So from Tyler Farrar over to stage 2: What is FDJ trying to achieve here?

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Citizen of the world, former drunkard. Resident Traumatic Brain Injury advocate.

Which one of you chuckleheads was running up that climb with the Newtons, Zoot Tri shorts and Newton visor?

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Suffer Well.

Was it just me or was that "I am specialized" mark cavendish commercial badass??

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not sure, but that was an exciting finish, to say the least.

Yeah it was. And just now, the day a Belgian (other than Gilbert) wins, is the day I can't find a frickin' Sporza feed. They probably knew it was Bakelants instead of relying on faulty race radio info and the pandemonium must have been outrageous.

My FDJ comment was about how they pulled the entire peloton up that Cat2. I checked their teamlist, and didn't see anybody that looked like a threat today.

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Citizen of the world, former drunkard. Resident Traumatic Brain Injury advocate.

Podium: 1. Hesjedal, 2. Evans. 3. Contador

Awesome finish today!!

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VPN is your friend. I tried to get one (hidemyass) that gives me access to Belgium or the Netherlands, but the speed was too low to support streaming of any video when i wanted to catch the finish of last weekend's nationaal kampioenschap. Tunnelbear is great for tunneling into the GB (i watch the tour on Eurosport), but i have yet to find one that's fast enough for other countries.

Agreed. Love it when a solo effort can stay away. Good result for RadioShack, which they don't see too many of lately.

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I'm going to go practice my Cat 5 sprints now so I can make jokes again tomorrow.

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Does anyone have a link to NBCSN's "Back Where We Started" promo/commercial? I'd like to see it again, but can't find it online anywhere.

and another good one today.

Gerro is so very good at this sort of stuff, and the man is only 140lbs!

and PhilGil must be smarting that he got beat by another puncheur...

alright, paging Jack Mott; by how many seconds will Garmin win tomorrow?

Zero.

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Styrrell

Ta Da.

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Styrrell

haha

i'm actually not a Garmin (or Cervelo for that matter) fanboy, but we need jackmott to pontificate on this matter!

I'll take the world TTT champs with whatever aero sins any day...

Garmin really didn't have a TTT team this year. More climbers and less TT guys, plus in the TTT you gain way more time by proper strategy and TTT skill than you do by having the most aero bartape or whatever.

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did anyone notice how high the transmitters are sitting under Sky's skinsuits? they looked andriod with how much they took their backs up.
and OMG! 65kph!!! that is incomprehensible.

OMGx2 - stuey is riding this year??? Wow!

and my poor baby with his broken pelvis. i hope his mommy is there to meet him at the finish.

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they aren't called skybots for nothing ;)

and good on Gerro and Orica.

Pretty significant loss for BMC, going to be that much tougher on them now.

Saxo has to be pleased. And good for Orica, I can't imagine anyone envisioned them owning the Tour headlines up to this point.

I wish the TTT was a bit longer.

Like 100k.

indeed. oh well

Awesome day, I'm pumped for Orica.

Bummed to see the losses by BMC and Radioshack. I don't know where this is coming from, but I really want Schleck to have a strong tour. (no, I'm not thinking podium...)

I'm very happy Saxo kept Sky in reach and am curious to see how Garmin plays this tour.

I think Garmin will soon be scrambling for stage wins. The team is more or less built for a guy to get in a break and possibly win on a mountan stage. They only have a very slim chance at a podium for the overall

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