Tour de France 2020 general thread (SPOILERS GALORE)

Macy0161

Deleted User wrote: »

There's the ITT at Tirreno-Adriatico to be watched today.

Giro Rosa too.

Macy0161

Macy0161 wrote: »

Giro Rosa too.

Think I saw it mentioned that today's stage would be the longest ever in a women's stage race at 170km.

nak

Deleted User wrote: »

Think I saw it mentioned that today's stage would be the longest ever in a women's stage race at 170km.

What we have been able to see of it has been great; gravel sectors on stage 2 looked brutal.

Seems that the JV TdF team have benefited from being able to train outdoors all year.

MPFGLB

The Belgians,Dutch and Slovenians were able to train outside all year


Te italians and Spanish and French were locked up for about 10- 12 weeks

I think the Italians came off worse cos soem like Viviani couldnt even train on their balconies

Shedite27

MPFGLB wrote: »

The Belgians,Dutch and Slovenians were able to train outside all year


Te italians and Spanish and French were locked up for about 10- 12 weeks

I think the Italians came off worse cos soem like Viviani couldnt even train on their balconies

Not sure I'd read too much into that, cycling the hills of Belgium/Netherlands would prep you for Grand Colombier.

harringtonp

Could be something in that alright. Much easier to put the hours in outside and a couple of hours into a strong headwind will give some sort of climb simulation

bazermc

Is tomorrow stage considered in the Alps or just Thursday and Friday?

mr spuckler

Peter Sagan not giving up pursuit of eighth Tour de France points jersey

dastardly00

https://twitter.com/irishpeloton/status/1304302371837747200

nak

Shedite27 wrote: »

Not sure I'd read too much into that, cycling the hills of Belgium/Netherlands would prep you for Grand Colombier.

Better than sitting on a turbo trainer and much better motivation wise. Lockdown in an apartment for 6 weeks can't have been much fun as a professional cyclist.

breezy1985

Shedite27 wrote: »

Not sure I'd read too much into that, cycling the hills of Belgium/Netherlands would prep you for Grand Colombier.

The French are mostly goosed through post lockdown injury and the Italians had no one reliable at the tour as for the Spanish they are doing great so don't know how anything can be taken from lockdown conditions

Shedite27

breezy1985 wrote: »

The French are mostly goosed through post lockdown injury and the Italians had no one reliable at the tour as for the Spanish they are doing great so don't know how anything can be taken from lockdown conditions

How many of them would live in their home country tho? Dan Martin lives in Andorra doesn't he? I would have thought any GT contender would live somewhere hillier than Holland/Belgium

MPFGLB

Well what can be taken is many Spanish needed time to catch up and I was talking about all riders not just GC

It is very evident Viviani is no where near form

Also Sagan took a while to get back up there as he doesnt ride in door trainers

Also it well known that many riders need racing to get any form while other can just do training

Lock down imo has and will continue to have an impact esp as we go on as many severely restricted will not have a good base as Sean Kelly keeps saying

MPFGLB

Shedite27 wrote: »

How many of them would live in their home country tho? Dan Martin lives in Andorra doesn't he? I would have thought any GT contender would live somewhere hillier than Holland/Belgium

They live in Monaco,Andorra or Verasse

The Buster

Carlton rambling on about his book again! Anyone read it. I presume not worth reading!

The Buster

The Buster wrote: »

Carlton rambling on about his book again! Anyone read it. I presume not worth reading!

I had the audiobook on the phone during a free trial of audible and turned it off almost straight away as it was him reading it

Dcully

Rob Hatch back now thank God.

breezy1985

MPFGLB wrote: »

Well what can be taken is many Spanish needed time to catch up and I was talking about all riders not just GC

It is very evident Viviani is no where near form

Also Sagan took a while to get back up there as he doesnt ride in door trainers

Also it well known that many riders need racing to get any form while other can just do training

Lock down imo has and will continue to have an impact esp as we go on as many severely restricted will not have a good base as Sean Kelly keeps saying

Vivianis problems have nothing to do with lockdown his forms been crap since he left DQS

MPFGLB

I was quoting what Vivani said about his lockdown affecting his form

Eamonnator

I've just been looking at the betting odds on TdF.
For the Points Jersey:
Bennett is 1/3
Sagan is 5/2
Trentin is 9/1
I would have thought the odds would be tighter.

And for Yellow:
Roglic is 4/11
Pogacar is 5/2
Again I thought odds would be closer.

Dr. Bre

Eamonnator wrote: »

I've just been looking at the betting odds on TdF.
For the Points Jersey:
Bennett is 1/3
Sagan is 5/2
Trentin is 9/1
I would have thought the odds would be tighter.

And for Yellow:
Roglic is 4/11
Pogacar is 5/2
Again I thought odds would be closer.

What’s the KOM odds? That’s wide open going into the queens stage tomorrow

Eamonnator

Same site.

K.O.M. final standings:
Pogacar 9/4
Rolland 13/5
Roglic 17/2

neris

This is a good laugh. Not far off on Shane Archibold

https://twitter.com/tomowencc/status/1305908051912916992?s=19

harringtonp

Anyone got a link to a decent map of the stages ?

The official letour one is quite confusing, hard to tell at a glance which stage is which

cyclocross!

harringtonp wrote: »

Anyone got a link to a decent map of the stages ?

The official letour one is quite confusing, hard to tell at a glance which stage is which

Try the App. I find it very good.

retalivity

Steephill.tv have them individually in jpg format

godtabh

https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1306111816561569793?s=21

Itziger

How many abandonments today then? Given the finish like.

lawrencesummers

godtabh wrote: »

https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/13061118 Y 16561569793?s=21

That’s putting a dent in my theory that he was trying to allow a big time gap to be left attack for a stage win.

Brailsford probably isn’t great company at the moment.

neris

Listening to the itv podcast on yesterday's stage and its like listening to a bunch of giddy kids who've had to much sugar. Amateurish and all over the place