Alpe d'Huez

[mcunnama]

Does anyone know whether there'll be live coverage of any sort online?

[Matthieu O’Halloran - "M@"]

Hey mcunnama I speak french and looked around!
But did not find anything...

[DamienC]

Hey Mrs C, I've also had a sniff.  There doesn't seem to be anything, but maybe we can convince Flick to post tweets from the venue for the long race, and everyone else for the short course?

[andrej]

tri247 has some updates on twitter

[mcunnama]

Thanks Andrej - that's better than nothing... 

[mcunnama]

Looks like Aaron got 3rd and James 6th - James lead into T2 I think but had a 5 min penalty in T2 for drafting/dangerous riding?? 

[DamienC]

What was the penalty for?

[doc]

the penalty was for it being a french farce
i followed the whole way and the 3 best riders who attacked each other all day up every climb
got the penalties
but then the draft buster was only seen 3 times the whole ride
and you guessed it  pinged one of them every time .
i told the race organisor he had the best bike ride ive seen there ruined by a pratt .
to drop the  french federation sanction , and let em draft
3 climbs of 10klm  or longer ,
it would be far safer .
its not like this is an itu or hawaaii course .
this is the complete test .
unless your chrissie and she can go down like a cow  but goes up like a motor bike .
every one else is made pay for descending deficiencies  not just climbing ones .
its the ultimate test .
and just before i get a load of but i tu this and that
both tim don  and nicola spirig   gave a master class in mountain climbing in the short one .
yes there are some old time triathletes still racing short , who can do it all and lets not forget mr hug
taking on the long one and walking away with a podium .
but outside our squad  its a dieing breed .

[mcunnama]

If you're in South Africa they're showing the Alpe on Mass Participation Series on SS this week. Next airing on SS6 Sat 13/8 at 12.30pm. Worth watching, and the commentators leave a BIG unspoken question mark hanging over the dodgy penalty...