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2015 Tour de France


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hot nurse!

 

 

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When I worked in France for the first time, I was VERY surprised to find that males and females share the theatre change room!!!!!

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Looks like Renshaw has abandoned. You'd think that would put another big dent in the hopes of Cav to regain the Champs-Elysees as his own. He's lost Big Dog Martin, the world champ and now Renshaw. 

 

Some times I think Cav' actually thrives when he has to mongrel a win without a full train but that stage is so fast and strung out you need at least 2 strong guys to get you where you need to be and keep you there as the final laps start. 

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The average speed has been a brisk 40kph thus far, though the pace has knocked off in the main peloton in last five kilometres or so, and the gap to the break has stretched out to 3:30.

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The full list of 29 escapees is as follows:

Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), Romain Bardet, Jan Bakelants, Christophe Riblon (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), Roman Kreuziger, Michael Rogers (Tinkoff-Saxo), Winner Anacona, Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar), Damiano Caruso, Rohan Dennis (BMC), Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal), Georg Preidler (Giant-Alpecin), Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), Michael Matthews, Simon Yates (Orica-GreenEdge), Pierre Rolland, Cyril Gautier, Romain Sicard, Thomas Voeckler (Europcar), Julian Arredondo, Bob Jungels (Trek), Ruben Plaza (Lampre-Merida), Andrew Talansky, Dan Martin (Cannondale-Garmin), Stef Clement (IAM Cycling), Jan Barta (Bora-Argon 18) and Serge Pauwels (MTN-Qhubeka).

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With Froome ensconced in the maillot jaune, Rodriguez is wearing the polka dots of king of the mountains on his behalf today, and he clearly has designs on earning the jersey in his own right before this Tour is out.

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There were no fewer than six abandons on yesterday's first outing in the Alps, including Tour debutants Nathan Haas (Cannondale-Garmin) and Sam Bennett (Bora-Argon 18).

Louis Meintjes (MTN-Qhubeka) joins their number this morning. The South African battled to make it inside the time cut yesterday but, struggling with illness, Meintjes will not start today.

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Peter Sagan, meanwhile, has an essentially unassailable lead in the points competition:

1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo 420 pts

2 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 316

3 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 281

4 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Etixx - Quick-Step 192

5 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar 122

6 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 109

7 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step 78

8 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 77

9 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 76

10 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha 70

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Quintana and Valverde have two teammates in the break in Anacona and Castroviejo. Contador has Kreuziger and Rogers up the road, while Vincenzo Nibali has Astana teammate Jakob Fuglsang as an emissary out in front.

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Another team with numbers in this break is Europcar. Jean-René Bernaudeau's squad is still without a sponsor for 2016 and its riders are free to look for other squads from August 1. Rolland, Voeckler, Gautier and Sicard will all surely find new homes regardless, but the Tour is the biggest shop window of them all nonetheless.

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