It was the predictable formula for the beginning of today’s stage. The usual small breakaway that got away and then doomed in the final kilometers. That’s not to say that the stage wasn’t interesting. It was a crash riddled day starting with a few minor crashes involving Adam Hansen (fractured his collarbone but finished), and a dog taking down Ivan Basso and David Millar. In the final kilometer Jez Hunt took out Cavendish and Freire Cavendish caused a crash on the final bend ruining their chances in the sprint. The Grand Finale was in the last 100m where 3/4 of the peloton came to what looked like a slow motion pile-up.
Petacchi came out unscathed just like in the Tour of Suisse and held off the sprinters to take the win. Lloyd Mondory (AG2R) tried to have a go in the sprint but ended up bring down himself and catching up Tyler Farrar ruining his chances. What a messy stage to start off the Tour de France. Nothing we haven’t seen before though.
Stage Results:
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 5:09:38
2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team HTC – Columbia
3 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Katusha
5 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux
6 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
7 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
8 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram
9 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
10 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
Other Aussies…
14 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Milram
26 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervelo Test Team
28 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
71 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) Française des Jeux
79 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Sky Professional Cycling Team
114 Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank
148 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Omega Pharma-Lotto
183 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team HTC – Columbia
190 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team HTC – Columbia
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“He did a classic Lloyd Mondory move,” Farrar told Cyclingnews as he dragged his bike to the team bus. “He decided to try and commit suicide into my back wheel with 300 meters to go when I was with Petacchi and Renshaw.”
Happy belated 65th birthday Eddie (June 17)
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TdF Quiz
By our trivia master, Sam
Yesterday’s BMC messenger bag trivia prize goes to Seanmymurphy. Please get in touch with me and provide your shipping details (cyclingtips at gmail dot com)
Yesterday’s quiz answers:
1. In the 1989 Tour prologue in Luxembourg, the previous year’s winner Pedro Delgado missed his start because he was warming up in the back streets and got lost.
2. The first and only Aussie to complete all three Grand Tours (Giro d’Italia, Tour De France, Vuelta Espagna) in the same year was Neil Stephens.
3. Cadel Evans first won a yellow jersey in the TDF on stage 10-15 in 2008
Today’s Quiz
Today’s quiz prize is brought to you by Wattbike. Wattbike will be giving away one CyclingTips jersey and knicks worth $350 to anyone in Australia who can answer these trivia questions, give some insight to today’s stage, or make us fall off our chair laughing.
1. Alan Peiper is currently Directeur Sportif for Team Columbia High Road and rode 5 Tour de Frances as well as winning a stage of both the Tour De France and Giro d’Italia. Which cycling club was he originally a member of in Melbourne?
A. Hawthorn Cycling Club.
B. St.Kilda Cycling Club.
C. Hell Ride Vets.
2. What prizes did Neil Stephens win for his stage win in 1997?
A.€38,000, his bodyweight in cheese and a bike made of chocolate.
B.€500 and a small trophy of a French eagle.
C. A new bike and helmet.
3. Who was the lowest team budget in the 2009 Tour?
A. Euskatel-Euskadi with €2.5 million
B. Saxo Bank with €4million
C. Skil-Shimano with €3million
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Ummmm …..
A
B
A
1) Hawthorn
2) bodyweight in cheese
3) Skil Shimano
Hope you are enjoying your Tour adventure. Little tip – don't forget to take Mrs CT to Paris or you'll probably never here the end of it!
It was Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club before it was Hawthorn CC. Read 'A Peipers Tale' if you can get your hands on a copy.
A
B
A
I bet Millar and Basso would like a few quite words with the owner of the kamikaze dog.
I hope Hansen is ok. I've like him since the Croc Trophy days.
1. Neither
Alan Peiper was once domestique for the now defunct superteam, the East Balwyn Bicycle Bandicoots.
