Pinot!

Eurosport even described it as "a heroic ride"!

Plagiarists!

All pinot has to do now is ride 29.3km a minute faster than a really​ good time triallist.

The Tour de France organisers will contact Jan Bakelants’ AG2R La Mondiale team to ask him to apologise after the Belgian rider was reported to have made derogatory comments about the race’s ‘podium girls’ in an interview with the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.

Asked what he would take with him for his free moments during the Tour, the former wearer of the yellow jersey in the event allegedly said: “A packet of condoms, for sure. You never know where those podium [hostesses] hang out.”

Pinot is almost 4 munutes down. He might be allowed into breaks, now, to go for stage wins.

Was that just off the time trial or did he somehow inexplicably fall off the back of the peloton?

There was a lot of movement to the side, of the road, but Sagan looks to be following a wheel as Cav tries to get through to follow the same. There's often leaning and so on. It's shitty for Cav, but shouldn't be a DQ.

Anyway, Thrilling Heroics tomorrow, I reckon.

It ain't ballet out there.

Sprints are regularly full of tension as riders fight for wheels and space and there’s frequent contact and danger, both voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary as in almost nobody wants to harm a rival but they have to defend their position and push for openings, all while travelling at 60km/h. This time Mark Cavendish tried to come past Peter Sagan. Sagan put an elbow out… but this seemed to be only after Cavendish was tipping over, as if Sagan was reflexively trying to correct his balance and trajectory rather than bodycheck Cavendish but the jury didn’t see it this way. The irony is that Sagan stayed upright and this gave the impression that he downed Cavendish for his advantage but had this been another rider perhaps they’d have fallen after tangling with Cavendish and the commissaires would not have been so zealous?

Oh, JESUS CHRIST PINOT

52 minutes seperates Pinot from a yellow jersey.