{"id":282,"date":"2016-07-04T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2016-07-04T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:08:27","slug":"the-tour-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/the-tour-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tour so Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour is here and it&#8217;s here with a bang. A big bang I am tempted to say and answers to the name of Mark Cavendish. He also answers to Cav. Well, in the opening stage of the Tour, Cav won the yellow jersey. A first for him and how great it was. OK I have to admit that I am a great fan of his\u00a0so, maybe I am exaggerating with my celebration. It is great to see a sprinter in the leader&#8217;s jersey, though.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 and as soon as I saw the profile I realised that Cav will have to hand the yellow jersey to a new leader. He was hoping it would be his Norwegian teammate Edvald Boasson Hagen but it turns out that it&#8217;s the World Champion himself, Peter Sagan. Now Peter Sagan started his career as a sprinter but he developed himself into a puncheur; but a puncheur that can really sprint, too. Peter Sagan in yellow, then. A first for him, too. Oh, and as he has proven already there is no such thing as &#8220;the curse of the rainbow jersey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest news, though is that Alberto Contador\u00a0is 48 seconds down on Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana and Fabio Aru. Richie Porte is trailing by 1:45 and Vincenzo Niballi only by 11 seconds. Looking at the major contenders and some notable names it looks like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alejandro Valverde (Movistar): 10 seconds behind Peter Sagan.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Froom (Sky), Nairo Quintana (Movistar), Fabio Aru (Astana), Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Drapac), Simon Gerrans (Orica-BikeExhange), Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida), Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo), Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha), Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing): 14 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Thibaut Pinot (FDJ): 25 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Alberto Contandor (Tinkoff): 1:02.<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo): 1:42.<\/li>\n<li>Richie Porte (BMC Racing): 1:59.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alberto Contador had a nasty crash on Stage 1 and another (lighter one) on Stage 2. Richie Porte had a rear puncture 5 km from the finish of Stage 2 and that left him with no teammates around him and only a neutral service car to help him. He tried to limit his losses but it doesn&#8217;t look good. For Contador might be harder though because of\u00a0the pain and lost skin he will not be sleeping well so his recovery will suffer.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Froome, Quintana and Aru have the most chances for wearing yellow in Paris. Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 3 is supposed to be one for the sprinters. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see a good fight to the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour is here and it&#8217;s here with a bang. A big bang I am tempted to say and answers to the name of Mark Cavendish. He also answers to Cav. Well, in the opening stage of the Tour, Cav won the yellow jersey. A first for him and how great it was. OK I&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/the-tour-so-far\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,78,79],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-cycling","tag-mark-cavendish","tag-peter-sagan","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}