........last Fridays roll call went something like this...........
Oscar Freire - punctured lung and broken rib ; Maarten Wynants - percolated lung and two broken ribs ; Woet Poels - bruised lung , torn kidney , torn spleen , three broken ribs ; Imanol Ervita -bruised lungs , ripped knee ; Ametz Txurruka - broken collar bone ; Gorka Verdugo - a hole in his leg big enough to post a letter in.........Griepel coming in second on a sprint stage with a dislocated shoulder , ripped elbow and knee , split thumb...........the tuesday before , Tjallingii finished the third stage - 197 kms - only to discover that he had fractured a hip............................
No , not some terrorist attack , just the fall out from the first six days or so of the Tour de France.............just another day at the races . As we speak , Murray has lost again at Wimbledon to vast media coverage , Button and Hamilton fail again at Silverstone to vast media coverage , whilst over in France Wiggins and the Sky team are blitzing the field . No British rider has ever won Le Tour , and Wiggins is only the fifth British rider to wear the yellow jersey . Team Sky currently hold
first and third places , with a more than reasonable chance of winning.......and with still the best part of another two weeks to go , anything can happen..........maybe even a mention in the media without the spectre of doping............
..........a rest day today , Tuesday , and then off again tomorrow.......just another day at the races.
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