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Stage 3

 

All the fun in the back 60km of the stage, finishing with the final 500m at 8% gradient.

 

Should be easy to control the breakaway, so those going up the road will do it for airtime.

 

More of a classics-rider stage. 

 

Sagan, EBH, Kristoff, Mathews? Caleb Ewan is probably a good call, he has been doing good in these uphill finishes in 2019.

 

Be at your TV by 16h20 and you should catch them as they approach the first kick. Expect GvA to follow a move on the foot of the Cat 4 to hold onto the polka-dot a little while longer

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Stage 3

 

All the fun in the back 60km of the stage, finishing with the final 500m at 8% gradient.

 

Should be easy to control the breakaway, so those going up the road will do it for airtime.

 

More of a classics-rider stage. 

 

Sagan, EBH, Kristoff, Mathews? Caleb Ewan is probably a good call, he has been doing good in these uphill finishes in 2019.

 

Be at your TV by 16h20 and you should catch them as they approach the first kick. Expect GvA to follow a move on the foot of the Cat 4 to hold onto the polka-dot a little while longer

I would throw WvA and Velverde in there.....

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Stage 3

 

All the fun in the back 60km of the stage, finishing with the final 500m at 8% gradient.

 

Should be easy to control the breakaway, so those going up the road will do it for airtime.

 

More of a classics-rider stage.

 

Sagan, EBH, Kristoff, Mathews? Caleb Ewan is probably a good call, he has been doing good in these uphill finishes in 2019.

 

Be at your TV by 16h20 and you should catch them as they approach the first kick. Expect GvA to follow a move on the foot of the Cat 4 to hold onto the polka-dot a little while longer

Yeah and the roads are apparently very narrow, so yep a lot more to it than just the finish.

 

 

Alaphippe and Valverde also licking their lips.. would also not surprise me at all to see Dan Martin in the mix.2f55d64ce3429a791ebcebe86d571fc5.jpg

 

To add.. as for DDD they will really have to work very hard for a long period of time to try and not get bullied out by the big teams for those last 10km, perhaps today is a good day to send Cummings in the break?

 

And now that i think about it.. that intermediate sprint point could also make things complicated... depending on who is in the break and how big the breakaway group is.. we know Sagan likes getting as many points as possible early on in the TDF.

 

Many aspects to today's stage hey.

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And maybe Groenewegen if he has recovered enough???

I think the whole stage is too difficult for Dylan (perhaps have an eye on tomorrow)and I think Bora and DQ will go out to make this stage difficult. Think Jumbo will work for Van Aert today, he could end up in Yellow.
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I think the whole stage is too difficult for Dylan and i think Bora and DQ will go out to make this stage difficult. Think Jumbo will work for Van Aert today, he could end up in Yellow.

Johan Bruyneel agrees with you
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Daily on The move podcast.

 

The man is controversial but has very deep knowledge

Yeah no doubt about that.
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Do you follow Malcolm Lange on twitter? Did you see his latest tweet? Hint: It's a picture of his son with someone outside his team bus.

I do not... is it with our Sagan?

 

Oh hang on, it appeared on my timeline..someone must have retweeted it.. I already liked it.. lol..

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I do not... is it with our Sagan?

Indeed. Tyler looks rather happy. I have raced with/against(briefly as the lightie can turn a crank pretty well) him and he is obviously a Sagan fan as he wears Sagans black world champ helmet. He now has a very brag-worthy picture.

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Indeed. Tyler looks rather happy. I have raced with/against(briefly as the lightie can turn a crank pretty well) him and he is obviously a Sagan fan as he wears Sagans black world champ helmet. He now has a very brag-worthy picture.

Very very cool..young one will be smiling for days

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