Tour De France 2018

tbh anything is more interesting than the Sky vs. Sky dilemma that's overtaken GC.

Was a pity there was a crosswind in the run-in, Majka might have stayed away. Calmejane crying was pretty harsh too-looked properly fucked off when the trio went up the road and he knew it was finito.

Anyway, Sagan's divorce and Greipel leaving Lotto might end up being the most interesting stages.

Tough crowd. There was a lot of racing going on today.

just heard: Moscon out because of an altercation with another rider (as yet unconfirmed, but Eurosport said Moscon hit a Fortuneo team rider after 800m into the race today.)

Bit more here. He’s a nasty little shite by the sound of it.

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yup official now

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Sky said he was basically on a final warning after the Reza incident

What an idiot...

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Moscon incident video= handbags

https://twitter.com/toutlesport/status/1021097869292470272

video:
https://twitter.com/SadhbhOS/status/1021100377561878528

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Gesbert didn't skip a beat so can't have gone full Bouhanni

LOL

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Endangering riders behind is low. Not sure where he goes from here. Can’t see him being massively employable.

Guys he is just young and naive, his hobby was tractors, forgive him.

what did Gesbert actually do to invite his ire? Looks on his line, no contact. Trash talking his nonna?

Brailsford to Moscon: ‘Look Gianni, we need a diversion. Would you mind terribly just twatting someone from a pro conti team? Take your pick old boy and we’ll hide any evidence of this conversation.’

maybe he just got sick of being asked about the circus surrounding team leadership by journos, saw the quickest route out and took it.

Either that he got an offer he liked from another team and wanted to break his contract early as well as get a week's r&r with all the other sprinters before the championships.

This is quite good tbf.

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Did lol

There's stories of Luke Rowe offering Terpstra out a few years back during the classics season off the course and away from the cameras and directors. If he is actually that type of guy, I can't understand him letting Moscon do something so detrimental

What's the most likely outcome of this gridding nonsense?

Only one team have more than two riders in the top 20 and a lot of distribution among the various groups of 20 behind them I can't imagine there's going to be much more than a lot of shuffling on the lower slopes of the Peyresourde and business as usual after the first 5k.

Only Movistar have the numbers (barely) to try and launch an off the line attack but the only response I can see to that is everyone else working together to neutralise it. In the meantime we'll see the likes of Luke Rowe (lowest Sky in the GC) rip through the groups picking up team members as he goes until they get delivered to the team leader(s). At which point, with a stage that short, they can just drop off and get in the grupetto if they've cooked themselves in doing so.

How badly have I misread that?

Also predicting this to be the stage Froome claws back time. Attack on the last climb and Geraint to hang on to Ol' Windmills unless the gap starts looking over a minute in which case he'll attack too and make sure he holds on to Yellow for one more day.

It's hard to see from that angle, but looks well ahead of Gisbert and it looks like more of a gesture than an attempt to hit him.

But he needs to chill the fuck out.

Sky are struggling to win over French crowds, who think they are arrogant.

How to try to diffuse the tension?

Have an arrogant Team Sky rider punch a rider from a minor French team.

The Sky PR masterclass continues.

Give a dog a bad name.... doesn't look like he made contact to me either but he should know by now he's a marked man, especially by the French riders.

Of course. Always keep your hands to yourself, never take them off the bars.

It was a stupid thing to do. If someone else had done it, they'd probably have been left off, but Moscon has a reputation that means he'll be judged based on that, hence the disqualification.

especially by the French riders.

Why especially by the French riders?