2013 Tour de France

[Col_M]

Mont Ventoux - Men from Boys

 

[Col_M]

1 million spectators is the estimate. Incredible

 

[nightgoat]

Haha, Sagan pulls a wheelie as he gets hoovered up.

 

[Col_M]

Haha, Sagan pulls a wheelie as he gets hoovered up.

Quite impressive but he might regret the unnecessary exertion half way up the mont!

 

[Col_M]

Is Chavanel just trying to get some publicity for his team or just showboating for Bastille Day?

 

[nightgoat]

Is Chavanel just trying to get some publicity for his team or just showboating for Bastille Day?

Think it was probably both. This is brutal, the peloton's been smashed.

 

[Col_M]

Time trial uphill!!!!!

 

[nightgoat]

Yes! Come on Froome!

 

[yawa]

Kim hell. Go on Froome

 

[Col_M]

Mankini man hehe

 

[Col_M]

Incredible

 

[nightgoat]

This has been superb from Froome.

 

[nidge]

Wow just amazing from Froome. Incredible performance!

 

[nightgoat]

Poor old Contador loses more than he gained the other day. Maybe he needs to eat some more bad meat.

 

[mattyspurs]

Froome was just fantastic today. An amazing ride

 

[Marty]

We expected a breakaway win and got it. Good for Rui Costa as he was forced to sacrifice his GC chances to help Valverde when he was caught out last week.

Froome and Contador having a bit of a barmy again. Contador caused the incident where Froome nearly crashed and refused to help them catch the rest of the pack. Not good sportsmanship but you never expect that from Contador.

 

[nightgoat]

Ah, Contador still a dickhead. Quintana has every right to ride on when Contador crashed due to his own fault.

 

[Marty]

Incredible descent from that last climb from Froome today, I didn't think he'd win when he was at the top. Weird thing is that it looked like he was taking it fairly easy when the camera was on him.

 

[nightgoat]

Poor old Jean-Christophe Peraud went down pretty hard. Although you've got to be a bit mental to ride with a broken collarbone like that. Of all the stages to do it, too, a mountain time trial in the rain.

 

[Marty]

Yeah, felt really bad for Peraud when he went down, on the same side that he'd broken the bone on. As I've said before, cyclists are made of incredible stuff, and Peraud had a very realistic chance of a top 10 finish which must've been the only reason he gave it a shot.

Great scenes up Alpe d'Huez now. Van Garderen will hopefully win it but Quintana, Froome and Rodriguez have distanced themselves from the other GC riders.