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dang, the head butt ended in tour disqualification for Renshaw. That is pretty harsh. I found it made the finish very interesting. Never seen anything like that before on bikes. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Glover, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > The WWF comes to the TDF! > > Today’s stage of 184.5 km from Sisteron-Bourg Les Valence brought out the > sprinters. As expected, it was a bunch sprint with Mark Cavendish winning > in a long run to the finish. This was the 13th tour stage win for > Cavendish giving him the most tour stage wins by any current rider. The wind > was somewhat of a factor as the teams had to deal with head and cross > winds at times throughout the day. Things got interesting when HTC-Columbia > rider Mark Renshaw decided to head-butt Julian Dean- Garmin-Transitionsas > the sprint to the finish was developing > . Renshaw was disqualified for the rest of the tour. It is not clear how > the disqualification impacts Cavendish’s ride for the green jersey but it > does cost the team a lead-out man. > > No changes for the Yellow jersey (GC); Andy Schleck keeps yellow, Alberto > Contador is still 0.41 back in 2nd and Samuel Sanchez is 2:45 back. Levi > Leipheimer is still 6th 3:59 behind Schleck and Carlos Sastre is 16th 7.13 off > the pace. Lance slipped one spot to 32nd, 17:51 back. Note; Andy Schleck > also leads all Young Riders (under 26). He has a 4:22 lead over Robert > Gesink–Rabobank. > > Alessandro Petacchi – Lampre-Farnese took the green jersey today away from > Thor Hushovd who fell to second 4 points back. Robbie McEwen is 23 > pointsback and Mark Cavendish is up to 4 > th 29 points back. Cavendish not only took today’s stage, he picked up 35 > points toward the green jersey! Note; long sprints do not favor Hushovd, > the shorter the sprint the better he is, Cavendish however struggles in > the mountains, any sprint points, and yes there are some, here tend to go > to Hushovd. This race is getting interesting. > > Jerome Pineau held on to the polka-dot jersey. He actually added one > point to his margin today giving him a slim 2 point lead over Anthony > Charteau- > Bbox Bouygues Telecom. Third is held by Christophe Moreau – Caisse d’Epargne, > 30 point back. Tomorrow’s stage could see this jersey change hands. > > Tomorrow is a 210.5km stage on a mountain route with several climbs. In > short, the has been described as “gnarly”. To add to the fun, the route > ends with a very steep hill finish with a grade of 10.1% at Mende, ouch. > The line is that the nature of the course, mountainous, narrow, winding > etc, makes it an every man for himself kind of race. Organized chases > will not be easy here, so they say. > > We shall see…….. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<cyclistsofwilson-cows%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en.
