Road Cycling
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Froome and Thomas both dropped from Ineos tdf team.. this year just keeps getting crazier!
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@WillieTheWaiter said in Road Cycling:
Froome and Thomas both dropped from Ineos tdf team.. this year just keeps getting crazier!
what?!
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@mariner4life not unexpected (well for Froome anyway). Thomas clearly not in the right form at the moment. Because of the congested race programme, Thomas will now lead the Giro team in Oct and Froome the Vuelta, also in Oct. Thomas has a real chance to win the Giro; he should’ve won it in 2017 but for a Ill-placed camera motorbike.
Recent Ineos signing Carapaz (current Giro winner), must be livid. He’s now been drafted in to support Bernal in the Tour rather than defend his Giro title.
Brailsford is a ruthless mutha.
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Tour de France 2022 start list: Tadej Pogačar, Primož Roglič and Wout Van Aert all line up for the 109th edition
The squads of all 22 teams starting in Denmark in the battle for the yellow jersey
Team lists for the TdF.
TJV look very strong, as expected, but I'm not convinced Dumoulin quite has the package to win if Roglic fails.
Ineos backing Bernal with plenty of firepower. Yates, Valverde and Pogecar have some decent support as well.
Pinot, Alaphilippe, Lopez, Landa, Uran, Quintana all look a bit short on either support or overall talent to win (to me).
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@Chris-B report quoting Roglic’s partner saying he might not even make the start line as he’s still suffering from his Dauphiné crash. Sounds a bit like a smokescreen.
Fuck knows who is going to win. Not convinced by Bernal or Roglic with their injury concerns. I like the look of the young guy Pogacar (UAE), for a podium spot.
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As usual I'll be following CCC
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@scribe Only just getting around to looking at the course preview.
No team time trial and the only ITT is up a climb!
Mountain Stage on Stage 2!
Looks like the course might have been engineered for Pinot (and Alaphilippe).
If things go wrong for TJV early,some cards might still fall George's way.
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@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
No team time trial and the only ITT is up a climb!
Mountain Stage on Stage 2!Good. All I'm interested in is cyclists climbing hills and pretty countryside.
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@antipodean said in Road Cycling:
@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
No team time trial and the only ITT is up a climb!
Mountain Stage on Stage 2!Good. All I'm interested in is cyclists climbing hills and pretty countryside.
best parts by far
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@antipodean I think I saw the presence of the podium girls will be "reduced"this year, as well! Presumably even slimmer versions!
Here's an article on the route.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-route-192041
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@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
@scribe Only just getting around to looking at the course preview.
No team time trial and the only ITT is up a climb!
Mountain Stage on Stage 2!
Looks like the course might have been engineered for Pinot (and Alaphilippe).
If things go wrong for TJV early,some cards might still fall George's way.
It would have to be very early though. George will be expected to pull the others up the mountains as much as possible so won’t be on the leaderboard if he works hard then rests.
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@Crucial Yeah - I'd more expect a chance to go for a stage win, somewhere.
I read somewhere that George might even sit up and take it easy on Stage 1 - I guess that supposes that the peloton splits.
Edit: Here it is: "Bennett has even been instructed to sit up and lose time on the opening stage in order to keep his legs fresh for the mountains, which is when Jumbo-Visma will be counting the Kiwi climber to protect Roglic and Dumoulin."
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@Crucial TJV website report:
Sports director Frans Maassen had also seen a stressful day. “Our leaders performed well. We always were in the front at the right moments. I hope the weather will get better tomorrow. Moreover, it will be a challenging stage. Fortunately, despite the crashes of Wout, Amund and George, the damage is not too bad.”
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i watched until the top of the first Cat 1 and it was great to have the Tour back. Dudes battling up mountains, beautiful scenery
Sagan is a fucking marvel.
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@mariner4life said in Road Cycling:
Sagan is a fucking marvel.
Stood in the cold for ages just south of Roubaix last year to snap this shot of him.
Fuckers go so fast you only get one opportunity. -
A good stage for TJV today - Roglic won in a mountain-top finish, with only Pogacar looking like matching him - despite that a reasonable bunch finished with the same time.
Not such a good day for George. He seemed to be caught back in the bunch as they started the final climb and not part of the TJV pacing team - which was Martin, Van Aart and then Kuss. George eventually dropped out the back, whilst Van Aart was still doing the pacing - which shouldn't have happened if George was 100% - unless that was team orders?
My guess is he's still felling a few effects of his crashes.
Alaphillippe still has the yellow jersey, with Yates 2nd and Roglic having closed the gap with a 10 second time bonus.
Notable losers today were Valverde and Carapaz.
