tour de France descends into chaos due wet cobblestones

[3NUMBAS]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/froome-drops-tour-france-141107257.html#wBWVI4X

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ARENBERG, France (AP) — Defending champion Chris Froome quit the Tour de France on Wednesday after crashing twice as a nervous pack neared seven patches of bone-jarring cobblestones in the rainy and slick fifth stage of the race.

The withdrawal of the 29-year-old Team Sky leader, the favorite to win again this year, leaves the three-week race wide open. Froome's tumbles were but two on a day when many riders skidded out of control and crashed, including overall race leader Vincenzo Nibali of Italy.

Race organizers, sensing the dangers even before the stage began, scrapped two of the planned nine cobblestone patches that the peloton was to cover, and reduced the total length of the stage by 3 kilometers (1.8 miles), to 152.5 kilometers (94.7 miles), as a result.

Aside from Nibali and Froome, an array of big-name riders went down but kept going. They included Americans Andrew Talansky and Tejay van Garderen, Jurgen van den Broeck of Belgium, Alejandro Valverde of Spain and German Marcel Kittel, winner of three of the first four stages so far.

[benalibina]

Its a bad summer of sports for the Brits......worldcup, cycling, tennis and must be more.....waiting for outdoor bowls to bring some pride back to the Ol Empire.

[Old Croc]

Its a bad summer of sports for the Brits......worldcup, cycling, tennis and must be more.....waiting for outdoor bowls to bring some pride back to the Ol Empire.

Your cricket side is not going that well either.

Best stick to those good old English drinking sports like darts, pool and Morris dancing.

[benalibina]

Its a bad summer of sports for the Brits......worldcup, cycling, tennis and must be more.....waiting for outdoor bowls to bring some pride back to the Ol Empire.

Your cricket side is not going that well either.

Best stick to those good old English drinking sports like darts, pool and Morris dancing.

Darts is dutch now, they lost that too......just remembered Ronnie won the snooker in Sheffield.

What is Morris dancing ?

[astral]

Tour de France in England?

Someone needs a geography lesson...............

[benalibina]

Tour de France in England?

Someone needs a geography lesson...............

No, you follow the sportsnews better...

[CharlieH]

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