Tour de France 2011

[Dave Cooper please]

Do you know of a good website that explains the tour nice and simple for a total noob?

I think Wikipedia does it as well as anybody.

[Dave Cooper please]

Big crash and it looks like Wiggins is out with a broken collarbone.

[Dave Cooper please]

Cavendish wins the stage though, of course he does.

[N'Rexy]

Sad for Wiggins. This is good for Thomas in a way as it frees him up to go for a stage win. He looks in top form.

[hipkiss92]

Very painful looking crash for Flecha and Hoogerland, all the drivers fault.

[Eckybloke]

Very painful looking crash for Flecha and Hoogerland, all the drivers fault.

These guys must be as hard as nails!  I'd have quietly bled at the side of the road feeling sorry for myself after that one.

As a first time watcher of Le Tour, are incidents like that and the motorbike dragging the Danish rider along, just part and parcel of the race?

[hipkiss92]

Very painful looking crash for Flecha and Hoogerland, all the drivers fault.

These guys must be as hard as nails!  I'd have quietly bled at the side of the road feeling sorry for myself after that one.

As a first time watcher of Le Tour, are incidents like that and the motorbike dragging the Danish rider along, just part and parcel of the race?

Incidents with vehicles on the road are very rare, especially like todays one, and tbh I've never known a Tour like this one for crashes and incidents in the first week.

[Dave Cooper please]

Very painful looking crash for Flecha and Hoogerland, all the drivers fault.

These guys must be as hard as nails!  I'd have quietly bled at the side of the road feeling sorry for myself after that one.

As a first time watcher of Le Tour, are incidents like that and the motorbike dragging the Danish rider along, just part and parcel of the race?

Incidents with vehicles on the road are very rare, especially like todays one, and tbh I've never known a Tour like this one for crashes and incidents in the first week.
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It's been a bad year all round, what with Wouter Weylandt dying on the Giro d'Italia and the Swiss cyclist (can't remember his name) looking like he may not fully recover after being placed in a medical coma.
Spills are part and parcel of road cycling, but considering the speed they ride at and the obvious dangers there are relatively few really nasty accidents.

[N'Rexy]

Soler is the guy you are thinking of Dave. He is Colombian but had his accident on the Tour of Switzerland. He is still in a coma after 4 or 5 weeks. If you look at Cavs and Geraint Thomases twitter feeds they blame the riders as much as anyone.

Still been a bad year for crashes mind.

[Dave Cooper please]

Yes, cheers Rexy, that's the bloke.
Just been reading up on the news feeds, he's been bought out of his medically induced coma but doctors fear that he might have brain damage.

[Somniloquism]

A good crash does help though.

Remember these?

[Dave Cooper please]

More carnage yesterday, the bloke who got flung into the barbed wire fence made me cringe a bit, that must have hurt,

[spangley1812]

More carnage yesterday, the bloke who got flung into the barbed wire fence made me cringe a bit, that must have hurt,

Have you seen these Dave

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery/2011/jul/11/tourde-france-2011-crashes

[London Villan]

Any live streams anywhere for today? Cheers!

[Mac]

ITV 4 have coverage on their website i believe, if not try TVcatchup.com