Tour De France 2019: That’s My Jaune

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Goddamn. De Gendt! Fucking hero for that.

Alaphilippe keeping it close, amazing work.

bike racing!!!

Also Sagan just doing the business again, sorry Matthews.

That last climb! Deceptively hard, Nibali was absolute cooked and then Pinot move to jump onto the wheels of Alaphilippe! Thanks some good racing. Some significant confusion from the peloton, it seemed like they were halfway down before they’d sorted out who was going to ride to pull them back. Too much looking around for Ineos to do the work?

I’m all in for a Thibaut Pinot. That descent with Alaphilippe was some amazing stuff. Not hugely technical, but wasn’t he known as a nervous descender a few years back.

de gendt is a fucking legend, what a motor he has to pull that off today. magical stuff.

and pinot hanging with alaphillippe the whole way for those last few kms was awesome! good on him. way to show up for bastille day, good job to both frogs

Offredo’s stage 8 experience was completely O_o

"I had to shit all day," Offredo said frankly to France TV. "I was sick all night, like a few members of my staff. I was suffering even in the neutral start, I found myself with Christophe Laporte, I tried to motivate him but he too was empty. Like me, he had nothing left in his legs, he was sick two days ago."

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/offredo-perseveres-through-nightmarish-tour-de-france-stage/

That is awesome, not the sickness but the endurance, especially having been at both ends of the race.

Today looks supper fun. This is the France of my childhood holidays and it looks like there’s another’s cat three with a potential little wall in the middle of it right before the finish. Alaphilippe to win in yellow on Bastille day, I wouldn’t bet against it.

Mike Woods stars in the second episode of #EFGoneRacing out of the Tour de France. @rusty_woods, 32, is the oldest @LeTour debutant in the 106th edition of the race and likely the only rider in the bunch to break a four-minute mile.#EFGoneRacing #exploretheworld

📹: @Rapha pic.twitter.com/4QaxrwkWuj

— EF Education First Pro Cycling (@EFprocycling) July 14, 2019

ep 2 is nice as a sorta narrativeless slice of stuff

Interesting insight on today’s Costa breakaway attempt

Flecha saying the break didn't want Costa to catch the break because he's not a nice guy to have in the breakaway, he'll sit on wheels, do nothing and then attack you..

— Ian (@cyclingbetting) July 14, 2019

Thomas De Gendt said that of Costa in @petercossins Full Gas book. Said he's not a great guy to have in the break because he never fully commits

— Iain Sisson (@i_am_iain) July 14, 2019

a pox on Fugelsang for ever mentioning the motorcycle drafting issue bc Phil Liggett & the NBC commentary wont stfu about it now *shoots self*

DAZZLER!!!

Impey is a class act, so happy that he won the stage. Been a fan of the Michelton Scott team since i started watching the Tour a few years back, he works his ass off for the team & seems like a legit good dude

Yeah, been a good solid weekend. Looking forward to a sprint tomorrow and then the well-deserved break.

Every time i see him or hear his name i think of him getting flung to the barriers by bos in the traffic, it’s insane.

https://youtu.be/i8K_7bJQaaI

At the start of his career he had so many small scale gc victories that he could scale up into gt successes but nope. Very good rider.

holy shit

What's English for 'waaiers' or 'op de kant'? ;)

Nothing like the madness when the wind rips up the peloton, and when you least expect it. Thanks Quick Step! RIP Porte, Pinot, Bennett, Fuglsang, Uran.. Whoa.

Also rip Nibali, rip Landa.... Bloodbath.

another great stage for sure

And this winner to top it off. Amazing.

Lol i thot today was the off day, fer real.

Ive just been doing chores, serving actual catnip, listening to ed ball rekids (and thinking “how odd!”) and...whuh?

I am shocked to see posts to this thread.

I need to go learn all the stuff now.

yeah what happened

yikes wha’happened

Lol Hunter :)

It was the expected snoozefest until abt am hour before the finish. Ineos, EF and Jumbo, w/ the hard wind, put the peloton on the side, and broke things in half. Or in quarters, actually. Alaphilippe's Quick Step dealt the final blow, because why not. Lots of GC faves caught by surprise and seconds, minutes+ behind.

And then in the sprint lead by poor Sunweb bcz Matthews, Van Aert - knowing Kruiswijk was safe in the first peloton, while Groenewegen was behind and Matthews and Sagan already counting on a win - beat all the sprinting giants... Marvelous. Why I love this sport so much.

split peloton resulted in a big gc shake up, lots of wouldbe contenders missed out and lost over a minute and a half. most of the sprinters made the cut though, finish was tight as hell

xp wot lbi said

I love it when a Scenery Stage turns out exciting for cycling reasons. The Aveyron is blooming lovely though.

alaphilippe........ I want to believe

feel for pinot

LBI, what we call "waaiers" is apparently called "bordures" in English.

https://inrng.com/2011/03/lexicon-of-cycling-terms/

CSI TDF

Je suis en train de revoir les 50 derniers kilomètres et je peux dire que ce n'est pas le rond-point invoqué par Marc Madiot (via @leparisien) qui a causé la perte de Pinot mais un autre, situé 6,5 km plus loin. #TDF2019

— Yassine BEN RAJEB (@ybenrajeb) July 15, 2019

LBI, what we call "waaiers" is apparently called "bordures" in English.

