TdF Stage 2

Sagan 15-2 with favourite irish bookie pp .... waded in!

Sagan looked real good today ,don't see why he cann't do it again tommorrow.
8/1 with the welscher is good enough for me to back him

LOL @ "the welscher" comment

Nobody fancy Cav today? I know he takes his time getting into the Tour and has different goals this year but he's still a bit of an unknown at the moment. I've had a bit of Sagan and covered him just in case. Was musing over Kittel and Pettachi too but no idea what their form is like.

Anyone got a link for this?

ITV4 normally do a stream if that's any good to you

Cheers

Found this one too

http://www.sportlemon.tv/v-4/2/12/v-421331.html

Matty Goss has a chance with one of the better trains workingfor him surely

Cav a notorious slow starter....but still obviously the man.
Sagan a beast..but this is proper TdF sprinter territory.
Kittel for me.
Will the "Bank of Cav" need a bailout...?

Physics [mass, gravity & friction] has done for Kittel.

They aren't half going at a clip, can see a crash here unfortunately

nice finish from cav, pretty close though

Fcuk it anyway - had Goss @ 12s

Hopeless position 2K out then ZOOM!!

Great finish though

Brilliant from Cav - so far ahead and so consistent

The Le Tour website is so ****. The person who redesigned it from the perfectly functional one they had before to this crock of **** needs to be taken out and shot.

It needed a redesign.  Just not this godawful one.

Had Gossy who appeared to be caught flat-footed in the last bit, although was good to get around Sagan at a crucial point -- expected more from Greenedge, but it's early and nervous and everyone wants to upset the show for themselves. Lucky that there weren't any crashes. Greipel no excuses. Manx is showing his expertise and plucky style-of-riding, just getting pulled along effortlessly, and this is very effective when we saw today how early the speed came on and how no team was really holding court. If this is going to be the scenario for the upcoming sprinting stages than you have to expect that the Manx will be using it to his full advantage with more wins. He always struck me as more of a "freelancer" (in terms of style) even when he had that proven HTC train motoring.

If anyone got on Kittel after the Intermediate than they should pay more attention to what's happening in the peleton - guy looked as nervous as a first-time comedian. Sagan, so young, so talented, always promised he'd be here, but will need a lot of learning quickly to be amongst the big boys in a true sprint.

Cheers,
SP

Yes - first time Sagan has been against all the true sprinters and he got himself into a barging match with Veelers rather than getting his head down. Just not good enough versus the classy 3 of Cav, Goss and Greipel.

He will be soon but maybe not this tour for out and out sprinter stages.

When it goes up hill though ... like St 3 ...?!

Astonishing performance from Cav. How there wasn't a pile up with that pace I don't know.

Not to get carried away with one stage but I can't see anyone stepping up to win consistently if he's in this mood so on the basis he picks up a couple more wins and concerns himself with the intermediates (which he has done so far), I don't think the Green jersey is out of the question.

Saying that, I've not looked at the stages so perhaps there are enough stages that suit Sagan more but I can't see the latter troubling the sprinters on the true flat stages just yet.