Contador has abandoned.

AC is out.

Crap, guess he must have been pretty badly injured.

With AC gone can anyone hang with Nibali now?

Depends on if his Tarmac also snaps...

porte? but he doesn't have the team (I think)

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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

Holy fricken crap

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All I Wanted Was A Pepsi, Just One Pepsi

Team Zoot, Team Zoot Mid-Atlantic

Too bad.

Well this is become quite boring: Cav, Froome, and Alberto now. Sagan is crushing the green jersey and kittle wins all the sprints....TDF value just plumeted this year.

The Tour organizers have to be pissed. They need to let Nairo in. Give him a 10 minute penalty and let him go wild.

The Vuelta could be awesome now if both Froome and AC give it it go. Shaping up to be the best grand tour of the year.

Anyone see the downtube on the leader Omega-Pharma guys? I can't tell what's covering the S-Works paint. Something like #wew something or another.

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Alex Arman

Strava

Kwiatkowski is getting an armchair ride into the lead at the moment, courtesy of that never-ending tank of a teammate he has, Tony Martin. I think he's been working on the front for the last 30-40 minutes nonstop...

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ZONE3 - We Last Longer

Martin is an absolute monster. The work he's doing so far today is amazing given that he basically time trialed yesterday's stage.

#WeW1n

Apparently these "hashtags" are all the rage these days.

Sky are in pretty good shape actually. Geraint Thomas is lying in a good overall position and has been in great form, but is also a super-loyal guy who wouldn't hesitate to bury his own chances for his team leader. Nieve's been there on all the climbs as well. Eisel is a great guy for keeping you out of trouble and putting in the shifts at the front when needed.

I think they're quite enjoying being out of the spotlight, they're not having to work too hard compared to previous years when they've had to protect yellow from very early on.

Difficult to look past Nibali right now, but Porte could be a good bet for runner up and Froome and Contador have already shown that anything can happen.

Actually more interesting imo. These plot twists keep you guessing and now everyone can team up on Nibali.

I know i must not be the only one, but seeing Tony Martin doing all the work in the front again smells a little fishy.

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Considering how he climbed relatively well at TdS coming 4th overall and also that he's just maintaining a consistent pace it doesn't seem so bad to me.. he is the best in the world at going at a consistent pace for a long period of time.

and with that there will be no El Pistolero finger bang this year.

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Suffer Well.

Doesn't seem that unusual for a TTer, which is basically what yesterday was. He'll come off.

When do we start picking the Vuelta podium? Froome, Contador, Quintana...

shall we bring back this goodie? especially pertinent given that the rider given a score of "9" just got popped

He's German. They're on a roll.

Wiggins, Schleck, Horner (assuming he's just using the Tour to get fit for his title defence of course)....

I was thinking the same...

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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

I just heard that Contador hit something and that caused the crash and it wasn't a bike failure.