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Old 02-07-2016, 11:41
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Ausie guy doing the world feed but he often starts it before Phil and Paul start, they cant manage a long stage
How are you getting the world feed?
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Old 02-07-2016, 11:44
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Hi have a mortised satellite dish, I can get the France TV feed but they also carry the world feed commentary on it
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Old 02-07-2016, 14:16
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Ai ai ai, crosswinds starting, peloton breaking up!!!!
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Old 02-07-2016, 14:22
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Lots of points for the intermediate sprints again this year.......about 12K to go and the break has a minute and falling.
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Old 02-07-2016, 14:26
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Contador has been on the deck and has lots of road rash
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Old 02-07-2016, 15:15
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Not many pre-1944 buildings in these towns, eh?

Geez, you wouldn't want to have been in those holes on 6 June 1944.
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:06
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YEEEESSSSS!!!!!! Cav!!!!!!!
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:08
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Hope there were no serious injuries in the collision behind, looks like Thomas was caught in it
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:08
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Spectacular crash spectacular finish.

Like or loathe Carlton Kirby but that was great commentary.
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:10
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McLay in the sprint bunch....does he have a chance of wearing the white jersey? He must do.

And S4C have a team on the line as well!
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:16
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Terrible ITV coverage.By becoming fixated with Cavendish they've given us no information on who else was involved in the crash. I saw some Sky riders caught up in it. I hope Froome wasn't one of them.
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:17
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Team Skys twitter feed confirmed Thomas brought down in the crash but dont have any details of how he is yet

They have posted he is back on the bus and seems to be ok.
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:23
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McLay in the sprint bunch....does he have a chance of wearing the white jersey? He must do.
In fact not, Theuns, Laporte & Coquard are all in the white jersey group as well.

So just that Olympic Gold left for Cav!
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:27
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Spectacular crash spectacular finish.

Like or loathe Carlton Kirby but that was great commentary.
Agreed. Just replayed it and Carlton surpassed himself! Unashamedly bias.
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Old 02-07-2016, 16:36
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Cav finally got the better of Kittel in a H2H sprint and won - about bloody time!! (That's perhaps his biggest "he never beat X" career footnote out the window)

Another task crossed off the bucket list - if he didn't do it today, he probably never would have. Hard to believe he was bested in a sprint for the British RR jersey by Blythe not a week ago...

[Career stage tally now 45 in Grand Tours (including 27 in the TdF)]

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Oh, and McLay got 9th place, which is very good in esteemed company.
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Old 02-07-2016, 17:52
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Brilliant from Cav !.......

Having no Prologue is obviously right up his street !
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Old 02-07-2016, 19:46
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Where are Phil and Paul?
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Old 02-07-2016, 20:02
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Strange helmet that Alex howes is wearing.
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Old 02-07-2016, 21:51
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Where are Phil and Paul?
Been dumped by ITV it seems because they wanted their own coverage/feed.
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Old 02-07-2016, 22:31
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Roadside footage of the Contador crash: https://youtu.be/GLwZoTGhDyk
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Old 03-07-2016, 10:45
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Wonderful by cav.

I really thought he had declined a little, like zabel and others before him. Still good, but not quite the very best. Great to be proved wrong.

One more stage gets him level with hinault.
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Old 03-07-2016, 13:37
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Horrible weather on the Cotentin peninsula. Same story as yesterday, a group off the front to absorb the KoM points, Dimension Data on the front of the peleton and Contador in trouble again, two minutes off the back.
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Old 03-07-2016, 13:54
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Race radio is reporting Sam Bennett, who was involved in the finish crash yesterday, is in trouble and dropped by the peloton. https://twitter.com/BoraArgon18/stat...13566970142720

The official app is persisting in reporting bright sunshine this afternoon : http://racecenter.letour.fr/#/stageprofile
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Old 03-07-2016, 14:24
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It doesn't look too bad on the profile but all the commentators are saying that the finish is too tricky for the sprinters today and they all expect Cav to lose the yellow jersey

Sagan is favourite......
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Old 03-07-2016, 14:27
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Would be nice to see the stripes back on the stage winner's podium (not happened since Cav won Champs sprint #4, as it happens).
Dimension Data on the front of the peleton
When was the last time Cummings rode tempo at the head of the peloton?! XD
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