Tour de France 2015

I do like Jakob. Hes one of those doms that turns up at the front end when you think he should be cooked.

Considering who was chasing Bardet Down. I was proper shocked when is name was suddenly read out amongst them. Solid effort getting back.

Hats off to Cav to keep going, thought he would have bailed by now.

Anyone think he's got a good chance of the final sprint stage?

Yep and I'd like to see him win..

He has a chance which is probably enough to motivate him to get there.

Cav's lost a lot of his lead out train - which weirdly I think might help him.

You mean, you're surprised he finishing, the same as he has done nearly every time he's entered but hasn't been injured?

Bold prediction of the day - Quintana will take 20-30 seconds on Froome.

Would be good to see, might make the final stage interesting.

Though an effort to get time today could well leave a rider fucked for tomorrw.

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nice feature on the Guardian website - Alpe d'Huez interactive

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2015/jul/23/tour-de-france-the-climb-of-alpe-dhuez-interactive?CMP=share_btn_fb

Movistar are fairly bullish this morning apparently. They need to do more than wait for the final climb though, if the goal is to win the Tour.

Thomas De Gendt has just had a tweet retweeted by various people and it ended up on my timeline. His profile picture is of him with his wife and their baby.

The baby is the spitting image of young BlueQuinn.

Amazing

Pls this

Polka-dot battle is nicely poised

Purito looks utterly shagged though

Ha ha!

Uncanny.

Brutal start! And Sagan in one of the breakaways...

Great!

Ah, looks like Sagan isn't in the breakaway

not anymore, indeed.

hectic stage so far, lots of attacks by the top 10 riders. promising

yes the scenery is wonderful, you French TV director c*nt. show us the bloody race

Cavendish at the back. Is this an embryonic autobus or the sign of trouble?

Greipel with him and Chavanal. So probably all good.