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Context: https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/tour-de-france/2022/we-are-going-to-sprint-in-the-tour-with-fabio-jakobsen-mark-cavendish-to-miss-out-on-tour-de-france_sto8990523/story.shtml “It is no secret that we are going to sprint in the Tour with Fabio Jakobsen. Although I will continue to speak with two names until ad nauseam. “Last year, Sam Bennett was also a certainty, so to speak, but in the end Cavendish went to the Tour. I talked to him on the last weekend of the Giro. Mark said: ‘I'm a pro, I'll be ready until the last day.’”

Manx Missile...

That may be the point. Jacobsen might have always been the shoe-in pick for the TDF and Cav got the compromise deal of riding the Giro this year. Maybe this was discussed in the training camp in December already. We won't know.

I think we are completely out of touch with the context of the specific team and how they operate. Like John mentioned: Was Cav ever on the Long List or Short List for TDF? What is the current working relationship between the DS and CAV? Sitting here and judging either side is going to be flawed. It is what it is, sorry Cav. There will be hell to pay if the team doesn't bring home the bacon. But if they win 4 stages, one could argue they made a fair decision.

I know Cav is special in the fact that he has the joint record holder on stage races. BUT, taking half a step back. Do we really think each and every prospective TDF rider gets a call from his DS to break the news to him before it reaches the social media pages? We are all human, maybe the DS just had too much on his plate to call the great and mighty Cav to let him down softly.

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With Wout chasing Green, it is conceivable that JV can possibly walk away with all the Jerseys, IF they can beat Pog... It has been the case that the winner of the race has been able to pocket the Polka Dot by just chasing Yellow. If Vingegaard is above Pog, it means White is secured. Then Wout bringing home the Green, possibly. BUT, it doesn't help you chase all of them and lose Yellow. Thus, I'd think Yellow trumps all other ambitions. So get that in the bank and then the rest can chase the other jerseys.

IMPEY!

Have to say, I've always loved Vettel

5) Nice battle for GREEN....

I'm not a fan of the jersey....🤔

I'm slightly surprised in them leaving Rohan Dennis out. Less controlling to be done by them on the flatter stages, Wout will be tasked with babysitting the GC okes like a hawk in the first week.

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23k left, 2'46 lead for the Break... Surely the odds are in their favour?

They almost got it perfectly correct. Two main reason why it didn't work, IMHO, was because WvA asked the GC guys to pull(which they did), and the break didn't ride all the way to the line(cat&mouse in final km). If these things didn't happen, it might have resulted in the same result that we got in Stage 2, with WvA sprinting for 5th...

Sensational final 20km! Kudos to the Breakaway, they nearly got there.

at 71km to go, the break was 2'10 ahead. Peloton chased it down to 1'15 But now at 35 to go, they are back up to 2'20. Peloton is not just sitting around, they are trying to chase it. I'm thinking the Break has a chance here.

Today probably favours a Breakaway win. Maybe someone from Bahrain, EF and/or Quickstep, along with guys from the smaller teams.

Agree. Wout should be able to stick with the front runners until the end of stage 6. But stage 7 and 8 will be a bridge too far for him to stay with the mountain goats, methinks. Would be interesting to see if he tries to go as deep as possible on those stages to secure a good GC result, or if he plays domestique for Rog and Jonas.

So close again, but Wout will be content in pushing Ganna so close. JV sitting very pretty on GC

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