What a race so far...
Nibali disqualified for grabbing onto the team car and zooming away from a group of riders. Well deserved - they tried to pass it off as "well everyone kind of does it" but I've never seen that before, only quick holds during servicing that may linger a little long... but to pick a guy up and drive him up to the next bunch??? Ridiculous!
Sagan hit by a motorbike and withdrawn by his team... and today yet another Tinkoff-Saxo rider gets hit by a motorbike! I wouldn't be surprised to see them take the entire team out, Tinkoff sounds apoplectic (even for him).
Today's stage was crazy. They called it the toughest ever:
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Not sure what's going on at Astana, looked like Aru got the shaft from Landa? Should have been helped to the line you'd expect, but instead he charged forward for the stage win. Could be he ignored the team, we'll see...
Entertaining stuff!
Tour of Alberta
Starts today! Pretty good line-up this year, including Ryder Hesjedal. And some (gasp!) mountains this time! Should be better.
jono
I hope they don't take out any of the climbs, especially tomorrow's climb up to Marmott! That looks like it should be pretty epic.
Tom Dumoulin reminds me a lot of Ryder's Giro win - dark horse, wasn't expected to be able to cut it in the high mountains, stayed calm and managed not to lose too much time, then was able to use the TT to bring it home!
Just seems to turn out that way.
I won't say anything else but seems like the end of this stage will be pretty exciting! 