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That would be a definite expansion of the geeks!

Even more ridiculous when every ad break has virenque advertising festina!

I know but it's as little as it's going to get, I think! The ITT is part of the tour, you have to have many skills otherwise just make it a week in the mountains.

They pretty much did that this year! Lowest TT distance in about 80 years.

Us cyclists are very well tanned, it's just a slightly unusual distribution!

It was a bit of Tarmac stuck between the brake and the wheel so nothing to do with technology. If he punctured you could say it's the fault of these modern, lightweight tyres.

Not when it's something that might have happened to a rider in the first tour! Something jammed in the wheel is not a failure of your extra aero skinsuit!

There are mutterings as quintana set the fastest time up the glandon. If the alpe d'huez record gets broken then they're all definitely juiced!

I think quintana will nick another 45 seconds or so off him tomorrow but not 3 odd minutes. Bardet and purito will battle it over the croix de fer as it's an HC before alpe d'huez and probably wrap up the jersey.

No spit headed towards contador or valverde!

I love the Eurosport commentary talking about DeGendt as a long range break specialist! He won one stage of the Giro, 3 years ago with a long range break !

Right, can't find the exact posts to quote but - Vino slagged of Nibs to try and motivate him. He's contracted for next year so there's no way Vino will let him off his contract, he want Nibali to buy himself out. Everyone is on the G love-in but he's actually a less accomplished GT performer...

Ha, I think it's killing valverde that there's a movistar above him on gc - no way he's risking it for quintana!

To police such a large break, provide a bridge for Froome later on and have an outside chance of the stage win! Looks like TJvG's day to go pop is today!

It was the right thing to do and the power output are fairly modest considering the pasting he dished out. Odd that the professional "estimators" are usually very accurate but we're a fair way out on this. Either way, it backs up the idea that the others really are going badly if they can't...

We seem to be the only ones defending Barguil! Much worse stuff happens in the peloton every day, there's crappy riding that causes wheel touches and massive crashes in the pack - the perpetrator doesn't stop and check anything. These incidents happen all the time and Barguil didn't set out to...

In Barguil's defence - https://vid.me/e/Zp3H?card=1 TJvG does give him a bump, barguil doesn't look like he wants the inside.

Exactly, these are human beings with families they need to provide for. It's the same reason I don't feel too much animosity towards the dopers of the era - I think Lance is reprehensible for his bullying, exploitation of power and ruining of lives, not the doping per se. Imagine your only way...

Blood doping was already around, as well as "Belgian mix" - booze, cocaine and speed! Epo was definitely game changing as you can see by the climbing records - they're all from the mid 90s. Data would only be useful if also able to see it real time during a race, and probably not even then...

Always respect the jersey!