Enfin......

c'est beau!

its nice too see finishes like that

Dombrowski 4th! 18 sec back. Heard it was a great stage.

It was an awesome stage.

And yes, Dombrowski was seriously impressive. He was chasing with Van Garderen and dropped him a like stone, Sherwin and Ligget were going apeshit for the kid.

Will Kalbacker said:

This race has been a lot of fun to watch. 

Anyone catch Ben King's Strava from his breakaway victory on Monday? youch:

https://www.strava.com/activities/578595469/overview

It has. It also looks like Vanilla f-d up the forum post date-ordering when I tried to merge the old "Amgen 2012 Tour" with Will's new thread.

99% of the time my background cleanups of forum threads work 4% of the time

Stage 1. ToC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfdTgSmxER4

Stage 2 PoC

https://youtu.be/cQyNzssO7UU

Stage 3 PoC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxt9XZlRGs

Stage 4 PoC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3m0e1zWL7Q

Thought it was kind of jerky for Gaviria to try to shoulder the Axeon rider out of the way at the finish of stage one.  He had a clear shot on the right of his readout guy and there was no room on the left.  

http://www.steephill.tv/players/720/nbcsports4/?title=Last+3+Km+of+Stage+1&dashboard=tour-of-california&id=SUE8eJJVv2Yk&yr=2018

I was watching this race yesterday , this kid road great ,Alex Hoehn, but i couldn't help thinking his style was a like someone from American Flyers 

The race jury’s decision today was completely ridiculous !

Mark Taylor said:

The race jury’s decision today was completely ridiculous !

Agreed.  It's an embarrassment for the race.  But, ToC has a history of bending the rules so that the favored American wins.  They did it twice for Leipheimer.  

When Leipheimer crashed beyond the 3k to go sign.
http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/feb07/feb20news2

Then, when it looked certain that Leipheimer got beaten in the prologue.
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/california-prologue-leipheimer-does-double-take/

Yeah, they're reachin pretty far for that one 

-- don't even get me started about the few moments the EF car was pacing them.

Even TJ and Vaughters had no illusions that they have kept the jersey. Tejay actually missed the podium!

At least the chaos and drama certainly beat the giro yesterday -- also, Rigoberto being funny pointing the last few turns to Tejay, hilarious!

gotta fast forward to 6:40 or so, for TJ interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crvzaoVCn5A

" Tejay actually missed the podium!"

Apparently he had Lachlan Mortons shoes on as well