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Sunday, July 1 - Tour de France, Stage 1: Liege - Seraing, 198 km
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| Teddy The Creator |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:02
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I think he's better safe than sorry. He will most likely quit in the Pyrenees, by if he decides against it, he doesn't want to have no chance for green because he didn't try earlier.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:02
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My observation there was that Greenedge got their leadout pretty much perfect. I don't think the teams knew the sprint exactly, the line came pretty fast for Goss, but Cavendish didn't look like he had the beating of him by any means.
Greipel was way out of position as usual, though perhaps looks the fastest. Sagan was a bit disappointing there, he could struggle to podium in the flat sprints, in fact he could perhaps of 'peaked too soon' 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:07
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Smowz wrote:
Greipel was way out of position as usual, though perhaps looks the fastest. Sagan was a bit disappointing there, he could struggle to podium in the flat sprints, in fact he could perhaps of 'peaked too soon'
More likely that he went up there to pick up a few points, while still looking to save as much energy as possible for the finish today.
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| johannes-w |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:13
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Kittel obviously not even thinking about green. He only seems to go for a stage win or did anyone see him? |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:14
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Cavendish will stay in Tour if he's in contention for Green over 1.5 weeks. If he will not, he will leave basically.
"You never know what can happen over the course of three weeks and he didn't need to use up too much energy to contest the sprint, so it was worth going for it," Yates answered from the car
Edited by Alakagom on 01-07-2012 15:15
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:17
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Excellent camera work on that 4th KoM...
johannes-w wrote:
Kittel obviously not even thinking about green. He only seems to go for a stage win or did anyone see him?
He's probably not going to finish the race - he'll struggle a lot on the mountain stages. So no point trying for Green!
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| siwi |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:36
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WAY TO GO MØRKØV!!  thats fantastic and a huge succes for him! And really good for Saxo also! Yay |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:47
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I hope to see some crazy attacks today with peloton catching the espacess soon.
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| Vien |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:54
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Anyone who thinks there will be mass crashes like in the first stage last year?
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:56
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I hope not. I don't want another Tour with half of the main contenders crashing out.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:56
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Vien wrote:
Anyone who thinks there will be mass crashes like in the first stage last year?
It will be surely very nervous, hopefully without falls.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 01-07-2012 15:59
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Vien wrote:
Anyone who thinks there will be mass crashes like in the first stage last year?
Hopefully not. The roads used aren't as ridiculous as last year's ones.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:00
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Vien wrote:
Anyone who thinks there will be mass crashes like in the first stage last year? What's with the happy face smiley ? Crashes make you happy ? |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:01
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An easy stage that ends in an uphill sprint with narrow roads, if there are no crashes it'll be almost a miracle.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:02
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kumazan wrote:
An easy stage that ends in an uphill sprint with narrow roads, if there are no crashes it'll be almost a miracle.
Plus cobbles and not so good roads with lot of twists.
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| Vien |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:02
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Aquarius wrote:
Vien wrote:
Anyone who thinks there will be mass crashes like in the first stage last year? What's with the happy face smiley ? Crashes make you happy ?
It's not like any GC contenders had to quit because of it. But the fuss about the 3km rule and Contador losing time made it quite interesting.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:04
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Anybody knows about nice graphics stream? The stream qulity is killing me
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:05
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Ouch,here it is. Who is Rabo guy? 
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| CountArach |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:05
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Well... speak of the devil...
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 01-07-2012 16:06
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What the heck are Sky and Renshaw wearing on their heads? Yellow helmets? Yuck. I get they lead the team rankings but none of them wear yellow.
But seriously what was Renshaw wearing, looked like a tt helmet.
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