75th Tour de Romandie (2.UWT) // 27th of April - 2nd of May 2021

[RedheadDane]

How will they organise the neutralisation? They talked about "taking the time at the top of the climb", does that mean they'll stop a group to maintain the time? And will they at least allow Mads Würtz to drop all the way back to the peloton?

First 3k only!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1388464238230921219

So... neutralised for 3 Ks? My French is not what is has been... or rather; it's exactly what is has always been.

 

[Savant12]

I guess more riders will get back into the main peleton.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So are they just giving the break a couple of extra minutes now?

 

[RedheadDane]

I guess more riders will get back into the main peleton.

Unless the gruppetto - and other lose configurations of dropped riders - are also behind safety cars, and told to take it easy.

So are they just giving the break a couple of extra minutes now?

Doesn't look like it.
And I think the neutralisation might be over, the graphics has disappeared from the screen.

 

[70kmph]

Nanny state neuralize everything

 

[BlueRoads]

Lol, was the break even neutralized?

 

[titan31]

That's a farce. Break taking a minute or so after the peleton being neutralised. Either everyone does it no one gets neutralised imo.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I guess there are gifts in cycling after all.

 

[BlueRoads]

 

[yaco]

The whole reason for a neutralization is for the gaps to remain the same at the completion of the neutralization.

 

[BlueRoads]

Seriously now?

 

[RedheadDane]

What happened? The gap was decreasing, and now it's gotten back up again.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Swiss organizers not having any of those Team Swiss tactics.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What happened? The gap was decreasing, and now it's gotten back up again.

It's a Swiss clock-up.

 

[titan31]

What happened? The gap was decreasing, and now it's gotten back up again.

The "neutralisation". That or the times were very wrong

 

[BlueRoads]

I don't understand what's happening, but I'm calling this a farce.

 

[SafeBet]

I thought Swiss clocks were renowned for their accuracy.

 

[ice&fire]

Quintana would have never let this happen

 

[RedheadDane]

The "neutralisation".

Surely the neutralisation is over for both groups by now... I suppose it makes sense that first the break was neutralised, allowing the peloton to get a little closer, and then the peloton was neutralised, allowing the break to get a little further away. Possibly with some overlapping between the neutralisations.

 

[titan31]

Surely the neutralisation is over for both groups by now... I suppose it makes sense that first the break was neutralised, allowing the peloton to get a little closer, and then the peloton was neutralised, allowing the break to get a little further away. Possibly with some overlapping between the neutralisations.

The time at the top of the climb and the time at the end of the neutralisation didn't seen the same to me anyway. Be interesting if anyone had exact figures on that.

 

[RedheadDane]

The time at the top of the climb and the time at the end of the neutralisation didn't seen the same to me anyway. Be interesting if anyone had exact figures on that.

What would they have done? Stopped the group that had gotten an advantage? Couldn't it simply have been that the riders were told that for those 3 Ks, they had to take it easy, but once that part was over they could go all in again?

 

[BlueRoads]

So, will Magnus Cort win the Tour de Romandie?

 

[Red Rick]

Breakaway is also in GC contention so this is an entire WT GC getting farced.

 

[titan31]

What would they have done? Stopped the group that had gotten an advantage?

Ya, if one group got an advantage cos the speed allowed for them in the neutralisation was higher than the other group, it should be reset to what it should have been and pretty much exact to what it was at the top of the climb.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Imagine Cort wins the overall because of the neutralisation