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

[will10]

A friend of mine is on holiday watching the race is at about 15km to go, just got off the phone. Says the wind isn't as strong as it looks on the TV and he doesn't expect much action re: echelons. Hope he's wrong!

 

[craig1985]

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

Either this wind rips the peloton to pieces or we have some attacks, I'm going to sleep until the last 10km. It's 12.35am Thursdayhere.

 

[Spine Concept]

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

Phew. Major news. Thanks D_T. I expect a crazy finale as well, Gesink better stay upright.

 

[Jeanne]

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

pff yeah, stains on his shorts, that's what he should be worried about now

 

[valentius borealis]

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

I thought that Garate looked in a worse state than Gesink after that crash.

 

[Moondance]

Badger badger badger!

 

[MrRoboto]

What happenedto Contador? Did he fall off himself, or just caught in a crash?

 

[No_Balls]

What happenedto Contador? Did he fall off himself, or just caught in a crash?

Drove into a guy in front after he looked back.

 

[SiAp1984]

Had no Radioshack-rider been involved in the crash which took down AC, the golden "Never ever wait for Berto"-rule surely would have been applied again by the Shack. What a pitty...

Seriously: A very dangerous stage. I am not sure if some of these roads are not a little too narrow for a Tour-stage.

 

[trevim]

Marco Chagas just made a curious comment on Boonen: with the TV motorbikes always close to him he can't get small helps from the cars so it will be even thougher on him to keep on going

 

[Tuarts]

All these crashes are horrible, especially considering the news today of poor Carly Hibberd.

Condolences to her family + friends.

 

[Lanark]

What happenedto Contador? Did he fall off himself, or just caught in a crash?

Impossible to tell. The shirt on his back was scratched off, so he must have made a roll, but didn't seem hurt at all.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

John Gadret, sucks on flat, give the poor guy a hat, that's that.
(brilliant rhyme)

 

[BYOP88]

Team Gadret losing contact

 

[GroupDK]

Not much help Tom Boonen gets from teammates..

Hes a great rider and hopefully he can get his game in gear again.

Im not sure, that Riis and Saxo bank Sungard are intererested, but would be some mix.

Contador and Boonen.

http://blog.tv2.dk/anders.krog.soerensen.tv2/entry401560.html

 

[just some guy]

All these crashes are horrible, especially considering the news today of poor Carly Hibberd.

Condolences to her family + friends.

sorry ????? what happened

 

[Moondance]

John Gadret, sucks on flat, give the poor guy a hat, that's that.
(brilliant rhyme)

Indeed... You're a veritable latter-day Annie M. G. Schmidt

 

[thirteen]

I was busy learning how to pee off the bike!

i have penis envy sometimes

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

John Gadret, sucks on flat, give the poor guy a hat, that's that.
(brilliant rhyme)

 

[pedaling squares]

Hadn't heard about Carly Hibberd. Another tragedy... condolences to her family.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Not much help Tom Boonen gets from teammates..

some one heard - a quickstep man has now dropped back to help him

 

[Benotti69]

sorry ????? what happened

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/8976/Carly-Hibberd-killed-after-being-hit-by-car.aspx

 

[Lanark]

Addy Engels sacrificing his GC-ambitions for Boonen. What a hero.

 

[Kwibus]

Addy Engels sacrificing his GC-ambitions for Boonen. What a hero.

His GC ambitions? Funny

 

[Parrulo]

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

i hope so

Not much help Tom Boonen gets from teammates..

Hes a great rider and hopefully he can get his game in gear again.

Im not sure, that Riis and Saxo bank Sungard are intererested, but would be some mix.

Contador and Boonen.

http://blog.tv2.dk/anders.krog.soerensen.tv2/entry401560.html

unfortunately boonen already renewed his contract with quick step iirc. a shame saxo would be the right team for him