2016 Tour de France

[nonky]

Onboard descent: the Pas de Peyrol - later today @ 185kms

 

['Dale]

Problem for Froome, who finds himself at the back of the bunch and scrambling to move back up, with Mikels Nieve and Landa having dropped back to help him. Stannard ploughs on at the heat of the bunch.

['Dale]

The second group of six continue to lose ground and now find themselves two minutes in arrears and with another hurdle to go on top of the climbs that await.

[StevieL]

Quite enjoying the Robbie McEwen element on the commentary side of things...

Always found Matt Keenan a bit monotone for hours on end.

McEwen is bringing a fresh side of knowledge and experience...

['Dale]

Over 12 minutes now for Van Avermaet, De Gendt, and Grivko and they're hitting the lower slopes of the second climb of the day, but the first in the stage 5 endgame - the third-cat Côte de Puy Saint-Mary.

['Dale]

80km remaining from 216km

Van Avermaet, Grivko and De Gendt hit the base of the Puy Saint-Mary with a lead of 13 minutes over the peloton. The 6.8km climb has an average gradient of just 3.9%, but the peloton faces rolling, heavy roads from here on in that ought to exact a toll by the finish.

['Dale]

Luke Rowe continues to lead the main peloton, with a retinue of Tinkoff riders lined up behind him. With Rafal Majka up the road, Sagan and Contador's guard can maintain a watching brief for the time being.

['Dale]

The gap to the chasing group stretches out to 2:30 on the climb, while the peloton is now some 14 minutes back.

['Dale]

????????????

 

An entanglement in the main peloton ahead of the Cote de Saint-Mary sees Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) and Yukiya Arashiro (Lampre-Merida) among the riders caught up, but mercifully it doesn't seem that anybody has been injured.

[Capri Wheeler]

Dimension Data Stream says Meintjies is 21 minutes behind leaders, far behind the peloton and moving at about 2 km/h. Is this wrong? What happened to him?

['Dale]

Dimension Data Stream says Meintjies is 21 minutes behind leaders, far behind the peloton and moving at about 2 km/h. Is this wrong? What happened to him?

I will bet my two bikes that it is an error in data streaming

['Dale]

Pauwels leads the chasers through the sprint at Mauriac, some 2:30 behind our trio of leaders. 14 minutes further back the road, meanwhile, Ian Stannard has taken up the reins for Team Sky.

[Capri Wheeler]

I will bet my two bikes that it is an error in data streaming

I hope you right. But it appears so given the speed

[worriesnot]

Dimension Data Stream says Meintjies is 21 minutes behind leaders, far behind the peloton and moving at about 2 km/h. Is this wrong? What happened to him?

 

maybe the tracking device broke off in the crash or he's changed bikes

[Oxter]

with a 15min gap, can you see the peloton  catching the breakaway today?

['Dale]

I hope you right. But it appears so given the speed

There's been no reports of him dropping

As a GC chaser, it would've been big news