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But did he pause his Garmin?

Wondered what Jag would think about publicity from their car "breaking down".. Some damage control today: Martin Ayres‏@Teamsky_jaguar3h • Jaguar – NB: The cars are fantastic, reliable and we have a mechanic embedded with us on Tour. Yesterday our cool box overflowed onto the floor of the Race Car and that affected the electrics underneath. Martin Ayres it was out of action for a while but we swapped cars, solved the issue and were back on the road by the end of the stage

The boys celebrate a yellow Friday at his alma mater (St Johns)

So gerald24 who is leading the comp for single day most points...?

Yep. the boys already have their calculators out and the innuendo's have begun, but he won't get the full heat until he's winning...

Reckon he absorbes the O2 directly into his blood system through his skin. Its that being born at 3000 Million metres altitude P&P keep telling us about. Seriously though, the guy is a phenom. I don't think we've seen anything yet - yesterday was the first time he didn't attack too soon and look what he did to Froome.

Funny. Speaking of arguments going on forever... here's a picture of 2 feuding guys from yesterday!. Can you see the hate in their eyes?

Humble apologies - guilty as charged.

I was thinking the same yesterday. Imagine we had live on-board footage of that decent yesterday! or even going up the Alpe as the crouds part! They got to intro that in the next few years...

Can you spot any difference here, sad sack? Perhaps these 2 profiles alig a little better?

Plan underway - but can they execute it?

least surprising thing I have read all day.

do you 2 want to get a room maybe?

So now all the teams know Froomes power profile and how many watts less he can put out in 60 minutes vs 20 minutes. Are all the other top riders going to follow suit..?

aaarr

That sums it up nicely.

Lance may not have been stupid, but I think its fair to say he was deluded. And I didn't say "there's no way" - as I've said before I have to allow the possibility - but what I know of the man makes me think its VERY very unlikely.

plus 1 - its great.

yes he must be doping becasue its so very suspicious for a top athlete to be unusually gifted in the very physiological traits that would make you succeed in your sport. Froome is know to have particulaurly high aerobic potential from when he was a youth tested by the UCI when he rode for their development team whatever comes out and whatever is said, you are convinced he is doping. thats good. we understand. move along.

they don't have GPS on ea bike?

He would be an idiot to think samples won't be tested some time in the future for things that can't be tested for today. One thing I do know, Mr Froome is no idiot.

great.. wonder how this will be policed esp if field is spread after the first climb up the Alp d'Huez

SMHSo consistently brilliant = must be doping cos everyone has bad days. Have a bad day after a massive effort day before, then have good days again later in tour = must be doping because how can you be good after being so bad. Porte has done NOTHING like Landis's remarkable solo recovery... And he was a serious contender for a podium coming into this tour - far better odds than Kreuziger for eg. Since the Pyrenese he has mixed between conserving energy and going all out. The rest of the so called Sky borgs have been fragile. You will see this as suspicious only if you have already made your mind up about Sky.

had to laugh... PS Go Chris!

Ja, Teejay and Pinot. Both were top 10 last yr and young so should have stepped it up this year.