Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

TDF Stage 20: Albertville - Val Thorens 59km

Options
  • 27-07-2019 10:58am
    #1
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭


    profile.jpg

    This race has become more dramatic then an episode of Fair City (not hard really) after the events of yesterday and forecasts and conditions for today. Stage cut down from 130km to what could be a 59km uphill battle. Start time is now 13:30 Irish time.

    7de45.jpg

    Already this morning there are reports of crap weather at the finish town with rain and thunder

    https://twitter.com/Nicogeay/status/1155011926977581056

    Todays uphill stage will 12 votes

    See JA go hell for leather from KM0 and win the Tour
    58% 7 votes
    Be another deluge of hail and landslides
    16% 2 votes
    see GC stay as it is
    0% 0 votes
    Be epic
    8% 1 vote
    see Ineosbots control the front and make it dull viewing
    0% 0 votes
    end with JA & EB tied on time and we,ll see a race into Paris tomorrow for once
    16% 2 votes


«1

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭neris


    https://twitter.com/friebos/status/1155053109984600064?s=19


  • Options
    #3
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,083 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    If you click the time on this webcam you can quickly zip through the last few hours and see the weather closing in.

    https://www.valthorens.com/en/webcam/restaurant-la-maison


  • Options
    #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Have a vision of JA closing the gap to 3 secs, meaning a 3rd place finish in the sprint is enough to win the Tour and a huge strop from Viviani that he won't be supported in the sprint.


  • Options
    #5
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 38,460 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    If this stage gets cancelled it's going to turn one of the greatest tours in years into a forgotten one. Yesterday was bad enough to take the shine off, today would completely ruin it. Still wondering how things would have ended up with a full stage yesterday. I really feel Bernal went too hard and would have suffered on the last climb.


  • Options
    #6
    REBELSAFC
    Registered Users Posts: 643 ✭✭✭REBELSAFC


    I think a 59km "sprint" up a mountain would make for great racing on another day but not the penultimate day of the Tour.A massive anti-climax after the drama of the previous few weeks.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Even Kelly has his coat on. That can’t be good news weather wise.


  • Options
    #8
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    I'd love it if Alaphillipe pulled out something ...cant see it happening ...but would love it

    Also Uran ...he was so upset yesterday as just finding form


  • Options
    #9
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,761 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    I think Bernal wins, Thomas overtakes JA for 2nd and 3rd is a shítshoot between those left in and around JA.


  • Options
    #10
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,761 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    eab1zaixuaa3sbg_670.jpeg


  • Options
    #11
    Raoul Duke
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke


    Inquitus wrote: »
    eab1zaixuaa3sbg_670.jpeg

    No intermediate sprint today I see. Lucky that the Green Jersey battle wasn't close.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    First time I've heard Cummings get mentioned for the whole tour.


  • Options
    #13
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,848 ✭✭✭griffin100


    REBELSAFC wrote: »
    I think a 59km "sprint" up a mountain would make for great racing on another day but not the penultimate day of the Tour.A massive anti-climax after the drama of the previous few weeks.

    A 59km mountain TT would have been more entertaining :)


  • Options
    #14
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,761 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    I'd love it if Alaphillipe pulled out something ...cant see it happening ...but would love it

    Also Uran ...he was so upset yesterday as just finding form

    Aye there is no doubt this weather event had a massive impact on the outcome of the tour sadly.


  • Options
    #15
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    Porte out of top 10 now, very disappointing tour from him!


  • Options
    #16
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    JA has cracked


  • Options
    #17
    kmart6
    Registered Users Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Alaphilippe gone


  • Options
    #18
    Angliru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Angliru


    Scenes if Bernal wins the stage and takes the polka dots too. French cycling in tatters after such promise a few days ago.


  • Options
    #19
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    Angliru wrote: »
    Scenes if Bernal wins the stage and takes the polka dots too. French cycling in tatters after such promise a few days ago.

    I would hardly say it's in tatters, they've had a great tour this year!


  • Options
    #20
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    Go Vincenzo!


  • Options
    #21
    Angliru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Angliru


    at1withmyself wrote: »
    I would hardly say it's in tatters, they've had a great tour this year!

    Not in that sense of course, but to go from all of that promise and hope to sweet f*ck all in a couple of days will hurt.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    letape
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭letape


    at1withmyself wrote: »
    I would hardly say it's in tatters, they've had a great tour this year!

    Agreed. Certainly not in tatters. JA and Pinot won three stages between them.


  • Options
    #23
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    letape wrote: »
    Agreed. Certainly not in tatters. JA and Pinot won three stages between them.


    Barguil moving into top 10 shows he's back in firm this year too


  • Options
    #24
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    Who will attack? I think Bernal wants a stage win!


  • Options
    #25
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    at1withmyself wrote: »
    Who will attack? I think Bernal wants a stage win!

    Too late, I think


  • Options
    #26
    letape
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭letape


    Can’t believe SK won’t try something to get second overall


  • Options
    #27
    kmart6
    Registered Users Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Bit anti-climatic in the end.


  • Options
    #28
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    letape wrote: »
    Can’t believe SK won’t try something to get second overall

    It would've been funny if buchmann went for 3rd, suprised he didn't as he had nothing too lose? Maybe on the limit.


  • Options
    #29
    DanDublin1982
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭DanDublin1982


    Incredible ride from Nibali. Great to see on a day that offered little else.


  • Options
    #30
    BuffaloTengo
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭BuffaloTengo


    Shudder to think if Papa Valverde won that. Thank god for Nibali. Happy for SK podium.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    letape
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭letape


    at1withmyself wrote: »
    It would've been funny if buchmann went for 3rd, suprised he didn't as he had nothing too lose? Maybe on the limit.

    You’re right, maybe he should have tried! He finished 2 seconds up on SK at the end of the stage.


Advertisement