31 to Wiggo I think. In a 7 minute TT.

Go Wiggo!

This is absolute domination at the moment. It's almost good that Froome's frustration at being kept on the leash has gone public because it's livened things up a little.

I'd be so bored of this parkour if it was two Italians/Frenchies/Dutch/Spanish e.t.c at the top of the standings instead of 2 Brits. The organisers have done a good job with the 'transition' stages and LOADS has happened this tour but 3 mountain top finishes (and one was a medium mountain stage) is really rubbish and looks like it'll lead to a procession for the one outstanding time trialer amongst the GC contenders.

It is looking like a bit of a procession at the minute.

Sprint today. Would be nice to see if Cav can pick up another stage BUT I wonder if acting as a super-domestique over the last few days will have dulled his acceleration?

Even with a healthy Andy Schleck in the race, I would still fancy Wiggins or Evans. Far too much TT in this year's race. I'm a huge grand tour fan, but this year's Tour de France has bored me to tears. I just hope someone attacks Wiggins this week in the mountains to make things interesting.

Yes. This.

Knight wrote:

I'd be with you, except... It's a Brit in 1st and a Brit in 2nd. How can that possibly bore you?

I'm not particularly bothered what country the cyclists are from so the fact Britain are one and two makes no difference to me. I like individual cyclists and don't support a particular team.

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Is there a particular reason people are leaving tacks on the road to sabotage this mentalness?

Nothing been proven yet but I thought it was interesting that no-one in the break-away was hit on stage 14.

It's the 1st time the tour has been over that particular hill so it's just as likely to be someone pissed off that their road has been closed rather than anything more planned/ cynical. I don't imagine it was a deliberate tack-tic of one of the teams supporters.

It happened to the Etape Caledonia in 2009 (and that was someone on the local council ffs!) and 2011 (although I cycled the 2011 event and I don't think the at-tack was widespread).

Sorry

Chris Froome could've won the Tour himself quite comfortably this year by the looks of it if he wasn't wiping Bradley Wiggins' arse every day.

I dunno, Froome vs Wiggins would have been very close. Clearly Froome was the better climber but we don't know how much better. Lets see the time gap between Froome and Wiggins after Saturday's time trial, less than 30 seconds and I think Froome would probably have had the edge. Thing is though, with a prologue and 2 long time trials, and only 3 mountain top finises, 2 of which were slightly crappy mountain top finises, Sky would have been mad not to make Wiggo team leader.

I do wish Froome would have been allowed to go after Valverde for the stage win today but at the end of the day, who cares, we've almost certainly got a British winner for the first time ever. Absolutely brilliant. It's great to hear Wiggins' interviews, means so much to him

Team Sky are set up to win the tour for Wiggins and Froome will have known that from the start.

I reckon he's been strong enough to have more than wiped out the gap between him and Wiggins on the Moutain stages and probably give himself a healthy lead ahead of the last TT, but we'll never know.

I think I rode a section of the Tour the other day. I rode near Ramboullet or however you spell it and there was a very windy and steep section with a sign that was saying it was going to be closed for the race, I think. I'd be interested to see how quick they do it because it was slightly hairy but a lot of fun.

If Cavendish wins this afternoon... wow. What a tour for Britain.

Outstanding!

Isn't is cool when Britons don't fluff it at a pro sport.

adored wrote:

The sprint at the end was incredible, was really on edge watching it all unfold live. Most exciting bit of sport I've seen so far this year I think.

Did you forget the end of the Premier League season?