jesus
so sad
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
when he put his arm round his teammate.... caught in my throat
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
Heartbreaking
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
Pete Kennaugh is not taking this very well.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
😢 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 :'(
― willem, Friday, 26 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
pinot out alaphilippe gonna lose the maillot jaune it looks like, shit day for the french
― Jibe, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
oof pinot :(
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
boring old Ineos win after all.
poor Pinot, it seemed more likely he'd win than Ala.
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
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!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
holy shit there's hail
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Flip is going to catch up w/ Thomas and Kruiswijk isn't he o_O
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
They're plowing snow 😅
* stage neutralized *
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Race neutralised with the gaps at the top of the iseran!
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
they're canceling the stage!!!!
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Well.
― Madchen, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
so flip loses the tour just like that
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
RIP Tour
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
would never have happened in 1920
!!!!!!!
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
xp or in the Giro where Kruiswijk crashed into s wall of snow...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
WTH
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
should have taken times at bottom of tigne- gone for full french conspiracy narrative
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
if the road is unridable, one can walk through the snow, I'd say :P
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2016-07-14/Reuters/2016-07-14T151914Z_01_JPP05_RTRIDSP_3_CYCLING-TOUR.jpg&w=1484
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
this will most definetely save Ala's podium (and thus Kruiswijk and Buchmann were robbed)
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
this feels very 2019.
daaamn that rainbow jacket for piti, it is proper.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
You can’t have a bike race if everyon isn’t clear on where the bike race ends.— Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) July 26, 2019
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
global warming kills bike event.
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
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
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
why not just annul the entire stage
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
^this
Shots with the bulldozer !
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
i'm furious
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Why?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
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
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
yes - juju could have gone further into red on iseran eg
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
but could also have won back time in the descent..
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
make finish line bottom of tigne potentially a compromise
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
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
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
a) remove entire stage that favors certain rider groups in favor of current mj, and not to be replaced with an equivalent additional opportunityb) 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.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
annul thread
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
More drama.. reporter is Dag Otto Lauritzen pic.twitter.com/IoOC4rpwIL— Trond Iversen (@trondiversen) July 26, 2019
― im led by donky (||||||||), Friday, 26 July 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
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mr stark i don't feel so goo.....
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
i remember dag otto was just a dude on 7 eleven
winning the most maga bike race evurrrrhttps://images.app.goo.gl/BGBVpuMVdrqwXqvD7
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
"There are no winners."Tour jury today composed of Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietsche. Official communique titled "Being and Time" and simply reads: "Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been." https://t.co/Ue1c05Vvtg— joelindsey (@joelindsey) July 26, 2019
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
you thought lindsey went to boulder for cycling but NOPE, he's just another leftover naropa washout
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Stage 20 route change, landslide blocks the Cormet de Roselend. Route could still start in Albertville but take main valley road to Moûtiers, skipping Cormet and the Col du Tra https://t.co/qv72ccFKJ0— the Inner Ring (@inrng) July 26, 2019
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link