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

[Sestriere]

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De Gendt is like:

"Screw you guys, I'm going home"

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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Lol, Cummings has duly positioned himself at the back of the peloton already. Nice selection of him for the Tour squad!

Moving up now - he may well have judged this correctly

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Planted on the flat, with 130 k and two cat.1 climbs to go?

Nizzolos tour is over

 

[tomorrow]

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Sagan is still hanging out at the front, maybe really eager today.

he's probably looking out for colbrelli, Sony is actually still in shooting distance for the green and has been very close to sagan in flat stages sprints. If sagan let him go on the break, one crash in a flat stage close to the finish and colbrelli could take the green from him.

 

[spalco]

That's it i think, peloton's got to take it easy.

 

[Jagartrott]

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Meanwhile, I am very annoyed, when the belgian guys write about belgian riders.......... just saying

The difference being that the Danes you keep going on about haven't done much to earn all that attention. So yes, then all the posting about this or that Dane getting 30 seconds of screen time becomes annoying fast.

 

[Samamba]

Thats a huuuuuuuge group.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Ineos and DQ trying to control the peloton now....... but the break is like 50 riders :O

 

[spalco]

Or maybe not, break is getting bigger and bigger...

 

[Cinemaniak]

Groenewegen thinks it's a sprinter stage with Sagan, Matthews up there?

 

[Sestriere]

At least half BORA in that break.

 

[Mayomaniac]

54.5km/h after 42min, a crazy fast start of the stage.

 

[Gigs_98]

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

Kinda hoped Nibali would try to get into the break. The stage would have suited him :/

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Meanwhile, I am very annoyed, when the belgian guys write about belgian riders.......... just saying

The difference being that the Danes you keep going on about haven't done much to earn all that attention. So yes, then all the posting about this or that Dane getting 30 seconds of screen time becomes annoying fast.

Feel free to ignore it

Personally, I appreciate when posters of other nationalities, offer insight on the riders they care about or have specific knowledge about, from their national broadcasts, as I don't have access to those.

Either way, I post about what I care about, and if you don't like it, tough luck.

I'm done debating this with you guys, back to the stage

 

[PeterB]

Well that was quite an exciting section of the stage... Ineos, Lotto, Sunweb and Bahrain probably wished for a smaller group when they started blocking the road but after the recent events they probably had to leave some space for further attackers which enabled another large group to join the attack.

 

[spalco]

Trying to count the break, i think it's between 50 and 60 riders.

 

[RedheadDane]

(Are we allowed to talk about riders from our own countries?)

Anyway… Mads, what're you doing?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Dan Martin in the breakaway with Rui Costa and Henao.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Dan Martin in the breakaway with Rui Costa and Henao.

If Martin is there, the GC teams will have to keep it on a tight leach.

 

[Samamba]

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Dan Martin in the breakaway with Rui Costa and Henao.

Are u sure? There is no way Ineos or even DQS would let that break go.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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

Kinda hoped Nibali would try to get into the break. The stage would have suited him :/

Nibali is ill with stomach problems.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Dan Martin in the breakaway with Rui Costa and Henao.

If that's correct things just got spicy

 

[Red Rick]

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

Kinda hoped Nibali would try to get into the break. The stage would have suited him :/

Nibali is ill with stomach problems.

Enough to abandon?

 

[PeterB]

Looks like no GC threat in the break. Simon Yates, Wellens and Bilbao the best climbers? But this stage will hardly be won by best climber.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Calling it now:

Simon Yates will win this stage.

He's been coasting every stage till now, and climbs better than anyone else in the break.