Tour De France 2019: That’s My Jaune

When you see the press bikes circling like that....

Oh really? So sad. xp

Close-up shots of his emotional face. Poor guy.

Commentary said he banged his knee two days ago and was suffering with it yesterday.

This is brutal to watch ;_;

He's crying on his bike... :(

Gah </3

jesus

so sad

when he put his arm round his teammate.... caught in my throat

Heartbreaking

Pete Kennaugh is not taking this very well.

😢 It’s over for Thibaut Pinot who suffers too much. Extremely sad.

😢 C’est fini pour @ThibautPinot qui souffre trop pour continuer. Un moment très difficile pour lui et son équipe.#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/qr7Bab0iPk

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 26, 2019

Heart breaking :'(

pinot out alaphilippe gonna lose the maillot jaune it looks like, shit day for the french

oof pinot :(

boring old Ineos win after all.

poor Pinot, it seemed more likely he'd win than Ala.

Fantastic stage so far. Flip cracked but isn't rip.

If Kruiswijk misses out on the podium by 2 secs it's because he forgot to cross the line as second on the L'Iseran ;_;

Hail and rain ahead!

holy shit there's hail

Flip is going to catch up w/ Thomas and Kruiswijk isn't he o_O

They're plowing snow 😅

* stage neutralized *

Race neutralised with the gaps at the top of the iseran!

they're canceling the stage!!!!

Well.

so flip loses the tour just like that

RIP Tour

would never have happened in 1920

!!!!!!!

xp or in the Giro where Kruiswijk crashed into s wall of snow...

WTH

should have taken times at bottom of tigne- gone for full french conspiracy narrative

if the road is unridable, one can walk through the snow, I'd say :P

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this will most definetely save Ala's podium (and thus Kruiswijk and Buchmann were robbed)

this feels very 2019.

daaamn that rainbow jacket for piti, it is proper.

You can’t have a bike race if everyon isn’t clear on where the bike race ends.

— Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) July 26, 2019

global warming kills bike event.

Havoc at @LeTour. Landslide on the course is causing traffic to turn around. #TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/nKeoXxHIPt

— The Cycling Podcast (@cycling_podcast) July 26, 2019

why not just annul the entire stage

^this

Shots with the bulldozer !

i'm furious

Why?

Calling it off was the right thing to do, no? Shortening a stage/ending early isn't exactly a novelty in cycling iirc.

def call it off, but as cosmo noted above, a race with a secret finish line isn't much of a race. neutralize the whole stage imo

yes - juju could have gone further into red on iseran eg

but could also have won back time in the descent..

make finish line bottom of tigne potentially a compromise

Bike racing absolutely *requires* a fixed end point that everyone agrees upon before the start, and knows about ahead of time. It does not work otherwise.

— Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) July 26, 2019

anyway cosmo otm

eh, i disagree. the circumstances dictated an intervention, and i think that's a fair method to account for an act of god for participants relative to each other. i wouldn't care if they annulled it either, but cutting at the penultimate climb is not meaningfully worse to me. cthulhu wanted it this way.

usually stages get shortened beforehand, when conditions are expected to be bad. One thing they might have done better in this particularly - quite unique case - is announce DURING the stage, that the finish was at the top of the HC climb. I mean bad weather was on the way, commentators were talking about it, even before it really got muddy and messy.

and by during i meant of course before the summit was reached. Maybe Alaphilippe was saving energy for the descent, maybe Kruiswijk was saving energy for the last climb etc.

a) remove entire stage that favors certain rider groups in favor of current mj, and not to be replaced with an equivalent additional opportunity
b) truncate stage at point in which participants may be said to have maximally placed themselves in advantageous positions, visavis remaining parcours

relative to the ultimate outcome of the tdf, i think b) actually is favorable. it does not prove who would have had what times had the stage run fully to its conclusion. iow cosmo is correct as to his point, incorrect as to whether his preferred course of action best or even most fairly simulates an uninterrupted stage or tdf.