Tour De France 2019: That’s My Jaune

I want to killfile Quintana from my tv

Bardet yelling at Quintana to "do something" is all of us for the last three years.

— Dan Cavallari (@BrownTieDan) July 21, 2019

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0J1BS9lDgY/?igshid=1gzhmvoqr3oja

lol

Chris Horner joined the commentary team on NBC Sports this year. So far for me he’s come off like the terry bradshaw of cycling commentary - just continually finding loud & annoying ways to be wrong

There's a reason I stick to the Matthew Keenan/Robbie McEwen commentary.

Isn't Horner like universally disliked?

NBC are so in reconstructed. Liggett especially lives in a world where the lance tours weren’t vacated.

I should really try Keenan and McEwan. I’ve been watching ITV out of habit and France TV because it’s the best. The ITV livestream is better over VPN and France TV is better on playback.

debating whether to pay $10 for this final week

i dont know if i can take another week of horner. plus
phil drives me round the bend, every time someone slows down he invents some fanciful fairytale for whats happening

I like horner ok, but not on commentary all the time. i have not seen him here do...maybe i should check. but—phil? nope. correction: HELLNOPE. i try tell you go to aussies they are ok.

stage developed v slightly later than i figured it might, but at least he has the jersey a lil longer. that tweet loooool never change dude.

If you are going to spend $10, spend it on a vpn then you can choose between Australia, France, UK or any of the others.

No idea if this link get u there but 👀
https://cyclingtips.com/2019/07/a-glimpse-into-the-tour-de-france-2070-grand-masters-edition/?fbclid=IwAR3XraV37g_YZWhIgD_pU5DS_-KreWBAKcmUME-21fij-sGsQYuC3Z7GfE0

old age Sagan looks eerily like my Dad 😕

Isn't Horner like universally disliked?

i have never heard him doing commentary, but his Vuelta win was one of my favorite GC wins ever.

The ITV commentary (Ned Boulting/David Millar) has been entertaining for the daily gradual realisation that their pal Geraint isn’t going to take the yellow jersey today. The time trial live was hilarious - they didn’t quite say “there must be something wrong with the clocks” but the disbelief was coming through strong. But anyway, I enjoy listening to them.

rest day stuff

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_6399.jpg

https://cyclingtips.com/2019/07/a-glimpse-into-the-tour-de-france-2070-grand-masters-edition/

cosmo's back

https://cyclocosm.com/2019/07/how-the-race-was-won-tour-de-france-2019-stages-12-15/

xp Jesus Ludo, that's the stuff of nightmares. Though it did explain one thing:

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_6416.jpg

Alaphilippe is Pantani in disguise!

:D

<3 cosmo

lmao at rowe talking about G’s sausage on watts occurring

so good

Lol Valverde

pinot to have a jour sans, juju will ship time in the alps... and G defends the jersey, with a france two-three

G moderated his effort so well when he became dislocated and said himself he could have gone after pinot on the prat (but didn’t want to wheel juju up to bernal). he’s riding himself into this thing. back end of this week is to be hot hot hot (which pinot hates) AND there have been quite a lot of instances of riders with (as wiggins puts it) the two bob bits this year too...

Heat is defiant going to be a big factor. I think your are probably right in your analysis but this tour has thrown up a fair few surprises and I hope it throws up a few more.

Not impressed by Thomas at all and Ineos as a team seems considerably weaker than previous efforts. The Alps are to his advantage though, just like they are for Kruiswijk. Still think Pinot will nick it.

I've no idea what Buchmann can do this tour but he seems to be in the form of his life.

it would be so awesome if Buchmann would win, a guy I wouldn't recognize passing in the street (would anyone) Everyman Emanuel winning the Tour this year, like a dutch commentator put it after the first week, a guy so anonymous even his mom has yet to spot him on tv. (She would have now, obv.)

as said, my bet goes to either one of the Ineos rider. Team hasn't been imprevisse, otoh, will probably be able to step up a notch if their GC guys are improving too.

I don't even know who Buchmann is. Would be happy for any of top five to win it, for different reasons.

Luke Rowe et Wout Poels 😂😂 #TourdeFrance #tourdefrance2019 pic.twitter.com/lkMBNGhvpX

— paul 🇫🇷⭐⭐ (@mrpaul33240) July 23, 2019

The aerial footage of the last 2km being shown after the race is one of my favourite things, especially when it's a sprint. Good one by Ewan, Groenewegen's was a comedy of errors. RIP Fuglsang.

Awesome finish by Ewan, short burst sprint finish def his bread & butter. Smart AND fast - love it. Bummed for Fugelsang :(

LOL @ luke rowe & wout

and yeah LBi otm, aerial coverage of sprint finishes is my fave thing, this one was great. i curse treelined streets

Peloton, “nice easy, problem free flat, short sprint stage to ease us into the final week of the tdf”

Tdf, “hold my beer” pic.twitter.com/fSfgyO6KoQ

— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) July 23, 2019

advanced cooling techniques

💦 Pushing cooling techniques to the next level. 😅

💦 Monter le curseur du refroidissement au niveau supérieur. 😅#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/YyJ2TQQnOa

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 23, 2019

yall, bike racing? It's good baby

nothing finer

i am going to be legit bereft after Paris

August 3rd is the Clasica San Sebastian! Three weeks later the Vuelta starts! Never have to go long without it.

Perfidious french plot to weaken team ineos!

August 3rd is the Clasica San Sebastian! Three weeks later the Vuelta starts! Never have to go long without it.

And I'm already geared up for the Vuelta, bring it.

Perfidious french plot to weaken team ineos!

Just saw what happened in watching the coverage. Whoops! (But LOL Ineos -- I shouldn't be so petty but after years of those grim faced bastards just grinding up the road in the TdF watching the screws come loose has been amusing.)

Anyway, Mitchelton-Scott's been loving life lately here.

Not quite as much as when they were winning stages and making Carly Rae Jepsen Lip-sync videos

They've been altogether too serious since they became a GC team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEvX_vKDYEw

Too much time time at training camps training, not enough making social content IME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQuQVeMZic

Astounding.

LOL at Pinot trolling in the wake of today:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pinot-its-up-to-thomas-and-bernal-to-attack-in-final-tour-de-france-stages

Awesome finish by Trentin, Mitchelton just crushing stages left & right. Glad to see it!!

Bananas that Rowe & Martin got DQ’d! What’s Occurring indeed :(

Nerd insight: Video changes in Mitchelton coinciding w GC is coincidence - their guy Dan Jones (brains behind the Carly video) had been running the channel & backstage pass series up til 2018, but he left the team to become a new dad among other things. New person is decent but i def miss Dan’s sense of humor & light touch. :(

Team is full of characters & have a good sense of fun still.

The banter around kicking Rowe and Martin out has been interesting. Think it's a tad harsh (just fine them both), but it's convenient mostly for Pinot, to see TJV and Ineos weakened. (also illuminati etc). Moscon was sent out last year for something similar, but he's one of the most hated cyclists in the peloton so no-one batted an eye.

I'm not a fan, but I'm happy for Quintana all the same. Bernal was good as well, Bardet and Lutsenko (!) very impressive.

Expected a lot from today but perhaps it was too long a stage. No attacks from Kruiswijk or Pinot, they simply couldn't.

With Ineos at #2 and #3 they'll sure make sure to try and break Flip. But I'm not sure if he will.

big fan of Quintana, so glad he found his legs again, just in time to win... the Vuelta :P

:D

Haven’t seen the stage yet but I want to believe in a world where Alaphilippe only looses 30 seconds on each of the next two stages. Only lost 20 on the Galibier.