Tour de France Stage 5: Carhaix - Cap Fréhel 164.5 km

[hrotha]

riding to close to the motorbike, ouch.

More like what the hell was the motorbike doing there.

 

[just some guy]

echelons soon

Horner off the back

 

[craig1985]

That family was very lucky as well.

 

[No_Balls]

Anarchy on the road!

 

[Ramira]

Didnt't seem much wrong in the sprint, Cav not happy but I dont know why this time.

Cause he didn't win? I like Cav but I've never seen him happy when he didn't win

 

[Ney the Viking]

ir was Bjarne Riis that gave the bike the shove to get AC back on the way
- according to the Rai.

It was Riis yes. His bike was trashed and he threw it in the ditch, and the cars was slow to get to him due to the brajkowicz/gesink crash.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

uhhf i missed the action...

sucks for braj.
is gesink ok ?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Why are these GC contenders riding so far back in the peleton? Brajkovic, Contador, Leipheimer, Gesink, Horner... Do they WANT to crash?

PS: please take that motorcyclist out of the race, jezus christ!

 

[craig1985]

Popo went down as well.

 

[salixcycling]

Didnt't seem much wrong in the sprint, Cav not happy but I dont know why this time.

Replay shows other riders crossing almost the entire road and closing Cav out completely. Clearly a reason to be unhappy about it.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

The Cofidis team car is like International Rescue today

 

[abbaskip]

Didnt't seem much wrong in the sprint, Cav not happy but I dont know why this time.

Haha Are you serious? Cave was coming fast and ran off the road!

 

[craig1985]

uhhf i missed the action...

sucks for braj.
is gesink ok ?

Bleeding from the knee and elbow but he will live to fight another day.

 

[Trond Vidar]

He was pretty lucky there.

agreed!

 

[BYOP88]

Is Horner back yet, did he crash or just get held up by one?

@hrotha: yeah on 2nd viewing I agree WTF was the motorbike doing there.

 

[Lanark]

Why are these GC contenders riding so far back in the peleton? Brajkovic, Contador, Leipheimer, Gesink, Horner... Do they WANT to crash?

The Brajkovic/Gesink crash seemed to be in about 40th place or so, certainly not in the back.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Gesink and Rabo en bloc at the back. That doesn't give confidence

 

[thirteen]

More like what the hell was the motorbike doing there.

yes! i want to know this too!

unsafe for both spectators and riders alike... just wrong, wrong, wrong!

 

[Spare Tyre]

Why are these GC contenders riding so far back in the peleton? Brajkovic, Contador, Leipheimer, Gesink, Horner... Do they WANT to crash?

It was immediately after the intermediate sprint ... I guess their usual positioning would have been affected by the push of the sprinters and sprint trains.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Bleeding from the knee and elbow but he will live to fight another day.

if the wind plays a big roll he may suffer.

not good.

 

[Ramira]

Why are these GC contenders riding so far back in the peleton? Brajkovic, Contador, Leipheimer, Gesink, Horner... Do they WANT to crash?

The majority of them where not exactly back in the peleton, I didn't see the Contador crash but Gesink and Brajkovic where placed just fine, crashes can happen anywhere, it's only getting stuck behind crashes that happens more if you're in the back.

 

[UpTheRoad]

Why are these GC contenders riding so far back in the peleton? Brajkovic, Contador, Leipheimer, Gesink, Horner... Do they WANT to crash?

I didn't see where Contador, Leipheimer, and Horner fell, but Jani and Gesink were near the front on the left side of the road. Others have noted that AC was near the front, too.

 

[ManInFull]

The Brajkovic/Gesink crash seemed to be in about 40th place or so, certainly not in the back.

Were they in the back or near the front?

 

[Carl0880]

Kudos to BMC, Astana and Garmin for keeping their guys at the front consistently. Radioshack is normally always at the front, that was one thing that Bruyneels teams have always done correctly, no matter what you think of him. Every stage you saw his riders in the front 20 from the 50-km to the 10km of all flat stages.

 

[sublimit]

Haha Are you serious? Cave was coming fast and ran off the road!

I dont think it was deliberate, he tried to go round somebody and switched a bit but thats what happens in sprints.