https://inrng.com/2011/03/lexicon-of-cycling-terms/

― StanM, Monday, July 15, 2019 9:06 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It kind of makes sense! But wow. #borduresflaglink

Just finished watching the stage (at a low volume) so I didn't fully appreciate quite how crazy it was until I read all this!

that shit was B A N A N A S

pinot from third to tenth! fuck dude.

wout crushing the sprint tho, what a little genius. loving jumbo using their excellent riders in such impromptu ways

feel bad for matthews: he seems to be stuck in a real mental rut, he’s got such potential but the bunch sprints really seem to be doing him in all of a sudden.

you could just seee the “o fuuuuuuuu” energy of the second peloton; pulling that hard that far out must have sucked balls

o fuck pinot 11th not 10th

fugelsang *sad trombone*

jumbo tour bus watching wout win is p classic

🇫🇷 #TDF2019

Explosion of emotions🤯😁 pic.twitter.com/9B821aapND

— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) July 15, 2019

and a good lol from rohan dennis

.@petosagan was saying if he had my weight and his power he would win everything...kind of already wins whatever he wants https://t.co/2IIgviQgVp

— Rohan Dennis (@RohanDennis) July 15, 2019

sorry last one

this is from yesterday
sonny colbrelli delivers a spanking to...a spectator? 😂

Certainement LA vidéo de cette année #TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/n91Ye1Pis0

— Tricotte (@Tricotte69) July 14, 2019

Given I don’t do twitter any more least of all cycling Twitter, I’m happy for the edit so keep ‘em coming.

I’ve been watching the stage on and off through the day and I thing I’m just about to get to the split.

Tourist information on the french courage is much better on the french feed.

Today’s arguments amongst the french presenters have been about he pronunciation of Rodez and Laguiole.

How could a french speaker mispronounce those?

Oh, were they on locals basically saying ‘layole’?

The argument was between

RodeZZ and RodeSS
Laguiole almost sounded like lah-ghoul

also an idiot like me (not a french speaker) might expect rodez to be pronounced like saint-tropez

Just realised it’s Rodés in Occitan so that would make sense. I honestly can’t remember how the elderly neighbours pronounce it - will have to listen out when I’m back in August.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Fz8RxWsB3J5hA2Btz6wn2?si=-lqfPw0FTkWYdWSsRmVf6g

Guinness at 11min is about my formulaic read, too. My mindset is all “who’s gonna solve this imperial march routine? Alaphillipe, that’s who.” Narrator: alaphillipe could not even nearly solve the imperial march.”

now that ive been immersed in mcewan, that other aussie guy, and guinness, aussie tdf stylations are the only ones i rly want tbh. guinness just mentioned nibbles’s “poll-mayr-rees” and i think the french need to adjust how they say it. because— that’s proper french now imo.

he's won on mt baldy, won a summit finish at l'avenir, won a summit finish at the dauphiné, won the polka dot jersey... I want to believe

Alright, Ewan gets a win! Been a great tour for these first time stage wins.

https://www.wielerflits.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CORVOS_00031272-087-e1563378537297.jpg

Love this photo so much. Two completely different sprinters, with such different styles, different bodies, different approaches and teams. Stuck in time, mano a mano. Loved Groenewegen's grumpiness after the race (he fucking hates losing, as he should!) but his respect for Ewan shone through regardless. He couldn't help it. I think nearly the whole peloton was ok with Ewan winning, he seems like a very likeable guy, Caleb and Dylan both are. While "likeable guy" isn't a given for sprinters!

when i saw how long groenewegen was in the wind and saw the quite small frontal area of ewan finally popping out, i was expecting him to accelerate faster and come through more clearly in front, but groenewegen is such a wattmonster. nicely done.

dude they were swapping paint at the end too, it was dope

think wiggo is pished - he's just said "wegelius had a massive cigar like hannibal lecter from the A team" and team ineos are "handing out the shit lidl champagne"

lmao at sagan

The real winner.

https://video.eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2019/tour-de-france-2019-video-we-need-to-hydrate-before-paris-peter-sagan-gets-the-beers-in_vid1225354/video.shtml

Ewan ftw!! Killer finish. Also lol @ Groenewegen’s death stare seconds later

And this pic is everything <3

Colombia mijitos 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/OPVkClPJRV

— Rigoberto Urán ЯU (@UranRigoberto) July 28, 2019

😂

Celebrating @CalebEwan victory with chips. pic.twitter.com/VlSKYKKhBv

— Thomas De Gendt (@DeGendtThomas) July 28, 2019

last one

King Julian throwing deep shade in Kruijswijk’s direction

*typo in the tweet: that = than

Alaphilippe: "Honestly I prefer to win 2 stages, dress yellow on 14/7 and win the super-combatif prize that end 3rd doing nothing all the Tour" #TDF2019

— La Flamme Rouge (@laflammerouge16) July 28, 2019

genuinely couldn’t pick steven “no palmares” kruisjwijk put from a crowd :/

out*

uran flew bernal's little brother over to join his parents, w/out bernal knowing ? class

omg

❤️rigo❤️

you guys, this is the cutest - sweet little Thibaut Pinot in 1997

Thank you to the brilliant @GDiGrazia for sharing this with me: at 44 seconds you’ll find a little boy, his name is @ThibautPinot - 🥰💔 https://t.co/8V6l2jkO3c

— David Millar (@millarmind) July 27, 2019