At one stage last night I had to check my Foxtel IQ to make sure I was not watching a replay of Stage 4. Because the two stages where exactly the same!?!?!?! And when I realised that Andre Greipel had in fact won Stage 5, 196.5km from Rouen-Saint-Quentin, to take back-to-back stages in the great race – I lost my shit (and no – this douche bag is not in my fantasy team).
So in summary, it was a dead flat stage with a break that got caught in the closing kilometres – some B-grade sprinters caused a massive pile up, and with half the peleton on the deck Grepiel won again, Matt ‘The Shark’ Goss somehow snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and Tyler Farrar ended up on the floor. In fact poor Tyler was so fed up with hitting the deck that he made a post race V-line for the Argos-Shimano bus (their Sprinter Tom Veelers was the alleged culprit of the stack) in order to have a tete-a-tete with young Tom. Only the Garmin management held him back from doing something completely unprofessional – but it would have made for good TV. Mark Cavendish finished 5th on the stage after leaving his run too late, but given he couldn’t even get past Sammy Dumoulin I doubt he was at his best.
One victim of the pile up was Peter Sagan who was taken out and failed to contest the sprint finish – thus losing out on mega points in the Green Jersey competition. His lead has been cut to 18 points from Gossy and ze-German. There was no change in GC.
Other than that the major highlight of the day was the fact that USADA allegedly has enough alleged evidence to allege that Lance Armstrong run an alleged doping program to such an alleged extent that they could put him in the slammer for about half a century…allegedly. And apparently every man and his dog is coming out of the woodwork to testify. Hopefully Greipel was his supplier.
Yellow Jersey – Fabian Cancellara
Green Jersey – Peter Sagan
Polka Dot Jersey – Michael Morkov
White Jersey – Tejay Van Garderen
Brock McLean tweet of the day
@BradToothGrin – hate him that much that I don’t even know how to spell his name correctly. Greipel. Griepel. Meh.
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