Tour De France 2020-First Covid Edition

have any of them testes positive for covid previously?

complete lack of liquidity for the outright winner :O

team bahrain leading the climb all this time is good for roglic

Carapaz continuing to plough a lone furrow out front .....

It's getting close to make your mind up time for Landa

these jumbo boys look spent to me, so he's on his own we'll see

4km to go

UAE say go

Landa unable to deliver

Lopez says go

Carapaz about to be gobbled up

porte spent

rodlic looks solid

Aye, looks like he will be the man in Paris.

Lopez charges on.
Roglic says go also.

Teletubbies make an appearance

Pogacar doesn't have it today

Or does he

Roglic too strong

Steep, steep, steep

job done for rodlic the kid looks spent today

unless he snaps of course

shame for the kid but what a race he has rode

A bit of a damp squib in the end.
They came, they saw, but they did not conquer

still the time trail to go, still not a complete done deal but highly likely

lopez must be cursing he didn't go earlier today, certainly had the legs to go earlier and cause real damage

i've certainly learnt a valuable lesson today in regards age, as porte was never at the races and didn't have the legs, still you can't do much damage at the odds he has been

thought porte did really well today - the end of the stage was brutal - never seen gradients like it before in the TdF

Roglic looks the strongest - there is still the time trial which does finish with a 1st category climb so potential for large gains/losses - but it's hard to see him losing a minute lead

Must be near the point where an old riders jersey makes more sense than the young riders jersey

i thought there were steep gradient parts but plenty of flat parts in between those ramps, not as fierce as i thought it may of been

many will feel it is just down to the time trail but tomorrows stage really is a brute and i can see action from the start...although not a mountain top finish you can see action tomorrow with 3 cat 1's starting with a proper climb to tenderise the legs...expect to see lopez and porte teams putting the pace to the race in a stage that should suit both riders...certainly don't see lopez not wanting to have a go knowing he is just and average time trailer and plenty of tired legs after today's stage likely to play a part

So impreesed with Pogacar at his age and no team. He gives it a go and ok Roglic is the best but he has a lot of support and 10 years senior

One thing that is clear from the race is that Jumbo Visma have been paying attention the last ten years.
They have outSkyed Sky, who themselves are no longer Sky

are inneos no longer inneos also?

To no longer be something, you must first become the thing that you no longer are.
We are still waiting for Ineos to become what they will no longer be at some point in the future

such as "not champions"?

will be interesting to see if bernal can rebound to keep the #1 position with them, idk if thomas is capable of winning again.

Pogacar giving it a go

Just for a few polka points

Porte has a puncture

surprising no one else got a puncture, those roads looked brutal

Ineos in the process of establishing themselves as a stage pinching team.

Adam Yates has cracked, a few days in yellow, but it doesn't feel like it did him any good, will be cursing Julian Alaphilippe's water bottle

Carapas finally gets the
Mountain
JERSEY

I think after Bernol pulled out Ineos have made a clever change of strategy. They'll be happy to win a stage and get a jersey. Perhaps they should have pulled Bernol earlier but probably wanted to see if he could pull something out of the bag on one of the big stages.

Lovely weather today

Pmsfl never seen the Like on a practically flat run in

Anderson v 15 non triers What a ride

Sunweb win on a sunny day, seems about right.

Is today a time trial Ang ,Lost touch a bit , How is tony martin 300 ,has he lost a Leg

very confusing

Oh yeah, it's a time trial all right




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It's not a surprise that I'd prefer a time trial with climbing metres. While the time triallists will always be strong, you also have to take into account that there have been 19 days of racing - so there are a few other factors to take into account. For instance, if you're out of the general classification running and are not a time trial specialist, you're not likely to push hard on this stage, especially with the World Championships next week. Watch out to see if anyone does a bike change - the jury is still out for me.

Rider to watch: Primoz Roglic (Slo/Jumbo-Visma)

As a reminder, here are the stage winners to date

Stage	Winner	Team
1	Alexander Kristoff	UAE-Team Emirates
2	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick-Step
3	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal
4	Primoz Roglic	Jumbo-Visma
5	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma
6	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana
7	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma
8	Nans Peters	AG2R-La Mondiale
9	Tadej Pogacar	UAE-Team Emirates
10	Sam Bennett	Deceuninck-Quick-Step
11	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal
12	Marc Hirschi	Sunweb
13	Daniel Martinez	EF Pro Cycling
14	Soren Kragh Andersen	Sunweb
15	Tadej Pogacar	UAE-Team Emirates
16	Lennard Kamna	Bora-Hansgrohe
17	Miguel Angel Lopez	Astana
18	Michal Kwiatkowski	Ineos Grenadiers
19	Soren Kragh Andersen	Sunweb

Jumbo-Visma, Sunweb, and UAE-Team Emirates have all bagged three stage wins.
Astana, Deceuninck-Quick-Step, and Lotto Soudal have two each.
AG2R-La Mondiale, Bora-Hansgrohe, EF Pro Cycling, and Ineos Grenadiers have one apiece.

