Tour de France 2019 General Thread

neris

Shedite27 wrote: »

Any board leage setup for the Fantasy game?

No, Velogames don't do a TDF league

TGD

What time does the flag drop?

TGD

TGD wrote: »

What time does the flag drop?

4km left of the roll out according to the panel on Eurosport there.

MPFGLB

I really fancy Dan Martin for a podium for this Tour ...if he can get to the final week in contention without crashes or illness
Staying safe in the opening stages is so crucial .No wonder he is unhappy about the 3 second rule being omitted

jimbobaloobob

Today is like the start of 21 days of Christmas

Angliru

I'd be thoroughly shocked if Martin podiums, would need several to crash out I feel. Will kindly take a charity bet with someone willing to oppose I don't think he'll top 5 FWIW. Really open race this year which I think will mean more riders will go for it instead of dilly dallying around.

odyssey06

Nicolas Roche's Tour Diary is back in The Irish Independent:
https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicolas-roches-tour-de-france-diary-with-florians-strength-i-might-finally-fulfil-my-destiny-38287116.html

retalivity

Angliru wrote: »

I'd be thoroughly shocked if Martin podiums, would need several to crash out I feel. Will kindly take a charity bet with someone willing to oppose I don't think he'll top 5 FWIW. Really open race this year which I think will mean more riders will go for it instead of dilly dallying around.

Barring crashes, the 2 sky lads, bardet, pinot, 1 from movistar will finish ahead of him. Would not be surprised to see nibbles and kruiswijk as well, possibly fuglsang too.

Dont see aru being a good mountain dom for dan to work with

Inquitus

Bernal is the bookies favourite interestingly enough:

Eamonnator

Angliru wrote: »

I'd be thoroughly shocked if Martin podiums, would need several to crash out I feel. Will kindly take a charity bet with someone willing to oppose I don't think he'll top 5 FWIW. Really open race this year which I think will mean more riders will go for it instead of dilly dallying around.

I'll bet you €20 that Dan finishes in the top 5.
If I win you pay to my charity, if you win I'll pay to your charity.

I've just had two glasses of wine with dinner.

Edit:I've looked at the odds on Paddy Power. Dan is 50/1 to win

Adamcp898

Does anyone know if there’s a highlights show on anywhere other than Eurosport?

Eamonnator

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there’s a highlights show on anywhere other than Eurosport?

ITV4 at 7.00pm

Angliru

Eamonnator wrote: »

I'll bet you €20 that Dan finishes in the top 5.
If I win you pay to my charity, if you win I'll pay to your charity.

I've just had two glasses of wine with dinner.

Edit:I've looked at the odds on Paddy Power. Dan is 50/1 to win

I originally said for him not to podium, but **** it, I'm in. 20 quid it is.

Eamonnator

Angliru wrote: »

I originally said for him not to podium, but **** it, I'm in. 20 quid it is.

O.K.

F***.
I was hoping, you'd forget.
It'll keep me interested.

Angliru

Eamonnator wrote: »

O.K.

F***.
I was hoping, you'd forget.
It'll keep me interested.

Haha. Okay, let's say he gets top 3 I'll double my donation to 40.

Eamonnator

Angliru wrote: »

Haha. Okay, let's say he gets top 3 I'll double my donation to 40.

Fair play.

jimbobaloobob

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there’s a highlights show on anywhere other than Eurosport?

TG4 also have highlights around 8:50 pm in English.

jimbobaloobob

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

TG4 also have highlights around 8:50 pm in English.

Love watching these every year with the ozzy lads. They usually pick up the stuff Kirby misses.

Melodeon

Mark Cavendish goes for ride with young fan ‘to cheer us both up’ after Tour de France omission

No result reported on who crossed the line first...

Harry Palmr

Just a headsup for people without Pay TV - S4C are showing the Tour in HD.

Inquitus

Lotto Jumbo will probably hold Yellow until PdBF now, excellent TTT

CramCycle

Might be an idea to keep stage comments either to their thread or until after midnight, even if in spoiler tags.

Eamonnator

Angliru wrote: »

I originally said for him not to podium, but **** it, I'm in. 20 quid it is.

I think, you can pick your charity now.

Weepsie

Deleted some posts that contain the times after today's stages. People want to get the highlights and purposely avoid the raceday threads, so don't post anything in here that will give it away when the stage has barely finished.

Tim76

Are the rest days different this year?

odyssey06

Tim76 wrote: »

Are the rest days different this year?

Usually it's the Monday, I wondered if with Bastille Day landing on a Sunday, Monday was also a holiday in France and the Tour didn't want to lose a holiday audience?

Tim76

odyssey06 wrote: »

Usually it's the Monday, I wondered if with Bastille Day landing on a Sunday, Monday was also a holiday in France and the Tour didn't want to lose a holiday audience?

Seems like a valid enough reason from a commercial point of view. Tough on the riders though.

odyssey06

Tim76 wrote: »

Seems like a valid enough reason from a commercial point of view. Tough on the riders though.

I wonder if that's why we had flat stage yesterday.
Also I notice that tomorrow's stage is a relatively short flat stage, rather than in previous years I think the tour usually resumed with a mountain stage.

I guess most riders will use Thursday's ITT as a training day in between the mountain stages, except for the time trial specialists and GC contenders.

dastardly00

Next Monday is a rest day so maybe today being a rest day was because of Bastille day being on Sunday

c.p.w.g.w

Is there any chance that Thomas loses time in the TT?

I'm hopeful the mountains have some GC drama