I totally missed that...when did that happen?

You know he hasn't had a very good mechanical tour and if he some how doesn't win I would almost blame it on mechanicals. He was late to the Prologue and lost like 8-10 sec because of a prerace flat...his bars broke and maybe also had a flat in the first TT, he has had another flat or two in the regular stages and now this...it HAS to have cost him on the order of 1:30 total to this point and that doesn't include the flats where he got back with the group.

Edit: I mean thinking back isn't the story that Lance in 7 years never had a flat? And I believe the only mechanical he had was a broken chain stay that he rode to thefinish on anyway.