had too much to drink last night with Bunk Moreland ;)

He's been dropped by now but I think it was the stage going to Cervinia won by Amador.

Nibali's support disappeared but I think it was probably an aberration. Scarponi, Kangert and Fuglsang should all be capable of being up there in the mountains.

Also read that Rui Costa's problems were mechanical. Shame when you lose time because of a crash or mechanical problem and everything goes out the window, but that's cycling.

Bunk is a bad influence, but Martin did drop deMarchi and put 2 minutes between them pretty quickly. Beastly.

God what a performance. Was clear Martin was doing the lion's share of the work with Di Marchi, and then he goes ahead and pulls 40 seconds from the chase on the first climb, and gains what he lost on the second climb on the descent. He then puts another 10 seconds in, celebrates for 5km, and wins by 2km. Too bad he didn't win that Vuelta stage last year... he could go for the "among the most impressive performances in a single GT stage" Triple Crown.

Who for Astana was riding the McLaren Tarmac today?? Saw it in the final K or so a few times

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Hmm, a former triathlete from the southern most part of a country, sounds familiar....

No confirmation yet on if he has more balls. Let's hope he shows us tomorrow. ;)

I believe the similarities end there. Well, lets hope so.

Contador better show up #1 tomorrow. He's losing time.

let's hear it for Cancellara as well, 2nd on a day that is not really his forte.

Yep awesome ride. He was quoted as saying he was looking around to see who was in the chase group and he was surrounded by skinny little guys haha. Mentioned he got dropped on the last climb but had enough to get back into it and claimed second


Also I'm eating humble pie. I was only just saying I don't hear much from Martin apart from tt's, and he goes and takes the stage out

3 riders in the tour are using them. Roche from Saxo, Kwiatkowski from Omega Pharma, and Fugelsang from Astana

Contador just crashed and is 4 minutes down on the peloton.

snapped frame...yikes. Can you imagine, trucking along and boom.

Wait....what? To whom?

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I am listening to the Euro Sport feed and they haven't said what happened. Where did you hear this? Did the bike break before the crash or in the crash?

It's in the BBC live updates - http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ive/cycling/26945567

I'm not a big Contador fan, but for the sake of the race I hope he's not too badly damaged and can get back in touch. Assuming the peleton know what's happened, would it be considered good etiquette to slow the pace down somewhat given that he's had a mechanical and is a multiple past winner?

I've got the tv coverage on in the background.

According to the commentators they heard over the radio that his frame just snapped underneath him, causing the crash. team car chucked it into the back, "in a heap." They had the on-scene guy say that he was in the middle of the peloton and blam, down he goes.

like he did when AndyS dropped the chain?

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I just heard that on my feed, so I must be a little behind. That is so crazy.

Having a frame snap on you is a bit different to being too incompetent to execute a shift while trying to launch an attack :)

touche

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

Astana has to mark Kwiatkovski. AC is pretty screwed. If he gets back on in these conditions, banged up, it'll be the ride of the tour so far. I'm pulling for him.

contador is out...

WTF

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