Tour De France 2019: That’s My Jaune

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.

annul thread

More drama.. reporter is Dag Otto Lauritzen pic.twitter.com/IoOC4rpwIL

— Trond Iversen (@trondiversen) July 26, 2019

annul thread

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mr stark i don't feel so goo.....

i remember dag otto was just a dude on 7 eleven

winning the most maga bike race evurrrr
https://images.app.goo.gl/BGBVpuMVdrqwXqvD7

"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

you thought lindsey went to boulder for cycling but NOPE, he's just another leftover naropa washout

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

so *just* vals thorens, then? this finish could be bonkers

After taking off from Albertville, the stage will go on the N90 road to head directly to Moutiers and then go on the initial end of stage at the N90 – D915 roundabout, 36kms from the finish.
The start will be given in Albertville at 14:30 for a total distance of 59kms.

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

59km!!!! everyone is just gonna go full gas the whole time

also absolutely no way the GC changes imo

Well this is nuts. (Still if it has to be Ineos I'm all about Bernal, who is far more interesting to me than Thomas.)

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what a disastrous ending of a great Tour.

i know i'm ignorant about what is actually possible, but i'm disappointed that this is the best they can do to test the attributes the course was hoping to test. To the extent that greater flexibility and time seems possible with a day of warning, i'd hope for more. but at least the racers "know the start and finish," and the hot-takers can chill out on that.

After some reflection, I think ASO made the right decision

It’s definitely vexing to have lost so much of the parcours but I don’t think there is anything else that could be done. The tour is just too big a ship to turn on a dime.

holy fuck u guys

💥Tour💥de💥France💥

i thought Pinot was the height of drama but shit is topsy turvy af now

no new posts says it all. Disappoint stage and tour end. Both Ala and Pinot deserved to win it, but didn't. Ineos had an unimpressive Tour, yet they can finish 1 & 2. The gap is widening, especially since Egan Bernal might be the new Top Guy for yeaaaars to come.

the top 4 GC has not won a stage. o_O

no post from me meant = i love the tour but i love sleep more and am ok not watching it live lol

it was a weird stage but despite that i wasnt bored or disappointed really. didnt end quite as excitingly but still enjoyable

liked seeing Nibali get a win though it looks like it took his entire being to do it, and Bernal is so throughly delighted by the outcome i like seeing him in yellow.

poor ala tho - a stage of only climbing was just too much to bear. but: it puts double gas in his tank for next year to come back and try to smoke everyone again