Is Bastille Day, expect some French moves
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TdF 2021 Avec spoilers
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Curious bit of tactics/aggro in last few km.
Obviously there are times when small groups working together has mutual advantages, but if one or more riders want to get the benefit without the efforts, that’s part of pro cycling surely?
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Fair for Carapaz to take advantage and coast home putting time into Rigo. But pushed his luck by not contributing then attacking. Fascinating stuff though highlights will. Be good
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“pushed his luck by not contributing then attacking“
No doubt under the equivalent of ‘Queensbury Rules’, but do team managers understand/agree?
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He will be seen as fair game for a doing now. In terms of attacking him. But may well come to nothing. His time trialing is poor. Compared to the two above and Uran. Uran has maybe cracked though.
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This being the Tour de France, however, there are always plenty of gripping stories to focus on. Teams such as Ineos Grenadiers will be desperate for a first stage victory as the days until Paris steadily disappear. Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious), Nairo Quintana (Arkéa Samsic) and Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) will be gunning for polka-dot jersey points. Green jersey rivals Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck–Quick-Step), Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange) and Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain Victorious) will all have designs on the intermediate sprint at Pouzac, which comes after 62.7km, so that may see a flat-out start to the stage.
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Police raided Bahrain Victorious yesterday
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/bahrain-victorious-raided-by-police-at-tour-de-france-2021?
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22m ago 13:21
104km to go: Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) spoke to ITV before today’s stage: “It still makes Paris seem a long way off ... it’s only a short stage today ... but it’s definitely one of the hardest to make the time cut, today. We’ll have to go full gas.”Asked about tackling the Tourmalet again: “It is what it is ... What I know is ... the group of lads make a bubble around me, and it gets me through. It that doesn’t help me through nothing else can.”
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Bahrain? I would have thought United Arab Emirates.?
The people of Bahrain don’t like Fred Flinstone but the people og Abu Dhabi do.
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22m ago 16:45
Wout van Aert speaks to Eurosport: “Until 5km to go we had 75% of the team [three riders, that is] in the first group ... we hoped to go again for the stage today ... in the end, Vingegaard got beaten by Pogacar who was probably stronger ...”Halfway through the interview, Vingegaard comes and embraces Van Aert, and thanks him for his efforts.
Van Aert goes on: “It’s special to see how Vingegaard is handling the pressure. It’s really deserved. The special thing about it is that he didn’t expect to be in the GC race.”
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Pogacar's e-assist today was bit too obvious?
He just cruised by at finish. Amazing. :-)
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Shuggiet has won our league. Good strong team/
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4m ago 14:15
73km to go: The gap is 5’50”. I’m going to make a cup of tea.
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1h ago 12:41
Bradley Wiggins, on a motorbike out on the road for Eurosport, directly contradicts Froome’s assessment of the course by saying it’s tricky and technical.
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Mark Cavendish
The British sprint cyclist making sporting history, against the odds. After illness and injury, the 36 year-old has equalled the record for the most Tour de France stage wins.
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He was most Brat like with the mechanic?
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A few hours later, he apologised on social media. “My bike had some problems when I got on it this morning,” he said. “Despite this, I should not have reacted in the way that I did and not so publicly.
“Although they know how short I can be when I’m stressed, no one, especially those you care about, deserves to have a voice raised to them.”
But he is also renowned as having a forensic eye for detail, obsessive over order and neatness. Merckx himself remembered when Cavendish once stayed overnight at his house with some team mates. “Mark was the only one who cleaned his room, and left it neat and tidy,” Merckx said approvingly. “A gentleman of exemplary politeness. We don’t really know the character of the man behind the image he presents, but what I get from him in the first place is simply his kindness. He is charming even.
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Hopefully the Vuelta will have fit Egan Bernal ready to be tested? He cruised to victory at the Giro.
Carapaz did well but not able to match the young team
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Chris Froome has been named the Tour’s nicest rider by the on-road camera crew. Not the biggest prize he’s claimed in Paris, but he’s happy nonetheless. “I’m incredibly proud to have got through a Tour that was as intense as this one,” he says.
“[There have been] as few finishers as we’ve had in the past 20 years in the race. So really proud to be getting to Paris, and to be back in the Tour de France after the accident I had.” Will be back in 2022? “I hope so, I hope so.”
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Next year.
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If the drugs last
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big up shuggie on top, 234 out of 25959
and a tip of the hat to chug, for the lanterne rouge
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Is this the best CCE result since Earthowned actually won it? Top 1 per cent Go Shuggiet
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