Tour de France 2016

well this is a shit show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsTJaP2tC0A

The new tarmac is the problem. That + light rain = very slippy.

They seem to have given up on time gaps as well?

Perfect timing. Costa has 1.41.

Blood on the yellow jersey

Froome a bit bashed up.

At least the new tarmac does less damage as they slide across it.

^^ Yeah, some blood showing. Clearly a harder hit than it looked at first.

Here comes the brutal bit of the climb....

Froome looking like he's struggling.

Are France finally gonna get a French stage win?

Yes

cough no motor in G's bike cough

Whilst Froome does look like he's struggling, the same was true at points yesterday...

Froome looking like he's struggling.

Must feel so wrong to climb without the O.Symmetric rings that he would've been using for the last few years.

When the fuck are the other GC riders going to attack? Now is the time you goons.

My thoughts exactly. What are Movistar playing at?

They've been on such a steep part they'll be close to their limits I reckon. Better to attack just round this corner where it levels off a smidge.

Looks like a SKy car is on it's way

Hard to tell from the tv coverage,
what the local French authorities are using,
but high friction, (cannot use the term 'anti-skid'),
white lining materials were available 20 years ago.

How does froome look, proper injured?

Hope Yates can hang on for 2nd GC when the attacks start

OK, bit of road rash on shoulder and elbow (right). Keeping pace OK at the moment.

Looks fine now - think he was just shaking off the effects. Back at the front of the group. Time will tell though...

Is Yates still hanging in there? If he's in the GC group he'll be up to second tonight. Higher if he can attack while Froome is on a mis-sized bike.