Tour de France 2020 general thread (SPOILERS GALORE)

ratracer

Dammit!

Also, french TV pics suck! Who cares about FdJ slowly rolling in!

retalivity

Fcuks sake...at least ewan didnt win it

Itziger

Hmmmmmm, ran out of legs. Got squeezed a tiny bit at a key time, but no real excuses. Didn't have the endurance/speed.

I need to see it again but was he impeded by one of his own lads on the left?

Also Pinot ffs the man has zero luck at the tour

velo.2010

Bennett never seesm to have the best position in larger bunch gallops; he always has to work hard to get into position.

The French TV director needs a word in his ear if this is going to be the carry on with Pinot everyday.

ratracer

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I need to see it again but was he impeded by one of his own lads on the left?

He was impeded by a Trek (I think) rider about 300m out and never recovered from it.

wirelessdude01

Looked like he was afraid to do some bumping. Too easily pushed off his leadout guy. Then had to go around two.

CormacH94

velo.2010 wrote: »

Bennett never seesm to have the best position in larger bunch gallops; he always has to work hard to get into position.

Stage 4 in last years Vuelta, got in a very good position after a messy roundabout before the finishing straight no problem - he seems to do better working off other teams leadouts rather than a dedicated one?

dastardly00

I don't think Sam can have any excuses

MPFGLB

dastardly00 wrote: »

I don't think Sam can have any excuses

Well he dodn't seem to be able to get into the right gear ..have a look

Daroxtar

I didn't think much of that lead out at all, too far back for too long then thought he impeded Sam and caused him to bump off the Trek segafredo rider when he was about to launch.

De Bhál

dastardly00 wrote: »

I don't think Sam can have any excuses

yep, in the perfect position to win it and was slowing coming to the line compared to those on his right. Pity

De Bhál

MPFGLB wrote: »

Well he dodn't seem to be able to get into the right gear ..have a look

I did wonder that as it looked like something was wrong

In the first crash he had the wheel changed and not a new bike, not sure about the puncture later on so possible there was something wrong.

https://twitter.com/procycletrumps/status/1299747384805797894

breezy1985

He gives himself alot of work to do mostly because he seems unable to fight for positions. He kept dropping off the aerial shots at the end which is too far back for him

REBELSAFC

MPFGLB wrote: »

Well he dodn't seem to be able to get into the right gear ..have a look

He seemed to be looking back towards his gears alright in the last 100m

CormacH94

breezy1985 wrote: »

He gives himself alot of work to do mostly because he seems unable to fight for positions. He kept dropping off the aerial shots at the end which is too far back for him

He can when wants to, or when the other rider is sub 60kg...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIb6n4xEjk

dastardly00

As much as Carlton Kirby annoys me sometimes, he did manage to pick Kristoff for the stage win!

dastardly00

John Degenkolb finished outside the time limit so his race is over

TheBlaaMan

Sam looked to just not have the legs, whether it was that he was stressed/nervous or whatever, he just looked ....blocked and sat down from sprinting with 50m left to go. Looking over at the opposition mid-sprint didn't seem to suggest he was at all confident in his own sprint. Perhaps he burned more matches than we might have expected coming back from the early spill and the later puncture, but as mentioned above, he has no complaints really.

Mefistofelino

dastardly00 wrote: »

As much as Carlton Kirby annoys me sometimes, he did manage to pick Kristoff for the stage win!

He also picked Bennett and Cees Bol at various points in the commentary

at1withmyself

dastardly00 wrote: »

John Degenkolb finished outside the time limit so his race is over

Well since he didn't start I'm not surprised

Itziger

What's the story with Sivakov? He'd be a big loss this early on for Ineos.

Dr. Bre

I didn’t see today’s stage . Any injuries to main contenders ?

Eamonnator

at1withmyself wrote: »

Well since he didn't start I'm not surprised

Just watching ITV4 highlights, they seem to be under the impression that Degenkolb finished outside time limit.

at1withmyself

Eamonnator wrote: »

Just watching ITV4 highlights, they seem to be under the impression that Degenkolb finished outside time limit.

Ah, he no longer rides for trek so was checking wrong team! My bad...

wirelessdude01

Itziger wrote: »

What's the story with Sivakov? He'd be a big loss this early on for Ineos.

Was he down once or twice?

Looked like he had to be talked into continuing by team the car at least twice.

CrowdedHouse

at1withmyself wrote: »

Well since he didn't start I'm not surprised

https://twitter.com/BraeckmanAnn/status/1299760583013695489?s=20