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Woohoo, stage 9 starts half an hour earlier tonight.

10:30 rolled around last night and I didn't know what to do to. I was used to staying up late.

Any updates on the condition of O'Grady & Rogers ?

Even the SBS website has no other details ...

tuco wrote:Woohoo, stage 9 starts half an hour earlier tonight.

10:30 rolled around last night and I didn't know what to do to. I was used to staying up late.

I was still watching the tape from the previous night

MichaelB wrote:Any updates on the condition of O'Grady & Rogers ?

Even the SBS website has no other details ...

I've read different things throughout the morning...and mostly on the same site!! Anything from 5 broken ribs to 8 to 9...broken shoulder to broken collarbone and broken shoulderblade. So I'm not sure what is actually wrong with him!! But...he is in a serious but stable condition with wife and brother there for comfort - they are trying not to make him laugh as even clearing his throat hurts like hell.

He was cleared of any spinal damage which is great, but he won't be back for a bit. Glad he looks on the mend though and he sounds positive. If it were me...I'd be pathetic

O'Grady has a flail chest and it'll take him a while to recover out of it. I think his season has finished for the year.

moosterbounce wrote:

MichaelB wrote:Any updates on the condition of O'Grady & Rogers ?

Even the SBS website has no other details ...

I've read different things throughout the morning...and mostly on the same site!! Anything from 5 broken ribs to 8 to 9...broken shoulder to broken collarbone and broken shoulderblade. So I'm not sure what is actually wrong with him!! But...he is in a serious but stable condition with wife and brother there for comfort - they are trying not to make him laugh as even clearing his throat hurts like hell.

He was cleared of any spinal damage which is great, but he won't be back for a bit. Glad he looks on the mend though and he sounds positive. If it were me...I'd be pathetic

8 breaks in his ribs, that's got to hurt. I had a cracked rib 30 years ago and it still hurts to this day at times. Only missed one game of footy though.

How did O'Grady fall off?

mikesbytes wrote:How did O'Grady fall off?

Apparently he had gone back to the the Team Vehicle to get drinks, and was reagaining the peleton when a guy overtaking him knocked him off.

In addition to the fractured ribs, shoulder, punctured lung, he also cracked 3 vertebrae !!!!

Apparently crash happened a bit earlier than the Rogers incident

I fractured 2 ribs just over 5 weeks ago, that was pretty uncomfortable.
I tried going for a ride after about 3 weeks which was OK but then the next day i was really sore. It's OK now although still a little achey.

O'Grady has got some serious mending to do, poor fella

nimm wrote:I fractured 2 ribs just over 5 weeks ago, that was pretty uncomfortable.
I tried going for a ride after about 3 weeks which was OK but then the next day i was really sore. It's OK now although still a little achey.

O'Grady has got some serious mending to do, poor fella

OWW. Bet you worked hard to avoid laughing.

Shaun

sleeping was the real problem! kept waking up all the time cause i'd move and moving was bad =)

Bugger!

My back is sore and I want to got to bed and rest and tape the race but we're having our roof replaced and the stupid workmen were using the aerial as a coat stand today and now we can't get very good reception of 7, 9 and SBS.
7 and 9 I don't care about but bloody SBS in the middle of the race! I don't recall drowning a kitten!

They're not getting here tomorrow until after I go to work and I suppose they'll be too stupid to fix it so I'll have to get up there and do it myself. We're in a high set house and it's very difficult to get on the roof, even harder with a sore back. Maybe I could delay payment until they sort it out.

hope that labrador had insurance...that wheel don't come cheap!

toolonglegs wrote:hope that labrador had insurance...that wheel don't come cheap!

huh, labrador? someone's dog ran into a wheel?

yeah a labrador took out a t mobile rider...the front wheel just collasped.
Come on cadel!...

Some idiot with a labrador OFF LEAD next to the race. There are times when the human race makes me shake my head in wonder.

Cadell had a good race with a mix of aggressive riding and lousy luck. Every year we see a group of pro riders suddenly act like a pack of amateurs and bicker over position rather than work as a group. Bet Cadell had a few second thoughts about letting himself fall back to the yellow jersey group. He's now in fourth, among a group of riders about 2 and a half minutes behind Rasmussen. It's going to get exciting.

Man, what a race. The acceleration and speed up those hills is utterly awesome.

Richard

It was a French labrador.

tuco wrote:Bugger!

My back is sore and I want to got to bed and rest and tape the race but we're having our roof replaced and the stupid workmen were using the aerial as a coat stand today and now we can't get very good reception of 7, 9 and SBS.
7 and 9 I don't care about but bloody SBS in the middle of the race! I don't recall drowning a kitten!

They're not getting here tomorrow until after I go to work and I suppose they'll be too stupid to fix it so I'll have to get up there and do it myself. We're in a high set house and it's very difficult to get on the roof, even harder with a sore back. Maybe I could delay payment until they sort it out.

Great, wake up today to a non working hot water service then had to watch a snowy picture of the taped race. I love the scenery in this part of the world and I couldn't see it. I suppose the snowy picture suited the high altitudes.

I was just looking through the list of all the current riders and realised why we never hear about 90% of them, as good as Phil and Paul are at these foreign words their probably can't pronounce their names.

Was anyone else scared when Rogers pulled up to exit the race? At first I thought he was going to ride over the edge then he stopped centimetres from the edge and was very slow to unclip and I could picture him falling over to the right and down the hill. Course he's a professional and had it all under control!

I think Cadel is sitting in a nice spot,I think it was a good idea to sit up.I can't believe the way that the discvery boys were swapping off and the way the chasers were stuffing around that they came back together!,I thought those two were long gone.Bring on the ITT!.

europa wrote:
Man, what a race. The acceleration and speed up those hills is utterly awesome.

Richard

That is the understatement of the year !!!

After seeing all this hill climbing, I'll have to come and do the 3 gorges with you toolonglegs