Tour de France 2015

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cycling/33098815

Reports that Valverde is in the second group.

woo hoo

Fuckin' ell

Poor fabs

Rob Hayles
Former GB cyclist on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
Posted at 15:54
That shot of Michael Matthews after his crash looks like he may well have lost some of his tattoo on his back. That will take some touching up in the coming months.

Who was the guy that caused the crash, seemed to be black/navy blue kit, maybe Bretagne-Séché?

FDJ rider

What a wall. Where's Martin?

Rooting for Tony...

I think he's still in that front group.

nasty climb to finish

At this rate Froome could be in yellow. Poor tactics?

Won't Van Garderen take it?

Uran was about 35 seconds down and then there were a couple of etix riders c. 40-45 seconds behind Froome... if one them was Tony M then he'd have yellow, no?

Froome in yellow is very early. Still time gains are time gains

Froome wanted that. Got elbowy a couple of times. With elbows like that I bet he could draw blood.

edit - andyp with the results again - not Martin.

Froome in yellow apparently.

Decent finish there. Shame Dan Martin got himself boxed in.

By 1 second ahead of Tony Martin.

Whoops

Froome by 1 sec, according to inrng on Twitter. The 6 seconds he got for coming second on the stage are what made the difference.

What a day.

Gah I forgot about the time bonifications in my excitement. Poor Tony.

Fabs looks fucked.

1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 7:11:37
2 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step 0:00:01
3 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:13
4 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 0:00:26
5 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:28
6 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:31
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step 0:00:34
8 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:36
9 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:01:03
10 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step 0:01:04

Contador must be thrilled. And Astana. The rest of Sky, not so much.