2019 Tour de France, stage 12: Toulouse>Bagnères-de-Bigorre

[TomLPC]

Phil with a big attack

 

[Scarponi]

Re:

Nibali letting the bunch go.
Might go stagehunting in the final week.

Outside the clinic stuff it’s insane how those riders in the old days pumped out two GT wins at the highest level. Nibali is really how it should go.

 

[silvergrenade]

Re:

Nibali letting the bunch go.
Might go stagehunting in the final week.

He cant hang on. He's not letting the peloton go.
Stages? Naaah

 

[TomLPC]

Been impressed with trentins racing spirit this year

 

[TomLPC]

Luke Rowe, are you *** kidding me

 

[Wvv]

Trentin almost on Clarke's wheel. Yates with fireworks in the background. Mühlberger looking strong too, Frank-Gallopin and Roche also involved.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Re:

Luke Rowe, are you **** kidding me

Still amazed after all these years that they let Ineos(Sky) get away with this. Shocking from the rest.

 

[HelloDolly]

Trentin & Schamann look like the favourites now ftw

 

[silvergrenade]

Re: Re:

Luke Rowe, are you **** kidding me

Still amazed after all these years that they let Ineos(Sky) get away with this. Shocking from the rest.

Bunch of passive riders who just want to follow. That too poorly.

 

[Kokoso]

Re: Re:

https://twitter.com/Bahrain_Merida/status/1151844844911964160

"Our priority is the welfare of all our riders so will launch an immediate investigation but will not be commenting further until we have established what has happened to @RohanDennis.

Meantime we continue to support our riders who are mid-race."


It sounds like something really, really bad has happened :sad: Assuming that this is not how teams usually writes about an abandon

A confusing statement. Awful, awful public relations

Nervous breakdown? Depression?

Hope not but my first thought was kimmage in rough ride. A “**** it I’ve had enough” deal.

Nothing awful about that. I would perfectly understand they don't want to jump into aby premature conclusions if they are not certain about what's going on.

 

[HelloDolly]

Although Mulberger and Yates

 

[Wvv]

Yates and Mülhberger are the strongest and now in the lead.
Bilbao bridging.

 

[Ciddaman]

Where is Teuns?

 

[Kokoso]

Re: Re:

https://twitter.com/Bahrain_Merida/status/1151844844911964160
"Our priority is the welfare of all our riders so will launch an immediate investigation but will not be commenting further until we have established what has happened to @RohanDennis.
Meantime we continue to support our riders who are mid-race."
It sounds like something really, really bad has happened :sad: Assuming that this is not how teams usually writes about an abandon

A confusing statement. Awful, awful public relations

Nervous breakdown? Depression?

Hope not but my first thought was kimmage in rough ride. A “**** it I’ve had enough” deal.

Yeah, the wording is strange and alarmist, like they don't know what happened at all despite being on the radio. They didn't have to phrase the announcement that way. Maybe Dennis just feeling ill, and preferring to abandon outright than to suffer, and then get criticized in the time-trial where his performance would be center-of-attention

There are matters you can't solve via radio, right? So stop panicking. Nothing is wrong with that announcement, it's ok.

 

[Frosty]

Re:

Where is Teuns?

at 45 seconds according to the live tracker. With Rui Costa and Felline.

edit: now 57 seconds.

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

Nibali letting the bunch go.
Might go stagehunting in the final week.

I"m still not quite sure why Nibali entered the Tour. Seems like a lot of suffering to go through if your goal is to win a stage in the third week. TBH I thought he'd be able to contend for a Top 10 or even Top 5.

The team made him, he didn't want to ride it.

 

[Samamba]

Muhlberger is pretty fast right?

 

[TomLPC]

Re: Re:

https://twitter.com/Bahrain_Merida/status/1151844844911964160

"Our priority is the welfare of all our riders so will launch an immediate investigation but will not be commenting further until we have established what has happened to @RohanDennis.

Meantime we continue to support our riders who are mid-race."


It sounds like something really, really bad has happened :sad: Assuming that this is not how teams usually writes about an abandon

A confusing statement. Awful, awful public relations

Nervous breakdown? Depression?

Hope not but my first thought was kimmage in rough ride. A “**** it I’ve had enough” deal.

Nothing awful about that. I would perfectly understand they don't want to jump into aby premature conclusions if they are not certain about what's going on.

It’s not the jumping to conclusions part, it’s that the statement makes no mention of that fact that he’s sat in the team bus, people were speculating that he had gone missing and this doesn’t clear that up. “Rohan has unfortunately had to abandon, he is talking to staff and we will make a statement at xxx” would’ve been fine. Instead of this we get the usual corporate, defensive “we take the health of our riders/employees/gameshow contestants etc seriously.”.

 

[Ciddaman]

Re: Re:

Where is Teuns?

at 45 seconds according to the live tracker. With Rui Costa and Felline.

edit: now 57 seconds.

thanks

 

[bob.a.feet]

Surely Yates isn't winning the stage now

 

[sir fly]

The question is what's the size of the group contesting the finale gonna be?

 

[JosephK]

Re: 2019 Tour de France, stage 12: Toulouse>Bagnères-de-Bigo

Take a good look at the peloton. This is a preview of the rest of the TDF for GC. :lol:

 

[Wvv]

Bilbao bridges in the first meters of the descent.

Summit:
1. Yates
2. Mühlberger
3. Bilbao +5"
4. Pauwels and the others +30"

 

[Pirazziattacks]

I think Yates could've made this a lot easier for Trentin once it was clear he couldn't drop Muhlberger, or am I way off?

 

[ppanther92]

Re:

Muhlberger is pretty fast right?

I would say Bilbao is the fastest and Yates (also rather fast and punchy) and Mühlberger are on par.