Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
I love Mark Cavendish.
I love Mark Cavendish.
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Ditto. Now 27 TdF stage wins and only one behind The Badger.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Having got his TdF dream of wearing yellow I think Cav will bail by the end of the week. Possibly after tomorrow, if he loses the jersey.
He's deadly serious about wanting a gold medal at Rio, having missed out as favourite the last two Olympics.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
In no particular order...
27 stage wins in the Tour De France.
15 stage wins in the Giro.
3 stage wins in the Vuelta.
Points winner in the three grand tours.
Leader's jersey in the three grand tours.
Winner of Milan-San Remo.
World Road Race Champion.
Definitely one of my favourite sporting figures of recent years. I hope he can add the Olympics to the list and overtake Hinault's stage wins. Merckx may be a bridge too far.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Not a chance. The obvious bail point is the second rest day, after which there's only a single sprint in a week. On the face of it, yeah, he will lose yellow tomorrow, but given everything that's happened in the last couple of years he'll hang on as long as he can. Cav beat everyone today. That doesn't happen anything like what it did.Rogin le fan du fauteuil wrote: Having got his TdF dream of wearing yellow I think Cav will bail by the end of the week. Possibly after tomorrow, if he loses the jersey.
GC after stage one:
Barguil (base)
Lots of others
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Fuglsang +1.33
Poels +1.33
Dennis +2.48
Majka +2.48
Ion Izagirre +2.48
That immediately identifies Rafal Majka as the man who lost the Tour today. He rescued Tinkoff's race in 2014 after Bertie crashed out. Worth a flutter for KoM maybe.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Brilliant work from Cavendish, and I agree with longeared - it would be odd of him to pull out when there are stages to be won.
I'll go out on a limb and predict Sagan for today.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Don't know who will win today but I expect Sagan will finish 2nd.
Voss managed to get into the break again but hasn't taken either of the KoM points, they've been shared between Vegard Breen and Jasper Stuyven.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Stuyven won another climb so he's KoM on the road. However there's a 3rd cat to come just prior to the finish and whoever wins that will wear the spotty jersey tomorrow, unless Stuyven or Voss come 2nd.
Contador has crashed again but is back on. Not a great start to the race for Tinkoff.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Sam Bennett got caught up in yesterday's crash, he's just been dropped on a slight incline with about 40k left. It made for rather painful viewing.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Break might stay away here, gap is at 3 minutes with 18k to go. The roads are slippery and twisty so not really conducive to a committed chase.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Break have got a workable lead in the final 17km here. Might just be on.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Heh, jinx!Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
ITV go to an ad break at a rubbish time, it's an ASO race so it's impossible to find a stream and there's cricket on 5 Live Extra. Grrr!Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Stuyven away alone, 1:30 with 5k left.
Porte punctures and is getting a very slow change from the neutral service. Don't take a wheel from a different team Richie...Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Sagan takes it.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Stuyven got caught with 500m left, there was a slow uphill sprint which was won by Sagan from Alaphilippe. That puts him into the race lead too, Stuyven takes KoM.
Contador lost about a minute, presumably suffering from the after effects of his crashes, Porte came in 1:45 down.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Nibali and Pinot caught in a split and both lost 11 seconds.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Contenders GC:
Alaphilippe (base)
Valverde 0:02
Barguil 0:06
Froome "
Quintana "
Kreuziger "
Martin "
Aru "
Rolland "
Gallopin "
Dumoulin "
Kelderman "
Van Den Broeck "
Bardet "
van Garderen "
Costa "
Yates "
Henao "
Mollema "
Landa "
Rodriguez "
Frank 0:16
Nibali 0:17
Pantano "
Pinot "
Meintjes "
Vuillermoz 0:21
Pauwels 0:23
Zubeldia "
Thomas 0:30
Zakarin 0:47
Nieve "
Contador 0:54
ten Dam "
Porte 1:51
Pozzovivo "
Fuglsang 4:31
Navarro 4:52
Rosa 8:21
Majka 9:45Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
One for the purist coming up this afternoon, the peloton is trundling along well behind the slowest schedule, there's bugger all happening and the lone breakaway is Armindo Fonseca of Fortuneo. He did have 11 minutes at one time, now trimmed to about a third of that with well over 100k left.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Yes, not looking like much in the way of fireworks; will just have to keep my fingers crossed that Cav can sneak another win at the end of it.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Good finish yesterday, and Froome wisely opened up on the final climb as well so as not to lose any time.
Alaphilippe v Sagan seems to be quite a nice rivalry, remembering the Tour of California last year when Alaphilippe won on Mount Baldy but Sagan took the GC by getting bonus seconds on the final stage.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
It's like watching the early phases of the Paris stage, the peloton is tapping along jovially and Sagan is waving at spectators. Not often you see this on the Tour. Good for Contador, Morkov and Bennett though.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
I think I mention it every year, but I love it when the Tour passes through bits of France I've been to. And Angers, where they're going to today, and Saumur, where tomorrow's stage begins, are both places I've visited.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
I found myself going "ooh, been there" a little earlier when they went through Vitre. Now they've ridden past a bull with a massive todger.Comment
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Mont St Michel, my belle - Tour de France 2016
Voeckler made a pointless looking attack but in doing so has enlivened proceedings. He bridged up to Fonseca in no time at all, now Lotto and Tinkoff have put men on the front and started a meaningful chase.Comment
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