Tour de France - Stage 1, Jun 29, Porto-Vecchio - Bastia, **Unmasked Spoilers**

RamirezAuron

As I said ...:rolleyes:

dastardly00

ALL riders have been given the same time as stage winner Kittell.

Nico did finish in the front group, he came 14th.

Dan finished a good bit back in 93rd alongside Hejesdal.

There are reports that Tony Martin has broken his collarbone.

RobFowl

el tel wrote: »

Lance Armstrong was driving the bus :pac:

And Pat McQuaid was giving him directions...

Craig06

Reports are Tony Martin is out!

riparooo

Looking forward to the chirpy fun loving video diary from Orice Greenedge after this stage!

riparooo

Craig06 wrote: »

Reports are Tony Martin is out!

B*llix - he is on my velogames team, I was banking on him for a stage win

Brad768

riparooo wrote: »

Looking forward to the chirpy fun loving video diary from Orice Greenedge after this stage!

lol one of the first things I thought of when I saw it was their bus was jeez....this backstage pass episode is going to be good

Mint Sauce

Just watching the Highlights on ITV4. Tony Martin IS out with a broken collerbone. Looked pretty messed up with a ripped race kit and skin hanging off various parts of him.

:eek:

BQQ

Nico has a real talent for avoiding trouble in stages like this

Henlars67

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Just watching the Highlights on ITV4. Tony Martin IS out with a broken collerbone. Looked pretty messed up with a ripped race kit and skin hanging off various parts of him.

:eek:

OPSQ statemnet says otherwise. Nothing broken, decision will be made in the morning on if he continues or not

Reginald P. DuM

Total chaos today, but I guess entertaining to everyone bar those who had a vested interest in Cav winning.. Whats the point of race radio if busgate wasn't relayed to the riders.. Some at least werent aware of any incident up the road. The proposed 3km finish line was a deathtrap too who knows what would have happened had the bus not been cleared. Martin will be assessed in the morning but even if he rides it will take him quite a number of days to get going, an abandonment down the line cant be ruled out.. Replays seem to indicate Griepel was at fault for the crash too, bulling for position. Lets hope for little less consternation tomorrow in Corsica. Though it worth pointing out the stage finishes on Route des Sanguinaires, or "Bloodthirsty Road"

Lumen

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

Total chaos today, but I guess entertaining to everyone bar those who had a vested interest in Cav winning.

I don't have any kind of "vested interest" in Cav winning, but I would have liked to have seen a proper bunch sprint.

I don't understand why they just didn't get everyone to stand back 100 feet and then drive the bus out. It couldn't have made the situation any worse.

Captain Havoc

http://nasc.tg4.tv/YQE85X on TG4 now

riparooo

What baffled me is while the bus was stuck they didn't neutralise the race. They were hurtling towards the line (all in one bunch) at 50kph for more than 10kms. The organisers could have bought themselves a lot of time is they slowed the peloton down to 25kph while they tried to get the bus out.

Agree with the revised finish - it looked lethal.

After todays shenanigans I have a total of 3, yes thats three, points on my velogames team!!

Reginald P. DuM

riparooo wrote: »

After todays shenanigans I have a total of 3, yes thats three, points on my velogames team!!

One less than me riparoo.. Early days, but I can only see me stretching further ahead of ya!

bazermc

Captain Havoc wrote: »

http://nasc.tg4.tv/YQE85X on TG4 now

Idiots in tg4 have ther logo on top of the km to go details on the screen.

GT_TDI_150

bazermc wrote: »

Idiots in tg4 have ther logo on top of the km to go details on the screen.

Just finished watching it on Eurosport ...


a shambles, an unmitigated disaster ...



Hope Martin is ok ... (cant be loosing a man this early from my velogames team.) wrong martin

Loq

First time watching a TDF stage, it was amazing! what a finish! Looking forward for tomorrow!

Squidgy Black

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

Martin will be assessed in the morning but even if he rides it will take him quite a number of days to get going, an abandonment down the line cant be ruled out..

