Tour de France Stage 3 - Make your own fun, then Cav wins

It turns out that certain members of the TLG team don't have the patience to fully appreciate a slow burning flat stage. But more on that in a minute.

Today's stage was the last of the Tour to start in La Manche, with Peter Sagan wearing yellow as the peloton headed out of Granville. And like the town's namesake, our live tweeting is open all hours.


What, you must have seen that coming. As you may have guessed from the previous tweet, the captain of the TLG Twitter ship today, @AndrewSteel88, wasn't entirely enjoying the... shall we say uneventful stage? Thomas Voeckler saw the iceberg, seizing the opportunity for one of his trademark reckless attacks.

Sadly, not even Voeckler's antics were enough to catch Andy's interest, as he went for #TourSnacks.
Other stackable crisps are available.
See? Andy mentioned earlier that the pace was leisurely, but that may be doing actual leisurely things a disservice. Not even actual journalists were impressed.
Even ITV were struggling to make it interesting, resorting to dragging poor unsuspecting Australians into the commentary box.


Maybe Bernard will be looking to sign up those cows that were chasing the peloton. He must be on the lookout for an-udder addition to his cow-lection.


Ok, cow puns over. As the finish line drew closer, the peloton finally picked up the pace, or at least lifted it slightly off the floor.



This led to increased effort from Voeckler out front. Which led to:

Sadly, like all good Tommy Voeckler attacks, it was not to last to the line.


The sprint teams kicked on, with Etixx Quick-Step working for Marcel Kittel, Dimension Data for Mark Cavendish, and Lotto-Soudal for Andre Greipel.



It came down to Greipel and Cavendish, Greipel leading towards the line but Cavendish getting closer. But just how close?



Cheers Andy. There was a long period of confusion as Greipel celebrated, but replays were nowhere near as confident. And then...



So Mark Cavendish took his second stage of the Tour, and his 28th in total, putting him level with Bernard Hinault, behind only Eddy Merckx in the all time standings. And more importantly, keeping up his 100% record of winning stages Andy has live tweeted. Which is...



Cheers, Cav. See you all for Stage 4!

Stage results:
1. Mark Cavendish (DDD) 5:59:54
2. Andre Greipel (LTS) + :00
3. Bryan Coquard (DEN) + :00

General Classification:
1. Peter Sagan (TNK) 14:31:36
2. Julien Alaphilippe (EQS) + :08
3. Alejandro Valverde (MOV) + :10
4. Chris Froome (SKY) + :14
5. Warren Barguil (TGA) + :14

Points Classification:
1. Mark Cavendish (DDD) 123
2. Peter Sagan (TNK) 116
3. Andre Greipel (LTS) 79

King of the Mountains:
1. Jasper Stuyven (TFS) 4
2. Paul Voss (BOA) 2
3. Armindo Fonseca (FVC) 1
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