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Tour de France (2023 from p54)

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  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Love the way Alaphilippe rides, and no doubt he'll continue to attack while in the maillot jaune.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Addickted said:
    I quite fancy Alaphilipe as an outsider.
    B)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    stonemuse said:
    Addickted said:
    I quite fancy Alaphilipe as an outsider.
    He’s my favourite French rider, very exciting. Podium is feasible. 
    Very pleased to see that today. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Great finish today, pleased for Viviani, plus Alaphalippe shows he can’t just race, he is also a lead out man :wink:
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082

    Adam Yates stage guide to this years Tours

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48851221


    makes an interesting read



  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Always good to see Sagan win and he did it in style 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Agreed, but I do dislike the way he bullies the other riders with his leaning and elbowing anyone around him. Seems he hasn't learned from his disqualification from two years ago.
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    I very much liked the rider in the red poker dots shirt ,wonder where here comes from.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Lewis Coaches said:
    I very much liked the rider in the red poker dots shirt ,wonder where here comes from.
    https://www.letour.fr/en/rider/168/lotto-soudal/tim-wellens
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Addickted said:
    Agreed, but I do dislike the way he bullies the other riders with his leaning and elbowing anyone around him. Seems he hasn't learned from his disqualification from two years ago.
    Everyone throws elbows around in a sprint. It's impossible not to. I'm not sure you realise just how intense it is. Even at the shit level I race at, elbows and shoulders are out all the time in sprints. Its a damn sight safer leaning the shoulder or elbow into someone at 55k/h than it is taking your hand off the bar. Also, it's widely acknowledged - even by Cav himself - that the Sagan/Cavendish crash was a racing incident that the commissaires got badly wrong
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  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Plus Sagan often sprints without a lead out man protecting hos corridor.  It's rare people criticise Sagan in the finish:  Unlike Cav in his early to mid period.

    La Planche de Belles Filles today.  Can't wait.  I hope to be cycling up it late summer.  Love the roads in the Vosge!  I shall note the time and triple it, and hope for top half on Strava.  Dan Martin for win today, a couple of stage 6s for his palmares.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    ColinTat said:
    Plus Sagan often sprints without a lead out man protecting hos corridor.  It's rare people criticise Sagan in the finish:  Unlike Cav in his early to mid period.

    La Planche de Belles Filles today.  Can't wait.  I hope to be cycling up it late summer.  Love the roads in the Vosge!  I shall note the time and triple it, and hope for top half on Strava.  Dan Martin for win today, a couple of stage 6s for his palmares.
    Really looking forward to today 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Never really liked Andre Greipel to be honest but seeing him in this Tour is quite nice to see with both Cavendish and Kittel absent

    Its the end of an era with those three but it would feel even more so with all three missing
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Thomas de Gendt again doing what he is great at. 
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    PaddyP17 said:
    Love the way Alaphilippe rides, and no doubt he'll continue to attack while in the maillot jaune.
    Brilliant that he did it, and equally brilliant that Geraint Thomas has gone past him.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    WHAT A RIDE GERAINT!!!

    What a marker from him to throw down, that was a ride we saw from last year

    Alaphillipe did really well, a little disappointed he didnt hold on
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Great ride by Thomas. 

     Alaphippe, my outsider for podium, amazing today. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Loved how the camera work was... Probably not deliberate but we saw Alaphilippe being chased down by an Ineos rider

    Of course didnt know who it was but then the angle changed and you knew it was the white glasses of Thomas

    Would have been a little surprised had it been Egan Bernal though
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    De Gendt is immense 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Cracking stage today. The shift De Gendt put in was superhuman. 
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Loved the chase to the line... Really glad de Gendt won as love it when the attackers manage to stay away from the peleton

    Mountains are going to be brilliant

    Can Ineos make up that time or will we get a French winner?
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    edited July 2019

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  • AppyAddick
    AppyAddick Posts: 1,475
    An amazing stage, so many brilliant performances today Pinot looks really strong. Still think G will have too much in the real mountain stages. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    AppyAddick said:
    An amazing stage, so many brilliant performances today Pinot looks really strong. Still think G will have too much in the real mountain stages. 
    I think the same. 
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Pinot does look strong, but he's done this before then had an jour sans. He can't handle the heat either, so when it gets really hot he'll melt. G looks the strongest, but lots of others still knocking around there or thereabouts. 

    Love me a bit of de Gendt - Lotto Soudal are my favourite team with him, Benoot and Wellens being my favourite riders to watch. All of them always put in a shift, de Gendt in a breakaway is a thing to behold 
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    edited July 2019
    Stage finishes in Albi today.... which has the largest brick built church in the world....lovely town.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Wow, some of the teams really screwed up today 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Great day for Ineos 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Addickted said:
    Addickted said:
    I quite fancy Alaphilipe as an outsider.
    B)
    End of first week with a 72 second lead :open_mouth:
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Addickted said:
    Addickted said:
    Addickted said:
    I quite fancy Alaphilipe as an outsider.
    B)
    End of first week with a 72 second lead :open_mouth:
    Indeed. I also saw him as a podium outsider. Whether he can keep it up, who knows. But he’s terrific to watch. 

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