Tour de France 2015

as I put it earlier

So brilliantly.

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Cav crossed the line with 27 others at 23 minutes 57.

Cav to go all out tomorrow then, love the sprint on the Champs

lmnh! tomorrow afternoon to shout pointlessly at some coloured light whilst Greipel beats him again : (

That was a pretty good result.
I'd like to see some of Cav's non-Etixx friends helping him out tomorrow.

Hes going to have to piggy back his way to the finish on every other leadout train he can find

For @andyp
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/tour-de-francia/tdp-declas-valverde-250715/3227111/

Nairo's time up Alpe D'Huez puts him in some pretty rum company.

Bless.

I was like that at the end of the Marmotte though. Although my media scrum was somewhat smaller.

At least we won't be hearing them wittering on about AV being the "Spanish Champion" for a while.

To all the idiots who say only Froome gets questioned, can I point out what is happening to Quintana on Twitter right now?

T-v care to maybe narrow it down to a few tweets out of the billions currently being tweeted?

What's happening? Doping allegations?

Anyone else notice Froome ejecting snot rockets the last couple of days? Porte is suggesting now that Froome has been under the weather too.

Exactly the set of people who question Froome asking the same about Quintana. Ross Tucker, Vayer, Digger Forum etc.

The usual morons then.

What's happening?

Nothing if it's Twitter you're talking about. :)

Yeah he was sneezing and wheezing after the stage when hugging Dave. Could just be shattered but also seems to be under the weather.

I love Dave Millar but that piece about AdH. Deary me.

Also, digger forum (and various others) default position appears to be that whoever wins is doping.

Thibaut winning the stage after hitting the deck earlier this week made me happy.

I will watch football and get some of the tribalism in that but spitting at anyone is low. Spitting at someone pedalling their lungs out up a mountainside is beyond me. It can't be "team" loyalty as teams change regularly. Can it be "rival rider" loyalty? Nationalism? Or contempt for (believed) doping ? - which given things like the Astana DS is a bloody joke.

Sorry, beyond me...

Can it be "rival rider" loyalty? Nationalism? Or contempt for (believed) doping ?

I think you are reading too much in to it. They - the spitting, piss throwing - are just pricks who are perceiving a weakness and using it to justify their disgraceful actions

I too saw the spitting today, gross! Someone actually threw pi.. at him too? FFS! I'm no fan of his but that is a new low surely. There will always be doping allegations regarding TdF winners/leaders, all the time they're not French. So we'd better get used to the idea! For some time! Lol

Was it definitely spitting? I saw it too and was pretty sure but then I missed all the post-match interviews and wondered if anyone mentioned it

Yes I'm sure it was. Foome did look back, as already mentioned