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Didn't have a bell on his bike , didnt stop at any junctions . Spoiling it for decent cyclists .Originally Posted by The Bloop
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Well done Geraint at least we saw you in the yellow jersey at the end, but FA in the time trial thanks to ITV4
Don't think that was ITVs fault. Blame the French tv director.
Fabulous achievement for Geraint Thomas
Indeed. ITV simply take the feeds.
One Whitchurch High School boy captains the Lions to a win against the All Blacks in New Zealand.
On the same day another Whitchurch High School boy takes the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, the first ever Welshman to do so.
A third Whitchurch High School boy is Gareth Bale.
Not bad.
And indeed, two Cardiff racers in team Sky - Luke Rowe is out there too.One Whitchurch High School boy captains the Lions to a win against the All Blacks in New Zealand.
On the same day another Whitchurch High School boy takes the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, the first ever Welshman to do so.
A third Whitchurch High School boy is Gareth Bale.
Not bad.
Good to see the dirty Slovakian banned.
Don't forget Chris Pike (& Dai Hunt) went to WHS as well!One Whitchurch High School boy captains the Lions to a win against the All Blacks in New Zealand.
On the same day another Whitchurch High School boy takes the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, the first ever Welshman to do so.
A third Whitchurch High School boy is Gareth Bale.
Not bad.
I also played in same football team at WHS as Jeremy Warburton (Sam's father to be) who was very talented.
I did wonder if he had slept in for today's race .Hardly got a mention today despite wearing the yellow jersey .
Great performance, great reward for him and hopefully the first of several positive moments in this tour. Good article on Wales online about him too
He retains yellow for the start of the third day.
And the fourth
Think I saw the stat that only 7 other Brits have worn yellow in the tour. Froome and Wiggins clearly ahead, I'd expect broadman to be as well, but in number of days where does G sit? Presumably already ahead of Cavendish.
He's behind Froome (44), Wiggins (14) and Boardman (6) but ahead of David Millar (3), Tommy Simpson, Cav and Sean Yates (all on 1). David Millar also wore the polka dot, green and white jerseys in the Tour as well as the leader's jersey in the Giro and the Vuelta. Show off.
https://roadcyclinguk.com/racing/yel...c1xCYDhMt67.97
Well that's an excellent answer. It's unlikely that he moves up any further (he's likely to have his last day tomorrow) but 4th place in that list is not bad at all. He's the coolest out of all of them too.
He's a top man but surely 'cool Arsenal fan' is an oxymoron.
Not a bad bunch all in all. Cav and Froome are the best at what they do, Millar and Boardman have turned into good pundits too. Millar's running commentary on how well Cav was reading the finish today was amazing, I've no idea how he did that. So much going on but he still had time to appreciate Cav's incredible instinct for getting on the right wheel in those situations. Boardman's assessment of the crash was spot-on I think, it wasn't quite as black and white as it seemed at the time and Sagan is probably unlucky to be thrown out. I wonder if Geraint will move into tv when he retires? He's got the personality for it.
Good race so far, won't be quite the same without Cav and Sagan (and without G in yellow) but I'll be following it all the same. Great sport.
It's difficult to get away from the deliberate flick with the elbow.
^^^^this Sagan has gone down in my estimation, firstly for his action but even more so for trying to defend it, if he's reinstated it's a farce. Similar to vettel. Deliberate action but the perpetrators see no wrong
Geraint hands the yellow jersey over to Froome. It was good while it lasted.
Barring accidents - or assaults - Froome will probably go on to win this again.
There was no contact with the elbow though. It only flicks up after the collision but Sagan said he was trying to get his balance and as his left leg comes out at the same time then that's plausible although only he knows. It seemed odd that Cav made so much of the elbow afterwards, he must have realised it wasn't the reason he went down. I'm not sure why Sagan wasn't allowed to put his side to the commissaires and I've no idea how they decided that his punishment should be increased after they had a chance to view the footage from different angles and in slow motion. Sagan can be a clumsy sprinter but he's certainly not the first, Cav has decked a few riders in his time and Abdoujaparov would never have made it to Paris if sprinting in a straight line was compulsory.
Agree that some of the excitement has gone. But the race is won in the mountains or the time trials. Neither missing affects this.
That's true but the great thing about Cav and Sagan is that they make the 'boring' days interesting. Real characters who can liven up even the most straightforward looking stage and, in Sagan's case, that's not just the sprint stages either. As you say, neither would have affected the GC battle but the race as a whole will be poorer without them both.
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