Hey, which one of y'all forgot to wake up the gurls!?
Looks like Phonak has decided that 3:30-4 Minutes is fine..they are not pressing to reel in the break, but are not letting them get away either. IF McEwen wants to preserve his Green jersey, it looks like it will be up to Divitamin to reel the break in.
15:22 - Lelangue Comments On Today’s Stage
The Phonak team has been at the head of the peloton since the 100km mark. The bunch is four minutes behind Freire, Le Mevel, Ballan and Popovych. France Television recently interviewed the director of the Phonak squad, John Lelangue to get his thoughts on the stage. “This morning I took the overall ranking and drew a line at the riders who are nine minutes behind Landis to know exactly who we could allow to escape," said Lelangue. "Popovych is exactly on this line so we will control the pace of the peloton to ensure that he doesn’t get a big advantage.
"Later we’ll see what the sprint teams decided to do and perhaps we’ll help them catch the escape group.”
(Yawn - whassat?whereamI, whadImiss?) LOL. Don't know about luv2ski or nutmeg, but I was actually bright-eyed & bushy-tailed tuned in to OLN at 6:30 CST - thought they were going to have another early start (time zone change?what do I know) but it was informercials. Then all heck broke loose around here and I couldn't sit/watch/& plug in to the net. I'm going to have to do reruns today.Did get to see Popo fly across the line though. YEEHAW. There's life in Disco yet.