3rd clip clearly shows rogers only catching up to contador noticeably after the crash, and there having been a sky rider between the 2 of them before it, so yea, definitely not a contador rogers collision.
maaaaaybe sagan. these clips dont entirely rule that out. but i still find it unlikely.
Apparently Contador hit a bump and lost control of his front wheel which ended up breaking in the crash. He switched bikes with Sagan and then switched back to one of his own at the base of the final climb.
I love that there's 10km to go in an Alps stage, and Sagan is there to just casually jump off his bike to give it to Contador, allthewhile being 100 points clear in the green jersey competition.
As a relatively casual observer, is it really all over for the GC?
Thought the handshake Quintana offered Froome at the end of the stage seemed kinda telling but (a) that might be reading too much into it, and (b) (again from a noob perspective), the next few stages still look ****ing tough as ****
Serge Pauwels is all over the tour this year.I read that if you started tracking the GC since the start of the Pyrenees, he'd be the yellow jersey 10min ahead of Froome
So quintana/valverde/contador etc... are not even interested in winning a stage? That's how satisfied they are with being on the podium? At least if you're not riding for the yellow jersey you have an excuse, Froome is way too strong for them and you can't just decide I'm going to attack him he's not gonna drop but there are stages to be won here.
There was a 2min gap between the yellow jersey group and the breakaway at the start of the col de glandon (HC) and now they're 4min away already with bunch of weak climbers still left in the yellow group. There's no excuse to be had they're not riding fast, they could catch the breakaway group easily if they tried but everyone is happy with their 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th places. Sky just chilling