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  1. originallambrettaman

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    BBC Sport‏ @BBCSport
    Team Sky's Gianni Moscon has been disqualified from the Tour de France for hitting another rider.
     
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  2. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Rest day today, I think SKY will have to start thinking who they are going to ride for Froome or G, certainly will be very interesting to see how this plays out, the last thing they want is for Demoulin to pinch it from them whilst they are concentrating on each other.
     
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    I think SKY would like Froome to win it but, I think their professionalism, which borders on ruthless, won't allow sentiment to get in the way of their objective i.e. 'win at all costs'
     
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    Both riders making the right noises, team making the right noises, I think they'll be left to duke it out themselves, can't see Dumolin beating either of them
     
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  5. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Dumoulin is probably the best time trialer, so if he can gain some time back over the next 3 mountain stages he does have a chance. If Froome and G are allowed to race against each other, that could work in Dumoulin favour.

    Having said that it is SKY's to lose.
     
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    They’ll play it straight in the Pyrenees then let Thomas and Froome sort it out in the time trial.
     
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  7. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    TWT, will certainly be interesting to see how it plays out. At least this year there are 3 possible winners, which makes it much more interesting.
     
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    The Tour de France was stopped during stage 16 after it appeared the riders were sprayed with a substance.

    It happened during a protest by French farmers when a bunch of hay bales was thrown across the road just before the peloton arrived.

    Television pictures showed a police officer using a spray on the protesters.

    And it could have been that the wind carried that spray into the peloton, affecting several of the riders.
     
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  10. TIGERSCAVE

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    Wednesday .... 2 hours and 22 minutes of torture today and Thomas did not crack, finishing 3rd.... Dan Martin 2nd. Thomas took 48 seconds out of Froome... Thomas clearly Sky top dog now!!!!.. GT leads by 1:59 over Dumoulin in second. Dumoulin is World Time Trial champion so Friday is the BIG day...
     
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    During the Vuelta, he looked done and then form nowhere he blew the field apart.... tomorrow is a flat sprint stage... the TT may well decide the tour...
     
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    Froome thrown from his bike by a fremch copper

    The french really are ****s
     
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    I hope Thomas wins, nice to have a different face win it for Sky.
     
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  17. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    I do too, he seems a really nice guy, which is strange being Welsh.
     
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  18. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Good.
    The French know their onions.
     
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    Fantastic days racing.... Well done GT... lets hope he holds up in the TT tomorrow....
     
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  20. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Arf

    Give Jonathan a break. Okay, so he supported Linford Christie and was a client of Andy Norman but you have to admire his consistency.
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    What sort of message does it send to young cyclists when Eurosport employ Alberto Contador, a man who cheated his way to a Tour victory, as an analyst? Jonathan Edwards - with a straight face - called him the 'the one and only'. Pathetic


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