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After an operation that started yesterday and lasted till this morning, Maria de Velotti is still in a tough spot. She also lost her right eye.....

Busthesickness....is that you?

Yeah, heard that and though it might be bit premature..... In any case, in my eyes Sagan redeemed himself yesterday with a true power performance. My fickle mind likes the chappy a bit more today.

Jens Voight stats from yesterday: @thejensie: Some stats from todays stage.Max speed 82,3km/h, average 41km/h, max Watts 1230 average 275Watts.and 5250calories burned. A lot of cookies!!

Gilbert has the sole of his shoe in his mouth

Looks like collarbone....

Another crash now. More riders down this time. Gerrans, Farrar among those involved. Looks like dodged that one

Another pile-up... Looks like Rojas is down

Sivtsov abandoned....

She is conscious and assesments are being done....

Tyler Farrar (GRM), Pablo Urtasun (EUS) and Christian Vande Velde (GRS) were some of the others involved in that crash

Sagan had mechanical....chasing back to main group, Garmin guys also in the cars chasing back.

Quite a hefty crash in the peloton. Kosta Siutsou looks to be in quite a bit of pain and is sitting down for the moment. Doctor attending.

Bad crash!! Half the peloton stopped. Hunter also caught behind...

Would've loved an interview after that to hear the commentary from him

And he re-affirmed it with the intermediate sprint....ran a workshop on sprinting in the middle of it, mostly aimed at Van Hummel

Intermediate sprint done....Cav over the top of Sagan and still takes the time to crap on Van Hummelen for bad sprinting....he he

She isn't, but it has been 20 years since the last one. Here is the history... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Formula_One_drivers

Yeah...saw that...

Update on Marussia crash....engineers reckons it could have been the anti-stall device that kicked in whilst the car was in 1st gear, it kicks the revs up to 50% when it senses a stall. The driver is supposed to shift to neutral to stop it from happening.

Break is at 5'40", Radioshack leading the peloton

Hope he has a full and quick recovery

It's a thing of beauty Tyrrell, Williams and March six wheelers