Originally Posted by
jwill87ta
Anyone watching the race on Eurosport think the announcers might be slightly biased toward Sir Wiggo? He attacked for probably the first time on a climb ever, and you would have thought that he put a 100m gap on the rest of the group in mere seconds. They could barely contain themselves.
That's true, to an extent. It"'s a Brit commentary team and nobody has quite got over the fact that a Brit won the Tour last year. He's a hero. Plus, to be fair to him (and them) he has ridden very aggressively so far in this race, which is not how he won the Tour, so he does deserve some credit for that.
They're very fond of Rodriguez, too. Can't blame them, he's usually good to watch.
As for the mountain stage bonuses, Rodriguez is ahead in the GC despite having finished in the same group as Wiggo in all three stages, so I can't see that they can have been neutralised.