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Tom Danielson had to quit the stage. Two separated shoulders and bruises everywhere were too much even for bubble boy. DNF. Below is his bike. Guess it's DNF for the vehicle as well.

Medical bulletin: in the first crash, Greipel most likely dislocated his shoulder, a shoulder he already hurt before. In the second crash, he got smashed against the barriers. Summary: contused right shoulder, contused right wrist, stitches in his dumb, contused left shoulder, abrasions to left knee, elbow and shoulder. He was not involved in the megacrash.

Movistar had a bad day today: Imanol Erviti abandoned, he had to be operated on a deep wound on his right leg, and he'll stay in hospital for 48 hours. There is loss of muscular mass, which sounds freaky. José Ivan Gutierrez took a deep blow to the right knee, and it's doubtful he'll start tomorrow. The team says he can barely walk. If you can barely walk, can you cycle?

Davide Vigano quit the race immediately after the crash, not surprisingly if you see some of the photos (picture: Reuters). According to teammate Hondo, he may have been the one who caused the crash: "Viganò was put Petacchi’s shoes covers in his jersey, when some riders ahead slowed down. Davide had only one hand on the handlebar, so he could not brake properly and he felt in the ditch on the roadside, then all the resto of the group crashed, Scarponi too". Vigano was taken to hospital with pain to his shoulder.

Another team that got hit badly. Wout Poels crashed hard, got put into an ambulance, got out of the ambulance, climbed back on his bike, rode for 10 kilometres and then gave up. The fact that they let him back on his bike is absolutely irresponsible if you ask me: Poels has a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, bruised lungs and three broken ribs. He is stable now.

Wynants rides alongside me. 'Do you reckon I have a collapsed lung, am in so much pain?' No man, then you wouldn't be on your bike." - Bram Tankink. Turns out two broken ribs and a collapsed lung

ITV Cycling reports that Greipel finished with a dislocated shoulder Maarten Wynants fell 35km into the race and rode the last 160 km wit two broken ribs and a punctured lung These guys are very committed...or need to be committed

And yet the dutch newspaper was inventing stories.... http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/tygart-bullying-usada-witnesses-cannot-be-tolerated_227661

Farrar trying to board the Argos-Shimano bus to "chat" with Tom Veelers....

She doesn't know This could be fun

Sweet

Gorilla Greipel rocks them again....

Just making sure

The ones on the Tattoo thread

Looks like USADA has also rubbished this morning's article.... http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/tygart-bullying-usada-witnesses-cannot-be-tolerated_227661

Looks like Cav is getting a leadout today.....

Be glad it is Silverbackman...... If it was Whitebackman or Blackbackman this thread would have been locked......

Helmut....helmut, helmut, helmut, helmut, helmut, helmut,.......seriously We are trying to standardize the spelling screwups

If he stays injury free and off the sauce....

I do not disagree....but cycling just doesn't have the same media impact in America...but the american sources of sponsorship could be affected

The various team directors have no knowledge of potential bans facing the various witnesses racing for them.... http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/dutch-paper-prints-names-of-armstrong-witnesses-at-the-tour-de-france_227631

Quite true when it comes to their sports media. I think the TdF media is still controlled by the european media moguls. I suspect it would ruin chances of American sponsorship money though. ESPN prefer to broadcast poker than the TdF, so it cannot be too high in the media eyes. I agree that the athletes will be the ones that suffer, but then again...american cyclists are and have been aware of this too, and they still manage to grow and excell internationally

Not what i am saying.. I am referring to the report that the guys have turned evidence for small suspensions. Hincapie himself had not confirmed it when asked this morning before the start. The fact that all other sources quote the one newspaper should substatiate that. I do think that most riders doped to just under the permissable threshold

Just the media peddling horse turds as figs....again

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