to think Cavendish is English for some reason.

 

[Jamsque]

ITV are laying in to the commissaires as well. They are showing the footage of Hinault giving a gentle head-**** to Farrar at the finishing sprint.

 

[AussieGoddess]

Kelly in pretty blunt form today. From the Schlecks as dimwits to the commissaires as jobsworths who are trying to kill sprinting.

have just gone back to Eurosport ..... so much more entertaining that Paul and Phil

 

[Jamsque]

The break is being kept on a very short leash today.

 

[sportzchick]

ITV are laying in to the commissaires as well. They are showing the footage of Hinault giving a gentle head-**** to Farrar at the finishing sprint.

yeah lets throw away the rule book whilest we at it......

 

[just some guy]

Hoogerland

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The break is being kept on a very short leash today.

Yep. This is structurally a sprint stage, just with some of the names changed.

At least we have Hoogerland in the break, so of course he's just attacked solo with nearly 100km left. An idiot but a glorious idiot.

 

[Big GMaC]

Jooonnnnyyyyyy

 

[Moondance]

OPL proving that they're just as good as strangling a stage to death as HTC in their glory days

 

[Archibald]

Not if all the other riders are big enough suckers to slowly peddle in together at Cancellara's request!

cancellara not in yellow, so if (like last year) the DS's make an agreement, the instruction will go through Hushovd.

anyone who actually believes it was cancellara's decision conveniently forgets about the race radio that Riis used to let him know what was happening a kilometres behind him and instructed him to do what he did...

back to today's stage...

OPL on the front