Tour de France 2015 Stage 3 Antwerp - Huy *contains unmasked spoilers*

gordongekko

Any rain forecast tomorrow?

Darkglasses

Nairo Quintana

gordongekko wrote: »

Any rain forecast tomorrow?

Only a 17% chance of precipitation near Charleroi according to Google.

Subpopulus

Great video of an Orica Greenedge mechanic clearing up after the crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7raIxrzodt4

MPFG

Joaquin Rodriguez

Some GC guys will be very hampered in TTT by loss of or injury of team mates
& some favourite teams missing key riders

Lotto Soudail -Henderson & Hansen
OGE - Gerrans , Impey & Matthews
Ag2r - Van Summereren
FDJ - Bonnet
Lotto Jumbo - Kelderman & Ten Dam
MTN - Teklehaimanot
Katusha - Kozontchuk
Lampre - Rui Costa
EQS - Uran
Trek - Cancellera
Giant - Dumoulin

And these are the ones I know of

What happens if a team loses more riders before Sunday

TheBlaaMan

Sky and BMC so far unscathed..........Van Garderen in yellow after the TTT maybe.....?

mossym

Subpopulus wrote: »

Great video of an Orica Greenedge mechanic clearing up after the crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7raIxrzodt4

feck they earned their money today.

what was the story with gerrans helmet? seemed very keen to get it off him and into the car.

spock.

What happened to Uran?

omri

Vincenzo Nibali

Any one heard report on RTE News at 9 - apparently Fabian Chanchelrara withdrew from tdf...

MPFG

Joaquin Rodriguez

Uran banged up in crash
Cancellera is out

MsGiggles

What a crash today....worst one I've seen on the tour in a while. Speedwise and the amount of people.

MPFG

Joaquin Rodriguez

There were 2 crashes today . The second was not on camera

MsGiggles

MPFG wrote: »

There were 2 crashes today . The second was not on camera

I did hear that alright, eventful day !

Subpopulus

mossym wrote: »

what was the story with gerrans helmet? seemed very keen to get it off him and into the car.

So it didn't get lost. Medical staff would have taken it off anyway and it might have gotten left behind in an ambulance....

dastardly00

omri wrote: »

Any one heard report on RTE News at 9 - apparently Fabian Chanchelrara withdrew from tdf...

2 broken vertebrae.

neris

dastardly00 wrote: »

2 broken vertebrae.

bad year for spartacus. pity and just wonder now will he call it quits at the end of the year after tht twice in one year

dastardly00

I hadn't realised Kreuziger went off-road near the end.

https://mobile.twitter.com/josselin_riou/status/618078682880581633/video/1

pajor

Simon Yates

neris wrote: »

bad year for spartacus. pity and just wonder now will he call it quits at the end of the year after tht twice in one year

Well he said yesterday even after just putting on yellow, that this was probably his last TDF.

Looking more likely he'll call time I'd say.

Edit: Just saw the clip of Kreuziger go off the road in the highlights. Like he just didn't see the bend!

neris

Subpopulus wrote: »

Great video of an Orica Greenedge mechanic clearing up after the crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7raIxrzodt4

great video by OGE again. they have to be the best team for giving the best behinds the scenes footage and reports. the chaos, the noise and all the running around its amazing the mechanics arent boxing the heads off each other to get to their riders.

neris

Impey gone aswell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pMcCvvgMvg

dastardly00

Daniel Oss... Ouch

https://instagram.com/p/4zTiqOrhPu/

ThisRegard

dastardly00 wrote: »

I hadn't realised Kreuziger went off-road near the end.

https://mobile.twitter.com/josselin_riou/status/618078682880581633/video/1

Yeah, Carlton thought he imagined at the time.

neris

ThisRegard wrote: »

Yeah, Carlton thought he imagined at the time.

yeah n then he thought it was mick rogers

letape

Dan Martin

I really can't see Cancellera leaving the sport like this. I fully expect him to be back for the classics next year and to be there or thereabouts.

MPFG

Joaquin Rodriguez

letape wrote: »

I really can't see Cancellera leaving the sport like this. I fully expect him to be back for the classics next year and to be there or thereabouts.

I don't get why people are always trying to retire Fabs & Boonen

Simon Gerrans is an year older and no one says he should retire
And Purito is 36 and he won today

letape

Dan Martin

MPFG wrote: »

I don't get why people are always trying to retire Fabs & Boonen

Simon Gerrans is an year older and no one says he should retire
And Purito is 36 and he won today

Absolutely - couldn't agree more! Every year people are saying that it's the end for Cancellera and Boonen. I'm sure we'll see them both fighting on the cobbles in 2016 :-)

Boscoirl

Fairly hectic for OCE in that crash, great insight into the role of the support people.

uphillonly

ronoc wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7raIxrzodt4&feature=youtu.be

Thanks Ronoc.

The mechanic video is very impressive. I think I heard him speaking at least 4 different languages as he cooly ran about checking bikes, helmets, riders etc.