Congrat to Stretch on the first South African to wear the yellow jersey!  Impey looks a little like you although his name is kind of the opposite of yours.

 

Great race so far.  I just wish the Garmin Sharp guys could ride more than 100 yards without crashing.

Great racing so far. Looking forward to tomorrow's stage.

Today's stage has been quite good.

Thanks Al!

 

Good cycling family. Dad and brother run a bike shop in Joburg.

 

 

It was "wear yellow" day today in Cape Town. Tomorrow too, I guess. 

Today's stage was fun.  Props to Cannondale and Sagan also.  I enjoy watching the climbers more than the sprinters, not that I can do either, but I'm in awe of the mountain climbers.  Next couple days should be really interesting.  

I'm half way through today's stage, which I should have mentioned above.  I have mostly tried to skip anything that look like it might have news of the day so I have not read Vicki's post, for example.  We should try to avoid posting fresh results here in general so that we don't spoil things for tapers. 

Sorry I told you ahead of time that all of Team Garmin Sharp ran into each other and injured themselves.

Edited July 5, 201313 yr by VPI

I already knew about that one because they haven't been able to stay on their bikes in general. 

I'm half way through today's stage, which I should have mentioned above.  I have mostly tried to skip anything that look like it might have news of the day so I have not read Vicki's post, for example.  We should try to avoid posting fresh results here in general so that we don't spoil things for tapers. 

 

Will remember!  

Another great stage.  

Loved this one.  Looking forward to tomorrow.  

I think this possibly going to be a boring tour. Sky very rarely goes so hard that they can't recover

Edited July 6, 201313 yr by Dreadhead

Great race so far.  I just wish the Garmin Sharp guys could ride more than 100 yards without crashing.

So what you're saying, is if I work on my handling skills, and triple my distance, I could possibly ride for Garmin-Sharp one day?

 

**BRENT**

I think this possibly going to be a boring tour....

So par for the course?

Edited July 6, 201313 yr by morphsci

I think this possibly going to be a boring tour. Sky very rarely goes so hard that they can't recover

 

 

There are still two weeks left.  Maybe Sky will win again, but it's fun watching it all unfold, and seeing individual performances.  I don't care who wins, which makes it more entertaining.  

We'll see. I'm getting that sinking feeling about 2 best friends and roommates climbing like that and I am not the only one:

http://www.sportsscientists.com

Fuck I hate that I have to think this way but...

We'll have to see how it plays out but those two simply crushed that climb.

Yay!

Jeff, I was thinking about you when I saw the finish. Yay indeed!

 

More importantly, I liked how the distanced contenders attacked Black and Blue and isolated the yellow jersey. I hope is this a sign of things to come in the next 2 weeks.

I was hoping they might be able to do more damage to that big lead as it appeared Movistar might be able to make some real progress.

 

I was also happy that when Garmin Sharp ran into people, those people were on another team.  He pretty much put that Sky racer into the creek in the early part of the race.

 

I was very impressed by Ryder up in the lead pack for quite a bit with a broken rib.  I would be watching the race poolside from my home if I had a broken rib not leading on a mountain stage.

Yeah, it was nice to see most of Sky suffer and fall back.  This week will hopefully be really interesting.

The loonies in the crowd on today's stage were downright scary.  

 

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The loonies really bug the shit out of me and clearly screwed up some of the leaders on the second ascent of the Alpe.  But what a wild stage.  Seriously nuts.

I don't understand why SKY is being allowed to cheat so obviously? This is the second or third time they've illegally given riders food and drink late in a race and Froome was clearly crashing before the bottle and snack.