Watching the stage again, a lot of that descent was new pavement. Robbie McEwan was thinking it may even by new since the Dauphine. In any case, with the recent rain it was still wet and maybe oily. A solo descent in that or being the front guy would have been much better than how tight these guys were. Fuglsang, actually played it pretty smart on a lot of it, leaving a larger safety gap even though the downside was potentially getting dropped.

I am also still totally confused on how Porte ends up going off the left side of the road. It makes zero sense. His momentum should pull him to the outside (which is what happened after the crash). I wonder if just before he went off the left he had flatted and a soft rear wheel was losing traction. The view from the camera is obscured since Martin is behind him so you don't see that shook out to send him off to the left.

Does anyone have any updates on the Demare time cut. Cycling news shows him no longer in the points standings, so I assume a bunch of them are formally out of the TdF