Vetplant Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 31:42 3m09 gap13:49 5min gap The elastic finally snapped after an hour. Total Direct enegry gave up the chase Quickstep now pulling the peloton along
Dirt Tracker Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 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: 37cTeams without a stage win: 14
Gen Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 Lol rain falls and they are all smiling now.. cool down
Dirt Tracker Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 Shame, DSTV's aussie commentators running EddyB's form / career down into the retirement box. Interesting fact: The status of the Tour de France in 2011 at the stage 16 point was almost a mirror image of the Tour de France 2019, with a surprising frenchman in yellow in Thomas Voeckler (Alaphilippe) and a finish in Gap.Also wasn't it the descent into Gap, way back, where Armstrong went all CX and off-roaded across that field?
Skylark Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 How was the peleton dropped so hard on this stage, winner + breakaway 11km ahead of them?
Jehosefat Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 How was the peleton dropped so hard on this stage, winner + breakaway 11km ahead of them? My guess is that all the GC teams are taking it easy to prepare for the next 3 huge days in the mountains and most other teams had guys in the breakaway so no-one was really prepared to chase.
Skylark Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 My guess is that all the GC teams are taking it easy to prepare for the next 3 huge days in the mountains and most other teams had guys in the breakaway so no-one was really prepared to chase.Wouldn't the Yellow Jersey French guy have wanted to finish closer to the front than 20mins behind? Is huge gaps like this normal I would have thought 5-10mins maybe not 20kms+?
Gen Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 Wouldn't the Yellow Jersey French guy have wanted to finish closer to the front than 20mins behind? Is huge gaps like this normal I would have thought 5-10mins maybe not 20kms+?Four things. The size of the break away when it formed.. No reason to chase, no one up the road threatened GC Special rule today regarding time cut..save energy where they can. And yes 3 flippen hard stages await.
devocean Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 Wouldn't the Yellow Jersey French guy have wanted to finish closer to the front than 20mins behind? Is huge gaps like this normal I would have thought 5-10mins maybe not 20kms+? Depends on who is in the breakaway. If best placed guy in the breakaway is 30 mins down on GC, then they don't care to lose 20 mins to him as then he'd still be 10 mins down on GC and therefore no threat. So basically, the gap that they let the breakaway get will be based on time of the best placed guy in the breakaway
devocean Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 Cool to see both Yates brothers cruising in like 15 mins down so that they are allowed away in the next few days
devocean Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 That descent is what I show people when they ask what's exciting about cycling... I went to a bar to try catch the end of Milan San Remo and it was full of guys watching the rugby (Stormers). Somehow managed to convince them to switch the channel to the cycling "just for a second". I copped some abuse for a minute after the channel was changed, but as soon as the race went over the Poggio and the guys were descending like demons, all those rugby guys were glued to the screen and we watched right till the end of the race. They loved it.
dsw Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 I wonder what was it with Tony Martin trying to barge Luke Rowe off the road?
Gen Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 I wonder what was it with Tony Martin trying to barge Luke Rowe off the road?Luke Rowe on Tony Martin: "We're both doing the same role, both doing the same job, it was nothing really. I rolled over the line with him, it's all good, we shook hands. We just got in each other's way. That's bike racing. All good." #TDF2019 They have both been sent to the principal's office Apparently both have been kicked out of the tour [emoji15] for both to get the boot something else must have happened leading up to that little bit we saw Aaaah the full clip clears things up, stupid from both of them.
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