Tour de France 2009

Amazing climb by Contador and Wiggins. Was getting vicariously fucked off by the crowd, getting right in the riders faces, slapping people on the back etc.. not surprised Contador lashed out at one point, they were practically under his tyres!

Contador would have to ride off a cliff to lose this Tour. He is awesome.

He'd crack on a proper climb like Chalkpit Lane though ;)

yeah i would've definitely smashed him today. Definitely. You could've done two laps.

Amazing! I was really afraid that someone was going to knock a rider off today. A swiss crowd as agressive as them! Crazy.

Has this stage proved that Lance can't win?

Its proved that you cant beat Contador on a Mountin Top Finish.

Great ride by Wiggins... His team must ride for him now.

Great climb - like to see him try north drinks on a HHSB after a couple of pints though

The dude who writes the BBC livetext is wicked:

**1555: **Now they catch Van Den Broeck as Cancellara puts the hurt on everyone's legs. Armstrong swings hard left and has to dodge the fans as he brings Contador up with him. "The wee lad who rides with Armstrong", as my girlfriend's mum calls him, now ups the pace.

1601: Wee Bert Contador goes under the 4km banner as Carlos Sastre works his way back up to Wiggins, Armstrong, Evans. Bradley Wiggins is still hanging with the biggest names in the sport.

1603: Bradley Wiggins attacks the Armstrong group. Yes, you did read that correctly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8157628.stm

excellent climbing today wiggo.. i salute you..

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I was reading the cn live feed. Sounds like a great end to the gc question. Now let's see wiggo unseat lanced armpit.

Did cadel get any time back?

Who is cadel?

He's 14th on + 04' 27"

I was reading the cn live feed. Sounds like a great end to the gc question. Now let's see wiggo unseat lanced armpit.

Did cadel get any time back?

Not on Wiggo!

wiggins! Genius.

from cadel's twitter feed: "Sorry kids. I had my first 'bad day' in 5x #tdf's today. If I looked shocking, it was nothing compared to how I felt..."

the TTT has screwed pretty much all the major contenders out of the race, i reckon. boring.

really? as far as I can tell, all the major contenders are still there.

oh, you meant Cadel..

really? as far as I can tell, all the major contenders are still there.

oh, you meant Cadel..

:D

Great stage today... Sastre managed to catch up well with wiggo's group, but contador just caned it ... The two times he has attacked he has been in a class of his own.

Wiggins for the podium!

wiggo is the new cadel!

Well with an Aussie father.. you'd expect him to be good.

He's also rumoured to be working with Dr Michele Ferrari so I'd maintain he was German for the time being, just in case he gets busted. ;p

Where did you hear of this rumour then? Quick google reveals nothing.

Man I am so fucking into this race...

Need to fake swine flu so I can have a week off to watch the live coverage - the highlights are unsatisfying somehow..