2015 Tour De France Stage 4: Seraing - Cambrai, 223.5 km

[Waterloo Sunrise]

The people moaning about race threads are really quite annoying (yes, I'm moaning about them, I wouldn't need to if they didn't keep pushing this childish desire for purple prose and verbose cod analysis).

 

[markene2]

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Anyone has info on Kristoff? He finished the race with the injured guys today, did he crash as well?

Did not crash, was in the front when the crash was. Said so in a interview after the stage, he just saved energy for tommorow.

 

[DBotero]

I think Vanmarcke deserves a win,maybe luck is on his side this time.His contenders should normally be on domestique duties.The GC battle could end up with huge gaps,can't wait.Hopefully no crashes involved.

 

[Jagartrott]

Wind could definitely play a role tomorrow. It will be relatively strong and on certain stretches of the cobbles, it will blow from the side.

 

[WildspokeJoe]

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Van Avermaet will get no support tomorrow. BMC are obsessed with getting 5th place on GC.

That's better than getting 2nd on a stage.

So funny.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

As far as the cobbles go, three secteurs were in this year's Paris-Roubaix (early on). I think these are secteurs 5, 3, and 2 which were graded 3, 2, and 4 stars respectively. Also I think secteurs 6 and 4 have been in previous renewals of Paris-Roubaix - both as 2 star. Don't know anything about the first and last secteurs. I haven't seen any ASO ratings for this stage which is odd because they had them last year

 

[Alexandre B.]

Gallopin will ride to yellow with full glory. Nobody to protect tomorrow.

 

[mrhender]

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Gallopin will ride to yellow with full glory. Nobody to protect tomorrow.

I think he will have an awesome Tour.. Barring chrashes of course..

He worked yesterday in the front group, yet had power to go full gass on Le Mur..

His form and wits should warrant a stage or two..

 

[ILovecycling]

Im no schleckish whinner but, we really keeping this OP this weak?

 

[BigMac]

D. Impey DNS.

 

[Billie]

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Wind could definitely play a role tomorrow. It will be relatively strong and on certain stretches of the cobbles, it will blow from the side.

most sections are sunken lanes

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I was just thinking, the TTT will be fun with all those hampered teams..

Orica have just been obliterated. Impey and Gerrans gone, Matthews badly hurt.
Poor Simon Yates might lose minutes in the TTT while he is in awesome shape

 

[BlackWhiteEagle]

Degenkolb`s time to shine.

 

[Vasilis]

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I liked the fact that astana tried to do an echelon today, they caught froome by surprise.

Astana has to go ham on froome. And nibali better risks his life at the allos descent

I think Sky got caught behind when they were on the wrong side of the road when starting a roundabout, and the other teams then tried to take advantage. I don't think they were surprised, just a little out of position. Besides, there wasn't much wind anyway.

 

[DBotero]

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I was just thinking, the TTT will be fun with all those hampered teams..

Orica have just been obliterated. Impey and Gerrans gone, Matthews badly hurt.
Poor Simon Yates might lose minutes in the TTT while he is in awesome shape

He's not riding for GC Orica is on stage hunting mission,but it will be hard after today carnage

 

[Miburo]

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I was just thinking, the TTT will be fun with all those hampered teams..

Orica have just been obliterated. Impey and Gerrans gone, Matthews badly hurt.
Poor Simon Yates might lose minutes in the TTT while he is in awesome shape

Fun? You mean stupid right?

 

[Gigs_98]

I just looked for the wind situation of northern france tomorrow and it looks like there could be pretty strong cross wind.
http://www.windfinder.com/weather-maps/forecast/france#6/49.838/5.471
What do you think. Will we see echelons again

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Go GVA ffs. Make it happen please.
Hopefully we will see more GC impact too.

 

[b.broadhurst]

Fabian cancellara ‏@f_cancellara 1m1 minute ago
Just left the hospital with a huge disappointment #TDF2015 is over broke some bones on my back again as in spring. #L3/L4right side

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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I was just thinking, the TTT will be fun with all those hampered teams..

Orica have just been obliterated. Impey and Gerrans gone, Matthews badly hurt.
Poor Simon Yates might lose minutes in the TTT while he is in awesome shape

Fun? You mean stupid right?

You can't recognize sarcasm if it hit you in the head I think

 

[Miburo]

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I was just thinking, the TTT will be fun with all those hampered teams..

Orica have just been obliterated. Impey and Gerrans gone, Matthews badly hurt.
Poor Simon Yates might lose minutes in the TTT while he is in awesome shape

Fun? You mean stupid right?

You can't recognize sarcasm if it hit you in the head I think

Oh god, every time i reply to you i'm getting owned. That was bad

 

[MatParker117]

Really should be an outright ban on TTT's outside of the first five days of grand tours.

 

[BigMac]

Cancellara out with two fractured vertebra.

 

[Miburo]

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Really should be an outright ban on TTT's outside of the first five days of grand tours.

Or just no TTT. It's a great profile though, for an ITT it would have been really awesome.

 

[rghysens]

I just looked for the wind situation of northern france tomorrow and it looks like there could be pretty strong cross wind.
http://www.windfinder.com/weather-maps/forecast/france#6/49.838/5.471
What do you think. Will we see echelons again

The site you quoted and French meteorological services both predict W/SW wind for most of the day. That's headwind. That decreases the chance of echelons considerably.