I'd say they'd be more likely to call it quits because it happened so early on in the tour, to go through an entire tour after such a serious crash and possibly lengthy injuries would be a big risk.

Diarmuid

Was in Bastia today. Didn't really have a clue what was going on, I guess the joys of walking the last few kms with no plans in mind. Got as far as 250m and watched the big screen. Saw one of the crashes and then decided I should try and get closer to the finish line. What the hell? A bus wedged on the line!

Anyway all you guys know more than I about what happened. But I did see Tony Martin roll in looking like ****. His kit was in ribbons and he had cuts everywhere. He was followed by a teammate (I didn't recognise) and Thomas soon after.

Tough day at the office

MPFG

stetyrrell wrote: »

I'd say they'd be more likely to call it quits because it happened so early on in the tour, to go through an entire tour after such a serious crash and possibly lengthy injuries would be a big risk.[
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Maybe after the team time trial on Tuesday as he would be key to gettign the victory for the team who are world champoins

Rovi

Video of the bus impacting the finish arch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpCd7brCQI

Looks like their air-conditioning unit got pierced!

Was that Bernard Hinault we saw in the untucked pale blue shirt and tan slacks roaming about the chaos?
I'd say the bus driver would have been well advised to lock the doors and hide down the back if Le Blaireau appeared on the scene

Cookie_Monster

What I don't get looking at that vid is why they even moved the finish, there's loads of room down the side of the bus.
Just put out some cones and wave some yellow flags :pac:

Beasty

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

What I don't get looking at that vid is why they even moved the finish, there's loads of room down the side of the bus.
Just put out some cones and wave some yellow flags :pac:

Noted and emergency plan updated for next year's Giro

dastardly00

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

What I don't get looking at that vid is why they even moved the finish, there's loads of room down the side of the bus.
Just put out some cones and wave some yellow flags :pac:

A new type of road furniture :eek:

elduggo

not one person here said 'well done kittel'

which is good. Lest we not forget

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ard-link-kittel-to-german-blood-doping-investigation

Inquitus

elduggo wrote: »

not one person here said 'well done kittel'

which is good. Lest we not forget

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ard-link-kittel-to-german-blood-doping-investigation

Aye and we all know he had no chance if Griepel, Cav and Sagan were at the line.

GT_TDI_150

elduggo wrote: »

not one person here said 'well done kittel'

which is good. Lest we not forget

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ard-link-kittel-to-german-blood-doping-investigation

whats annoying about that is that Kelly and other commentators never mention details like this, all we kept hearing coming into the last 2km was kittel is there, none of the big guns are there and oh, there's cadel evans

Hermy

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

whats annoying about that is that Kelly and other commentators never mention details like this, all we kept hearing coming into the last 2km was kittel is there, none of the big guns are there and oh, there's cadel evans

And that's why the thread that asked about Kelly's (and others) suitability as a cycling commentator was valid?
While no-one wants the commentators to endlessly discuss the drug problems in cycling the disregarding of such issues is not helping things.

Beasty

AFAIK (and please correct me if I'm wrong), Kittel has never failed a dope test. Hence although linking to that article is fine, any suggestion in this forum that he is a doper is not, so let's move on from that line of discussion

MPFG

Love Corsica...such a wonderful place and Corte always reminds me of Muapasant stories at school

However Sherwan on ITV is doing my head in.....evey second he repeats himself
Couldn't someone on iTV pinch him when he does it and also never stops talking about Mark Cavandish ........last year he repeated the same story about Stu O 'Grady three times a day , everyday of te Tour.................. sigh

RobFowl

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

whats annoying about that is that Kelly and other commentators never mention details like this, all we kept hearing coming into the last 2km was kittel is there, none of the big guns are there and oh, there's cadel evans

Asking for a little leeway from the mods here..
Kettel has a reputation for being clean. He admitted getting black light treatment to his blood an ineefective (homepathic like) "treatment" which was commonly used in the squad he was in at the time. It was not banned at that time and is not performance enhancing and he was only 18 then.
Subsequently it has been listed as banned as it's dangerous healthwise.
Hope that clears things a bit..