Le Tour '19 stage 19: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne > Tignes 126km

[Finn84]

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Where exactly on the route is the bad weather?
Buttom of the descend?
The climb?
Why not have the times count from the moment they reach the bad weather?

The amount of places where they have timing systems is limited. Mountain sprints, intermediate sprints, 3 km signal and finish.

 

[FjPavels]

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Mudslides too after the hailstorm apparently.

and the mudslides are still going on.

 

[Red Rick]

Obviously I was right about claiming this parcours was terrible

 

[Pricey_sky]

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You still watching the Tour guys?
muahahahaha

Yep, it’s been pretty good and dramatic so far :lol:

 

[bob.a.feet]

This is even worse for Alaphilippe

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Mudslides too after the hailstorm apparently.

and the mudslides are still going on.

Yeah, no chance you can ride through that. Far from ideal but absolutely the correct decision.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Meanwhile at Tour de Farce

 

[Red Rick]

Yates is so screwed by this

 

[JosephK]

Re: Le Tour '19 stage 19: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne > Tignes 1

Surreal stage! Drama in buckets!

 

[DFA123]

What a joke of a race.

 

[staubsauger]

Is this clown Prudhomme finally gonna get fired for being a disgrace to cycling now? How many more farces need to happen before he finally has to take his hat?

Certainly he could've found out the road is unpassable 15 minutes earlier and communicate it in time!

 

[WildspokeJoe]

Tour missed a golden opportunity to create an epic stage. It's an uphill finish. Yates would have gotten his third.

Edit: looks real hairy. Right decision.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Kind of appropriate that a rider from South America wins a mountain stage with random mudslides. That's not out of the ordinary in the Andes at all.

 

[glassmoon]

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This is even worse for Alaphilippe

why? he was gonna lose more minutes in final climb.

 

[Scarponi]

So after the Ventoux being cancelled two years ago we have this. Cycling has changed

 

[MatParker117]

No *** way they could go down that

 

[Vroome.exe]

Joke of a race favouring Ineos no surprise there

 

[Singularitarian]

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Has it ever snowed in the Tour de France before?

I experienced snow on Galibier in august myself some 20 years ago, the day before we did Iseran (fully baggaged 2300 km bikepacking through the Alps). And btw, there is that famous Riis stage (shorted because of snow).

 

[FjPavels]

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So after the Ventoux being cancelled two years ago we have this. Cycling has changed

Cant race thru this https://imgur.com/a/xgeq3sm

 

[dgodave]

Screw racing out there in the real world. Le Tour should just transfer from velodrome to velodrome.

 

[Northerner]

Does Bernal get the 8 bonus seconds and/or 10 for winning the stage?

 

[Pricey_sky]

Look a the pictures from wiggins moto, nobody can credibly argue this cancellation on safety grounds .

 

[Salvarani]

Seeing the road... good decision, I guess

 

[Broccolidwarf]

The stage is cancelled, finish line times will be the top of Iseran.

 

[Climbing]

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This is even worse for Alaphilippe

why? he was gonna lose more minutes in final climb.

He was gonna reach the summit tomorrow...