2. None of the Above
Neil Stephens won the handsome prize of:
- Nicole Kidman signed DVD copy of BMX Bandits (Deluxe Edition);
- 6 Subway vouchers (Willy Voet stole 2 of them);
- Free sample bag of various intravenous vitamin supplements; and
- 1 ticket redeemable for a back massage from Bernard 'Friendly Badger' Hinault
3. Neither
The doomed Storm-ABC Childcare pro team had a massive budget of $17.65 after collecting discarded team bottles and selling them on ebay. They also sold a stolen El Pistolero cap and used the funds to sign KOM winner Charly Gaul, only to find out later that he had been deceased since 2005.
The Mike Tomalaris word of the day… “Carnage”
Q1 A Hawthorn Cycling Club
Q2 A His Bodyweight in Cheese
Q3 C The lowest budget was Skil Shimano with 3m Euros
If I was Cav in the next sprint I would follow Petacchi. His past two stage wins have came after huge crashes. First in Switzerland now in Belgium.
I don't know the answers but I love reading Cycling Tips! I really need the kit because I am from S.A and I have no taste! I need some imported quality. I dream of using a Wattbike during our famous freezing winters, we don't have winter kit here. Today is 8c and sunny… how could I be expected to handle such cold temps? BTW loving the snaps of Europe… you have set a new benchmark of enjoyment.
LAte on the answers
Peiper was at Hawthorn, with Ando!
Cheese, but I think the Euro would have been Franc's ;-)
Skil, (Euskatel and Saxo's respective budgets are about double the figure listed)
….And thankfully Lloyd only had the $2500 Reynolds, not the RZR which retails at about $6000US, I liked the way he put his hand up after going down like a school boy trying to tell the teacher
Note to self need to get use to Thor in Red champions jersey, I woke my wife up last night (I thought she was still awake) calling who is that in red…
Here is some trivia, ( I think it was in RIDE) apparently Cancellara will not let the team pre-prepare a Yellow bike because he believes it is bad luck, so they would have had to paint that over night (although they may have just hidden it from him…)
1. A
2. A
3. C
A Hawthorn
B statue of an eagle
C Skil Shimano
(Not to take away from Petacchis recent stage victories), but a summation of the stage in trashy headlines
Early Break is Broke
Hansen the Hardman
Fabian hangs on looking fab in jaune
Petacchi, master of staying vertical in great form returning from secret Steven Bradbury Training Camp
Manxman misses his train
Thor fails to drop the hammer
Anyone up for a cycling newspaper??
That was me along Beach Rd yesterday! :)
Yup Fab's superstition was last year, paint must have still been wet this year.
A
C
C
1. Hawthorn
2. Cheeeeeeeeese
3. Skil Shimano (GO MITCH DOCKER!)
And for the record….Lloyd Mondory; what a peanut! Shaking his fist around…. could not hit water if he jumped out of a boat.
Wade, you seem to have the questions all mixed up.
1 – Alan Peiper actually rode for the Chelsea Cheese and Choccy Chasers, unfortunately all their members died of coronary disease, apart from Alan, who got out just in time.
2 – Neil Stephens actually won an all expenses paid cruise to Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls, or what's left of them.
3 – Skil-Shimano for sure. Apart from Koga frames, their sponsors were responsible for the rest of the bike. Not many people know they had doped their bikes with cordless drill motors! Did you see stage 3 last year? Cyril Lemoine drilled it home!!
A
B
C?
Word on the street is that the dog that took out Basso and Millar was a Customs Border Security sniffer dog on holidays…
What's the point of answering when Mick Carter's comment deserves to win? That's awesome.
But still, A, B, A.
A, B C,
Interesting how superstition works, number 13 upside down on his jersey but right way up on the bike!
A. Hawthorn, easily the best club, in the universe.
B. mmm…..cheese
C. Skil
A. A. C.
I'm already over Tomolaris, he's probably a lovely guy but he just irks me no end.
Just as well Matt Keenan is so good at his craft.
