Tour de France 2017

New GC:

Froome/Aru gap is exactly the same as yesterday, right?

yes.

I dont think they were chasing much. Froome and Kwiat were attackign to try and get a gap on Aru. And they did the same at the end. That is still their absolute best way of getting yellow. Not through Landa (who is still an entire minute off). I wanted Landa but Froome was the best bet for the whole day today. And remains so

Fabio Hamru...

That was amazing.

Just think, if Dan hadn't crashed he'd be in yellow. He's riding so strong too.
Never gets any luck.

Is it just me or does Servais Knaven (Sky DS) looked stoned everytime he's interviewed? 😂

Great stage today, well worth taking the half day off work for. Is this the future of Grand Tours? More short explosive stages like today? I hope so.

For someone who came into this tour with one domestique he's done remarkably well. So unlucky with that crash. I was worried about him after yesterday (he was saying his back was hurting after the crash) but looks like he's going well now. Hopefully he's got more fight left in him

it was retarded. felt sorry for Fabio there.

Yeah I didn't actually think it was amazing. I was actually in the middle of a conversation with a colleague about how badly cycling needs to modernise, stop being sexist (podium girls), homophobic (no gays in the men's peloton ever, honest) and racist (no need to list multiple incidents) and basically grow up, and how at least Philippa York commentating is something, when that came on. So I was pointing at the TV going 'This. This is exactly what I mean.". Ho hum.

It's the Tour de France, not the Tour of the Metropolitan Liberal Elite.

They love linking the race with the local community, and giving out farm produce is very much part of that.

I mean have you ever seen the publicity caravan?

I'm pretty sure the metropolitan liberal elite love French farm produce. I have no problem with it (it's delicious) but it does feel like part of the same problem, the old-fashionedness, a permanent feeling of being stuck in the 1970s. If they can fix everything else I'd certainly have no problem with Aru getting a ham.

Yes but disappointingly when it went past me I got no free ham.

Jesus. Anyone that can watch the Tour and come away whingeing about the winner being given a ham because it's 'too 70's' probably just doesn't like cycling.

Would a Linda McCartney selection pack or some lovely British Fray Bentos tinned pies been more or less in keeping with the zeitgeist? It's the tour de fucking france. They make nice ham. The soft toy lion is more fucking redundant than local produce ffs...

You, chalfie and winnifred should get a room.

I'll have the ham if you guys don't want it

How about, fuck off.

Can you eat a Marmot?

A general question really..

With enough garlic butter, you can eat anything.

A verbal eclairage in the crepuscular gloom of uninspired internet posting as ever. Seriously though-you and winnifred and a cheap bottle of wine.

Think how unbearable a couple you'd be. And your children... My god. They wouldn't want to declare themselves right or left handed for fear of being offensive to the other one.

Nobody actually has a problem with him being given ham, you're totally missing the point.

See, it's not awkward at all is it?

It's a damn sight more elegant than Peter Kennaugh's sausage

Saucy.

Ooh some big words strung together. You are clever aren't you?
When you're not being a prick on the internet do you take classes in baroque comedy from Russell Brand?