**** Tour de France 2017 ****

[Chris Stott]

Contador gone.

Pretty elite group now.

[SydneyBridge]

What an absolute killer stage
Fascinating.

[Chris Stott]

Froooome!

Quintana gone. Aru struggling.

What a stage.

[mcelliott]

Aru going sooo deep

[ferrisbueller]

Porte down and out

[Chris Stott]

fk. Massive crash for Porte. And takes Dan Martin out.

Porte looks bad!

[ALawson]

Looks like his arms and legs were moving, grim. What do the organisers expect with a descent like this after such a brutal stage.

[ferrisbueller]

Gutted for Dan Martin. Nowhere to go

[Chris Stott]

Thoughts and best wishes to Porte.

Froome took a lot of criticism for his descending early in his career... clearly not an issue now.

[mcelliott]

ALawson said:

Looks like his arms and legs were moving, grim. What do the organisers expect with a descent like this after such a brutal stage.

Your point being?

[ferrisbueller]

mcelliott said:

ALawson said:

Looks like his arms and legs were moving, grim. What do the organisers expect with a descent like this after such a brutal stage.

Your point being?

Quite. Unless they finish at the mountain top then they've got to come down again. Same every year. There are inherent dangers in bike racing. Porte just rode off the road. Martin had nowhere to go.

I think the Olympic road race was too dangerous. This descent has been done before.

I hope they're all OK but bike racing is dangerous.

[mcelliott]

What a crazy sport!

[Chris Stott]

Hope Bardet hols on.

[Black can man]

Chris Stott said:

Thoughts and best wishes to Porte.

Looked really nasty didn't it.

[mcelliott]

FFS leave Froome to chase.

[Chris Stott]

Black can man said:

Looked really nasty didn't it.

Worst one I've seen live on tv. Thank god they have to wear lids nowadays.

Incredible stage all round.

[Chris Stott]

Wow.

[SydneyBridge]

Blimey i am exhausted watching that.
Unbelievable athletes

[ferrisbueller]

What an utterly mad stage.

[mcelliott]

Barguil fkin monster!