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

[trevim]

Quickstep could put one rider with Boonen to give a little help....

 

[pedaling squares]

That arm looks sore. Hope Boonen can catch a friendly draft.

 

[No_Balls]

It think we soon have a DNF by Boonen im afraid. The writing is on the wall

 

[sublimit]

With the day we're having I'm not confident ofthe final sprint. A sharp corner with 200 to go.

Yes, it could end in tears for some people. Kind of a cruel run in in the final K.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Gesink was just with the doc.
hard to know.. he needs to get to the front tho.

 

[just some guy]

Gesink at the back !!!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Do we have any chance of crosswinds anymore?

 

[killswitch]

Gesink....

 

[Spine Concept]

Was hard to tell by the images. It looked like he was quite in the front, and somebody in front of him (probably Brajko) fell, just bad luck I guess, he looked hurt.

No it seems it was a touch of wheels. One went down and Gesink and Brajkovic had nowhere to go. They could not have avoided it.
The man in front of them probably could. As always is with these things.

I see, thanks for the clear-up guys. Damn Gesink's luck. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up impeding him from performing up to expectations, again. Sigh.

 

[craig1985]

Boonen 6 minutes behind

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Gesink at the back !!!

he was with the doc.

But it doesn't look good.. if there are splits, it will be very bad news for gesink I feel.

 

[spalco]

people need to learn how to do it on the move like contador

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1aVDGgW_I&feature=related

pratical lesson for free

wtf? ...

 

[pedaling squares]

It think we soon have a DNF by Boonen im afraid. The writing is on the wall

If he finishes outside the cutoff I hope there would be a generous ruling.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

If he finishes outside the cutoff I hope there would be a generous ruling.

Heck, if he were French, not only would he make the cut, he'd get most aggressive rider.

 

[Jamsque]

Lots of really narrow bits, I don't think we have seen the last crash today.

 

[just some guy]

Wind seems up again

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Tjallingii should get most aggresive for his reaction when he went in the ditch

 

[No_Balls]

If he finishes outside the cutoff I hope there would be a generous ruling.

If only he was french...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Wind seems up again

Boom should go to the front and neutralize the stage

 

[Sofía_]

Gutierrez smiling again, a good humored guy

 

[UselessToo]

Tommeke

 

[VeloCity]

It's not just that there's been a lot of crashes already, it's that every crash has seemed to involve a big name or two - Gesink, Brajkovic, Boonen, Contador, Leipheimer, Horner, Popovych. Weird.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Frans Maassen Rabo DS: Gesink, Barredo and Garate fell. Gesink is worst, but he only seems to have cuts and bruises, nothing serious. Gesink has no problems on the bike. Maassen expects hell in the final part of the stage

 

[Captain_Cavman]

Boonen just got given Vanish spray stain remover to get the bloodstains out of his shorts. Bit insensitive in my view.

 

[Jamsque]

Catch made with 45km to go. This should be interesting.