FTDF Stage 10 - Tommy V’s Knees Please Frenchies

Rumor has it, Thomas Voeckler is called “Hollywood” by his colleagues in the bunch, as he’s such a good actor and loves to pull faces for the cameras.

 

Coming into the Tour, all the talk was of his knees(or genou as they like to say in France). Well I guess he was doing some of that acting, as it looks like they’re fine to me. He just won a tough stage in the mountains out of the remains of a big break, and now leads the mountains classification – he’s still a bus-ride away from the race lead though.

 

In the yellow jersey group, there was a bit of a dig from Nibali on the descent, but team Sky looked in control, and only the Bile Beans duo of Van Den Broeck and Rolland were able to slip away before the finish to gain a few seconds.

 

So Bradley Wiggins still has the yellow jersey, and Chris Froome still sits in third place.

 

The British success at the Tour must have been noticed back in the UK, as listening to the radio on my way to work this morning (Radio 6 through the internet), I heard a request for a “shout-out” for the “Froome-Dog”. Although the DJs did seem a bit confused as to who or what the Froome-Dog was.

I will be able to find out myself how much the UK has been taken over by Tour Fever soon. As tomorrow, the Pance Family are leaving on a jet-plane to visit the old country. I’ll be in York from the 13^th-16^th and Norwich 19^th-23^rd, to sign autographs, sell Bile Beans merchandise and remind myself what rain looks like. Drop me a line or hit me up on Facebook if you want to hang out. While I’m gone I’ll do my best to keep up with the Blog. There may however be a slight drop in quality while I’m travelling. Not that it will be easy to spot, as my blog isn’t very good.

Anyhooze, over to the league, and who should be on top, but the Flamin’ Nadgers? They only netted 117 points today, which is a lot worse than To Infinity and Beyond, who earned an impressive 419. It’s still a better score than the Smugblokes managed though, and today’s score of 72 isn’t going to help them get out of that lantern rouge position.

MINI LEAGUE SCORES

Tour De Pance

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Flamin` nadgers	Andrew Windrum	4007
2		Return of Reflex	Karl	3684
3		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	3475
4		temple of FROOME	Tom	3454
5		Hell of the North	Vincent Lavallee	3174
6		The Charmers	Craigatron	3166
7		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	3115
8		Velo raptors	Warwick Anderson	3081
9		Drews Riders Using Genuine Supplements	Drew Stephenson	3043
10		TheFastMenOnBikes Part II:THE SEQWHEEL!	Teagan	3010
11		TEAM ITV4	Andrew Danson	2967
12		15	Joe Danson	2939
13		RaboBrad	Brad	2927
14		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	2895
15		Team Awesomeness	William MacKenzie	2689
16		Rouleurs	tdm911	2660
17		Its Sky Time	Mark	2647
18		Crazy Uncle Vince	Baby Lavallee	2641
19		Cejay`s Vanguard	Cejay	2612
20		To Infinity and Beyond	Nick Cuthbert	2561
21		10 minute team	dspeck	2249
22		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	2220
23		Ned`s Boys	Elizabeth MacKenzie	2086
24		Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	2083
25		The Hopalongs	Dave	2083
26		Ph.Dizzles	Ben	2009
27		Looking Good in Lycra	Catherine Windrum	1804
28		Marmite Men	Alasdair MacKenzie	1786
29		Dexter`s Midnight Wheelers	noj	1708
30		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	1478

 

There’s more mountains on the menu for tomorrow, with some proper hard Alps and a mountain-top finish. That should separate the wheat from the chaff, men from boys, cats from kittens, Froome Dogs from Frome Dogs..........