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
so *just* vals thorens, then? this finish could be bonkers
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
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
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAbM_IYXoAEXqjy?format=jpg&name=medium
― gbx, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
what a disastrous ending of a great Tour.
― Ludo, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
After some reflection, I think ASO made the right decision
― gbx, Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 27 July 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
holy fuck u guys💥Tour💥de💥France💥i thought Pinot was the height of drama but shit is topsy turvy af now
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 July 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ludo, Saturday, 27 July 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
the top 4 GC has not won a stage. o_O
― Ludo, Saturday, 27 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
no post from me meant = i love the tour but i love sleep more and am ok not watching it live lolit 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
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 July 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I watched a replay with a sense of obligation and it. Seemed. To. Take. For. Ever. Good for nibali, and bernal, but the jackhammer enforcement of the current order yup it sucked. he good tho. panache aint makin it.
No stage wins in top 4 is bad for stage racing imo.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
That was a disappointing end to a great tour, but I felt last weekends always are a let down. The loss of Pinot as the last person with possibly everything to gain and the loss of the parcours just made it doubly so. Jumbo did what they had to do to get Kruiswijk non the podium. I wish Ineos had gone for the win but they weren't going to risk it. Great ride from Nibali although it seem like no-one was interested in chasing him down apart from Yates.
There's talk off Dumolin going to Jumbo, Ineos seem weaker and FDJ seem like strong outfit. At least we might see duelling mountain trains next year.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 28 July 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
To make things more interesting we could have a sweepstake on which Dane is going to lamp Brad Wiggins on the Champs Elysée.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 28 July 2019 08:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, disappointing end to a fun tour. Bernal will be eligible for the white jersey for three more years lolHope Pinot can get a better team for next year. With Dumoulin off to Jumbo and Ineos no doubt strengthening themselves that will be interesting. Also what will lol Movistar do?My money is on Kristoff today.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 28 July 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
Ineos no doubt strengthening themselves
Assuming Froome returns and wants that fifth, then having three people on the team with overall GC wins under their belts actively going for it...doesn't strike me as the healthiest dynamic.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 July 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
was a bit down on it after this weekend’s shenanigans but on reflection it has been some tour. it’s often been overshadowed by the giro in recent years - nice to get a reversal of that dynamic this year
chapeau bernal
― im led by donky (||||||||), Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
he’s already on his second glass of champagne - might not want to count those chickens just yet
― im led by donky (||||||||), Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
lmao at sagan
― im led by donky (||||||||), Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
http://www.leparisien.fr/resizer/SO9v5YyY8KfCWc0hKk8EcSaAZGw=/932x582/arc-anglerfish-eu-central-1-prod-leparisien.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6YA33QOMCK5MZCHN6A775DCBOM.jpg
nice photo - bardet watching virenque in 1996
― im led by donky (||||||||), Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link