This leaves twelve teams without a stage win.

Four men have won two stages, they are Soren Kragh Andersen (Sunweb), Tadej Pogacar (UAE-Team Emirates), Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal), and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma).

Could Roglic join this group today, or will Pogacar be the first three stage winner this year

doubt pogacar has the legs left

I've heard that he has undergone a leg transplant overnight

Allegedly, he has swapped legs with Frankel

They are underway, fifty odd minutes of pain awaits each rider.

By the way, I'm struggling to get going on mountain bike on a recently acquired set of rollers.

When I hold the bike on the rollers and hand crank the pedals, all is well.
But when i sit on the bike, it doesn't want to know, at different time wishing to ride off the front roller or move back off it.

I suspect that the front suspension on the bike has a part to play in all of this, any ideas

Here's the GC after yesterday

1. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Jumbo-Visma) 83hrs 29mins 41secs
2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +57secs
3. Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana) +1mins 27secs
4. Richie Porte (Aus/Trek-Segafredo) +3mins 06secs
5. Mikel Landa (Spa/Bahrain McLaren) +3mins 28secs
6. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +4mins 19secs
7. Adam Yates (GB/Mitchelton-Scott) +5mins 55secs
8. Rigoberto Uran (Col/EF Pro Cycling) +6mins 05secs
9. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Jumbo-Visma) +7mins 24secs
10. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +12mins 12secs

1 minute 39 seconds between 3rd and 4th places
Not long until the top ten start being released on to the road.

That's it, they are all on the road, may the best man win

Sep 19, 2020 -- 2:13PM, Angoose wrote:

By the way, I'm struggling to get going on mountain bike on a recently acquired set of rollers.When I hold the bike on the rollers and hand crank the pedals, all is well.But when i sit on the bike, it doesn't want to know, at different time wishing to ride off the front roller or move back off it.I suspect that the front suspension on the bike has a part to play in all of this, any ideas

no idea, never used them. low gear/pumped up tires I guess you already done?

Yip, tried all of that. I need to get my hands on another bike with no suspension to perform a test.

Wout van Aert could be in line for his third stage win, 57 minutes 26 seconds to get to the line.

Pogacar giving it a real go.
Has he gone too hard to soon, or has he executed to perfection

This is Crazy down to 25 secs GC

What would happen if only a few seconds in it tomorrow ?

There would be much dodginess

Tom Dumoulin nails it on the line, leader in the clubhouse

That looked Longer than 5 seconds

If only the kid hadn't lost all of that time due to getting caught out in a crosswind

****g imbecile pushing roglic there, wtf how can you be so stupid, what a t w a t

Less than ten seconds

holy fook u cannot make this Up

In the red

Unless Pogacar blows up, he's got this

Imagine a puncture now

The kid has only gone and done it

incredible ride from him tbf,

Pogacar takes the
TREBLE

Up there with Leicester

Roglic needs to get on that motorbike

Incredible , Primoz must be absolutely gutted

Picked the wrong day to have a bad day

Prize giving going to be interesting

Just the 1 person

That was it, that was his chance to win the TDF, and it didn't happen.

i hate time trials lol

Time is always found guilty as charged

Has looked as steady as a rock  , the wheels well and truly fell off

Could have been a lot worse for the Roglic backers.

1.04    £591
1.05    £10,046
1.06    £8,921
1.07    £5,880
1.08    £6,334
1.09    £7,011
1.10    £7,409

have to feel sorry for Roglic but the kid thoroughly deserves this - he'd have been in yellow days ago if it hadn't been for the winds on stage 7. Also he's had to ride the mountains with very little support while Roglic has had 3 or 4 teammates with him constantly.

Didn't just creep over the line, turned a 57 defect in to a 59 second lead, truly exceptional.

crazy scenes and nice for richie to get up for third something has surely happened to rodlic to crack in this manner...i thought he has looked solid and half of me expected him to crack on the mountain, so to go this badly after riding so well something surely amiss

if nothing is wrong with him, this has to go down as a scott hoch the choke

phenomenal ride by Pogacar..when Sir Brad says on ES he could potentially be the best ever you know you've seen smth very special

Roglic after looking comfortable the whole race shepherded by his massively strong team just wasn't on it today

looks can be deceptive..we are not inside their bodies as onlookers

Pogacar had to stalk Roglic for 3 weeks just on the coat tails of Jumbo Visma as a lone rider basically which is exponentially way tougher than being tucked inside your team train which makes his win even more laudable

fantastic denouement to what is still one of the sporting events of any year

I watch it every year , can you believe with all the shyte that is going on I did not even know it had started I missed the first 3 days

Totally agree johnny A tremendous annual Sporting event ,I rarely watch the other tours ,Le Tour is something Else .

Any bets on the Final charge ?

Here we go, the final day madness just about to commence on the streets of Paree

Ewen to reward
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The breakaway is no more.

Sam The Man getting himself in position ....

And he gets it

Great tour  , Good thing only 9 months till next TDF

Pogacar could win it twice at the age of 21