Tour de France 2016 - SPOILERS

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Coverage on ITV4 live and highlights later, who's watching?
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And you can play fantasy tour de france here:

http://fantasycycling.roadcyclinguk.com/
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CAV wins to take yellow! Fantastic.
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I'll be watching. Highlights at least.

Seemed like lots of crashing today. Worse than usual?
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mjr wrote:I'll be watching. Highlights at least.

Seemed like lots of crashing today. Worse than usual?

They start nervous, don't they? I doubt Contador can use that excuse, though....
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I'll be doing the ITV4 highlights show when I get home from work each night as I'm only off 8 days during the tour and no doubt riders rest days will be the same as mine.
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Wish I'd picked him for my fantasy team, don't want to jinx him now. Can he get up to 34 wins or beat it, how many more years will it take? 2 very good years or 3 good years maybe?
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He's done it again. :D
What is surprising is that all the riders are still in, no one has dropped out yet. :)
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Steve Cummings WOW! GO STEVE!!!!!
To add to Cav's 3 wins,that's 4 stages from seven for UK riders,knock's the football team into a cocked hat :D
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Not all good news for the UK riders though...what the heck as happening with that inflatable arch!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Si wrote:Not all good news for the UK riders though...what the heck as happening with that inflatable arch!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


I saw some one get a busted chin but didn't know it was Adam Yates :( ,looks like three stitches to his chin,he's probably had worse on a night out,he'll be OK.
It doesn't excuse it though,a bad show IMHO and shouldn't happen.
It was probably Nibali(the Shark :roll: )taking a bite out of it in disgust as he went past :mrgreen: .
Cummings took 2minutes from him on that climb,and 40 seconds out of the other two,not bad for a Scouser :D
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Still waiting to see if they adjust the times, Yates could be up to second couldn't he? Strange, exciting stage, pity a lot of it seemed to happen before the ITV4 live show covered it.
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Awesome win for Cummings! Hope the GB Team selectors take note.
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It's a strong team though, who would you replace? I just hope they make it through the tour unscathed.
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Promoted to second

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/rac ... nce-256833


Which maybe means a chance to wear yellow, if he's not too banged up. He will get the white jersey in the morning to race in too.
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