Tour de France 2019

[Vetplant]

On your marks, get set, go go go

 

And

 

Go

 

 

Go

Go?

?

 

False start before they restart?

[Gen]

?

 

False start before they restart?

The flag dropped but no one went lol. Action now[emoji6]

[Gen]

Rule change for today

 

Time cut will be calculated from the group of favorites, not the break.

[Vetplant]

When was the last time a train split the riders...?

 

SAFETY REMINDER Race will pass under the Treize Arches railway Viaduct in Orange. For safety reasons, it's forbidden to penetrate the railway rights-of-way (collisions and electric chocks). Specific safety zones are available. More info

[Dirt Tracker]

It's going to be madness with that many teams without a win so far and pretty much the last stage for anyone to get a lion. Would be good to watch from the beginning. Going to be going from the gun until something sticks. 

[Vetplant]

33 riders off the front, including EHB and Ben King!  YAAASSS!!!!

 

(OK calm down...)

[Oxter]

33 riders off the front, including EHB and Ben King!  YAAASSS!!!!

 

(OK calm down...)

immediately looked for those two names when the names came up

[dsw]

Intermediate sprint = 20points

 

Mountain finish = 20 points

Hilly Stage finish = 30points

Flat stage Finish=50 points

 

So Max points still on offer per stage

17:20+30=50

18:20+20=40

19:20+20=40

20:20+20=40

21:20+50=70

 

So mathematically, the maximum someone can still get is an additional 240. 

 

BUT we know none of the sprinters will be at the pointy end of the race at the finish of the mountain stages. So just taking the values in BOLD, which is where the Sprinters can realistically contest, makes it a maximum of 180 points still on offer.

 

Sagan leads Viviani by 85 points. Which is a comfortable lead, but no way that he can sit up and take it easy. He will need to grab as many points as he can on all of the remaining days, even he finishes 2nd to Viviani in all of them, to ensure he doesn't give up his lead.

 

Still  a long way to Paris for Hulk.

 

 

 

Very interesting. I do not really pay much attention to the race for green and polka so I never knew that this is how the points are allocated. 

 

Did Viviani compete for the green jersey in the sense that he put in an effort to collect extra points or did he only collect his points by contesting the sprints for the stage wins and is therefore second for green by "default"? 

[Vetplant]

immediately looked for those two names when the names came up

Some SERIOUSLY strong riders up the road with them, this won't be easy, but they should get away at least.

[Gen]

Some SERIOUSLY strong riders up the road with them, this won't be easy, but they should get away at least.

It's big, I am struggling to see the difference between break away and peloton.

 

 

But this stage into Gap is cool.. 2015 (?) Sagan was in the break all day, animated the race..was dropped on that last steep climb and rode a fantastic descent with Pantana (when he was at AIM) on his wheel.. Sagan didn't win but came second, but it was an awesome stage

[lechatnoir]

It's big, I am struggling to see the difference between break away and peloton.

 

 

But this stage into Gap is cool.. 2015 (?) Sagan was in the break all day, animated the race..was dropped on that last steep climb and rode a fantastic descent with Pantana (when he was at AIM) on his wheel.. Sagan didn't win but came second, but it was an awesome stage

 

That descent is what I show people when they ask what's exciting about cycling... 

[Vetplant]

The break has 2min lead, safe to say it is now eshtablished.

 

Sagan can relax at the intermediate sprint, all points will be gobbled up.

 

Lets wait and see whether the break stays away till the end, I suspect it might.

[Vetplant]

Average speed for the first 10km of the stage today. 

[Vetplant]

31:42   3m09 gap

13:49  5min gap

 

The elastic finally snapped after an hour. Total Direct enegry gave up the chase

 

Quickstep now pulling the peloton along

[Dirt Tracker]

So okes in the break (or what should be called the peloton) are:

- Daniel Oss and Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe),
- Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick Step),
- Alexis Gougeard (Ag2r La Mondiale),
- Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida),

- Nelson Oliveira (Movistar),
- Omar Fraile, Gorka Izagirre and Magnus Cort Nielsen (Astana),
- Simon Clarke and Tom Scully (EF Education First),
- Chris Juul-Jensen and Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott),
- Greg van Avermaet and Michael Schär (CCC),
- Sven Erik Bystrom, Rui Costa, Sergio Henao and Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE Team Emirates), 
- Bauke Mollema, Thomas Skujins and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo), 

- Nicolas Roche (Sunweb),
- Natnael Berhane, Jesús Herrada, Anthony Pérez and Pierre-Luc Périchon (Cofidis),
- Thomas de Gendt and Jens Keukeleire (Lotto-Soudal),
- Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin),
- Xandro Meurisse and Andrea Pasqualon (Wanty-Groupe Gobert),
- Edvald Boasson Hagen and Ben King (Dimension Data). 

 

Temp: 37c

Teams without a stage win: 14

[Gen]

Lol rain falls and they are all smiling now.. cool down