Tour De France 2019: That’s My Jaune

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.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAbM_IYXoAEXqjy?format=jpg&name=medium

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

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.

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.

To make things more interesting we could have a sweepstake on which Dane is going to lamp Brad Wiggins on the Champs Elysée.

Yeah, disappointing end to a fun tour. Bernal will be eligible for the white jersey for three more years lol

Hope 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.

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.

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

he’s already on his second glass of champagne - might not want to count those chickens just yet

lmao at sagan

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

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