Kittel: "I'm speechless, it's unbelievable. I'm so happy. This is absolutely, by far, the greatest day in my whole life. A big thank you to everyone."

Dude might want to tone that down a bit.

Hard to say...the events that put him in the yellow jersey might qualify as divine intervention. Dude might be wondering if he can part the Red Sea right about now. Hope he doesn't try to cure a leper or walk on water...

greipel tried to squeeze through a gap and took out the guy to his right, which caused a chain reaction. Greipel made it through but probably messed up his derailleur or something.

hopefully Contador wasn't too hurt. Tony Martin apparently broke his collarbone...

and apparently Kittel didn't know about the change in finishline and the subsequent change back

yes, the guy is only 19

Kristoff looked very good. As a better Classics rider, Kristoff will be there when Kittel and the others won't be there





may want to apply the second line to yourself first ;)

sorry, but there's nothing hell yeah about today's stage.

Looked kinda weird having somebody from Garmin do that well on the sprint stages.

If Farrar stays up, he usually doesn't even do that well

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PS. what do you think he's saying here ;)



i wonder if he was cursing in Norwegian or in English. David Harmon like: i'll not attempt to translate what [Kristoff] is saying there

Kristoff is saying "D**n! If it weren't for this ugly helmet, I'd have had it!"

John

Kristoff said FAEN or HELVETE.
Good Norwegian words when you get second in a sprint finish.

A win is a win and he's wearing yellow. And it's not like he can't sprint with the best...even though they weren't there. But hey, thats racing. Take yes for an answer. Good on him for being there.

Please keep the Farrar jokes coming. I'm cracking up over here.

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both of them crashed. i wonder if Purito and Degendt are okay. Certainly both of the latter are good on that sort of terrain (purely thinking from how they finished on Montjuic when they raced the Vuelta and Volta a Catalonya, respectively)

Does anyone else (besides me) have a fantasy team with zero points after one stage? There a about a dozen ways to get some points. You almost have to be trying to have everyone on your team get no points at all.

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You are assuming he would make it to the finish line. Big assumption.

Reminds me of the movie quote;

"i scored 280 on the SAT".

"dude you get 400 points for just signing your name"

...."oh"

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You respect Contador? Interesting. I say he gets popped by a tester again by stage 10.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Agree, a win is a win. There will still be tons of ST'rs that will say but, but, but...but a win is a win. He has the Stage win and the Yellow until he loses that jersey tomorrow.

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Why don't we take a 5 minute brake...?

LOLZ.

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At least there was a finish. With about 8k to go, I would have bet good money that the bus wasn't going to get moved and that there would be mass carnage at the 3k finish.

I'm betting that a lot of the team directors with GC contenders were ready to tell their teams to simply stop at the 6k mark (3k from the finish) and fake a flat or mechanical.

Just STrs being STrs. Same with ripping Farrar when most of them couldn't finish with the field in a cat 5 crit.

It's funny cause its true

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Is there a live feed anywhere? Too cheap to have the right dish channels.

Ahahahaha!! I like that.

that is just hilarious :-D nice one!!!

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They really should have neutralized the race and given everyone the same time. Too much confusion and a potentially very dangerous sprint had they stuck to the 3K finish proposal.

It would have sucked for the racers and organizers, but it would have been the right call.

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If that's all it takes then let the ripping continue!!

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Agree! Those guys do a lot of homework of what the finish stretch looks like, where to start revving it up, etc. And those guys had no idea where to do a thing if they had stuck with the 3k to go "finish line"

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