Recent content by can3478

Someone pointed out that Molano was born in high altitude while Hodeg was not. Note, all stages in this race are in high altitude.

Video of the QS TTT split View: https://twitter.com/lordofprono/status/1227311421769293824

For the French team, who would be co-leader if given a choice? It's interesting that all 3 French riders from DQT were chosen even though they hardly race together.

Alaphiippe’s Tour de France 2019 photo journal: As the tour heads back to France from Begium, Alaphilippe needs to take back more than 30s to get into yellow. He decided to attack 16km from the finish line. On stage 6, Alaphilippe lost the yellow jersey by 6 seconds partly due to the team...

I am surprised to see Alaphilipe in the lineup, thought he said he's too tired to race. Hope the team is not forcing him to do this.

From twitter @TheGaryFairley posted “Come ride with us, son, and we’ll let you keep the Maillot Jaune..” There was a rumor that Ineos had a very attractive proposal for Alaphilippe but he said no, thank you.

Re: Re: Alaphilippe goes into TdF targeting stage wins. He did recon 4/5 stages, maybe more with DQT staff. He did the same for last year tour as well with Jungels. At the team presentation, he said that there are a few stages that favorite him in the first week and he may have the yellow...

Responding to Akuryo post ^ True! I think it's possible but maybe not wise to do so because he's exhausted mentally and physically in this 3rd week, any mistake on a fast downhill can have devastating result.

Re: Re: He will not able to take advantage of the descents now that he's sitting in the group of favorites.

Will other teams allow Alaphilippe to go with the break?

The madness of the yellow jersey at Tour de France video: The young lady in this video is so emotional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff14PQPys3I photos:

Re: Re: Did Ciccone got 6 bonus seconds for finishing 2nd on the stage? Also, I think he got some bonus second on the last climb as well being on the break. Having say that, I'm ok with bonus seconds.

Re: No, Enric Mas is the GC rider for DQT.

Not sure if Alaphilippe ever going to ride Tour of Flanders, below is a photo of Asgreen leading Alaphilippe up the legendary Muur-Kapelmuur during stage 1 of TdF2019

Re: Thanks for the starting order info. Ineos is going to be in the hot seat for a long time.