It seems like a reasonable point to mention that the TdF live update thing on the website is much improved this year and makes sneakily checking on every stage at your desk much easier.
Talking of that, yesterday’s stage saw Cav take intermediate sprint points again at the head of the peloton before being beaten by Greipel, Goss, Haedo, and Dumoulin on the final line as a break was reeled in beautifully in the last 600metres. Cav's sprint was powerful but form a little too far back as Sky put him on the front too early in an effort to protect Wiggins as well. Greipel deserved his win after avoiding the inevitable crash just on 3KM to go with some riding that was either skilful or just lucky. The top end of the GC remains as it was with Wiggins in 2nd, seven seconds down on Cancellara.
Interestingly the Team Sky take on Cav's finish was that he "bounced back to 5th" after his crash yesterday.
Talking racing, Dave Millar talked to ITV about the Olympic Road Race, where he will be road captain with the responsibility to organise the team, made greater by the lack of race radio.
But all of this is nothing compared to the race that took place in Manchester, which has sent a British representative off to Florida to take on the rest of the world.
Finally I was alerted to this, which I really want to avoid calling "Skid-mark art".
Have a good weekend and #allezwiggo
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