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Tour de France 2024 - this time it’s personal

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    #872
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,283 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368348#Comment_122368348

    Him and demare were both relegated, damn right too



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    #873
    G1032
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368558#Comment_122368558

    Philipsen's win was pretty textbook

    Post edited by G1032 on


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    #874
    MangleBadger
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭MangleBadger


    looking back at the overhead Sam stops his sprint after Cav’s deviation. Not that I think he was well enough positioned but he has had awful luck so far with incidents like that.



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    #875
    themandan6611
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368650#Comment_122368650

    Raise you Dan Martin



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    #876
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122369177#Comment_122369177

    Sad Richie Porte noises



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    #877
    CramCycle
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368271#Comment_122368271

    Tree cover today so lost it just before the line



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    #878
    Reality_Check1
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    Very interesting tour so far. I can’t believe so many people fancy Jonas over Pog. Jonas is even favourite on most of the betting sites for GC. People have very short memories. Was it only last year where Visma worked out that Pog wouldn’t survive the tour based on his training CSS coming in due to injury and he subsequently cracked on week 3. Surely UAE are using the same tactics this year? Pog with the better team I’m predicting Jonas to crack in the high mountains (even though he’s the better climber)



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    #879
    eagle eye
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122369788#Comment_122369788

    It's highly likely that Pog will be wrecked in week 3, remember he has a giro in his legs.

    I still haven't ruled out Remco with all that's going on.



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    #880
    happytramp
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    Just realised netflix don't have access to intermarche.... That's extremely unfortunate given the way things have gone with Girmay.



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    #881
    Macy0161
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122369788#Comment_122369788

    It remains to be seen whether Vingo has the durability. However, it's admitted concern of Pog/ UAE on the very high kj days. Pretty sure I heard or read an interview with one of his new coaching team that they believe they have addressed this. Not just last year, but 2022 it was the big hard days that Jonas did the damage. Plus for Vingo's lack of racing, there's also Pog having the Giro in his legs.

    Have to say, really impressed with Remco as well. Again, you forget how young and relatively inexperienced he is.



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    #882
    CramCycle
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122369788#Comment_122369788

    UAE have shown one thing in abundance, they don't have the discipline of Jumbo, they are an incredible team but Jumbo beat them in the tactics most of the time. Pog still can't help himself and his teammates are having minor tiffs over nothing in regards pacing.



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    #883
    Macy0161
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    Roglic a DNS. I'm with the Latern Rouge guys, it has to be positioning.



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    #884
    Squidgy Black
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    That’ll be Roglic going to the Olympics now I reckon, Slovenian Olympics Committee had said they were leaving a space open for him



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    #885
    seaviewphotos
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122370736#Comment_122370736

    I'd agree, it seems from the outside that UAE aren't near as well organised as Visma. Surely Ayuso and Almeida knew they were coming to the tour to support Pog? I also think that Pog needs a really strong voice in his ear to stop him from constantly attacking when maybe he'd be better off sitting on the wheel.



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    #886
    CramCycle
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122371035#Comment_122371035

    Maybe have his Mamai on the radio giving directions from the DS, that should sort it out. If he doesn't sit in and have manners, she will get out of the car and give him a clip around the ear or take him home.



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    #887
    MangleBadger
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭MangleBadger


    Roglic DNS today. That man has 0 luck*

    * Apart from his 3 Vuelta, Giro, almost every 1 week race, LBL, Olympic TT.

    0 luck in TdF anyway



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    #888
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122371336#Comment_122371336

    Roglic finishes with a great Palmares if he never wins another thing. He’s like Tony Rominger or Bugno. No luck at the tour.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #889
    Macy0161
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122371336#Comment_122371336

    Well a few of those wins came despite crashing in them as well to be fair! I actually like him, and it took confidence to leave Visma (where he could've been the rider for the Giro/ Vuelta, and 2nd protected rider in the Tour), but still the Tour is the big miss from his Palmares.

    I mean we still talk of Kelly missing a Ronde and Worlds, and Fignon's 8 seconds from a Monument and Giro/Tour double season in 1989!



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    #890
    Dodge
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122370967#Comment_122370967

    they didn’t. They announced the team and he wasn’t in it. He had said he didn’t want to do the ITT



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    #891
    Dodge
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    Fascinating stage now with Visma pushing themselves out of the peleton

    Maybe they saw Ayuso struggle and think it’s worth attacking Pog, even on a flat stage



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    #892
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    If Visma make it to the front group, they'll have six riders, UAE will only have 3 and Remco will be on his tod



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    #893
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Ayuso now abandoned.

    Not sure about Yates in the front group. He'll have to flog himself senseless to stay ahead, all to gain maybe a minute on GC and make himself less than useful in the mountains tomorrow



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    #894
    dahat
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    Damn this stage is far too interesting to head out and do my own training 😂



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    #895
    odyssey06
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    The peloton got Yates and most of the break back… so the 4 escapees from the breakaway have a minute:

    1

    35

    KWIATKOWSKI Michał

    1:10:22

    2

    42

    BERNARD Julien

    33:36

    3

    93

    GRÉGOIRE Romain

    1:05:32

    4

    201

    CORT Magnus

    1:47:31

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #896
    seaviewphotos
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    Ayuso abandons with covid, sounds like it's widespread in the pelaton. Could have a huge impact on the race?



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    #897
    odyssey06
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    Echelons!

    And just as things started to calm down with Yates reeled back in, wind hits and splits forming… GC teams driving it at the front.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #898
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,283 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    God, i love echelons



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    #899
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 8,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Healy in group 2 unfortunately (being called the Peleton on PCS). He would probably have fancied attacking on these hills towards the end. Oh well.



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    #900
    breezy1985
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    Girmay, Jasper and a ew of the top sprinters in the lead group. Not sure where Bennett is but doesn't look like the front.



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    #901
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 8,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Will probably come back together to be honest.



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