Hansen is a pretty good under-study to Jens, driving that bunch to catch the breakaway with his broken collarbone was tough stuff. I'm still laughing at AG2R's Mondory fading off in the background giving the finger to the real sprinters…
Reckon Cav has pulled his head in a bit after causing the crash in Suisse, he kind of meekly shrugged his shoulders last night at missing the sprint. Not sure I like that from him, brash and ugly but a winner, that's the Cav I want to see.
A A C for me :)
1 A
2 A
3 C
For the record, it was Cavendish that caused the crash involving Hunt, Freire, and some Lampre guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5tqtj8roMQ check it out at 28 seconds in.
Did you notice Petacchi's extra award after stage 1? The dog that hit Basso on a plinth, after its visit to the taxidermist.
1. A
2. A
3.C
How good was it when AG2R rider Mondory was standing in the middle of the road with his fist in the air when Farrar was riding off with his bike in tow lol
1. A
2. B
3. A
1. A
2. A
3. C
Wade, Cavendish took out Jez Hunt… not the other way around. Check the footage closely and you will see that you need to edit your description of the crash.
JC
1. A
2. B
3. A
Ah well I am guessing A, A, C. There is no way of topping the funies today but here goes.
1. Alan Pieper rode for the Hawthorn Scottish Highlanders, trouble was that they all got saddle sores from not wearing nicks under their kilts.
2. A new bike and helmet made of the finest Belgium chocolate and an Eagle of Cheese. He was later seen with two large pots on a fire with fellow team mates having a cheese and chocolate Fondue.
3. Skil -Shimano – Their budget was so low that they couldn't afford a team bus. Instead the riders were all dinked to the start line by the mechanics on hired scooters.
Nah. It was a specially trained Gerbil sniiffer dog the officials are using and when Sparticus went passed, it tried to bite the new gerbil powered wheels that he is using….
A.
A.
C.
“Leave ya dog at home next time mate!”
A, A, C for the quiz… and what a finish! Petacchi is the new Steven Bradbury.
Good to see Caven-douchebag is holding his line in the sprints!
Folks, have a really good look at the closing stage of the sprint – Mondory didn't just come down! – some bastard (I think its the Omega guy Roelandt, but happy to be proven incorrect) actually puts his hand onto Mondory's seat – while he's getting up to sprint. You trying ripping the handlebars side-to-side while someone has hold of your seat – no wonder Mondory started skating on his arse – pity he lodged the handlebars in Farrar's derailleur though!!!
Could be 'interesting' tonight & tomorrow night from the looks of it.
Catch ya all later,
Marcus
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A B C
Could Mat Keenan's cycling knowledge be stretched this far:-
Former member of the Hawthorm Cycling club' Alan Pieper, is alleged to have paid 38000euro for Neil Stephen's race winning 1997 fondu-set. That's more than a tenth of the Skil Shimano's 2009 Tour budget.
Viva leTour
Has anyone noticed that lance is 0:22 down on the yellow jersey of Spartacus when last year after the Stage 4 TTT he missed out on the
yellow jersey by ,22 of a second? Interesting.
I will take a stab at this-
1)a 2)a 3)c
That was just insanity! Made me want to go out and crash just for the glory of it
1. Alan Peiper is currently Directeur Sportif for Team Columbia High Road and rode 5 Tour de Frances as well as winning a stage of both the Tour De France and Giro d’Italia. Which cycling club was he originally a member of in Melbourne?
Hawthorn Cycling Club.
2. What prizes did Neil Stephens win for his stage win in 1997?
The admiration for winning a stage and maybe some cheese?
3. Who was the lowest team budget in the 2009 Tour?
Im going with Skil-Shimano cause it takes good skillz to operate with a small budget =D
random
A, B, A
There's an awful lot of people changing lines in that footage/photo's……where do you call it – just swap sides of the road???
And who is the clown in red cutting Robbie off in the first photo?
As much as there is a 'Lance dopes brigade' there seem to be a bunch of 'fast police' here as the lack of a line isn't limited to 'Caven-douchebag' but there's no crying out at anyone else…………do we love to hate him?
He's fast, we're not. (full stop)
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