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Stuck it to him by wobbling into him, I'm afraid. Good job he's popular with the race organisers!

Similarly Froome......who suddenly needed to stop for a pee yesterday (and required the peloton to honour the yellow jersey and not attack).......remarkable that it happened while a couple of his team were on the floor.

Anyway, back to the lumpy stuff tomorrow......far better than these boring flat stages.

And of course that's not ever happened before when the Yellow Jersey was being worn by some one other than Froome, has it?

Stuck it to him by wobbling into him, I'm afraid. Good job he's popular with the race organisers!

Similarly Froome......who suddenly needed to stop for a pee yesterday (and required the peloton to honour the yellow jersey and not attack).......remarkable that it happened while a couple of his team were on the floor.

Anyway, back to the lumpy stuff tomorrow......far better than these boring flat stages.

Both came together, as you can see from the overhead view. Kittel had lots of room on his right but came away from the barrier towards Cav. Cav was half a bike length up by then anyway.

Kittel kept his racing line, Cav moved (wobbled) across and into him......it was very clear from the overhead camera.

Stuck it to him by wobbling into him, I'm afraid. Good job he's popular with the race organisers!

Similarly Froome......who suddenly needed to stop for a pee yesterday (and required the peloton to honour the yellow jersey and not attack).......remarkable that it happened while a couple of his team were on the floor.

Anyway, back to the lumpy stuff tomorrow......far better than these boring flat stages.

And of course that's not ever happened before when the Yellow Jersey was being worn by some one other than Froome, has it?

Can you provide examples, Nellie?

Funny how people see things differently. The race judges obviously thought that Cav was not taking Kittel's line. Cav was just going faster than Kittel.

Can you provide examples, Nellie?

erm, i seem to recall Fabian Cancellara seamingly stopping the race every time a Schleck sneezed, or whatever? Or was I imagining it.

Wow, Cav is on fire, and of course Kittel waves his arms about when beaten, what's new.

Only another few wins to "top" Merckx...

Get ready to rip up those history books.

Sorry Ian, couldn't resist 

Can you provide examples, Nellie?

erm, i seem to recall Fabian Cancellara seamingly stopping the race every time a Schleck sneezed, or whatever? Or was I imagining it.

Wow, Cav is on fire, and of course Kittel waves his arms about when beaten, what's new.

Only another few wins to "top" Merckx...

Get ready to rip up those history books.

Sorry Ian, couldn't resist 

Thanks Runrig for that example. I'm sure there will be many others that have not shown on the TV. Coverage was much poorer in the past.

Won't have any internet access for the next 5 days at least so won't be able to comment on the race after tonight.

Hope we have no more contravertial issues over the rest of the event.

Stuck it to him by wobbling into him, I'm afraid. Good job he's popular with the race organisers!

Similarly Froome......who suddenly needed to stop for a pee yesterday (and required the peloton to honour the yellow jersey and not attack).......remarkable that it happened while a couple of his team were on the floor.

Anyway, back to the lumpy stuff tomorrow......far better than these boring flat stages.

Both came together, as you can see from the overhead view. Kittel had lots of room on his right but came away from the barrier towards Cav. Cav was half a bike length up by then anyway.

Kittel kept his racing line, Cav moved (wobbled) across and into him......it was very clear from the overhead camera.

Ian if you are going to invoke Grand Prix type reasoning, it is clear from the over head that his back wheel was in front of Kittels front, so the line was his to take. To use yet another sport as analogy, I am afraid Kittel took a football like dive by wobbling, to try and influence the ref.

Steve......please never try to compare professional bike racers with footballers.....in any way!

Bp